Saturday, September 13, 2025

Wisconsin, We Can Do Better Than Derrick Van Orden (Part 2)

After Charlie Kirk assassination, Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden fans the flames

As soon as the news broke that Kirk was shot while on stage at Utah Valley University, Van Orden began a stream of increasingly unhinged social media posts blaming Democrats and the media for the murder and declaring “the gloves are off.”

“The leftwing political violence must stop now,” Van Orden tweeted. In another post he wrote, “The left and their policies are leading America into a civil war. And they want it. Just like the democrat party wanted our 1st civil war.”


“Is Derrick here?” asked U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, the Democratic congressman representing Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes Dane County. Pocan was in Eau Claire, the 3rd Congressional District represented by Derrick Van Orden, a Republican, on Saturday, May 31, at a town hall organized by Opportunity Wisconsin, a coalition of grassroots groups, at the Pablo Center at the Confluence, Eau Claire’s performing arts center.

Van Orden was invited to attend the event but declined.

Van Orden has said he prefers telephone town halls where the meeting isn’t dominated by people he describes as leftwing critics, and he also has said that his family has received death threats and is vulnerable in an in-person setting.

Also see:

Charlie Kirk In His Own Words

From the Guardian:

On race

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine? – The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action? – The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023

On debate

We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity. – Kirk discussing his work in an undated clip that circulated on X after his killing.

Prove me wrong. – Kirk’s challenge to students to publicly debate him during the tour of colleges he was on when he was assassinated.

On gender, feminism and reproductive rights

Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge. – Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025

The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered. – Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024

We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024

On gun violence

I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. – Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023

On immigration

America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024

On Islam

America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025

We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025

Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America. – Charlie Kirk social media post, 8 September 2025

On religion

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022

From Zeteo:

Black people

“Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.” (source)

Black pilots

“If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, ’Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” (source)

Black women

“They're coming out, and they're saying, 'I'm only here because of affirmative action.' Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously." (source)

Civil rights

“We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.” (source)

The death penalty

"[The death penalty] should be public, should be quick, should be televised… I think at a certain age, it’s an initiation… At what age should you start to see public executions?" (source)

Democrats

“The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates.” (source)

Empathy

"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage." (source)

Feminism

“Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge." (source)

Gay people

“You might want to crack open that Bible of yours. In a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture, is in Leviticus 18 is that, ‘thou shalt lay with another man shall be stoned to death.’ Just sayin’! So Miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19… the chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” (source)

George Floyd

“This guy was a scumbag.” (source)

Great Replacement Theory

“It's not a Great Replacement Theory, it's a Great Replacement Reality. Just this year, 3.6 million foreigners will invade America. 10-15 million will enter by the end of Joe Biden's term. Each will probably have 3-5 kids on average while native born Americans have 1.5 per couple. You are being replaced, by design.” (source)

Guns

“It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.” (source)

Jews

“Jewish donors have been the number one funding mechanism of radical open-border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits. This is a beast created by secular Jews and now it’s coming for Jews, and they're like, ‘What on Earth happened?’ And it's not just the colleges. It's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it.” (source)

Martin Luther King Jr.

“MLK was awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.” (source)

Muslims

“They aren’t even hiding their intentions. Muslims plan to conquer Europe by demographic replacement. Will Europe wake up in time?” (source)

Palestine

“I don’t think the place exists.” (source)

Transgender people

“You’re an abomination to God.” (source)

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Trump Must Be On Drugs

Pitiless Totalitarian Entity

Practice Your Skepticism

Stay Away From The Fries

Get Your Fat Asses Over To Cracker Barrel

Divorce

Watch Out, Boy!

Shut Up, Margaret!

What Would Jesus Do?

Opinions Are Like Assholes

 


Here We Go Again

 


Thursday, August 14, 2025

U.S. Crime

2024 Elections Results Map 


Republican Percent of 5 Highest Aggravated Assault States: 80%
Democrat Percent of 5 Lowest Aggravated Assault States: 80%

Republican Percent of 5 Highest Violent Crime States: 80%
Democrat Percent of 5 Lowest Violent Crime States: 100%

Republican Percent of 5 Highest Murder Rate States: 80%
Democrat Percent of 5 Lowest Murder Rate States: 80%

Republican Percent of 5 Highest Burglary Rate States: 60%
Democrat Percent of 5 Lowest Burglary Rate States: 100%
State ranking source: safehome.org

If Trump is going to start taking over cities and states based on crime rates, Republican states are the place to start. As the data above shows, the overwhelming majority of crime occurs in Republican states. But let's not delude ourselves, Republicans aren't concerned with justice, crime, safety, or economics. As usual, this a just another power grab and a general affront to democracy. 

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Wisconsin, We Can Do Better Than Derrick Van Orden


The Sorry Truth About Rep. Derrick Van Orden

WI Rep. Van Orden spreads misinformation online following Minnesota shootings

GOP congressman scared to attend town hall because of the Jews

Van Orden Leaves No Back Unstabbed



Wisconsin, We Can Do Better Than Robin Vos

Robin Vos is a self-serving, slimy, and corrupt hypocrite.

After a fire left 5 people dead and 100 displaced, Vos was indifferent toward mandating retrofitting sprinklers in older buildings to prevent such a loss in the future.

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says changes to sprinkler laws unlikely after Milwaukee fire

After a right-wing lunatic gunned down lawmakers (with plans to kill others), Vos wanted more security for sessions at the Capitol.

Rep. Robin Vos asks for increased security for upcoming Assembly session after Minnesota shootings

For Vos, the safety of others - no so important. But for himself, spare no expense. 

Robin Vos is a selfish piece of shit. 

Wisconsin, when will you finally be embarrassed by politicians like Vos? Vos (like most Republicans) got into politics for money and power. He doesn't care about Wisconsinites. He isn't trying to improve anyones' quality of life other than his own. 

I'll Show You A Crook


Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Questionable Economic Impact Claims

Wisconsin Department of Tourism claims $321 million economic impact from Republican National Convention. 

As Center Square clarified:

Economists who have studied the impact of national party conventions says a report from the marketing firm Tourism Economics does not accurately reflect the actual impact of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Economist Victor Matheson of College of the Holy Cross has studied and written on national conventions and large events, He called the release, which claims the event had a $321.5 million impact, a “promotional booklet/press release, not a serious economic impact study.”

Center Square, in other economic impact reporting, further noted:

Economists say the numbers produced by the marketing group do not follow economic study principals and are not reputable. The numbers are used by politicians and state tourism departments to justify spending.

“Viewing what ‘economic impact’ consultants do to be economics is like considering horoscopes to be astronomy,” economist J.C. Bradbury of Georgia’s Kennesaw State University recently wrote. “Newspapers are smart enough to put horoscopes next to the comics and Dear Abby, while economic impact ‘studies’ get banner headlines on the front page.”

Bradbury noted economic impact analysis is not something real economists do and there is a reason that work is not presented at conferences or published in journals.  

Economic impact is often claimed surrounding publicly funded sports stadium projects or sporting events.

The annual tourism reports are paid for by state tourism departments and national tourism agencies.

Urban Milwaukee reported:

But when the Common Council discussed the RNC in September, it wasn’t as favorable.

“It didn’t trickle into the neighborhoods,” said Ald. Marina Dimitrijevic of the economic impact.

In an email to Dimitrijevic, LuLu Cafe & Bar owner Cameryne Roberts said the RNC didn’t result in a business boom. “For what it’s worth, the RNC was a complete bust for us and most of the other Bay View business owners I spoke with, not to mention those in other parts of town.” 

Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs asked for the final report to include a geographic breakdown and diversity data. “I just want us, as a council, in case we’re asked again to sign on to anything like this, to be aware of its impact. And where things might not have been how we wanted it to be, or we might not have achieved the goals we were going to achieve, that we recognize that and that we work differently in the future to better achieve those goals,” said Coggs. The final report does not include the breakdown requested.

Reports during the convention highlighted how many businesses outside of the hard security perimeter were seeing lackluster business. Across the month of July, sales tax revenue in Milwaukee was actually down year over year. But the state, which collects the revenue, does not collect data by week.

Per usual, many of these economic-impact no-brainers (conventions, stadiums, Olympics, etc.) which are touted to be win-wins for cities and states are anything but.  

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Sliding Back Into Superstition And Darkness

“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”

    Carl Sagan

Largest National Debt Increase In U.S. History Occurred During Donald Trump's First Term

'I Did The Math, Sean': James Carville Hits Hannity With Searing Fact Check On Live TV

The national debt — under Trump’s first term in office — grew by $7.8 trillion, the largest four-year increase in history, The Washington Post found last year.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Best Metal of 2024

Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan – Scraping the Divine
Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Undeath – More Insane
Couch Slut – You Could Do It Tonight
Krallice – Inorganic Rites
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Frail Body – Artificial Bouquet
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
High on Fire - Cometh the Storm
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
Chat Pile - Cool World
Drug Church - Prude
Devin Townsend - PowerNerd
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Ihsahn - Ihsahn
Aborted - Vault of Horrors 
Lucifer - Lucifer V
Zeal and Ardor - Greif 
Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer
Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Aeternum 
Benighted - Ekbom 
Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus 
Black Lava - Savage Winds to Wisdom
Cognizance - Phantazein 
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
Ingested - The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams
Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses
Vale of Pnath - Between the Worlds of Life and Death
Thou - Umbilical