To each ‘their‘ own ‘talking points’!

Progressives must strategize at caffeine-fueled meetings for new ways to piss off the public. “I’ve got it!” exclaims county supervisor Heidi Wegleitner.

“We’ll ban the Pledge of Allegiance and the opening prayer at the start of meetings!”

Huzzah! cried fellow members of Progressive Dane — your one-stop shop for Defund the Cops, Derail the Jail, and Cops Out of Schools. “We’ll accuse prayer and pledge of being D I V I S I V E.”

That’s how progressives shut down speech. They accuse that with which they disagree of being “divisive” — blithely clueless of their own divisiveness. Prayer and pledge is a tradition that goes back well before even Dave Ripp, who has served on county board since James Doty’s time.

The WI State Journal broke the story so Blaska will only add that the prayer is almost never offered; supervisors usually opt to recite some inspirational reading from someone like Satchel Paige. But will the Republic fall if a smidgeon of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is read? That how the U.S. Congress starts its day.

“Avoid foolish controversies … because these are unprofitable and useless.” — Titus 3:9.

  Is this Heidi Wegleitner? So divisive!

During his service to the people of Dane County, the Head Groundskeeper began placing miniature American flags at supervisors desks after 9/11. We know this tradition continued until meetings went virtual due to the coronavirus.

→ Tell the County Board that elections are coming up and you are praying for them.

Progressives never rest. Supv. Lawrence Palm is on Pronoun Patrol. “I would suggest a wholesale replacement of “he/she” to “them” or “they” based upon the language. I believe our laws and rules should be gender neutral.”

Heavily steeped (and brewed)!  

When you’re a write-in candidate, you’re thankful for the ink. We thank the WI State Journal for its coverage of Blaska’s attempt to bring sanity to Madison’s public schools. (Read it here.) But we were surprised to learn that candidate Blaska:

1) Uses “talking points,” which implies that your write-in candidate for Seat #4 is some wind-up soldier in a national cabal controlled by Ron Johnson.

Blaska’s campaign platform is heavily steeped in conservative talking points used by candidates nationwide that include instituting law and order in schools, questioning diversity and equity initiatives in curriculum and promoting charter schools. …

Those who know Blaska (sometimes including my own family) think he they is too damned independent for his their own good. The Werkes does wonder if Woke progressives have their own Talking Points. Words like “Equity,” “privilege,” “implicit bias,” “disparate impact,” and other Woke dog whistles don’t teach history — they teach critical race theory.

2) When you can’t debate the issues you go for the smear. In the Q & A. incumbent Ali Muldrow plays to the groundlings here in Madison by labeling Blaska a Trump supporter. Our platinum subscribers and fellow Republican dues payers know better.

Bewitched and bewildered, too

Jonathan Turley writes, “Many of us were both bemused and bothered by the editorial in the New York Times opposing cancel culture.

“In the course of their fight for tolerance, many progressives have become intolerant of those who disagree with them or express other opinions, and take on a kind of self-righteousness and censoriousness that the Right long displayed and the Left long abhorred.”

Blaska’s Bottom Line: The New York Times should talk! It fired its editorial page editor for green-lighting Sen. Tom Cotton’s scholarly examination of presidential powers in times of domestic unrest. Too divisive, doncha know!

Where do you get YOUR talking points?