The definition of insanity
After the annus horribilis of 2020, Madison WI will determine its direction come April 6. Voters should ask themselves one question: Is it working?
Bullets are flying in the homeless shelter. Downtown remains boarded up, awaiting the next pretext for mayhem; the George Floyd verdict is looming. Seven of every 10 businesses suffered financial reversals. Our public classrooms have been closed all year.
Kids are stealing cars out of our garages — 744 vehicles last year — up from 639 in 2019 and almost double the 381 reported in 2016. In many cases, running into trees, houses, or each other. The city is a shooting gallery, often in high-speed running gun battles. Madison experienced 250 shootings last year, compared to 144 in 2019. Eleven homicides compared to 3 in 2019. The mayor ordered police to stand down during the riots. City leaders demanded the immediate release of a BLM shakedown artist. Can’t even defend city hall — it got fire bombed.
Even The Capital Times admits the past year was “arguably the most turbulent time in recent Madison history.”
Alder candidates Ramirez, Obuseh, Bennett, Conklin, Echeverria, Grayson, Currie, Kemble, and Moe are endorsed by “FAN” (aka) Freedom Action Now.
Aside from more cowbell, what is the cure?
“A strong, progressive Madison City Council,” answers The Capital Times. The hecklers at Blaska Policy Werkes observe that if city government gets any more Progressive we will rename our fair city after slain drug abuser Tony Robinson Jr. Why not? Everything else is being renamed.
In endorsing 11 aldermanic candidates, the “hard left” Capital Times (as former mayor Dave Cieslewicz calls it) incants the word “progressive” like a medicine man’s spirit dance. The other P word — “police” — is uttered but once. And that, only in the context of “police accountability” in endorsing a university campus kid. One must go to her campaign website to learn that young candidate wants “a police-free campus.” That sure is … “savvy.” Then again, her mentor, Ald. Mad Max, once posted “No good cops, no bad protestors.”
Same with Rebecca Kemble, another endorsee. The self-described “anarcho-syndicalist” is on record for abolishing police entirely. The CT tiptoes past that particular graveyard. Not a mention. Instead, “she informs debates on public safety … and a wide range of other issues with insights and a passion for justice that is inspiring.” We would say “terrifying” but that’s just how we roll.
What kind of justice does The Capital Times demand?
“Racial justice” (and you thought justice was blind!). “Economic justice” (aka socialism). “Environmental justice” (No idea). Don’t forget “Equity.” (No, not equality. Equity.) Three different kinds: gender equity, racial equity, and health equity. It’s a candy AND a breath mint AND a floor polish! (Read “Down with Equity” and call us in the morning.)
Discreetly not mentioned is the Progs’ demand for a full-time city council that would raise alders’ pay to over $67,000 from the current $13,570. (Read & Weep.) That’s before office space and paid staff. Even The Capital Times says it opposes that pay grab. But they endorsed sponsors Kemble and Furman just the same.
For the seat being vacated by moderate Ald. Zach Henak, the CT endorses Yannette Figueroa Cole, lauding her “new approaches to public safety.” Indeed, she got Progressive Dane’s endorsement by promising: “I want to redefine public safety.”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Makes a certain kind of sense. If you can’t assure public safety, redefine it.
Education
Blaska Policy Werkes 
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
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Insanity is sometimes just a matter of perspective.
The behavior of the hate filled historically ignorant Madison proglibot SJWs is not insane when their ultimate goal of destroying the existing cultural, societal, and governing paradigm is recognized.
These leeching losers do not often speak of this publicly but it is indeed their life purpose regardless of how much faddish woke pablum they try and camouflage it with.
These dangerous destructive intellectually immature cultists do not care that what would ensue is some version of dystopia because this is religion to them and does not have to be logical, reasonable, or even workable, but only destructive.
A number of power structures in the USA are overdue for profound revision and/or dismantling beginning at the federal level but these tools are going about it all wrong and playing right into the hands of the powerful elite.
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There’s a lot of ruin in a city. Just how much ruin is left in Madison? I say, elect still more Progressives and let’s find out. True, I don’t live there and don’t have to suffer the consequences, but it’s a grand social experiment nonetheless.
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My bet is on Madison’s electing every one of the left-wing loons described above. If you think otherwise, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you. Fanatical ideology isn’t about what makes a city “work”; it’s about grabbing power and never letting go, about remaking society to accord with the repressive and venomous model you revere–and most of all about silencing every peep of dissent, by whatever means necessary.
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“My bet is on Madison’s electing every one of the left-wing loons described above. ”
I fear you’re right.
People with good sense have either left the city, are thinking of leaving, or just don’t care anymore.
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Why are we here. After all the work we have done to make a great community, the Madison I have come to love is gone. I have worked all my life to make this community a better place for all of our citizens. I am a white 60+ year old man who loves my community and the people in it. Why is that suddenly wrong?
These people hate us! They will stop at nothing to make us their slaves. Slavery comes in many forms. You can make someone a slave by chaining them and making them pick cotton. You can also make them a slave by keeping them silent and not speak the truth of what they see and know to be true.
Stalin and Mao made people slaves because they could not speak their minds as to the truth that is self evident.
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“Why is that suddenly wrong?” The answer, Bill, is contained in your post: “I am a WHITE 60+ year old man ….”
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“You can also make them a slave by keeping them silent and not speak the truth of what they see and know to be true.”
Well said. Except that nobody can keep you silent. This is a guaranteed right that sensible Americans have CHOSEN to relinquish.
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“These people hate us! ”
Yes, they do. Very much so.
I see them as subversives, not the type of people you can reason with. I’m not sure how they got to be how they are or where that deep rage comes from, but I keep people like this at arms length.
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A Shakespearean aside here. “More Cowbell” yanked my chain bigtime, and closed the choke-collar to a near death grip. I’d spent several hours reviewing Chris Walken last week, and of COURSE, music producer “The Bruce Dickinson” promptly appeared. The Squire’s use here is epic & genius…
Meanwhile: Public Safety –The Chief’s highlights posted today….
NORTH: Stolen Auto – 2:46 pm. The victim reported he left his vehicle running while he went into the Kwik Trip. A witness observed four male teenagers get in the vehicle and drive away. The vehicle was later involved in two robberies.
WEST: Robbery – 4:02 pm. The victim was walking into Walmart when an unidentified suspect grabbed her purse and fled in a vehicle which was involved in another robbery approximately 50 minutes later. Investigation continuing.
MIDTOWN: Theft – 4:55 pm. The victim reported that she was in the Target parking lot (750 Hilldale Way) when the suspect grabbed her backpack from her vehicle and fled the scene in a vehicle which was later determined to be stolen. Officers located the suspect vehicle and tracked its progress while spike strips were set up which eventually successfully stopped the vehicle. The suspects (4 male teenagers) fled on foot but were located in a nearby residence and taken into custody. Charges include battery to law enforcement, OMVWOC, and purse snatching, as well as traffic violations. Investigation continuing.
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Did you see the CCAP on the 18 year old thug. Seems that Marcus L. Brinkley has a criminal record as does what I think is his dad. https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseSearchResults.html
With public media such as Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, we the people need to publicly shame people who do these kinds of acts on a fellow human being. Let the names and pictures, address and work places of these scums be broadcasts over every social media to let everyone know that this person is truly scum.
I don’t care if they are white, black or brown; male of female. I want to publicly shame these people so that others considering doing what they do learn that the public does not want them around.
Let us, the good people of Madison let those who are in our midst know that their actions will be noticed and reported on to all their fellow citizens.
Let us, the good people of Madison also exalt those people of every race, gender, creed or color who do good things for our community.
Perhaps if we set the positive examples in front of the youth of our community they will see the positive way of living out their lives.
One can only hope and pray that they will do so.
In the end it is not for our benefit, it is for theirs.
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You all don’t get it CCAP rap sheet is now the new accomplishment to be held in the highest regard. The more you have under your name the more you will be protected in new Reality. Welcome to Serfdom. Being a complete waste of space piece of $hi%%%! is now the way you get a job and promoted as a “scholar” of life. Shiny happy fascists holding hands, shiny happy fascist holding hands. When do we bring back gladiators?
Cue up Tina Turner singing , we don’t need another hero, we just want to find our way home. all we want to know is what’s beyond the Thunderdome
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“DRINKING THE KOOL-AID” –synonymous with accepting, embracing, and being purposefully oblivious to the means of one’s own destruction.
The term comes, of course, from Rev. Jim Jones and his Jonestown Mass Suicide. Jones was an avowed Communist, and a darling of the California “Proto-Progressives in the “60’s” and “70’s”. When the truth about his “cult” threatened to come out he moved to Guyana with hundreds of his Communist followers. When the reports of human abuses (inherent in Socialism) surfaced, he attempted to kill a Congressional fact finding party. He then decided to have all of his followers kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Over 900 people, mostly Black, (over 300 of them children, fed the drink by the adults), died in minutes.
The Kool-Aid of the “Woke” Progressives is a slow-acting, highly lethal poison, targeting our country and our way of life. Wrapped in “virtue”, (to make it more palatable), adults acquire a taste for it,– and the children are being RAISED on it. Certain departments of our universities comprise the “Kool-Aid Cartels” , manufacturing it, packaging it, and distributing it. Our “addicted” leaders freely “deal” it to the masses of eager “drinkers”
I don’t live in Madison, where I live the local “Woke” control nothing. They have their bumper stickers, put up yard signs, and meet up at Starbuck’s for mutual ego massages, –and that’s about it. Full on, Kool-Aid dripping, Woke Progressivism is just on TV and social media etc (for now). To have to live under it, day in – day out, is unimaginable. YET, that is the face of tomorrow, for everyone, if something is not done. Socialism is a self destructive idea that ultimately collapses on its own, —BUT how much damage can they inflict before it does?
I am not an intellectual, I wish I could offer an answer, or even a suggestion, on what you can do. I am just a guy who sometimes makes slightly mean, satirical posts. And you don’t need another smart-ass right now.
Two Observations:
(1) A favorable outcome among your endorsed candidates in the alder elections won’t be a “victory”, so much as an effort to “slow the bleeding”
(2) Much has been written here lately about moderate Liberal candidates, a former mayor, and other possible “voices of reason”. Make it a priority to seek out ANYONE that you think you are willing to “work with”. Don’t wait, and later find yourself desperately trying to find someone who is “willing to work with you”.
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pANTIFArts,
WOW, Do you ever make some really good points in your post! The Kool-Aid we are being forced to drink is the same as Jim Jones forced his followers to drink back in the 70’s.
Kind of reminds me of the Pink Floyd song “Us and Them”. It is really a song about two people that become so estranged from each other that they kill one and another.
It is one of my fav’s. It is about the human condition that exists in our life but has always existed in the life span of humanity.
God only knows how this current stupidity will lead us to destroy one another. God help us. God help us.
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of Hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy.
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All, consider this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcudKSvH058
We are missing the transcendent in our society today. We have slaughtered some 60 million babies since 1973 when the Roe decision was announced. We have lost our way and have destroyed all the reasons for living as individuals as we were meant to be.
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Open The New York Times’ politics page Thursday morning and the top headline reads, “Democrats Begin Push For Biggest Expansion In Voting Since 1960s.” It’s a story about the most important election power-grab in modern legislative history, with a slim, partisan majority of senators *seeking to wrest control of elections away from state governments* to ensure Democrat control for decades to come.
For starters, H.R. 1 will ban voter ID requirements, mandate early voting windows, allow outside activist groups to deliver votes for counting, do away with notarized absentee ballots, force states to accept absentees for 10 days after an election is over, narrow the Federal Election Commission by one member to allow for partisan control, mandate counting illegal aliens in voting districts, allow the IRS to investigate non-profits’ political ideas, and make it nearly impossible to sue over the new rules.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/26/when-the-powerful-say-truth-is-a-lie-and-lies-are-the-truth-no-one-will-stand-up-for-america-but-you/
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From “Down Under” in Australia.
A vision of what is to come in America. I will never submit, never surrender, never relinquish my rights to MY FREE SPEECH!
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Thanks, Bill. Somehow I missed one of Jordan’s best. As long as we have him, (and others un-named here, local and globally), there is hope & solace. I firmly believe that 80% of the world see thru the BS and thus assured, ignore it. If not, we’re in trouble deep…. 5%, not even the proverbial 20%, seem to lead the headlines, politics and lifestyle these days. T’ain’t so, but we have to be vigilant lest it become a reality….
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This is off the subject of local politics, but is still worthy of some thought.
If I am not mistaken, Joe Biden swore to the following oath of office:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
And, if I am not mistaken, the Constitution of the United States sets forth how laws will be made and who will make them.
Again, if I am not mistaken, the United States has laws regarding its immigration policies. And aren’t “providing for the common good and protecting our shores” the two highest priorities of the federal government?
So now, while chaos reigns on our southern border, isn’t this the time to consider impeachment proceedings on President Biden. No secret dossiers needed. Everything is out in the open.
What am I missing?
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If I am not mistaken, Joe Biden swore to the following oath of office:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
And, if I am not mistaken, the Constitution of the United States sets forth how laws will be made and who will make them.
Again, if I am not mistaken, the United States has laws regarding its immigration policies. And aren’t “providing for the common good and protecting our shores” the two highest priorities of the federal government?
So now, while chaos reigns on our southern border, isn’t this the time to begin impeachment proceedings on President Biden. No secret dossiers needed. Everything is out in the open.
What am I missing?
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