America’s leading producer of cheese products, Wisconsin, elected a Teabagger governor in November, and it’s not a coincidence that said cheese products are now all at least 10% meth byproducts by weight. This Scott Walker fellow has decided that it’s time Wisconsin purges the unions from state and municipal governments, and if those union people decide to make any funny business now that collective bargaining is illegal, he will call in the National Guard to shoot them or whatever. The stability and benefits of a government job are sort of the only reason why somebody would subject themselves to the indignities of working a government job, so it’s understandable they are upset, but things will all be a lot better for the proud homeland of Joe McCarthy when their government consists of nothing other than the skeletal remains of our founding fathers dressed in period fashion and propped up in chairs.
Walker’s special session bill begins: “Under current law, municipal employees have the right to collectively bargain over wages, hours, and conditions of employment under the Municipal Employment Relations Act (MERA), and state employees have the right to collectively bargain over wages, hours, and conditions of employment under the State Employment Labor Relations Act (SELRA). This bill changes MERA and SELRA with respect to all employees…”
It continues, “This bill limits the right to collectively bargain for all employees who are not public safety employees…”
In other words, only the armed union employees who could conceivably shoot back at the National Guard are allowed to have a union. This is shaping up to be a reverse Egypt, if you will.
We guess the Green Bay Packers have failed to win the peace. We need to have another Super Bowl to stop these cheesers from killing each other. [The Awl]
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Ah yes and so it begins. Make sure the Guard doesn't train their guns on you bitch. Ask the other despots how trying to get the locals to shoot their own kin worked out.
You worthless gush of right wing Santorum.
Fuck, they really do want to take us back to the 1890s-1920s. Call in the Pinkertons!
Repeal the 20th Century!
Job Killing 20th Century.
Jesus Hates Taxes
I instinctively read it as "Jesus hates Texas" and thought to myself "Yep, that sounds about right."
Get Al Swearengen!
Public safety employees exempted, yes, but unlike in, say, California, this exemption does not extend to prison guards. Just police (racists!)* & firefighters (heroes!), plus sheriffs (Robin Hood foils).
*Look it up. The Milwaukee Police Union elected as its president one of the two cops who turned over the underage Laotian to Dahmer. John Balzerczak, Patriot, Never Forget.
Well, the police and firefighters endorsed Walker – they've got their reward now.
Who could forget John Ballsack?
Blessed are the cheesemakers…
Quiet Bignose I can't hear.
For they shall inherit the National Guard.
Amazing how these "teabaggers" pretend to represent real America, but what they really are are tools of the Man, the rich business interests. But hey, indentured servitude is better than having a black man as president.
It's almost a 100% accurate test, isn't it? If something is bad for the poors and good for the wealthy, the Tea Party is for it.
The only exception I can think of are the goofy colonial costumes. Poors seem to dig those more than the rich folks do.
I keep hearing ads for "The Hunting of the President" where one of the proto-douchebaggers is quoted as they set out to get Clinton because he was just not the right sort of people to be president. Electing Obama has clearly caused their brains to explode.
If there's anything we know in this new America, it's that home health care workers and child care workers' salaries and rights are TOO DAMN HIGH!
Assmunch.
Constitutionally speaking, is this even legal?
As evil war dwarf Henry Kissinger used to "jokingly" say, "The illegal we do right away. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
There is no UNION in CONSTITUTION. LOOK it UP.
(Oh, there is? If you rearrange the letters around a bit? Oh OK. Hey, you're right, gee, I never noticed that.)
Suction Tit On
i prefer suction on tit, but whatever.
Talk to SexySmurf.
That too. Internet anagram makers are tricky things. I got to suction tit on and saw "suction" and "tit" close together and stopped looking any further.
In all seriousness, yes. NLRA covered private employees not covered by the Railroad Employee Whatevertherestofthatlawwas Act. At least that's my understanding. The right is left up to states, which is why you see individual laws for each state.
Yeah, hopefully this is a passing fad until the next Democrat gets into office.
Sadly, the next Democrat to get into office there will have his mouth so crammed full of corporate "bipartisan" cock that he won't be able to speak out against it.
That goobernor also saved Wisconsin from the horror of high-speed rail, praise Jeebus. And the free federal money he wouldn't take is coming here to Colly-fornya. Thanks, Gov Dipshit!
But he didn't reject it straightaway. He tried to funnel it to his buddies in the road-construction & -repair business. Fix up I-94 real good, 'cause — what global climate change?
Anyway, I'm sure the Evil Scott Walker* is one of those "destroy the ecosystem, hasten the Rapture" types.
*It entertains me that the Governor's campaign website has to be scottwalker.org since some dumb British pop artist had the name first.
Steel wheels bad! Rubber tires good!
There’s nothing more irritating than being stuck in traffic on your way home on the free*way while your maid zooms past you in the opposite direction in relative comfort on rapid transit running down the median.
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*”Free” only in the sense that there’s no toll for the actual user. Everybody else pays, though.
Why would anyone want fast, convenient transportation from Chicago to Milwaukee and Madison and then on to Minneapolis when they can spend hours on the highway or going through TSA groping?
That's why they are routing the line through Rockford and Dubuque to get from Chicago to Minneapolis.
Cagey bastards, those Iowa Democrats.
Sucks for people who need to go to or from Wisconsin; good job screwing over your own people, gov'nor.
That's why they are routing the line through Rockford and Dubuque to get from Chicago to Minneapolis. …
They are? I did not understand the opposition to a line that would cross from Milwaukee to the Cities, as it would cross the whole state.
Spite; liberals support it. That's it; like with the NY-NJ rail tunnel Christie killed, there is no reason to oppose this, indeed it costs the state Federal money; it's just to piss off liberals.
They are?
According to some regional planning guy in Rockford, yes, that's plan "B".
Well, they also wanted to make a line from Chicago to Iowa City and then Des Moines and the Iowa Republiklans have already said 'NO'!
What's sad is, ten years ago, it would have gotten done. Tommy Thompson, say what you will of the illustrious HHS sec'y under Bush, liked the trains. It was more he was a simple man than eco-conscious, but, still…
Awesome, isn't it! I finally get to ride from Fresno to Bakersfield in high speed style!
What, no meth?
Why do you think I want to get to Bakersfield so fast?
It ain't just to visit the Crystal Palace!
Yep, that's another popular conservatard meme. But the right-of-way is cheaper there, you get more for the money, prove the concept safely out in the sticks, you're gonna build it anyway, etc.
It's the Bullet to Bakersfield!
The TGV to Tulare.
The Shinkansen to Stockton.
Least his name ain't "Scotty Scottson". Dumb fat state.
As a former resident, I'm glad I got out of there. I remember this guy when he was a dickish county exec who kept getting re-elected by reminding all the old white people in Tosa that young people and minorities are scary. Can't believe they elected this blister to a statewide office.
Not just his base in Tosa (the city that produced Dick Cheney's official biographer), but the southern part of the county, including my hometown, The Dirty Stal. The fancy boy college dropout successfully wedded inherited wealth to NASCAR fandom, a Bush with even less gravitas.
Yeah, I'm sure his campaign got enough Stallis meth money to defeat that guy who actually saved one of his constituents from being assaulted.
Such a fucking toad, this guy.
They have meth in The Stal? How come nobody told me this?
I've been trying to lose weight the old fashioned way, at a gym, when I could have been doing it so much faster.
This sounds kind of like step 1 of that New World Order Obama's always talking about. Wait…was it Obama, or that other guy, you know, the one before him? Maybe it was John McCain or Ronald Reagan. I can't keep my facist / socialist / liberal / conservative / communist / christian / muslim / Panamanian Presidents straight.
Have we seen Scott Walker's birth certificate yet?
Here's a hint: New World Order guy is receiving a Presidential Medal of Freedumbz.
…would it be too much to ask to have him slip into a coma?!
Riding a motorbike w/no helmet gives him pretty good odds of that, eventually.
The Roethlisberger Method.
(& having beaten him in the Super Bowl, the jokes get that much sweeter.)
Some look at the Dark Ages and see ignorance, misery, pestilence, and death. Scott Walker looks at them, and sees a new HR policy for Wisconsin.
Oh, Harry, touche!
Don't the Packers have some sort of socialist ownership structure where all of the able bodied men in the town of Green Bay have an interest in the team? Yeah… Walker's going to feel the wrath of Lambeau when he tries to fire on the Pack.
Yes, and also this (which was written before this latest nonsense, but still): http://www.wisconsin.edu/assets/growth_agenda/doc...
Wisconson: The Alabama of the north.
Wisbama
It's sad, isn't it? These are topsy-turvey times when a Republican has to pull out all the stops to win in Ohio (and he did), but then you get this dumb-fuck college reject cruising to victory in a state like Wisconsin.
They didn't just elect a Republican, they elected a guy whose wingnutty even by talk radio standards.
Dear U.S. America. Among the reasons Canadia has weathered the global economic collapse reasonably well, thank you very much, is banking regulation and (here comes the important part) a large stable public sector which helps keep demand from completely tanking. High oil prices which allow us to forcibly rape the earth via the Alberta tar sands at a profit, also too, but like Meatloaf said, 2 outta 3 ain't bad. p.s. thanks for paying our hockey goons millions and keeping them off our streets.
I see we're going back to early 20th century America. Are they going to revert back to 16 hour shifts?
Late 19th century – 16 hour shifts, no weekends, no child labor laws, no health and safety regulations. Return of the Gilded Age.
This is good news… for J.P. Morgan!
Pink lungs are for communists.
Sounds like the current working conditions of many RNs, esp. in "right-to-work" states.
Hmmm. Early 20th Century. Lotsa World Wars, IIRC.
War good, union bad!
I, for one, will be glad to see my 6 year old earn his keep around here by getting a cushy job as a chimney sweep or putting his little fingers in industrial looms.
Why do you think immigrant packing plant workers use meth?
Inshallah.
Considering the salary and benefits of "public safety" employees, if one were truly honest about this approach, one would target public safety and not everyone else. Oh no, a custodian is making $17 an hour and has dental coverage! Let's stop him but let a firefighter earn $90k with full benefits.
Just like their approach to the budget (ignore the giant budget drain that is the military), the Teabaggers approach is clearly dishonest.
Anyone know how the National Guard feels about being a personal goon squad for some right wing asshole? What the fuck country is this?
They'd probably be happy to be in Wisconsin as opposed to an extended tour in Iraq or Afghanistan
Gov. Rhodes of Ohio. See Kent State, May 1970.
Problem is that we have an all-volunteer military, a professional military, full of people to whom rigid authoritarianism and clearly-defined command levels and classes are, at a minimum, acceptable. I'm guessing that most of the National Guard members are OK with following orders and suppressing protesters. Not only that, but in some sectors of the military (Air Force is an example) fundamentalist Taliban-style Christianity has taken hold, adding eternal absolution for heinous acts committed in this life.
We need a return to the draft, and we need a draft that includes everyone.
But wouldn't that get the attention of the peeplze? And wouldn't that create civil unrest? Then the wars that are draining, oops, bankrupting the Treasury and fueling the rightists' agenda of cutting soshulist services and creating a U.S. America theocracy might actually become newsworthy enough to slap our fat asses into actually doing something about it. Can't have that — interferes with DWTS and corn snacks.
Actually … http://www.votevets.org/news?id=0409
Veterans Object to Governor's Threatened Use of National Guard in Union Dispute
Teabagistan, where public sector employees making 40-50 grand are the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of the new century.
Wisconsin government employees should refuse to attach any Pullman cars to trains. That'll teach 'em.
Workers unite! Today, we are all meth-crazed cheesers.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
…
You know the rest.
And People's Park before that.
And to think Milwaukee had a string of a dozen socialist mayors, ending with Frank Zeidler in 1960. Zeidler even got re-elected while that viscous clown McCarthy was around.
Teabagger Scott Walker = McCarthy without the grace.
Alice Cooper told me about that.
McCarthy had the excuse of being a raging drink to explain being a "legend" status asshole, but Scooter seems to be sober most of the time, so I guess he is a genuine, organic, free range "Legend" status asshole.
this will likely result in numerous one-person 'Mexican-Chihuahua cheese stand-offs" as I'd guess there's more than one NG member who is also a union employee.
The dbag in ohio is doing the same thing, and it's just a matter of time for other states. congratulations on rolling back the age Prosperity. I welcome the age of disparity and my grandma's new $8/hr home care worker. And don't forget you're an independent contractor now – so take payroll and all aother taxes out. and then go get you some benefits. that has quality care written all over it.
The Department of Homeland Terror
federal storm troops deal with public
It would be interesting to see if the Guard would do it. Fire on a large group of otherwise law-abiding civilians, I mean. I know that the cops would, all cops loathe and despise the public, and dream of killing anyone and everyone who looks at them cross-eyed. But the kids in the Guard, I am not so sure of. Have the video games so desensitized them that they'd shoot, or would they have the decency to act the way the Egyptian military did?
Well we know the Ohio national guard will shoot.
Fuck, you're right, what was I thinking, ridiculous, that real US Amurricans would be as humane and moral as the Egpytians.
Back then the Ohio NG was filled with right wing chickenhawks who were hiding out from the war. So shooting students came naturally to them. (Also Jimmy Rhodes was a co-founder of Wendy's) too
Yes. And the Guard explicitly trains for counter-protest missions.
I can't imagine the gigantic shit storm that would light up in this country, if the Wisconsin National Guard was ordered to open fire on working class citizens for no other reason than they had the audacity to unionize.
Hate to say it, but it may be the nudge that the working class needs to finally get off their asses and stop accepting the scraps that are thrown to them from their corporate masters.
This class war was started when Raygun fired the air-traffic controllers, maybe it's finally coming to its logical end.
Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
Arise, you wretched of the earth!!
Or maybe just write a very sternly worded letter to the editor.
Didn't a bunch of the Founding Fathers belong to the Masons? Weren't the Masons originally a trade guild? Can't trade guilds be likened to unions? Would that make a bunch of the Founding Fathers union members, really?
Sure, I suppose, but now they just wear funny hats/jackets & bugger off on Tuesdays to smoke cigars, play cards, & look at nudie mags.
You'll have to break out the chalkboard on this…
The T-tards and religiousrightniks really look back to Cromwell as their real founder
Which one? The older one who had his head messily removed by Henry VIII or the younger who did his darnedest to make the Irish extinct?
The younger, Noll.
It's worse here in Tennessee. The General Assembly is not only repealing the bargaining law, they're making it a crime for teachers to bargain. And it's not like we're really all that good at it, in the first place.
Same thing is happening here in Ohio, thanks to a Republican majority in the state house and newly elected, Wall Street whorebag, Gov. Kasich.
Isn't Wisconson also a state that out sourced some sort of government phone-in service to India (food stamps, or heating assistance)? I remember hearing that somewhere. Any one have information on that?
Huh. I still live the High Life. & I got mad love for Blatz (since my grandfather did sales for them).
Personally I prefer the beer form Shotz brewery.
But…there are LakeFront beers readily available. (Many of my family members worked for Miller back in the day, but I forgive them.)
I'll take a Spotted Cow or a Point Special, or a Rehorst Vodka, over Lakefront.
Best Milwaukee micro (or whatever beer) is the Ulao at the Alehouse.
Like a knife in my beer-soaked heart! That Rehorst Vodka is pretty fantastic. (Their gin is too, and I normally can't stand the stuff.)
Thanks for the Ulao tip. I'll make sure to give it a try next time I'm out boozin'.
jack ass
The Ohio Teabaggers are doing the same thing, except cops and firefighters aren't even getting a pass. That's how hardcore Ohio Teabaggers are.
Did Scott Walker go to Kent State?
Marquette, but he dropped out after two years.
Meanwhile, his gubernatorial opponent went to UW, then Marquette for Law.
So Walker's a quitter like Palin?
Indeed. & a career politician. He's, what, forty or so? & he was first elected to the State House when he was 24? Not an whole lot of life/professional experience outside the (evil) government…
You know who else banned unions and dispersed their protests with paramilitary goons, don't you?
General Motors?
Kodos?
I an always confused by 'the baggers' They are constantly SCREAMING at the top of their lungs "Don't Tread On Me'.
They just want to tread on everybody else. The baggers or more dictatorial and communist that Stalin.
This is the truly serious shit, people.
Let this be a lesson…TO YOU.
I came here planning to make some dumb joke about government cheese, but this shit is just too depressing.
We're at a point where it's expected that giving your life to an employer means nothing. Government jobs are the exception, and the dumb teabagger cuntgums see that as a bad thing.
Fuck this fucking shit. Fuck.
& he only got in on an recall effort, following a (legit) pension scandal, during which he vowed to balance the county's books.
Has a bit of Schwarzenegger in him, too, then. Politically, anyway. Arnold would crush Scotty in the Octagon.
You think this is fucked up? In S. Dakota today they're pushing a new bill in the legislature that would make shooting abortion providers legal.
This looks like a job creator if ever I saw one. Happy times are just around the corner.
That sounded so un-possible that I looked it up (no reflection on you, of course).
Jesus jumped-up Christ…it's true!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/south-da...
What fucking country did I wake up in this morning?!
To think: South Dakota gave us George Mc Govern.
Legalize terrorism! That's a great campaign slogan.
And posterity is just around the coroner.
OT
MoJo has a piece on legislation pending in South Dakota that would make killing doctors who perform abortions "justifiable homicide." Fuck all.
The ultimate goal is "fetus personhood". I say let 'em get what they ask for, and then every time you see some fat pro-life fuck pregnant mom driving without a seatbelt, or eating junk food, or lighting up a smoke, you just call 911 and report child abuse. Or better yet, you call Child Protective Services (if it still exists) and report child abuse. They'll have to put that fetus in a foster home, and pronto!
Good point. I wonder if fetus-personhood extends to civil rights?
Which begs the question: Should a fetus-person then be included in the census? Go thither and multiply!
It's really not a stretch to call these people fascists.
Child Protective Services are going to go away since it's God's Law that you should be able to treat your children as you see fit.
Flawed logic, the money for protecting children will be diverted to pregnancy cops who will protect that little snowflake until the picosecond it pops out of mom. From that point on, however, fuck 'em.
…or maybe just add another fetus jar to the Bush family collection?
You're not far off base. There are some serious civil rights/reproductive rights issues facing pregnant women these days, or non-pregnant women of reproductive age — policing their behavior so that "just in case they get pregnant" we can criminalize drug use, &c. Most of this punitive attitude is, of course, aimed at poor women and women of color.
I mean, even southern states mostly just don't have any laws with regards to this. They're just like "whatever, we don't give a shit if your town/district wants to bargain." This outright says you can't do x, y, and z. I know Virginia is like that, because NoVa has unions for public employees whereas the rest of the state is mostly just unorganized (except teachers, I know they had an NEA branch back in SW Va. where I'm from).
Cheese curds suck ass and I hope my brother-in-law is happy there now that he and his dim-witted ilk voted in a pack of losers to combat socialism or whatever it is those drunk Upper Wisconsin deerslayer fucks call government.
It probable won't come to this (I hope and pray), but imagine the image of WNG tear-gassing middle aged elementary school teachers.
School kids make pretty good human shields, if you stack them tightly enough.
Dagny Taggart is not amused.
Elections matter and these guys won so they can re-write the laws. Too bad it doesn't work that way when Demoncrats win, but that's our system.
When "the American people spoke" last November, they were saying create jobs, cut spending and taxes, which any economist will tell you is accomplished by restricting abortion and repealing local gay marriage ordinances. Just ask the Repubicans how that works.
I mean, can it be any clearer?
1. Erode the things that make public work attractive
2. Watch the quality of employees decline
3. Use the crappiness of public services to justify selling them off
And the right won't be the only ones responsible. Most of the left these days seems content putting all their energies into posting about Sarah Palin's farts or crafting intricate treatises about how marginal conservative x is "like a Hitler or something".
We are doomed.
Kind of ironic that tea baggers, who are always screaming about the iron fist of government repression, are the first to want to send in tanks to run over garbage men and office secretaries.
There's something rotten in the state of Wisconsin and it ain't the cheese.
Cracks me up how much these conservative dairy farmers complain about the government and taxes when they'd mostly be out of business without dairy and farm subsidies of one kind or another. It's just like the rural counties here in Washington. They bitch and moan about taxes when it's the urban counties that subsidize them. If they really got stuck trying to live on what they contribute they'd be hurting pretty badly.
Then the trick is to send fiscal conservatives to Congress to cut off and starve the red states.
Wisconsin is also a leading producer of Cannibals
Speaking as someone whose neighbor growing up was one of the first cops on the scene at Dahmer's "International House of Mancakes", I find this comment absolutely delicious!
(The comments he made to me about what they found there that were never made public, not so much…)
Don't forget the Ed Gein.
Christ All Fucking Mighty. I have been a member of a union, proudly so, since I was 17 ,in the UK there is a National Union of School Students, then on to the National Union of Students during my Universty years now am a member of 3 unions, albeit no-one would really be all that scared if the actors unions rose up-too many gays and self-absorbed women- but it makes me feel like going on a march so I can scream about all this union busting. What a fucking cunt this man is.
So..let's see. Baby boomers are retiring…states are pushing for the right to declare bankruptcy so they can weasel out of their contractual obligations…union members can't complain.
Perfect Storm much?
This was the same thing private firms did during the early 80's to get out of paying their penshioners, so it was only a matter of time before state's made the same move.
Capitalism ROCKS!
This is what happens when the Packers win the Superbowl, and consequently Wisconsin gets to set domestic policy. (That's how it happens right?)
You think this shit would go down if Pittsburgh won?
It would be nothing but union slush funds and and super gay steel industry raves.
"Present, former Packers say they back AFL-CIO" http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/116231984….
Convincing, but I think this photo from the Simpson's (Season 8, Episode 15) says it all:
http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2010/...
Considering that the football players have one of the few remaining effective private unions around, I wouldn't put it past the owners to lobby Congress to make collective bargaining illegal for sports as well.
The Teabaggers go from dumb obese racists to lining up on the wrong side of the class war.
If they could get their fat asses out of their rascals they would be goosestepping to the Horst Wessel song next.
Odd that all his posturing is just to secure himself a Discovery Channel show at some point. Doesn't he realize he'll probably have to join AFTRA at the very least?
I'll give you my Doppelrhamstufel when you take it from my cold dead chubby hands.
Even Hitler waited 4 months before outlawing unions.
Workers of Wisconsin, unite! You have nothing to lose but… but…
Oh, crap. You have nothing left to lose at all, I guess.
But the government can still use its collective bargaining power against them, right? See, they're not taking away ALL rights to collective bargaining.
You know who's in a union? A really, really strong union? Aaron Rodgers. And Clay Matthews. And Donald Driver. And BJ Raji. And that little choking kicker, Mason Crosby. If those guys stood up with the union folks, this would be over, like yesterday.
And along those lines…you don't get any more socialist, tea baggers, than the city of Green Bay. I mean, they all own the team. What a concept.
Obama can federalize them, but would he?
Republican playbook:
1. Make everyone hate the government
2. Make sure government is incompetent
3. Point to said incompetence as a way to privatize everything
4. Starve the government of taxes and defund everything
Isn't it painfully obvious by now that the Republicans' only intention is to literally destroy the U.S. government?
Gary Question wouldn't have stood for this shit if he were still President.
I have just one reaction to this news story: http://www.igourmet.com/californiacheese.asp
Wisconsin and South Dakota….seems like all the northern tier states (including the part of Minnesota that keeps electing Bachmann) have all been taken over by complete asswipes. Seems like another good reason to stay the hell away from the north central part of Merika.
Brain-freeze must be somewhat responsible. Or not; here in dessicated Nevaduh and neighboring Collyfournya the same things are talked about.
Minnesota came very close to full retard. Both houses went Republican but the governor went liberal Democrat. Today he just released his plan to reduce the state debt by increasing taxes on the rich.
Hahahaha! Good times.
I just so happen to be the proud owner of "The Ghoul of Plainfield's" old shoebox full of vulvas.
You're more than welcome to borrow it should you be in need of something vintage to wear for your next night on the town.
This race to the bottom in unbelievable. You have a pension? Screw that I have a 401k so you should to. You have an 401k? Well my employer doesnt so nobody should have one. You only pay 2% for employers healthcare, screw that I pay 15 so you have to too. You have healthcare? I dont have any so nobody should. You eat steak sometimes? I eat hamburger. You eat hamburger? I eat dog food. This should end when we're all living in a cardboard box by the underpass. Keep an eye out for the fresh roadkill.
My God. Seriously. One hundred years ago, people protested, faught and died for unions and collective bargaining. They faught and died for workers' rights and human dignity. I am really starting to think the time has come to do it again. We CANNOT let these mouth-breathing, drooling teabaggers take us back to the dark ages without a fight. Sometimes you gotta stand up for your right –
Oh look. "American Idol" is on! What was I talking about again?
Scott Walker is a dipshit. He was trying to tell Jim Doyle how to govern when he was the Governor-elect, and he's already spewed a series of politically incorrect warning shots across sanity's bow. This turd is using threats of violence to beat citizens into submission as a tool for trimming the budget? Fuck you buddy. Keep the engine running because we know where you live.
Glad my daughter left Wisconsin last year- back to commie socialist (or so the teabagger Wapo posters tell us) Maryland..
I think this Bagger is about to find out that fucking with all the state unions can be a really stupid thing to do. First, the trash doesn't get picked up at the house, then the plumbing in the governor's office overflows, his kids are bullied by classmates, and the limousine develops a problem from the sugar in the gas tank. I mean, accidents happen, right?
It almost feels as if Barry's becoming president was on purpose. Who knew white America would lose their collective shit over a black guy getting elected to the point where they'd be willing to give it all away? Well played fat guy in suit lighting his cigar with a hundred dollar bill in some swanky Park Ave. penthouse. Well fucking played.
The Wisconsin Natl. Guard's not off in Iraq?
Bit late here, but as a born and raised — and edumacated — Badger I just have to register my two cheese nuggets' worth of WTF.
Wisconsin politics have been pretty closely-balanced since at least WW2 — one big urban concentration in Milwaukee, a smaller one in Madison, a number of small (20-80K) cities, and the rest pretty rural, has led to varied results, depending on turnout and the temper of the times. I mean, in the same half-century, this state gave to USAmerica Senators Bob Fucking LaFollette and Joe Rot-In-Hell McCarthy.
When I was growing up in Shorewood (a suburb coterminous with Milwaukee), the tendency (by no means unbroken) was to lean Repo for state offices and Dem for national. Unless you are both old and from Wisconsin, you probably have never heard of, e.g., Gaylord Nelson or Bill Proxmire, but they were both long-serving Dem Senators (and generally from the Democratic wing). You have heard of Russ Feingold, and for my money the true tale of the deterioration of the Wisconsin electorate is that Russ could be defeated by a born-on-third-base slimeball like Ron Johnson. This ass-for-brains governor is small potatoes in comparison.
I haven't lived in Wisconsin since 1969, but you never completely transcend your roots (at least, I don't seem to). This will seem naive, but when I still lived there, there was a definite sensation that there was something like "Wisconsin Progressive" — sort of like "Minnesota Nice", which was really "Minnesota Progressive", anyhow, but branding and everything, okay? Sadly, neither of them seems to be doing so well these days.
Wisconsin was never the land of milk and
cheesehoney — Milwaukee has always been highly segregated, like every other major US city; the impact of one of the most liberal universities in the country has been blunted by the clout of dairy farmers who may still think that it should be illegal to dye margarine yellow; stuff like that. But this last election has given me a severe sad.In my old, fixed income, age, I have occasionally considered hauling my butt back to Madison. While I'm not a big fan of actually living in the fucking snow, I know from experience that it can be done, and in exchange you get eight months or so of pretty interesting weather. But with this political climate, I guess I'll just stay put in my redneck bit of Cali.
Seriously. Can you be any more Hitler than that?
Meanwhile, right across the Lake here in Michigan, the governor has recognized the legitimacy of public sector unions going so far as to say he wouldn't support any "right-to-work" legislation because it's "decisive." Still, the tea-flavored Michigan legislature is trying to slip in "right-to-work" by proposing "right-to-work" zones in the state. Like hell they will; this ain't the South, muthafuckas; this is the home of the iconic Flint Sit-Down Strike. Bitch, back up, I say.
Does Scott Walker live in the People's Republic of Madison? Please tell me he lives in the People's Republic of Madison.
Yes, he does, and we all know where he lives. Looking at the crowds here today I couldn't help thinking this dipshit has no idea who he's dealing with here. We look for any reason to protest anything – its what we do. Power to the Revolution!11
Yeah, I don't even want to talk political violence, that'd be lowering ourselves to his level, but some petty protest vandalism and/or people power wouldn't be such a bad thing…I mean, even animals know not to shit where they sleep, if you know what I mean.
Speaking of governors' residences, the newly elected Michigan governor opted out of staying in the governor's mansion in Lansing, instead commuting from his own mansion in suburban Ann Arbor a good 70-80 miles away, mostly for the fact that the rich bastard's house is bigger than the governor's mansion and in a gated community. It was something of a scandal in the political circles of Lansing as he's the first governor since the house was donated to the state to not use it.
Don't blame the Teabaggers! They're just protecting liberty the way the Founding Paramilitary Junta intended! Commandante Jefferson & Generalissimo Washington would be so proud of them.
Radically kneecapping the higher-paying professions in a weak economy? I believe that's known as the "Cutting Off My Head To Spite My Neck" gambit. Hell of a show-stopper, but you only get to try it once.
This is what is now known as "making the tough decisions."
Well, if they get a highspeed line to the Mississippi, it can go north to the Cities and it will be a couple of generations before any track goes farther north or west from Milwaukee (well, maybe up the Fox valley). The Pythagorean theorem argues against this, but politics can make an argument too. Would be interesting to see.
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