Coronavirus Shortages won't stop Trump vengeance...

80 percent of Republicans give Trump Excellent or Good ratings handling COVID-19 Outbreak!

So, that Vos/Fitzgerald Tax Cut based on a Projected State Surplus...how's that looking now? !!!

Wisconsin Dodged another Tax Cut Bullet!

Wisconsin was projected to have a $818 million surplus, with half of that going into the rainy day fund. Republicans immediate reaction? Give most of the $409 billion back as a tax cut, because it's not the governments money, it's yours...blah, blah, blah. 

Hey Vos/Fitzgerald, how's an idiotic idea like that working out for you now?

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a major $250 million Republican-led tax-cut package that would have used unanticipated revenues to reduce the average taxpayer’s income tax bill by $106. The veto came one year and a week after Evers' first veto, which was of a similar income tax cut passed by Republicans.

Eh, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald plays down what was always a Bad Idea: The COVID-19 outbreak exposed the GOP again, but did they notice? Nope. Republicans don't govern, they simply pass ideologically driven ideas, devoid of any real world connection to the consequences of their actions.

Another question is how much the coronavirus, paired with a national economic slowdown, could affect the state budget — A recession would likely erase the surplus.

“That’s definitely on our minds,” Republican Sen. Scott Fitzgerald said. “Hindsight is 20-20, but that projection could change dramatically, and as a result of that, things could be a lot tighter than where we thought they were.”

Ya think. With no hint of learning a valuable lesson here, these tax-cut one-note-wonders just might stick to their original plan from February...

The Senate plans to come in once more in March, when Republicans may try to override Evers’ veto. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said his chamber will also likely return in May to attempt to override gubernatorial vetoes.

COVID-19 Emergency solutions borrow from all of Democratic campaign's "radical" Ideas.

Don't be distracted by the temporary nature of the government's help during the Covid-19 epidemic. Look what's happening;

1. The U.S. government is being required to supply the American people with all the "radical" things that Democrats have been criticized for proposing during the campaign.

2. Free health care (testing).

3. Paid sick leave.

4. Waivers for the GOP's wrongheaded work requirements under unemployment and food stamps.

5. And the not so radical idea of a universal basic income (a possible $1000 per adult, $500 children for pandemic. This is estimated to cost around $250 to $600 billion, but a payroll tax cut would cost over $950 billion).

Yes, all at once, and it took a pandemic to shock some into reality! This shows how bad Republicans have ignored serving the American people.

Professionals who have studied this stuff and promoted these changes have been vilified as "elite." They may be right, but they "believe they should have the power to tell you what to do." It's the politics of resentment:

“We will never have the elite smart people on our side,” as former US Senator Rick Santorum put it in a 2012 speech, “because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do.”

This is how it all started, Trump cutting the pandemic team because they "haven't been used for many many years." For those who love having a business person like Trump around managing the country...

Trump: "As a business person, I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them." 

Another set up clips documenting how Trump never took the coronavirus seriously:

Here's another video of Trump's moments of genius. Note, we could do without the overly dramatic soundtrack:

Trump Cultists deny growing mountain of evidence...continued.

How's the U.S.'s private for-profit health care free market handling the sudden demand for services and supplies to treat the coronavirus? Oh come on, if this were Medicare4All, Republicans would be trashing government health care, saying I told you so for failing to keep up with patients and testing. But the infallible free market? Not a peep.

Keep Testing Down, Keeping Infected Numbers Down: While the Trump/Republican echo chamber blame countries with national health care systems for having more people infected, they purposedly fail to mention that those countries are testing massive numbers of citizens. That's why the US has lower numbers. Even infected medical staff can't be tested because they're not part of the targeted group due to a lack of test kits.

Obama-to-Trump Voters are Biggest Idiots: There, I said it. You have no excuses, none. From GQ:

Trump Voters Wanted to Blow up the System. Well, Here We Go. 1. Trump’s decision was apparently made without consulting with America’s European allies, who were blindsided, panicked Americans who surged into European airports, paying as much as $20,000 for a last-minute flight home.

2. If, four years ago, you thought, ‘oh, what’s the difference between a Hillary Clinton and a Donald Trump;

3. You get a president who shuts down the global health security team in the National Security Council so that there’s no one but his son-in-law to advise him when a global pandemic reaches our country’s shores.

4. You get a president who doesn’t care about whether people live or die, he just wants the numbers to look good for him, wants the number of cases down and the numbers on the stock indices up, and the best way to do that is to keep Covid-19 testing and public information at a minimum.

5. You get a president who doesn’t believe in science when it doesn’t suit him and who, as recently as three days ago, declares a virus that had already claimed thousands of lives around the world a “hoax” and “fake news”—or a president that simply focuses, falsely, on how well his administration is responding to the crisis—because the pandemic might hurt the economy and jeopardize his reelection.

6. You get a president who thinks he can do anything, who off-the-cuff announces a rally in Florida, where the governor has suspended all official travel as medical experts advise people practice “social distancing” by avoiding crowds.

7. You get a president whose response to an invisible virus is to blame foreigners.

8. Maybe it's because the Republican Party has been peddling a dystopian anarchistic anti-government pipe dream to them for the last four decades.

9. Now, it turns out, a functioning government is a good thing to have when a global pandemic arrives on your shores. It turns out that maybe reforming an imperfect system is wiser than just taking a sledgehammer to it, better than trashing them in favor of a one-man, megalomaniacal savior, better to have a functioning system than dancing on its rubble while crowing about the death of the “deep state”—or “the political establishment.”

10. To those 63 million Americans, I say this: you wanted to smash the system and you got what you wanted—in spades.

GOP Health Care System, Private Sector Profits: No ones in a hurry yet, says the guy nicknamed the Grim Reaper who took a 3 day weekend and then delayed making any decision on how the federal government will help every American during the Coronavirus outbreak, Mitch McConnell...victim:

And the genius president who never understood how all parts of our economy work together, still bragged about those sugary Wall Street highs...that fell yesterday 12.94 percent:

The Trump Economy...

Low-income households (about $14,000 a year) saw their inflation-adjusted incomes rise 2.4 percent...while they grew more than twice as fast, at 5.5 percent, during the last two years of the Obama administration. “This far into an expansion, with unemployment as low as it is, we shouldn’t be seeing incomes for low-income households falling in over a dozen states, and growth slowing down in a dozen more,” says Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute. “Stock market highs may be great for wealthy households at the top, but they don’t help families at the bottom put food on the table.”

Trump Deficit:

The federal deficit has grown to more than a $1 trillion, and gross domestic product is pretty much right where it was when he took office. Experts say that despite a trade war, tax cuts and more government spending, the Trump economy isn’t all that different from the Obama economy.

Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves Scam: After the Bush tax cuts and the failed Brownback Kansas Comeback, where debt piled up and supply-side economics failed, Republican voters once again celebrated the massive Trump tax cuts that, no surprised, didn't pay for themselves:

"The tax plan will pay for itself with economic growth," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. Corporate tax revenues fell 31% in the first year after the cut was passed. Overall tax revenues have declined as a share of the economy in each of the two years since the tax cut took effect.

Trump's Covid-19 Disaster Response, by Sheriff Clarke, Trish Regan, and John Oliver!!!

Poor victim billionaire President-king Trump, people are blaming him for being utterly unprepared for not just the office, but for his failed coronavirus response:

The New York Times, which obtained a recording of the call, reports that Trump once again falsely claimed that America’s pandemic response system was “broken” under former President Barack Obama, when in reality Trump shuttered the National Security Council’s pandemic response team and never replaced it with anything comparable.

Trump: “We broke down a system that was broken, very badly broken,” Trump said to the governors, and then added that his team is creating a new one that “I think is going to be the talk of the world.”

Protecting Trump: Milwaukee conservatives and radio pundits had a laugh voting in fake "Democrat" Sheriff David Clarke for years, even having him fill in on the air with insights illuminating as his most recent ones below on Twitter. 

To Clarke, the rising epidemic and death toll from Covid-19 is a threat to not human life, but to capitalism. This is the same kind of stuff I'm hearing from my Trump cultist friend in Milwaukee. Hey, 80 percent of conservatives can't be wrong about how great Trump is handling this:

Clarke went on to clarify of course...:

Second Impeachment-like Attempt by Liberals to Destroy Trump: Fox News sent Trish Regan on hiatus after this little rant, saying they were just trying to protect their staff. Right.

Wanna know how Republicans really feel about Democrats, and why it's so frustrating to watch Democrats play nice all the time?

On Monday, March 9, Trish Regan opened her Fox Business show by complaining of the “Coronavirus impeachment scam.” Her deranged monologue received widespread ridicule after a tweet by Media Matters’ Andrew Lawrence that has been viewed millions of times.

Here's John Oliver's take on Trump Covid-19 debacle (sorry about the different volume levels):

The Act 10 Holiday celebrated by Freeloaders.

Act 10's anniversary came and went without anybody noticing because right-wingers didn't want to even try to defend the indefensible. Let's take a look at Act 10's legacy of change.

IT'S A TAX CUT ENTITLEMENT: Scott Walker and his band of gerrymandered legislative plundering pirates have oddly convinced "hard working" conservative voters there really is a "free lunch," it's just that they have packaged it under the name "tax cut."

In Republican fantasy world, there is no such thing as a tax increase, ever. The way they see it, nothing ever gets more expensive, wears out, becomes outdate, or improves via new life changing technologies. The "tax cut entitlement" mindset is their just due, their money, not the governments.

WHEN REPUBLICANS LOVE SOCIALISM: My Trump cultist friend in Milwaukee recently bragged Trump is spending money on the pandemic...uh, that's socialism. All the while Trump is sticking with his mind boggling proposed budget cuts to the CDC, even after all this.

RIGHT WISCONSIN'S "ACT 10 HOLIDAY" or ST. PATTYS DAY MALARKY? The problem is state aid for public schools is still below what was spent 10 years ago. Freeloading Republicans perform clever math. The formula: spending cuts = surplus = tax cut + backfill spending cuts (by saving us from the problem they created). See below:

Here's how the McIver Institute see's Wisconsinites exercising their First Amendment right "of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." 

"As far as the government unions were concerned, the budget repair bill was the end of the world – and they acted like it. For a month, they coordinated the occupation of the hallowed halls of the Wisconsin State Capitol by juggling clowns, college potheads, exploited children, out-of-state communists, card-carrying socialist state employees, malingering public school teachers, derelict doctors, and thousands of other protesters."

Let's take a look at what M.D. Kittle wrote in 2018 about what the new kind of "worker freedom" did for state employees (my comments in bold directed at underlined Kittle bullshit):

Time would prove wrong the liberals who used dire predictions about Act 10 to fuel their political recall campaigns (the real point of Act 10, defund Dem political campaigns). The law saved Wisconsin taxpayers more than $5 billion (pulled $5 billion that teachers could spend in their local economies) in its first five years alone. Wisconsin school districts have saved more than $3.2 billion in benefits costs (then saw a cut in state funding by $600 million in 2012), thanks to employee contributions and greater competition in the health insurance marketplace. Wisconsin schools pumped those savings back into education (to make up for funding cuts), rewarding exemplary teachers (bidding wars that drained rural teacher supply giving wealthy districts the advantage), reducing class sizes by hiring additional educators (teacher supply shortage resulting in lower qualifications), and expanding or improving other initiatives and programs (whatever you want to make up here).

Republicans may can take credit for tax cuts, but they'll never bring up the hike in taxes by most local governments around the state. This is dishonest reelection material only.

With school test score down now, rural schools closing and losing teachers, endless but very necessary referendums, and union apprenticeship programs hurt by the "right-to-work" law, you'll notice who won the battle in Wisconsin according to Kittle.

"Thank you Scott Walker for having the courage to stand up to the status quo and Big Labor."

If "big labor" lost, then it goes without saying that big business won. Don't forget, big labor includes all workers, every person who makes big business succeed.  

Quarantine the real Virus...is it already too late?

Will Tonight's Debate go Viral?

Private-for-profit Health Care Insurance Failed! So...?

Why aren't Democrats exposing the U.S. Covid-19 pandemic as a private health care market failure?

"The system is not really geared to what we need right now, what you are asking for. That is a failing. Let's admit it. The fact is, the way the system was set up, the public health component that Dr. Redfield was talking about, was a system where you put it out there in the public and a physician asks for it and you get it. The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it — we're not set up for that. Do I think we should be? Yes. But we're not."

This proves we need universal health care/Medicare4All, like every other country, readily adaptable to coronavirus testing and public access for everyone.

Why has only one person come out with the obvious?:

That brought out the usual right-wing Debbie Downers spewing the usual psychopathic nonsense, that allows for...ready for it, an acceptable amount of deaths, because cars kill people all the time:

A National Health Care System for "the Public Good" Pt.1: We're the only country that doesn't think so. To the monied elite, it's a privilege, as Dumb Ron Johnson recently bragged. Even worse, he coldly asking if food is a right, is shelter a right...not if there's money to be made, right Ron? Yea, he's not too bright either:

And then this happened...ironic?:

And then this happened to...Scott Walker:

A National Health Care System for "the Public Good" Pt. 2: Why is a national health care system better than our current expensive Rube Goldberg system of mazes, networks, copays, deductibles, preapprovals, exceptions, benefit packages, surprise bills, outrageous drug prices, work requirements...etc. The answer is simple. Sadly, it took a pandemic to get there. From Marketplace.org:

COVID-19 has prompted many experts to point out that health insurance and preventative care are really “public goods,” resources that everyone uses and shares for everyone else’s benefit. “We all have a vested interest in making sure that everybody around us is seeking appropriate medical care at the right time.” - Dan Mendelson, founder of healthcare advisory consultancy Avalere Health.

Do you think the price difference in the story below makes universal health care a better choice?

The US-based twin paid $14,000 for her treatment in addition to the $3,500 premium she paid her insurance company annually, and the UK-based twin paid nothing. Navigating the system was still a maze of negotiating costs and being overbilled. Health experts say this is typical of America's system.

The two sisters wrote a case study of their experience for medical journal BMJ, with the goal of informing people what negotiating with the American healthcare system is like, even what was widely considered to be good insurance. Nancy was a government employee who used private healthcare...some doctors refused to work with her insurance. Some appointments required her to call the billing offices and negotiate.

Nora signed just three pieces of paper to consent to the three surgeries she had: two lumpectomies and a double mastectomy. Nora took six weeks off to have a double mastectomy in 2014, and was encouraged by her boss to take off more time if she needed to. 

Nancy says she could only take two weeks off work. The stress of mounting bills and paperwork gave Nancy high blood pressure (which brought more bills and paperwork) Halfway through her radiation treatments, Nancy received a bill for $40,000. It was a billing error, but in the weeks it took the hospital to decipher their mistake, Nancy began to think about mortgaging her home. "How much education you have is irrelevant because the system is just set up to be baffling," said Nancy.

Nora described US healthcare as a grocery store: someone (the insurer) plants themselves in front of the store and declares that nobody can buy food unless they paying them first, with a 100% markup. That store clerk will decide what you can and can't eat, and how much you will pay for it. If you don't like it, you can go to a food bank or starve.

One more reason - Protection from a Moron President. The Trump administration rejected proven test kits from the World Health Organization, which delayed the eventual release of what turned out to be defective US test kits. Trump chose to reinvent the wheel, and for what?:

Evolutionary Theory "Survival of the Fittest," broken! Still too many Republicans.

From what I've seen, including what my Trump cultist friend in Milwaukee keeps texting me, nothing has changed 

Strong Survival Instinct: Democrats demonstrated a rational fear of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Weakest Survival Instinct: Republicans chose denial, risk, cultist feelings for Trump, and low information. 

So with the above information in mind, how is it so many Republicans have survived this long? 

Perhaps Darwinian theory isn't working anymore. The Yahoo News/YouGov poll:

1. Knowledge is Power: 48 percent of Democrats said they were following the coronavirus news very closely; only 32 percent of Republicans said the same.

2. Heeding Warning Signs: 29 percent of Democrats said the threat is exaggerated; among Republicans, that number was 58 percent.

3. Survival Instinct: 74 percent of Democrats said they are worried about the virus; only 45 percent of Republicans agreed.

4. What you don't know can't hurt you: 58 percent of Democrats predicted coronavirus would spread to the entire country; only 28 percent of Republicans agreed.

5A. Science: Most Democrats echoed the authorities in saying that the U.S. death toll would top 1,000 fatalities (55 percent) and that no vaccine would be available this year (61 percent). 

5B. Blissful Ignorance: Most Republicans said the opposite, with 66 percent predicting fewer than 1,000 fatalities and 57 percent saying a vaccine would arrive in 2020.

So what's the scientific theory behind "dumb luck?"

Pandemic Fight...put off until we have "clearer idea:" Facing mounting deaths and suffering, Republicans let governments Coronavirus response...wait:

Republicans rejected:

Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Economic policies such as increasing unemployment insurance and food stamps (52 percent support), providing paid sick leave (77 percent support), reducing the payroll tax (54 percent support) and covering insurance costs for victims without insurance (74 percent support) were widely popular.

Wait for it...Trump wants More Cuts to CDC and Pandemic Response: Behind every tax cut, is this, a spending cut. Eyes opened yet?

Russ Vought, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, on Tuesday doubled down on proposed cuts to health services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in President Trump’s 2021 budget request. , despite the coronavirus outbreak.

Under intense questioning from Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) about … cutting Health and Human Services funding by $9.5 billion, including a 15 percent cut of $1.2 billion to the CDC and a $35 million decrease to the Infectious Diseases Rapid Response Reserve Fund's annual contribution.

GOP said Covid-19 was used to “bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.” Reality exposes US need for Universal Health Care!!!

The two health care points the public isn't hearing enough about, and might be considered "fear mongering" by some...

1. The exposed deadly problem of not having universal health insurance when it comes to epidemic and pandemic disease threats.

2. And the Supreme Court deciding the ACA is unconstitutional. Consider the irrational panic Americans are feeling right now about moving to Medicare4All, and the horror of losing their current insurance policy which unfairly limits your choices, the network your in, the covered treatments, prices you pay and requires copays and deductibles. The latter might be what we'll end up with:

If the Supreme Court rules the ACA unconstitutional, it will substantially disrupt the U.S. health system and could eliminate insurance coverage for millions of Americans.

The Biden Effect: Joe Biden plans to add a Medicare4All option into the ACA Marketplace, the worst possible negotiating starting position. An ACA repeal by the Supreme Court would make it so easy to convince everybody to adopt Medicare4All, but Biden thinks that's too radical.

Democratic Fail...Again! Covid19 screams Universal Health Care: How hard would it be or how obvious do things have to get before Democrats notice? At least it's starting to get noticed, but at what cost to Americans abandoned by their government. You'll notice below how AHIP, the insurance lobby, wants us to know nothing will get in the way of making a profit...brutal:

And one of Trump's earliest and most irresponsible deadly way to save taxpayer money? Hey, government was just getting in the way huh?:

Here's what happens when a president eliminates the pandemic response team in a country already without universal health care. Check out his thread:

 Republicans are never concerned about the counties real and festering problems, but instead stay on message like Scott Walker. Charlie Pierce reminds us just how bad some of these ideas really are:

Trump's creative sharpie might just make another appearance after getting so many things wrong in his 10 minute message to the country the other night:

Democratic legislation addresses U.S. Health cares gaping holes: Wouldn't you know it, a pandemic and mounting deaths just isn't enough yet:

GOP leaders said they would oppose the plan over the paid leave plan and changes to Medicaid, which would help hospitals cover swelling costs of uninsured patients.

The Democrats’ package would shore up safety net programs like food assistance, unemployment insurance and temporary sick leave with growing numbers of people forced to stay home from work and schools. It would also make free coronavirus testing widely available in a bid to address one of the nation's major struggles in containing the outbreak.

So, Republicans called a "recess" during Covid-19 Pandemic...really? Not in a hurry...:

Republicans Hate Constituent Paid Sick Leave: That's what's stopping the House bill dealing with Covid-19's spread and treatments:

And yet...

Ninety-four percent of Democratic voters and nearly 80 percent of Republican voters favor paid sick leave laws, according to a 2015 New York Times-CBS News poll.

Paid Sick leave no brainer snuffed out at the grass roots level: It's a corporate decision. For example,

In 2008, voters in Milwaukee approved a paid sick leave measure with support from nearly 70 percent of voters, making the city the third in the country, behind San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to approve one. But in 2011, newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP-led Legislature reversed the Milwaukee measure and approved a law to preempt other Wisconsin cities from following its lead. The Milwaukee law required businesses with at least 10 employees to let workers in the city of Milwaukee accrue at least nine days of paid sick leave a year. Companies with fewer workers must provide at least five paid sick days.

The push for so-called preemption laws is backed by the Koch brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council, a membership organization of state legislators who favor limited government.

NO HURRY REPUBLICANS: This really happened this week: Get government out of the way?

NO HURRY REPUBLICANS: Like the Covid-19 "recess," here's another "Republicans don't care, not in a hurry" example, when Wisconsin Governor Evers tried to help conservative rural farmers and towns from flooding...

If flooding strikes the state hard this spring he could attack Republicans for not doing enough to stop it...Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said in an email to The Associated Press that the chamber’s floor session is over but that Vos might consider the bills next session starting in Jan. 2021 if legislators from both parties can work together on them.

STUDY: The Affordable Care Act now..."the first of two health policy reports for the New England Journal of Medicine, by the Commonwealth Fund":

1. By 2016, people without health insurance had decreased to a low of 28.6 million but has since ticked up. 

2. New enrollment from expanded Medicaid drove more than 50 percent of coverage gains. 

3. Enrollment through ACA accounted for nearly half of insurance coverage gains, helped by premium assistance. 

4. The dependents under age 26 provision decrease the percentage of young adults who are uninsured.

5. Medicaid expansion, subsidies and reforms, cost the government $128 billion in 2019 — considerably less than the $172 originally projected.

6. Medicaid expansion - a reductions in deaths from cardiovascular-related causes among middle-aged adults and deaths from end-stage renal disease.

7. The law’s effects are difficult to discern given the complexity of our health system.

8. Partisan conflict has stymied subsequent efforts by Congress to make improvements to the ACA.  Efforts to roll back key provisions of the ACA or invalidate it are taking a toll.

Proof, Scott Walker is "Full of s**t" too.

Scott Walker's lack of self awareness is breathtaking! Trump cultist Walker really doesn't see the glaring double standard Republicans have created? We are witnessing a campaign theme holding Democratic presidential candidates like Joe Biden to a higher standard than the swirling gutter crap Republicans can't stop slinging at everyone on social media.

In response to a mindless gun zealots confrontational cliched question about Biden taking away the Second Amendment, with specifically an assault weapons ban, Biden summed up what I would have said:

Joe Biden told a member of the public they were “full of s**t” during a confrontation over gun control in Michigan on Tuesday.

Scott Walker, who as we all know is a union workers best friend, came to the defense of the now "victimized" assault weapons freak, by ripping into Biden for...swearing?

So it's True, GOP Sh*t Doesn't Stink Either? True! Here's Walker's fearless "telling it like it is" leader Trump, who has the Republican right to swear in public. Time:

Trump has regularly used curse words at public events, especially on the campaign trail where he sprinkled his speeches liberally with “damn” and “hell” and even “s—“ and “p—-.” In a notorious speech in Las Vegas in 2011, he dropped the f-word repeatedly, arguing that his message to China would be ““Listen you motherf—ers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent!” Research has shown that Trump’s use of swear words could be strategic, helping his image as a truthteller unafraid of being politically incorrect.

Biden Republicans don't want government to fix things, all they want is the health care they've got now!!!

Sadly, looks like I've been right. Republicans have successfully sold the idea that settling for what you have now, is all you should get. 

Just as shocking, we're now being told what "we don't want?" Republicans have people believing that it's actually radical to have a national health care system, (free) publicly supported K-College, higher minimum wages, paid sick leave, reduced mass shootings through better gun laws, the inevitable move to smart clean energy, job creating rural broadband rollout...etc. You know, that crazy pie in the sky wishful thinking by those who want all the "free" stuff Democrats are promising.

So settling for what you have, or don't have, is so much better? Why let simple progress, innovative ideas, and entrepreneurs wreck what we happily don't have? This cartoon said that best:

The Washington Post's Greg Sargent confirmed my theory when he quoted Michael Taylor, the Republican mayor of Sterling Heights, Mich., who said the mind-bending logic below.

A few Notes first: Who likes their health insurance premiums and deductibles? With every item below supported by every taxpaying American for a lot less than paying for this stuff individually, why not have government make our lives better by letting us spend time on ourselves, our jobs, and with our families?

Taylor: "Sanders’s message is that you’re getting screwed by the billionaire class and the elites, and we’re going to have a government that fixes that.

I don’t think the voters here by and large want that. I don’t think they want free health care, free college education, free child care. I don’t think they want the Green New Deal.

I think people say, “I want the health care I’ve got, I want to go to work, I want to make more money, and I want to be able to afford these things on my own, not with help from the government.”

 Americans really don't want government to fix things? Well, that's what happened in Wisconsin, when Scott Walker and the current gerrymandered Republican majority never solved any of the states major system failures.

Victimhood and Trump cultists...real or imagined?

My Trump cultist friend sends me stuff like this all the time, because well, all liberal lefties are the same and bound together mentally like the Borg...

So I immediately thought of this recent funny Facebook post from a former Trump voter:

Bernie's Socialist Super Bowl

The Trump, Walker, Cultists war against the Ghost of Communism!

My Trump cultist friend in Milwaukee claimed Elizabeth Warren "wasn't just incompetent, the bitch was a F**KING liar." So I texted him and said he was afraid of Elizabeth Warren. He admitted he was afraid...:

"...of communism, yes, of anti-American Socialist policy. That('s) what this election is all about John. CAPITALISM VS socialism."

McCarthyism/Cold War did not end in 1991 for Trump Republicans: PolitiFact rated "manipulator and no-genius" Scott Walker's claim Bernie Sanders was a "communist:"

Blame this on your typical "right-wing knowledge and curiosity" vacuum. But if you're going to repeat something this ridiculous so often, wouldn't you likely check to see if your claim is accurate? PolitiFact:

-Walker offers no hard evidence of his claim, which one expert calls "scare-mongering."

-Sanders' policies line up with democratic socialism — which focuses on democratically achieved expansion of social welfare programs — not communist hallmarks like authoritarian rule, government ownership of all private property or an end to capitalism.

Honeymoon Trip to Soviet Union? Or a mayoral business trip?

It wasn’t exactly a traditional honeymoon, but Sanders and his wife left the day after their wedding to be part of a 12-person delegation for a sister city program between Burlington, Vt. — where Sanders was mayor — and the city of Yaroslavl.

Walker's total lack of self awareness shined through with this tweet, somehow forgetting Trump's love for authoritarian strong men dictators:

Compare that to Trump's authoritarian love affair. Not even close:



Walker's blind spot for dictators might have something to with his own mastery of authoritarian power when he was governor. Walker's angry final comment to a reporters question in the video below is chilling.  It was during a ceremonial signing that gutted the incoming Democratic governors powers. Note: Take a look at Walker's now infamously laughable Venn diagram debacle. He really is a dumb man:



This is also true of democratic socialism...

Russell Muirhead, a professor of political science at Dartmouth College, said:

"Democratic socialists are committed in the first case to persuading citizens of their particular policies and views, and if they can’t persuade, they refuse to try to implement those policies. Democracy comes first. Communists are so sure that they have the whole truth that they’re willing to impose their policies even if they can’t persuade other people, even if it requires a sustained and brutal application of violence. That’s why we associate communism with tyranny."

Pence's COVID-19 Quiz!

Bernie's edge over Trump.

Trump's Covid-19 special opts unit...