and defends his hill.
It is the official catechism of Blaska Policy Werkes to denounce as intrinsically disordered any acts of violence, intimidation, or harassment short of a declaration of war declared by Congress.
Which is why the head groundskeeper, exercising the moral authority of his weighty office, regularly fires off encyclicals condemning to eternal damnation the Kristallnacht on Madison’s State Street, the firebombing and beatings on Capitol Square, the burning of Kenosha WI. So, too, do we excommunicate those who harass elected leaders with midnight visits to their homes, shut down rush hour traffic, and shout down speakers with divergent viewpoints.
We could not, in that same holy spirit, ignore the insurrection of January 6 at our nation’s capitol. If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, we may be pinheads but we do have a point.
It is therefore the Werkes’ considered wisdom that U.S. Ron Johnson R-WI stepped in it when he said he, personally, never feared for his own safety during the Trump riot. Senator Johnson says:
I honestly never felt threatened on Jan. 6. But, I added, I might have been worried if Donald Trump had won and the violent leftists who burned Kenosha, Wis., and Minneapolis last summer had come to Washington. … I condemned those lawbreakers at the time and continue to do so. But I feel compelled to push back as Democrats and their media allies try to equate the two groups. — “I Won’t Be Silenced by the Left.”
RoJo’s personal feelings are his personal feelings. The senator may have been packing heat or simply unaware of the magnitude of the peril. We surmise that many Capitol police officers most certainly did fear for their safety. Security also feared for the Vice President and members of Congress.
But the senator’s larger point keeps getting swallowed in the news media’s ravenous appetite for race shaming conservative voices.
The mayor of Madison, for instance, demanded the immediate release of a BLM terrorist shaking down small businesses. “Venmo me the money,” he said, or be destroyed. Satya Rhodes Conway demanded “Yeshua Musa’s” release AFTER rioters angered over his arrest smashed statues of civil rights heroes and fire-bombed city hall. (That sad story, here.) Not a single news source aside from Ms. Vicki and this pontificator condemned the Progressive Dane mayor. Sen. Johnson again in the Wall Street Journal:
Leftists who want to memory hole last summer’s political violence immediately started lecturing me that the 2020 protests were mostly peaceful. Apparently they’ve forgotten that, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, 570 leftist protests became riots last year. Twenty-five people lost their lives and 700 law enforcement officers were injured. Braying about “peaceful protests” offers no comfort to those victims or the other innocent Americans whose homes, businesses and property were destroyed.
For proof of the news media’s perfidy, one need look no further than today’s (03-16-21) account from Scott Bauer of the Associated Press, a frequent offender. Antifa, Bauer informs the casual reader, “is composed of far-left-leaning protesters known as anti-fascists who resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations and other events.”
In other words, the good guys! Are they available for retirement parties?
⇒ Listen to Senator Johnson’s remarks here.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Must be more neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Madison WI than anyone ever imagined.
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Blaska Policy Werkes 
I went and listened to the entire Sen. Johnson interview on the The Joe Pags Show pod cast and my personal opinion is that this part of the interview was taken out of context. The way I hear how the entire conversation transpired I firmly believe that Sen. Johnson was talking about his thoughts before the protest turned into a riot not during or after the riot took place. There is clearly nothing racist about what he said, and I think Sen. Johnson could have and should have been clearer about that. The media is twisting this into a smear of Sen. Johnson.
I encourage others to go find the interview on the link I provided and make up their own minds. The interview is in the second half of the podcast on the March 11th podcast.
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Agree, Steve. I’m also reading it that way.
Johnson is absolutely correct here.
Based on recent past history, conservatives gave little-to-no indication that they would become violent. We all reasonably believed that.
Consider that there were thousands of people at the Capital on 1/6, and just a few dozen or whatever the number was) caused the trouble. This is not the norm.
Contrast with leftists, who ALL LAST SUMMER attacked, maimed, & killed cops, set federal buildings, police stations, & squad cars on fire, and destroyed businesses & cities.
Leftist violence is occurring in several cities as we speak. As Democrats and their media allies remain silent.
“I honestly never felt threatened on Jan. 6. But, I added, I might have been worried if Donald Trump had won and the violent leftists who burned Kenosha, Wis., and Minneapolis last summer had come to Washington. … I condemned those lawbreakers at the time and continue to do so. But I feel compelled to push back as Democrats and their media allies try to equate the two groups. — “I Won’t Be Silenced by the Left.”
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Not even close….No racism. Compare the violence in Portland this week with the Capitol protest. Ron Johnson did not step in anything as you argue, Dave. Johnson is honest and IMO, the best senator in the nation.
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I agree Ron Johnson said nothing wrong. Maybe, you dear Blaska, are guilty of only reading summaries of what he said. Which, of course, we all know, is a bad way to get nuance. But, gotta admit, IMHO, you seem a bit off the rails lately. Maybe things will get better for you once you can regularly ride your motorcycle.
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RoJo is correct to point out the Left’s hypocrisy. But he needed to denounce both extremes equally on that radio program. I can’t excuse a crowd that chants Hang Mike Pence. You?
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David Blaska wrote, “But he needed to denounce both extremes equally on that radio program.”
See this is where people get themselves into trouble.
Sen. Ron Johnson DID IN FACT DENOUNCE THE RIOT at the capitol many times INCLUDING in the radio interview but no one bothers to pay attention to all the facts just the cherry picked facts that they think supports their smear.
David,
You need to listen to the entire interview, I provided a link where you can find it. Seriously.
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Re-reading my own blogge, Steve W. I never wrote that RoJo didn’t condemn the riot (altho so many of my readers insist that a) it was not a riot or b) if it was, it was perpetrated by Antifa.”
What I DID write: “It is therefore the Werkes’ considered wisdom that U.S. Ron Johnson R-WI stepped in it when he said he, personally, never feared for his own safety during the Trump riot. … RoJo’s personal feelings are his personal feelings. The senator may have been packing heat or simply unaware of the magnitude of the peril. We surmise that many Capitol police officers most certainly did fear for their safety. But the senator’s larger point keeps getting swallowed in the news media’s ravenous appetite for race shaming conservative voices.”
Again, “We surmise that many Capitol police officers most certainly did fear for their safety.” and we will amend blogge to add that Security was worried for the Vice President as well as members of Congress. But I will add your link.
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David,
I literally quoted your words that I was addressing, did you miss that?
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Yes, you quoted my reply to your comment. That being: “But he needed to denounce both extremes equally on that radio program.”
That comment, in response to your first comment, was in error. I note that I did NOT write that in the blog itself which, we presume, is the subject of your disagreement. There I wrote that “Ron Johnson R-WI stepped in it when he said he, personally, never feared for his own safety during the Trump riot.” (But said he would have had it been BLM.) Which ignores the point that liberals like Nancy Pelosi may not have feared antifa but may well have been entitled to fear Trump bots. As I also wrote, RoJo may not have but others, clearly, did. Including police officers. Including the sergeants at arms staff who moved Pelosi, Pence, and RoJo himself. When rioters are smashing windows why would they not?
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David wrote, “I note that I did NOT write that in the blog itself which, we presume, is the subject of your disagreement.”
Nope, I was only addressing the quoted statement that was in error. That’s exactly why I quote things, so there’s no question exactly what I’m addressing.
We’re clear now, It’s all good.
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My problem with denouncing things TOO specifically is if you miss 1 item as you name things THAT is what you get pummeled with.
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“I knew those were people who love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned,” Perhaps he should tell that nonsense to the family of Officer Brian Sicknick, who perished protecting our democracy from insurrectionists, and all the other LEO’s injured during the invasion of the Capitol. rojo is an embarrassment to WI, and to the entire human race.
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Hey baldy,
Don’t remember a peep out you while numerous cities burned this summer (and very recently), violent/destructive riots whenever a black person is shot while resisting arrest, nor the violent riots during Trump’s inauguration.
Selective indignation? What’s up with that?
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batty:
Your failing memory, and denial of same, isn’t my of my concern. I am, and always have been, in favor of firm, fair, and consistent enforcement of the law.
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“And if we can’t find any Boogaloo Bois or Klan members in the Emerald City, we’ll just have to invent them” – Althea Smollett Bernstein
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Yeah sure baldy; keep telling yourself that.
Whatever gets you through the night.
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Ouch, that left a mark NOT !
Keep defending treasonous rojo, our 2021 version of tailgunner joe.
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If the left says you are one (neo-nazi, white supremacist, racist…), then according to their playbook, you are one.
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It is what it is I guess. I’m still trying to find my gender. Anybody have a flashlight?
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Jimster -Choked on my tequila & LMAO. Yepper, gender is sure elusive these days. Soon, along w/ Covid tests, some intrusive mandatory 3rd party inspections…
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Re: third party inspections.
Not so bad provided one can choose the inspector.
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Everyone of the 50 or 60 over excited nimrods who ran through part of the capitol taking selfies and moving Nancy’s podium has been arrested, charged with misdemeanor trespass and spanked.
Every single media maven and Democrat who screamed wolf! while pointing at a chipmunk should be shoving crow down their pie holes. Including you, Squire.
How much worse is it that over and above us being masked, impoverished, restricted, sequestered, denied public schooling, denigrating our police and terrified of a kangaroo court in Minneapolis our capitol is fenced off, festooned with razor wire and guarded by the National Guard.
Crime, inflation, taxes, cost of living are all going up fast. White Supremacists abound…. But hey! Here’s $1,400 taxable dollars and trust us while we bring about climate justice and Equity.
And no mean tweets.
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Inadvisable policies do not justify an attempted putsch, Mark. Security hustled the Vice President to shelter for a reason. There will be a corrective election late next year, if we don’t blow it by trying to excuse the inexcusable.
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A putsch is planned. It is serious. This was not within miles of either and cannot be made out to be.
Not by AOC or you and I’m amazed that you and she have a similar take.
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This was circulated on line a couple weeks BEFORE January 6. You’re a smart guy, Mark. How do you interpret “We’re going to pull the whole thing down. It’s going to be Biblical!”???
How do you spin: “I’m going to bring the whole fucking diseased temple down on your heads.” ????
That’s Trump, btw, staring down the Capitol. January 6 is not a date chosen at random. It was the day Congress certifies the electoral college vote.
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Sen. Johnson is right. These days speaking anything true is bound to send the same people into loud shrieking howls of hysteria, again and again.
The 3-hour beer belly putsch is no match for the billions of damage and dozens of lives lost in the BLM/Antifa riots of spring 2020, summer 2020 and even this winter.
Last weekend there were riots in LA, Seattle and Portland including attacks on federal buildings. Where is the outrage about that continuing violence that many on the left encourage, even endorse? Where are the 24/7 howls of INSURRECTION??
Johnson is right. Had Trump won this country would be in flames from coast to coast.
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Then let us not take counsel of our fears and let us get it on and over with.
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“The 3-hour beer belly putsch is no match for the billions of damage and dozens of lives lost in the BLM/Antifa riots of spring 2020, summer 2020 and even this winter.”
It’s also no match for the harm Biden and the Dems are doing this country. From critical race theory, an equality act that will HURT women, allowing men to play in girls’ sports, a border crisis that Biden refuses to address, a dependence on other countries for energy, allegiance to China, a bill (with union blessing) that will destroy the livelihoods of millions of freelancers, plans to demoralize police even further, hyperinflation, banning of Dr. Seuss for crying out loud (while Cardi B ok).
Those few hours on 1/6 were horrible (nobody is arguing that), but they pale in comparison to the destruction left in the leftists’ wake.
At what point do leftists take the same responsibility for their own bad behavior?
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“Johnson is right. Had Trump won this country would be in flames from coast to coast.”
Truth.
A few handful of rogue “conservatives” charged the Capital on 1/6. It was horrible, and I’m not sure how many more times we have to denounce it before people are satisfied that most of us agree it shouldn’t have happened.
That pales in comparison to what thousands of leftists would have done had Trump won. Cities would have been destroyed, cops & civilians injured & possible killed, small business owners losing everything.
And in their smugness, not only would leftists had remained silent, but they would have called it justified and possibly cheered it on.
Yet they have the audacity to focus on one incident that occurred over the course of a few hours by a relatively tiny percentage of rebels?
Help me out here: How can we compare the ravage and destruction leftists created all last summer, and continue to do, with a few horrible hours at the Capital?
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Any arrests yet from when the rats burned down the Minneapolis police station or looted the Target of big screen TV’s? Plenty of pics and video available to round up the miscreants.
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When will they demilitarize the capitol.
When will they lift Covid Kabuki Dance.
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Squire, something circulated on the internet and some people saying ‘hang Pence” is enough to lock down the capitol? Is a plot to overthrow the government?
Damn. Those goal posts are picking up speed.
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when they set up that gallows I would say yes; lock it down.
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“Some people saying …” Gallows erected. Windows smashed, doors breached, Trump speaking in real time that Pence is a disgrace … What would you have done, Mark? Roll out the red carpet?
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I would have enforced the law.
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“Antifa, Bauer informs the casual reader, “is composed of far-left-leaning protesters known as anti-fascists who resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations and other events.”
This is not anywhere close to the truth. If anything, Antifa thugs are the ones who act like the fascists.
What a joke the media has become. They have no shame.
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Blasphemy! You compare Ron Johnson to Jesus Christ in any way?
Actually, you advance blasphemy quite often on your platform. Are you Christian? If you are, your readers would never know.
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