Ron Johnson has competition for the biggest-idiot prize
Your Republican Party: Asshole Hate Rage Edition
Republican mocked for sharing nonsensical post in Elizabeth Warren attack
Derrick Van Orden’s seat is up in 2026.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Wisconsin, We Can Do Better Than Derrick Van Orden
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 fireAfter 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.
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.
Friday, May 16, 2025
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.”
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
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
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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.
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
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
