Hey look, the black boots have been brought in to protect the state senators and their illegal lawmaking in the locked-down capitol building. Republicans sure do want the protestors to get violent, huh? A fatal shooting is just what this situation needs.
Or perhaps it needs more noise? Some guy sent us a link to a fundraising page he set up to buy 20,000 vuvuzelas to hand out to the protestors and make things even more chaotic. Sounds like a good idea to us. [@StrikeforChange]
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Walker, do you really want a Kent State reference in your brief bio in the history books?
Actually he probably does. He probably thinks it was the first chip in the Berlin Wall or something.
STAY IN SCHOOL KIDS!
It more than countered the U.S. failure to subdue the Communist surge in Southeast Asia, proving that the Left is bankrupt.
RONNIE REAGAN WOULD SMILE ON HIM FROM HEAVEN
Wearing a pair of asbestos Depends, no less.
Uhm, Ronnie ended up somewhere a bit more Southern.
I'm hoping for a Hitler's bunker reference in his bio.
The recall effort will peak at German Fest 2012.
How about this one –
Did you know that, in golf, two shots in the bunker is called an "Adolph Hitler?"
Too soon?
Damn. I clicked on that link expecting 20,000 vulvas. Back to work, I guess.
Don't care how noisy they are.
I've been known to blow a few.
Me too, but then I thought "Oh, who needs more Palins, anyway?"
I will say this much: With all the tumult going on in the Middle East, it's about goddamn time something started happening here.
Any minute now, Republicans will start calling for a no-fly zone over Madison.
I can't wait for the Disney version of this.
~
Walt always was a "special friend" to organized labor.
Dancing, singing pizzas being delivered to the rotunda; vast armies wearing cheeseheads.
Maybe they should arm the cops with vuvuzelas.
If the vuvuzelas don't work, try soccer balls.
"Shit, Ian, that's a Spalding! He's serious."
Scoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore!
Neo-feudalism here we come!
It dovetails well with the Neo-Christianity
Even with global warming advancing at its rapid pace, it's still gonna be a couple couple more years until we're an authentic banana republic. :(
he set up to buy 20,000 vuvuzelas to hand out to the protestors and make things even more chaotic.
Damn it, has no one in this country read the Geneva Convention?
Agreed.
Vuvuzelas may be crossing the line.
We kind of missed the train on humane treatment when we decided that waterboarding was an "enhanced interrogation" method, so vuvuzelas are just par for the course.
I knew this country would eventually degenerate into an Orwellian police state, but I didn't think it would start in Wisconsin.
For real. STEP IT UP, ARIZONA.
Dude…..this union busting stuff is so played out in Arizona. The republicans won that war years ago.
Tennessee's trying, but she's a little slow, you know.
Hey, those cops are just following orders.
Your right "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" ends where damage to Scott Walker's political career begins.
Laverne & Shirley was American fascism's Guernica.
First, they came for the Wisconsin workers, and I was all like "oh no you di'int, bitches."
The fuckers may have breached our defenses, but they'll find we're plenty ready to fight hand-to-hand. And, it's pretty hard to mobilize a scooter offensive in close quarters, dontcha' know.
Maybe if he didn't put iPads on all the Stormtroopers' chests he could afford to pay the teachers.
Maybe they're cameras so they don't miss a shot of someone bumping into one of them so it justifies their 15 on 1 beat down of said bumper-into-er.
It is good to see that the Republicans are proud of their actions, and stand willing to meet the people they represent and defend their decision.
Or have them shot. Which ever, as long as those Unions are busted, and the Koch Brothers continue to fatten their campaign funds.
Hey, breaking up the Bonus Army worked out great for Herbert Hoover…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presid…
What's on their chests? I can't believe the Teletubbies have turned on labor!
Just the gay purple one.
You know, I really wouldn't be surprised if he went through with the plan mentioned in the prank phone call to emulate J. Edgar Hoover and plant fake protesters to spark violence.
Aren't the state stormtroopers unionized? Didn't they lose their rights yesterday too?
Nope….they exempted state police. They know how to get their dogs to sit and stay.
So much for union solidarity.
On the bright side, they don't look all "Gung-Hoey"… they look like they are waiting for a seat to open up at the bar.
And the local police have refused to follow illegal orders and sided with the protesters.
People become state troopers so that they can do things like this.
Since when do stormtroopers wear glow in the dark nameplates? (At least, that's what those day – glo strips on their chests look like.)
And they look bored to death: let's send them some vuvuzelas, so that they won't try to entertain themselves by beating the crap out of the protestors…
OK. I'll bite. What the fuck is a vuvuzela?
Flatulent African noisemaking instruments that provided the annoying soundtrack to last summer's World Cup tournament.
Oh yeah…of course…..that's what I thought…..[turns beet red]
When I briefly scanned it initially I got…
Venezuelans…
I need more coffee.
Hold it–we got a spy here. One o' them reel Amurrikans–Don't know sheeite about soccer or the World Cup? Who sent ya? Whaddaya want?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySDhxG7gFkk
horns used by soccer fans to deafen soccer fans, and to create illusion of bee-swarms.
I think they are those sound machines that killed the World Soccer Superbowl. The Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction of horn instruments.
You don't follow the un-American kind of football, do you?
UR DOIN IT RONG
so this means we're going to be seeing that creepy ass cartoon all the time now doesn't it?
No, I'm sure that little girl will inevitably grow old on me, too.
BLOW BLOW
A very loud trumpet.
It is a crime against humanity, a weapon of mass distraction, an abomination that causes desolation, that's what it is.
How does the Republican chain-of-command work here? Who is giving the orders to escalate the police presence? Is Walker's signature on this, or some Dept. of Admin. flunkie?
THEY ARE THE ONES MAKING VIOLENCE INCREASINGLY LIKELY
When you're a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Or a kneecap.
I honestly don't think the upper echelons of the party are contributing too much to planning, although obviously he's getting moral / rhetorical support. Walker is a total class A (type A?) megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur and designs on ever-higher office, so I really think he's calling the shots.
Let's just hope "shots" doesn't become literal.
The Koch-topus.
Those boots would look better with a stripper and a pole.
"Fairies Wear Boots"
Ozzy for Governor!
Strippers in jackboots – I saw some of those at a club Michael Steele took me to one time.
Things really started to turn around for the Bolsheviks when they managed to get the police on their side. The lesson is clear:
Protesters: Bring donuts.
I kicked in for pizza two weeks ago; damn right I'll shell out for winning-donuts strategy.
Wait, I 've been told since the 1990s that jackbooted thugs were the tools liberals used to oppress conservatives. So confused….
first they ignore you
then they ridicule you
then they fight you <———- YOU ARE HERE
then you win
Or maybe:
♪♫It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. ♪♬
Great lyrics from a
n AmericanCanadian Patriot.OK. But I still like the "giving me head on an unmade bed" line the best.
There's another song on that record that's a lot closer to what's happening now.
Oh, and on the vuvuzela front: anyone else thinking of a Walls of Jericho kind of effect here? (joshua 6…)
well now I have. (ba-dump-bible-thump)
Who called in the Colonial Marines?
Game over, man!
GAME OVER!
Walker the Libertarian, obeying his masters in the Koch Machine.
How long has this Governor been in office? 3 months? Just think what he can do in the 9 months he has left.
Considering what he's actually accomplished in the last month, he may not make it another 9 months. Scott Walker could come up missing and there would be thousands that testify that they didn't see a damn thing.
I thought they were ordering vulvas over the internet and based on a second reading, was sadly disappointed.
See, this is where the whole "these are just guys with a job to do" thing really starts to wear thin.
Fuck man. Does anything about armored and helmeted riot goons say "democracy"? And why now? What has changed besides the fact that Walker knows he is losing?
In the end, after they've run out of lies, violence is their only real tactic. That's it. That's all they have. Fuck Gov. Walker.
Why now? Because he's winning, obviously. As in Charlie Sheen winning so we all know how far that is going to go. Brilliant job this guy who got into office with just 52% of the vote has been doing in his first few months in office, eh?
Scott Walker has made a name for himself, tho it comes at a high price tbd. At the very least more Americans are familiar with the koch bros than they might have been a few weeks ago.
Something to think about, eh?
Well, if you try to look at this from a glass-is-half-full point of view, this could make a recall election less necessary since it's one step closer to Walker pretty much having to resign.
Wisconsin, we hardly knew ya. Really(!)–we hardly knew you had such assholes in your state. But I'm hopeful that if you can survive Brett Favre and Jeffrey Dahmer (of Milwaukee fame), you can wait out Walker.
Jeffrey Dalmer…Dalmer…why does that name ring in my skull…
He was the serial killer, sometimes cannibal. One time? The cops saw a naked 15yr old running from Dahmer's apartment. They returned the kid to Jeffrey's hands, because…Dahmer convinced them to.
FAIL police
Finally. I always knew Emperor Palpatine's first name was Scott.
Are those jackhole boots they're wearing?
BTW you Badgers, does anyone know if Governor [redacted] is kin to Ed Gein? Just food for thought, so to speak.
Scott Walker — he's so Republican that he can't wait to become president before he starts a war — he wants one now, and he'll get one the only way he knows how.
He should be careful what he asks for.
Interesting that Scotty and the Repugs in Wisconsin didn't take away the rights of the police union….so now they can use them as their goon squad.
For now.
I think the police are smart enough to figure out that they may be next.
…And some dickhead sent death threats to the Majority Leader.
Come ON, people, leave that kind of stuff to the orcs on the other side. Let's not fuck this up, all that kind of stuff does is give Breitbart a reason to masturbate furiously and splooge up blog posts…
That why he sent the death threat. Or maybe it was Jane O'Queef.
You may be right about that. I wonder if the FBI is looking that way….
Exactly. I'm sure it was some "union thugs" (ie, Fox News).
Agreed.
But sadly enough, we may be quickly reaching the tipping point where people are saying "Enough is enough".
Plus: even if one e:mail in 10,000 is threatening, Riley's one fart-box of one will never be safe. Breitbart'll be on a roll.
Can't even snark on this, it's just plain terrifying. He's drunk on power and is trying to instigate a violent confrontation with his own people; the Devil must have co-signed on the contract when he sold his soul to Koch
♪♫ Turn on your heartlight!
Let it shine wherever you go,
Just let it make a happy glow
For all the world to see… ♪♫
AKA a Republican wet dream, yes.
Not yet, but with the fall of the neo-Roman Empire (America) coming soon they're about to start.
Let he who doesn't want his own serfs/slaves and to shit in buckets again cast the first stone.
The whole fucking country should go on strike for 3 days. The power is in the street, motherfuckers.
Three days off work! Fuck yeah! What am i protesting against again?
Did you ever drink the water near Point Beach or Kewaunee?
Nah, I've got my own fucked-up contaminated water right here.
Does anyone else think Scott Walker looks drugged? Every photo I see of him he's got that 'sleepy eyed' look. I suspect drug use or else he's just a lazy-eyed bastard.
Not sure about the "lazy-eyed" part.
Have you ever watched a duck swimming? They're so calm-looking on the surface, but below the water, *furiously kicking*
Scott Walker is basically a duck, looking harmless and sane enough – even near-catatonic at times. But underneath the wheels of craziness are spinning.
Maybe he's a lazy-eyed bastard on drugs.
Meth?
Poppers and tranny sex. That would make anyone sleepy-eyed.
If the protesters are smart enough to behave peacefully, this will not play out well for Governor Kochsucker, guaranteedl
Watch when Joel Hodgson defects and becomes the Yakov Smirnoff of Egypt.
New rules being imposed on the protesters: No knitting needles longer than five inches and no more than 50 feet of yarn per protester in the Capitol Building.
I'd suggest a "nude in" but there's probably some "moral turpitude" clause in the teacher contracts. Plus, they'd freeze 'em off (if you know what I mean and I think you do).
As someone who has suffered through drunk douchebags blasting vuvuzelas in my ears as I'm trying to watch sexy men in short shorts frolic around on the pitch, I fully support this endeavor!!
Uglyass uniforms, made in China – hope they itch. WTF.
Looks like the Governor is super serious about the blue tape leaving marks all over his very own, private capital building. And he will tolerate no dissent!
Who will be funding Governor Walker's inevitable defense in upcoming lawsuits?
Hey, thanks Wisconsin, for letting the rest of us out here get an idea of what could be our future when we vote next time. I am sorry to see this come to pass to ye.
Reminds me of the old days when the SF Police came in to bust up an AIDS demonstration wearing latex gloves and surgical masks.
The crowd chanted, "Your gloves don't match you shoes!"
And the drapes don't match the carpet.
It's [redacted] because of [redacted].
I was wondering this as well but was too embarassed to ask, I'm guessing it's so inside joke that it must be buried in a comment string somewhere.
Sniff! I'm not cool!
Speaking of vuvuvzulas, ear-plugs can be quickly fashioned from two (preferably unlit) cigarette filters or one filter cut in half.
No clue if they'd be any good should the authorities haul out the sonic blast machines for crowd control.
Man, I hallucinated several mentions here in the comments, when viewed on break from work this afternoon, of people planning to go to Madison Saturday…
Methinks Walker needs to prepare his Führerbunker…
I know it's already been said, but the Wisconsin State Patrol is headed up by the father of the speaker of the assembly and the senate majority leader. Surprised, right?
We should start calling him Papa Cop, with sons, Baby Cop, Jr., & Baby Cop 2.0.
Wisconsin: America's Haiti.
The last vuvuzela I picked up had a whitish discharge. Any advice?
Is that photo of the lit up blackboots for real? If it is, it's scary. Looks like an early 70's George Lucas film.
Right. Too bad their unions endorsed dickhead in the election. We'll see what they do.
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