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January 2021
01/24/2021:
IF I COULD LIVE MY LIFE OVER, I'D WATCH THIS ON NETFLIX: Obviously I've been gone for awhile. But it's not because a hundred million people aren't lining up to read this blog. Actually, I quit caring about things like that a long time ago.
No, I've been too busy watching in horror as my country goes down the toilet bowl.
Once again, it all comes back to Scott Walker... that "Christian gentleman" (cough) who made our lives in Wisconsin a living hell from 2011 until 2018 (amply documented on this blog), when he was finally run out of office by Democrat Tony Evers.
Except that, you see, he wasn't.
Thanks to the extreme gerrymandering Walker and his minions left in place (amply documented on any real-world new source), Snotty turned the state over to his two most trusted lickspittles: state senator Scott Fitzgerald (now a U.S. congressman, because good fascist lickspittles ALWAYS get promoted) and GOP State Assembly speaker Robin Vos, a well-known slumlord. These sleazebags used the GOP majority in the statehouse to ignore everything the new Governor tried to do, including the mask mandate after COVID struck (resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of Wisconsinites). Like Moscow Mitch McConnell after Obama's election, they made it plain that the Governor was already a lame duck the day he assumed office.
They've kept their word. We still live in a Republican hell. Snott Walker is laughing his ass off. And thanks to gerrymandering, there's no way to get rid of them.
Now we come to Washington and that orange ape-man who deigned to called himself president, donald j. drumpf (to use the original spelling).
drumpf wasn't fortunate enough to have a GOP mentor, like Snotty did, who gave him the Cliff Notes to Machiavelli's "The Prince" and created a monster. So drumpf, being the lazy dumb-ass he's always been, watched Walker rule Wisconsin and thought, "Hey, he's not so bright either and he's got these rubes eating out of his hand!"
This will come out in the scholarship, probably after I'm long gone, but you heard it here first: Everything drumpf did was a copy of Walker's template. Everything. Except maybe overthrowing the government, which Snotty accomplished through non-violent means (Vos and Fitzgerald).
Think about it. "Law? What law? Oh, I don't like THAT law." Pure Walker (and later, pure drumpf). "Sir? You can't do that." "I just did! Ha ha ha!" Pure Walker (and later, pure drumpf). Firing knowledgeable experts and replacing them with morons (Snotty had Cathy Stepp, drumpf had Kayleigh McEnany). Having lackeys fix things when the people tried to discipline him (Walker's recall, drumpf's first impeachment). I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
We learned too late, from Snotty at the state level and then, horribly, from drumpf at the federal level, that our beloved government with its system of checks and balances is actually based on a bunch of gentlemen's agreements. That's just fine when you have a gentleman or -woman in office, but what if you don't? You're screwed.
So now we have a former president who tried to violently overthrow our government and become Dear Leader for Life. Three weeks later, he's playing nonstop golf in Palm Beach.
Snotty Walker has an expensive sinecure as the head of Young Fascists for Christ, or some such.
I wish that all of this wasn't real. That I could just watch it on Netflix.
On second thought, no. Turn it off.
Meanwhile the real America loses blood and tries to stagger to its feet.
Two men did this to us. Two men.
Never forget.
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