Sunday, January 31, 2021
Sunday Reading
Ted Cruz Says Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Could Be Impeached NextEffects of gerrymandering felt in Wisconsin as governor, GOP clash over Covid restrictionsElizabeth Warren Smacks Wall Street ‘Casino’-Goers Amid GameStop KerfuffleElizabeth Warren’s Face Says It All When She’s Challenged On Wealth TaxThe GameStop Game and Financial Transactions Taxes
Friday, January 29, 2021
Weekend Reading
Joe Biden’s Dogs Shepherd In New Era of Presidential Pets at the White HouseAmerica Abandoned Its Economic Prophet. The World Embraced Him.Hearings Scheduled about Proposed Privatization, Loss of Public Access to Bradford Beach's Historic Bathhouse
Senate Joint Resolution 3: terminating the COVID-19 public health emergency, including all emergency orders and actions taken pursuant to declaration of the public health emergency.Poor Dan O’Donnell Feels Persecuted
Senate Joint Resolution 3: terminating the COVID-19 public health emergency, including all emergency orders and actions taken pursuant to declaration of the public health emergency.Poor Dan O’Donnell Feels Persecuted
Monday, January 25, 2021
You Reap What You Sow
When Republicans have power, the idea of "unity" doesn't even enter their collective mind. It's their way or the highway. But now that the citizens have had enough of the Republicans' bullshit and lies, suddenly Republicans are clamoring for unity.
Yet, when one sees stories like these:
Arizona Republicans Censure Party Leaders At Odds With TrumpTrump paid Capitol rally organizers over $2.7 million
Who, in their right mind, could find unity with such reality-denying, cognitively dissonant, know-nothings?
Sorry, conservatives, right-wingers, Republicans, but you can fuck off! Democrats have been goose-stepping rightward politically on issue after issue for the past five decades. Yet, it was never enough. Conservatives continued to cheat and gerrymander. Endlessly taking more and more. And, it was working. But, as is typical for Republicans, they got greedy. They wouldn't stop. They kept cheating and abusing their power.
And now it's all blown up in their faces.
So fuck unity. And fuck Republicans. You reap what you sow.
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Public Work Should Be Done By The Public Sector
A recent article - Waukesha's Zignego Co. lowest bidder at $87M for Highway 50 road project - made me again think of the delusional efficient private sector viewpoint.
Conservatives and wannabe-economists have, for years, pounded the private sector efficiency drumbeat. Sadly, this perspective is as misguided today as it's ever been.
For the majority of private sector actors, the modus operandi has been to cut corners, pay workers less and/or to simply not do certain tasks altogether.
For Further Reading:
The Lean Efficiency (And Persistence) Of Private Sector LiesFizzle for the buckAnd The Winner Is....The Public SectorWhy taxpayers are getting a bargain from public-sector workersWeekend Reading
Wisconsin Supreme Court casts doubts on Republican-backed redistricting rulesChicago-Area Billionaire Gave Millions To ‘Patriots’ Group That Backed Pro-Trump RallyUihleins, owners of Wisconsin company, gave millions to group sponsoring the Jan. 6 March for TrumpOff-duty police were part of the Capitol mob. Now police are turning in their own.Everything is awful. Here’s a Q&A with a philosopher about why cats rule.Republicans Lash Out Against New Security Measures At The CapitolWhy Are U.S. Taxpayers Providing Public Pensions To Millionaire Members Of Congress?Tiffany, Fitzgerald and Johnson are just as guilty as TrumpQAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens Joe Biden With Impeachment
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Republican Hypocrisy On Display, Yet Again
The Republican Party should really be referred to as the Hypocrite Party.
Republicans Lash Out Against New Security Measures At The CapitolRepublicans are fine with children having to go through metal detectors to get to school, passengers taking off clothing to be able to fly, and any other number of inconveniences for the population at large...until it impacts them. Then they are outraged and their personal freedom is being infringed.
Yes, to keep the NRA happy, so any dipshit can carry and own a gun, the population at large must capitulate to enhanced security measures, but Republicans legislators feel they should be exempt from such disruptions.
Republicans are truly terrible people (and I use the term "people" loosely).
Thursday Reading
U.S. government checks constituted 40% of farmers’ income in 2020Trump’s Businesses Raked In $1.9 Billion Of Revenue During His First Three Years In OfficeRepublicans won in rural Wisconsin again, now comes the hard part — governingTrickle-down economics is dead. It’s time to tax the rich harderA decade ago, this scientist predicted 2020 would bring 'peak' chaos to the U.S.Federal Judge Tears Apart Election LawsuitCapitol attackers have long threatened violence in rural American westSt Croix County Republican Party tells members to 'prepare for war' and to remove 'leftist tyrants' from local office
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Sunday Reading
F*** You, Ted CruzRepublicans want to move on from the Trump riot without any self-reckoningThe New History of the Milky WayNo, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0
White man who drove into Iowa protesters avoids prison after guilty plea
Mass Delusion in AmericaDonald Trump’s Years Of Violent Rhetoric Laid Bare In Damning Supercut
The right's new conspiracy theory: blame left for Capitol riot'White privilege on display': police hypocrisy condemned after pro-Trump insurgence
D.C. mob riot versus Act 10 and Black Lives Matter protestsInterstate 94 Expansion Gets Cold Reception at City Hall
White man who drove into Iowa protesters avoids prison after guilty plea
Mass Delusion in AmericaDonald Trump’s Years Of Violent Rhetoric Laid Bare In Damning Supercut
The right's new conspiracy theory: blame left for Capitol riot'White privilege on display': police hypocrisy condemned after pro-Trump insurgence
D.C. mob riot versus Act 10 and Black Lives Matter protestsInterstate 94 Expansion Gets Cold Reception at City Hall
Monday, January 11, 2021
Monday Reading
Trickle-Down Economics Fails a Sophisticated Statistical TestMerry Christmas We EnergiesWisconsin Center District closes on bond sale for $420M expansionDeutsche Bank May Seize Trump’s Assets If He Loses and Fails to Repay DebtMillionaire Republican Cites Deficit To Block Aid — After Enriching Himself With Special Tax CutsWisconsin Jurists Who Defied Trump Get an Earful
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