We have several swing states and near-swing states to point and laugh at, as the Republican internal Civil War widens and gets louder and more vicious. It was a bit difficult to choose among them. But the iDJiT settled the matter by choosing Wisconsin to tilt at.
Trump refers to Milwaukee as ‘horrible’ just before the city hosts the Republican convention
The "horrible city" quote, first reported Thursday by Punchbowl News, was made before House Republicans in a morning meeting on Capitol Hill while discussing strategies for his campaign.
and then immediately denying he said it.
Milwaukee a 'horrible' city? 'Trump denies comment he already acknowledged
“I picked Milwaukee, I know it well,” Trump said in his post. “It should therefore lead to my winning Wisconsin. But the Dems come out with this fake story, just like all of the others. It never ends. Don’t be duped. Who would say such a thing with that important State in the balance? Vote for Trump, Wisconsin, I will not let you down!!!”
As if. IOW
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Ten of these billboards are planned.
Trump okay with jail, house arrest but might be "tough for public to take"
I can imagine national convention drinking games causing Milwaukee to run out of beer, notably Miller. Mary Trump has suggested that at some point the whole country could run out of beer over Trump’s shenanigans and travails.
Wisconsin voters weigh in on Trump conviction in hush money trial
Wisconsin Politics This Year
I asked Google about the topic, and it gave me more stories than I can use here.
May 14, 2024 — ... Wisconsin and shut down today's floor period over protests from Dems so a GOP member could catch a flight. Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein ...
May 8, 2024 — Wisconsin's House Republicans say they are tired with interparty fighting and threats from some on the far-right to remove Speaker Mike …
May 16, 2024 — WATCH: GOP senators were in Madison, not to release funds for PFAS cleanup, but to hold a likely-to-fail veto override session.
May 14, 2024 — As Republicans exited …
Mar 19, 2024 — Organizers of an effort to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos are under fire for alleged forgeries on their petitions. Should the law be ...
Apr 7, 2024 — Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.). The Wisconsin Republican had announced he was going to leave Congress, one of 21 Republicans who have said they are ...
Mar 14, 2024 — But the same voters still trust Trump more to fix the border mess.
227 votes, 54 comments. 238K subscribers in the wisconsin community. A local subreddit for the State of Wisconsin. Post news and interesting ...
Jan 11, 2024 — House Republicans are fighting among themselves over funding priorities and whether to remove Speaker Mike Johnson.
Jan 20, 2024 — Republican party officials are becoming concerned that mounting dysfunction in a set of state Republican parties could imperil the GOP's ...
Mar 22, 2024 — Republican Representative Mike Gallagher announced Friday that he will leave Congress in just a few weeks, leaving his party's majority in ...
Feb 6, 2024 — Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) was swarmed on the House floor by his colleagues, who engaged in an apparent last-ditch attempt to change his ...
May 18, 2024 — The Republican Party of Wisconsin officially endorsed Eric Hovde as its U.S. Senate candidate during the state party convention in Appleton.
Apr 19, 2024 — Matt Gaetz. Gaetz, who yesterday bickered with Wisconsin Representative Derrick Van Orden after the latter pushed to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson ...
Same Old Same Old
This has been going on for years in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Republicans Join Investigation Frenzy To Undercut Trump Election Loss
Apr 1, 2016 — Donald J. Trump is probably not going to win Wisconsin and everyone is wondering what that means. Republican presidential candidate Donald ...
He did win there, by a little over 23,000 votes. But he lost by 20,000 votes in 2020.
Chaos, backstabbing and the butt-crack debate: The week ...
Oct 6, 2023 — As Republicans drag us with them in their race to the bottom, Democrats are in a bind deciding whether and how to engage.
They wish.
Sep 15, 2023 — Two votes in the Wisconsin Capitol Thursday demonstrate Republicans' controversial efforts to shape election rules in the battleground state …
The first vote saw GOP lawmakers move ahead with a complicated procedural attempt to oust the state's highest election official. The second seeks a complete overhaul of how Wisconsin's gerrymandered legislative maps are crafted in the future, and is seen as an effort to preempt action by the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court.
Wisconsin's Republicans Are In a Bind—And Angry
Oct 25, 2023 — Republican members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation lauded the election of Louisiana U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson as Speaker of the U.S. House ...
Claim: Says “Democratic Mayors in some of Wisconsin's largest cities closed voting locations in April to cause chaos.”
Claimed by: Republican Party of Wisconsin, stated on July 7, 2020 in a tweet:
Early voting is already underway, and so are the election legal challenges. Wisconsin has become the center of this conservative chaos, ...
MSNBC News · MSNBC.com · Oct 30, 2022
The political Republican Party is a mess in it's own right. However, people registered as Republicans want the government to stay out of our way ...
12 answers · 6 votes: Were you laughing when you posted this ridiculous question wondering if anyone would respond ...
Apr 7, 2020 — GOP lawmakers in our state threw tantrums at a point when everyone else was working to save lives, keep people healthy, stabilize the ...
Carl Sandburg - My Name Is Yon Yonson
Programming Note
Due to recent news, I am adding North Carolina to the list of states to point and laugh at.
Joe Biden Makes Aggressive Play to Take North Carolina From Trump
North Carolina is among those key swing states. While it has voted for the Republican candidate in 10 of the last 11 elections, with former President Barack Obama winning the state in 2008, Trump only won there by 1.3 percent of the vote in 2020—his narrowest state win—and North Carolina often elects Democratic governors. Seven of its last eight gubernatorial contests have gone blue.
The Compassionate Care Act would allow medical marijuana use statewide for people who have cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments. It also establishes a licensing system.
HB 563, in addition to now legalizing medical marijuana, would prohibit the sale to and purchase of hemp and hemp-derived products by a person under 21. It also would add kratom, xylazine and tianeptine to the state’s list of controlled substances.
The Rest of the Country
Lifelong Republicans Explain Why They're Voting Against Trump | NowThis
Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness
China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027
The US$5 billion facility would be cheaper, bigger and faster to build than a similar one proposed by European scientists.
China hopes to build a US$5-billion particle smasher within three years — beating Europe’s proposed mega-collider to the punch. The 100-kilometre Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) would aim to measure the Higgs boson — a mysterious particle that gives everything mass — in exquisite detail. Such information could answer fundamental questions about how the Universe evolved and why particles interact in the way that they do.
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
P. D. Q. Bach
Pervertimento For Bagpipes, Bicycle And Balloons, S. 66
The title, Pervertimento is... not P.D.Q. Bach's own. As a matter of fact, it was not so much a title as an opinion of the people who first played it.
The bagpipes player uses three radically different incarnations of the instrument; first, the chanter is removed from the bagpipes and played similar to an oboe or clarinet. "The tone, though jarring, is not altogether unexpected" in the words of the dust jacket for the original LP. In the subsequent movement, a "practice bagpipes" with the drones removed and the chanter muffled is used. In the final movement, the full bagpipes are employed.
Balloons are rubbed and popped through the majority of the piece. For the final chord, three helium balloons, attached to pitchpipes, are released from the percussion section behind the orchestra. The bicycle is "played" first as a percussion instrument using playing cards in the spokes, then by blowing through the handlebars similar to a trumpet, and finally using pedal power to drive a rotary whistle.