Can’t we just agree to be disagreeable?
Stately Blaska Manor is boarded up. The Praetorian Guard is on alert, the unlettered field hands are sharpening their rakes and hoes, spam filters are in place in case of cyber attack. Atlas open to map of Paraguay, preparing for the junta to seize power.
The Werkes is expecting attack from both directions — a two-front war. We are encircled by totalitarians certain of the rightness of their cause, God-justified in whatever might they can bring to bear.
Social justice warriors have allied with the Cult of Trump to dumb democracy down. It is the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact. Take down the republic then fight over whatever scraps remain. The Confederacy’s Lost Cause. Anti-popes at Avignon, anti-Presidents at Mar-a-Lago. Freedom Inc. shock troops holding Madison schools hostage. Kenosha is burning. Texas is seceding. Declare autonomous zones, impose “marshall” law.
Tell me what I want to hear, MSNBC and One America News. Ban me from Twitter, shout me down at commencement ceremonies if you don’t like what I say.
This is the War of the Roses, the Reds versus the Whites, the Cavaliers v. the Roundheads, Hatfields-McCoys.
The Election Was Stolen. Germany Was Stabbed in the Back. America is racist to the core. Cops are modern-day slave catchers. You are a (pick one) racist, traitor, RINO, corporate stooge, Uncle Tom, communist …
“Trial by Combat!” — Rudy Giuliani
“If you don’t want your windows broken …” — M. Adams of Freedom Inc.
“We’re coming for you!” — Donald Trump Jr. 01-06-21.
“F-bomb S* * * Up!” — Madison Ald. Prestigiacomo.
Springtime for Trump, winter for the Constitution. As they said in the old Soviet Union, never before has our history been so unpredictable. After demolishing statues of abolitionists and suffragettes, all that’s left to obliterate in Madison is a huge rock deposited on the campus — by a glacier 12,000 years ago.
Once whetted, the mob’s appetite is never satiated until it consumes everything before it, like a plague of locusts. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette led to Danton to Robespierre. Off with their heads. Kidnap Pelosi! Hang Pence! Fire bomb Madison’s city hall. Mau mau Madison Police and Fire Commissioners with late night harassment.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Welcome to the Weimar Republic.
What is YOUR excuse?
89 responses to “Clowns on the Left, jokers on the Right”
No man is an island…..be forewarned, said island will be swallowed up by the seas, in say, 10 years due to nasty humans.
“Derp, derp…” Root causes of conflict/division/suffering usually have to do with marketing for PROFIT . “nasty humans” ? What are you ; the BORG ? https://www.bitchute.com/video/hDWgZuQGY53F/
This is your last hurrah, Gg Mo. I do not permit actual racism, sedition, anti-semitism, treason, profanity, or pornography on my site. I.E. This is a No Hate Zone. The Werkes is not a public utility.
Sorry, I was just defending “nasty humans” .I am a POC BTW. Not a racial/”religious” supremist, not treasonous/sedition, By not being for either of the TWO chosen “sides” (Constitutional Republic, and Bill of Rights ONLY),I do not support mob-violence PERIOD., have used very little insult, or pro***ity, and NEVER pornography , so am confused by these associations, but you do you.
You need to stop spending time on bitshit.com
Really well written Mr. Blaska. You have clearly illustrated what the ‘Extremes’ can’t see. That they are basically the same, only the letterhead changes.
The question is can the reasonable Center take control of all of this? As a self described ‘left leaning centrist’, I feel that I have a lot more in common with my many right wing ‘centrist’ friends than with any of the nutjob extremists on either end. How can we lower the temp and begin governing from the reasonable, respectable middle?
“How can we lower the temp and begin governing from the reasonable, respectable middle?”
Truly admirable desire! The Gotch wants nothing to do with extremists of any stripe.
But how? ABC News Director Richard Klein suggested a…um…CLEANSING, but it seems he had a rather specific demographic in mind.
The Gotch
“But how? ABC News Director Richard Klein suggested a…um…CLEANSING, but it seems he had a rather specific demographic in mind.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
But how? is a good question. I think the only way is working first locally and personally. It’s caring more about how we carry ourselves instead of worrying about all of this other garbage. I couldn’t give a rat’s a$$ what some news director at ABC says, anymore than I give on bucket of warm spit what Hannity or Racheal (or the rest of them) spewed out last night. Paying too much attention to the provocateurs is in so many ways exposing ourselves to base manipulation.
Get centered on truth, respect and constructive action. I read this blog a lot. And so many times arguments devolve into ignoring the issue at hand and instead going on a hunt to prove how hypocritical the other side is. There’s no shortage of hypocrisy on either side, so it’s not hard to find. And eventually it just further devolves into a big circle jerk of ‘what aboutism’ and bias confirmation.
There are a lot of reasonable, kind and good hearted people working hard on both sides in this country. I for one intend on actively looking for them instead of constantly screaming foul and playing the victim.
Just one man’s thoughts on how the center can start to function again.
Geez, Dave, me thinks you are really in a bad (but truthful) mood. Fie on the extremes. The center is getting smaller.
The fun has just begun. Looks like the no-fly list is being expanded, for example.
Hypothetical question: suppose a person had to choose between public expression of political or social opinions, and being allowed onto an airliner? Don’t say anything Rachel Maddow would not approve of, if you want to get on that Southwest flight. What would most people do?
Hypothetical question: suppose a person had an online business site, and in order to be allowed to remain hosted, they would be required to keep a banner at the top of the site accusing Trump of something – “TRUMP IS A NAZI”, for example. Put up the banner, or lose your site. What would most people do?
We might just be living in interesting times.
Hypothetical Answer: I would find a different host for my website.
I’d sue for big bucks, unless of course the user agreement said I had to have a banner saying Trump is a Nazi, then there’d be nothing I could do about it if I wanted to stay on that site.
I think you forgot the MOST useful tool of both FAKE sides : “Anti-Semite !!!!!” The rest of these are not as effective for herding.
Why is this news all of a sudden? The Capitol, the Square, and State Street were boarded up from spring 2020 thru the election. Some of the plywood was removed after the Electoral College voted.
It was obvious that everything remained boarded up for much of 2020 for two main reasons–
— Police somewhere might shoot someone for resisting arrest
— Trump might win, which if that had happened the entire country would be in flames today
Nice to see Sleep Skeletor finally giving some attention to public order all of a sudden.
AdamC,
Very true! Now it makes headlines, because well you know, they suspect it’s conservatives that might make noise.
“The Capitol, the Square, and State Street were boarded up from spring 2020 through the election.” Thanks for the reminder. And they might as well remain boarded up because any event that triggers outrage from BLM (and that list is endless) will result in more looting, vandalism, and random destruction–all dismissed as justified anger or just plain ignored by local media. Welcome to Madison’s new normal.
Tuned into MSNBC for an “update”, but the BS factor was too evident. “Fake News” rears its ugly head again. Makes a difficult situation very difficult. I’m glad all sides are represented at the Policy Werkes. Even Reuters calls out fake news, like this rabble-rousin’ photo.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-rally/fact-check-photo-shows-2018-gun-control-rally-not-pro-trump-march-in-january-2021-idUSKBN29B1OS
@georgesson- Kinda like in 2011 when the O’rielly show ran a clip of violent demonstrators from california with palm trees in the background an claimed it was Union thugs in downtown Madison.LOL
Or like Rudy trying to use a doctored video clip to proof voter fraud in Pennsylvania. p.s. It didn’t work.
E-Z, Yer kinda missin’ the point. Especially with me, since I don’t watch O’Reilly. Not surprised, ya cannot even spell his name. BTW, just what happened in 2011 that was so vital to your mental health? The juvenile tomfoolery over Act 10? Anyway, some of us “Tweet” and some of us “Squeak”. You & Richard AKA Dick are of the latter. Do you two have a secret handshake now?
Perhaps it was the fact that Act 10 came out of nowhere, with very little public input or legislative debate and was based on a lie, of course this is republican SOP. It was most likely an ALEC written bill as Wisconsin republicans usually lack the cognitive ability to write legislation, that’s why they passed a bill where a bills author can remain anonymous.
Kinda like We Need To Pass The Bill To See What’s In It.
Act 10 is WILDLY popular in most rural WESconsin school districts after they were no longer under horrendously oppressive thumb of the confiscatory WEA Trust.
The Gotch is still waiting for his premiums to go down ~$2500; keeping his Dr. AND his plan…both of which he liked? Fuggedaboudit!
One more thing.
LIKE…wasn’t that Hopeless Changey’s PROMISE…?
The Gotch
“The Gotch is still waiting for his premiums to go down ~$2500; keeping his Dr. AND his plan…both of which he liked? Fuggedaboudit!”
Yup, aside from the pre-existing conditions stipulation, what could did that bill do? Health care is still not only unaffordable for most, but even more costlier for some.
The events of the last few days has proven both sides have their “crazies”. But censorship, not hiring conservatives, shaming etc is only going to make things worse. The left is imposing their own brand of fascism. Those of us with common sense will have no one to vote for. Republicans are weak & Democrats think they can usher in utopia by hitting us over the head with high taxes & regulations for “own good “. As Lucy from Peanuts said so eloquently “Blech!”
What censorship?
Who’s not hiring conservatives?
You really think there’s a difference between the Dems and republicans of any substance?
Antifa took a little victory stroll through Times Square on Sunday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9133633/Antifa-protesters-armed-SHIELDS-streets-Manhattan.html
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/11/09/37856076-9133633-image-m-23_1610359025990.jpg
I wonder what General Winfield Scott would have said about this?
Someone threw an egg and harassed a woman with an umbrella. Oh The Horror.
The purpose of those umbrellas is to protect the identity of the Antifa members who throw the bricks and start the fires. The umbrella-holders are just as important a part of Antifa’s terrorist army as the trigger pullers. And Antifa always stands ready to use violence on a scale vastly larger than a thrown egg.
“The purpose of those umbrellas is to protect the identity of the Antifa members who throw the bricks and start the fires. The umbrella-holders are just as important a part of Antifa’s terrorist army as the trigger pullers.”
Do you you remember what they did to Chicago police officers last summer with that planned ambush? They also used umbrellas. The cowards.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-video-ambush-grant-park-columbus-statue
“And Antifa always stands ready to use violence on a scale vastly larger than a thrown egg.”
Yes! Anarchist groups have set federal buildings & police squad cars on fire, ambushed cops, tried to blind them, harass civilians, destroy businesses. This meets the definition of a domestic terrorist group.
Yet the same leftists and Dem leaders who remained quiet during these attacks, tolerated them, and even cheered them on, now stand at the ready dictating to the rest of us how we should behave. The nerve.
Or it looked like rain.
It was a display of power. A “flex”. A clear demonstration that Antifa is above the law.
We can expect more of this, not less.
OH! Just like this republican administration feels it’s above the law, and this republican administration display of power last Wednesday was a real “flex”
The horror of this whole thing is coming into the light. Jake Angeli’s mother said her horn wearing son is not eating. They won’t serve him all organic food in the detention center. We need to start of GoFundMe page and use the money to bring him groceries from Whole Foods. Grub Hub could deliver. I wonder if those horns he has came from a free range non-GMO animal. Maybe Mrs. Angeli can get permission to clean his cell for him.
We need to start of GoFundMe page and use the money to bring him groceries from Whole Foods.
No worries. GoFundMe would refuse that.
Did you see the video of the guy in the DC airport crying because he was labeled a terrorist and put on the no-fly list?
Luckily Biden will most likely build back a better Amtrak.
He can start with the $7,000,000,000 California owes the Fed for the Bullet Train to Fresno or “The Progressives’ Stonehenge”
Because boring competence.
Well, at least the maintenance staff at the State Capitol were able to get more use out of the plywood needed during the BLM “peaceful” looting and burning protests. Although, it may turn out to be a waste of time. At least I hope it is.
Norm, I think yer right. We’re fine. MDSN has no idiots on the scale of those DC epic bozos. Those who could label ’em as standard issue Republicans are special-needs kinda guys ‘n gals….
Everywhere you go, you see media spinning every topic to its extreme. There are very few websites where you can just read bare facts.
Mr. Blaska – your honest and thoughtful perspective is appreciated.
David, I may not agree with your views on Trump, but it is your guaranteed right to express them. You don’t need anyone’s permission. People who don’t like what you have to say have the option of not following you. Any conservative who tries to shut you down is no better than a leftist fascist.
That said, most of the warfare originates from the left. This is not just bias, either. Look at recent behavior.
Who perpetrated acts of terrors in our cities all summer? Who remained silent about them or even cheered them on? Who’s purging conservative voices from social media & search engine algorithms, canceling book contracts, and creating lists that will make it difficult for Trump supporters to find work? Which politicians told crowds to “get in their faces” and set up bail funds for the rioters?
While nobody is excusing last week, that deviant behavior doesn’t even close to what the left has perpetrated. Let’s not pretend it’s even close to being equal.
And weren’t the media helpful in setting the narrative. For all of 2020 the word “riot” was verboten. Those were protests in Seattle, where they occupied a neighborhood for weeks. Those were protests in Minneapolis, where 1,500 properties were destroyed or damaged to the tune of half a BILLION dollars. Those were protests in Portland, where it went on for months and people died. Those were protests in Madison. They were “mostly peaceful protests” in Kenosha where the damage totaled $50 million.
But since last week, it is the word “protest” that has been banished.
Right on, Patrick!
The media, with help from Big Tech, didn’t just set the narrative; they rammed it through. The tens of millions of intellectually lazy people on social media are only too eager to consume the narrative and use it to confirm their own bias. Truth be damned.
Every single conservative I follow has denounced last Wednesday. Still waiting for leftist leadership to call out last summer’s “protests.”
Biden wants unity? As long as the Dems continue to employ double standards, like downplaying last summer while using last Wednesday to dismiss conservative concerns, I don’t see how that’s going to happen.
Former Congressman Dr. Ron Paul has been suspended from Facebook for unspecified violations of “community standards”. An anti-war, pro-liberty, anti-abortion moderate doctor, remember.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/11/facebook-censors-ron-paul/
I wonder if anything Mr. Blaska posts on Facebook violates those “community standards” yet?
That’s just one example. Thousands of peaceful, conservative minded social media accounts have been shut down or purged. Corporate America has united to punish any GOP senator who stood up for election integrity, and to shut down Parler. Simon & Schuster canceled Senator Josh Hawley’s book deal because he dared question election results; they accused him of being seditious. Google algorithms give preference to liberals, as does most of the media.
The war on conservatives is very real. It’s not an equal fight by any means, and to suggest that is intellectually dishonest.
Which is why I disagree with the title of this blog post. Had Trump won the election and liberal voices shut down, leftist meltdown would have been very real. Aside from Wednesday’s actions and a few rogue “conservatives” we’re nothing like them.
What title would you have given to Mr. Blaska’s blog post?
Corporate America has united to punish any GOP senator who stood up for election integrity? How so. Seriously, you actually believe the trump lies about the election even though the evidence is not only laughable, it’s been proven false or doctored. Politicians work for us, the people. If a corporation can punish an employee, shouldn’t they also have the freedom tpo punish politicians?
You may want to change your handle, seems you’re supporting assaults’ on our liberty.