Rural voters don’t want more free stuff
It was the moment the lifeless body of a 1,500-pound steer was hoisted in the air, blood pouring from its neck, that Mandela Barnes knew he was a long way from his comfort zone. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Barnes’ political upbringing is intertwined with Wisconsin’s urban heart, a place that could not have been more different to the scene at Hoesly’s Meats here in rural New Glarus.
A great lede, as we say in the journalism business, this news report from CNN on Democrats’ hopes to win back rural voters. Give Barnes, a black man venturing into the transplanted Swiss canton south of Madison, credit for trying. CNN quotes all four Democrats seeking to unseat Sen. Ron Johnson as promising to “listen” to rural voters.
Listening flatters the listened. At some point, unfortunately for the would-be’s, they must speak. Question is whether they will sound like Elizabeth Warren — more unlikable than even the Hildabeast, more shrill than an overheated tea pot — or Joe Manchin?
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Separated at birth?
How does candidate Sarah Godlewski justify paying off the critical race student’s college debt to the retirees coffee klatsching in Sparta? What headway on shutting down the XL pipeline will Alex Lasry make with the corn grower in Lafayette County who is paying more for his diesel fuel and anyhdrous ammonia? Will the farm equipment dealer in Monticello say “Right On!” to candidate Tom Nelson for picketing the tractor factory in Racine? Blanchardville will be reminded of Lt. Gov. Barnes sympathy for an attempted kidnapper in Kenosha. (Defund the Police advocates Ananda Mirilli, Savion Castro, and Ali Muldrow endorse Barnes. Elizabeth Warren, too!)
The Catholic congregation in Baraboo will take note of the atheists supporting abortion pictured in the Wisconsin State Journal. Whereupon we again quote that former Madison mayor, now reduced to blogging. “No longer “safe, legal, and rare,”
… the new chant seems to be “free abortion on demand without apologies.” If your goal was to come up with a phrase that produced maximum damage to your movement, well, I suppose “defund the police” might have been worse, but not by much.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: What abortion restrictions DO the gang of 4 support? In response to the 21 injured in Milwaukee shootings after the Bucks game Friday (and we’re not talking about 3-pointers) will the four Democrats demand more police or more gun laws? How will more gun restrictions sit with Grant County turkey hunters?
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Think any of these snooty Lefty jokes would go to places they couldn’t find on a map to save their bacon…like Five Points, Four Corners, Three Lakes, Two Rivers, or Oneida?
Pronunciations? Fuggeddaoudit!
The Gotch’d spot ’em Oconomowoc, but do you think they could even sound out Butte Des Morts, Chequamegon, La Courte Oreilles, Roche-A-Cri, Ashwaubenon, Shawano, Lake Nebagamon, or Gratiot?
They’re as WESconsin as Six Flags.
The Gotch
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I live in the Dells. Four years ago Evers showed up and the place was standing room only. Never saw Vos, Johnson or anyone else before or since. Walker was NEVER here and he got kicked to the curb. Where’s Ryan? Here’s a news flash for all people running. You ain’t going to win over voters by showing ads with you shooting guns. People are sick of fearing for themselves while you bang away at beer bottles or fire cannons. Where are all these “good guns with guns?” They never seem to be around when the slaughter starts. Must be home tanning their testicles.
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Ryan? Paul Ryan, former congressman from the 1st District, never campaigned in the 6th District? Imagine that? Robin Vos, representing western Racine County? The same? As for Buffalo, a good guy did shoot the bad guy. You could look it up.
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Yeah and he died. Vos and company are making decisions and spending money that effects everyone in the state. Come up here, leave your gerrymandered district and talk to us. Stop hiding. Vos leads the GOP If he wants to just run Racine Co. fine. Then stay in his district and shut up. Fire Gableman and end this crap. People up here are sick of these little weasels.
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“How will more gun restrictions sit with Grant County turkey hunters?”
About as well as the 25 mph speed limit on Whitney Way sits with west siders. Don’t tread on us when the issues are over on East Wash!
Gonna be tough for me to vote for a liberal if I think abortion rights are in danger but I’ll do it.
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Yep; I got to go sight in my AK with the expanded magazine to pick off that goobler.
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ok, I will take the bait, but it is ok to kill an unborn child, outside of incest and rape and before a heartbeat. It is just a lump of cells right, but I will throw in some more grusome absurdity. Ok, Abortion must be kept legal and unfettered and should also include abortion post birth until the minor is totally free from legal parental responsibility. Little johnny did not clean room, off to planned parenthood. Little angel, talked back, off to planned parenthood. The bigger point is both should be more strictly regulated but common sense falls on deaf ears of both the elephant and donkey party.
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Culture does matter. There is a former Republican who is running for LA Mayor who is no longer content to merely repudiate “defund the police,” but says we all owe a duty to express respect and gratitude to the police.
National Review reports this candidate is running ahead in the polls!
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Guy’s name is Rick Caruso.
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Decide for yourself!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TizNoVq1qcwb/
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Wow. Very disturbing. He makes a leap at the conclusion but the evidence is overwhelming. Every American should watch this. Thank you for sharing!
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/TizNoVq1qcwb/
Not sure why it didn’t work
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/05/10/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-2000-mules-n561941
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Lars: I tried to access the video this morning but all I got was a VIDEO BLOCKED screen from BitChute.
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Same here today although I was able to watch it in its entirety last night. I’d love to send this link to some other people. It really needs to be seen to be believed!
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It’s a measure of the utter contempt that leftists elites feel for rural voters (or indeed any voter who has the poor taste to live in “flyover country”) that they think they can con them into believing that Democrats care for anyone on the wrong side of identity politics. Just look at the orgasmic delight–yes, delight–with which the media is is salivating over the mass shooting in Buffalo. Why waste time pandering to white rural voters when you can enflame racial hatred (again) in the misguided hope it will pull Democrats’ bacon out of the fire in November? If you think Barnes’ pandering to rural voters in Wisconsin was something, wait till you see what Biden and his caretakers do in the wake of Buffalo.
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You have to wonder how many of these dem’s have ever picked rocks, bailed hay and put it up in the barn, detasseled corn, milked cows, spent all night planting crops just to get up after a 1/2 hour of sleep to milk cows?
My father was not a farmer but plenty of the guys I knew growing up were. The guys I knew all had barn chores to do before and after school. Farmers work every day. There are no days off for a farmer. Many of the other guys I knew, among other things, grew up swinging a hammer, framing, roofing, setting sheet rock, siding a house.
That was life was like back in the early 70’s in a rural community. Probably not much has changed in the way life in those communities is run today. God, family, church, community, country. To be followed closely by guns, hunting and fishing, sports like football, basketball and baseball.
It is a whole different culture than what most urban dem’s have ever experienced.
When the cost of food, fertilizer, baby formula, if you can find it, diesel fuel for you tractors, gas for your car, just to name a few things, are all going up, what are these candidates really going to run on? To whatever promises the dem’s make, I would have just one very simple response: You dem’s have done this.
Giving $40,000,000,000 dollars to the Ukraine to secure their borders when our own borders are wide open, the average price of gas in Madison standing at around $4.15, empty shelves at the supermarket, flying illegal aliens into our country in the middle of the night. https://senatormastriano.com/2022/01/13/mastriano-provides-update-on-illegals-sent-to-pennsylvania/
Yeah, they have a great chance of convincing the rural voter that the democratic party knows what is best for the people of rural America.
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Well put, Bill; yet the 75 year-old Blogge Idiot laughably believes everything’s hunky dory.
Where IGNORANCE Is Bliss, ‘Tis Folly To Be Wise.!
The Gotch
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Yep; back in the good old “70s. There’s a lot of repubs that never experienced that culture either. Who are you calling an idiot? Typical living in the past BS. Vos ever milk a cow? I don’t think so. Did I milk cows; no. But I ,milked plenty of goats, raised many chickens, ducks and turkeys. Picked many eggs and raised a huge garden. I don’t see empty shelves in the Dells and if you are worried about gas; then stop sitting in line for 45 min. with your car running to buy a 9.00 cup of coffee.
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You state: “Giving $40,000,000,000 dollars to the Ukraine to secure their borders when our own borders are wide open, … flying illegal aliens into our country in the middle of the night.”
The only way a small dairy farmer survives in Wisconsin is through wide open borders and bussing in illegal aliens in the dead of night. If you want to sustain your idyllic little dairy farm on the prairie, you will tear down that border wall.
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“The only way a small dairy farmer survives in Wisconsin is through wide open borders and bussing in illegal aliens in the dead of night.”
Congrats on posting one of the most mind numbingly imbecilic things The Gotch has read in a loooooong time.
“If you want to sustain your idyllic little dairy farm on the prairie, you will tear down that border wall.”
The Gotch has been on Dairy Farms in every WESconsin County, except Menominee; funniest thing, he never saw an illegal alien on any of ’em.
Try harder!
The Gotch
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Try harder. I will, but I don’t think it will help. It seems that you believe that since you have not seen an illegal alien on a dairy farm, that your milk is produced by ordinary American citizens. You are naive, ignorant and I think you are high on meth.
A little data to prove my point:
– Green County has seen one of the state’s fastest growths in Latino population, increasing by an estimated 228% from 2000 to 2019, according to the Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
– Immigrant workers make up approximately 40% of the workforce on Wisconsin dairy farms, and up to 90% are undocumented.
As to your belief that the Republican Party is a friend to the small dairy farmer, let me remind you that in 2012, then-Gov. Scott Walker initiated an incentive program urging dairy farmers to produce even more milk, in the belief that foreign markets could absorb the increase. They didn’t absorb the increase, causing the price of milk to plummet.
To increase production, farmers were required to hire more labor. That labor came from Mexico.
In 2017, the Trump administration began its border crackdown.
In 2019, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue came to Wisconsin and told family dairy farmers in Wisconsin: Get big or get out.
Republican dairy policy has caused financial disaster to many small dairy farmers, resulting in the highest suicide rate of any occupation in America.
To sum up: the small dairy farmer is screwed. And the odds are that the milk on your Cheerios was produced by an illegal.
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“Immigrant workers make up approximately 40% of the workforce on Wisconsin dairy farms, and up to 90% are undocumented.”
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; if all the harder you’ll be trying is to cut and paste from UMOS (oh yeah, they’re unbiased), and without citation to boot, just PUNT.
And The Gotch has forgotten more about Dairy Farming than you’ll ever know.
Green County? Heh, the only prairie down that way would be of the Goat variety.
“And the odds are that the milk on your Cheerios was produced by an illegal.”
Yer a real hoot!
1) Don’t use meth,
2) Don’t drink milk,
3) Don’t eat Cheerios.
Strike three…Yer Out!
The Gotch
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We are talking today; not in 1940. Get into the real world you dope.
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Tear down the border wall?
David, here is what I will predict to you if that happens. Tear down the border wall and instead of having to pay a bunch of kids $15.00 an hour to flip hamburgers you can pay two people that are bi-lingual to tell a bunch of people getting paid $9.00 an hour to do the same work.
All the fight for higher wages for the low or unskilled workers will go right out the window. Remember the liberal talking point of “livable wages”?
This may not apply to those who need to communicate in English to those who cannot communicate in Spanish but it will work for those who are on assembly lines, back room food service employee’s, non union construction workers and others. I also predict that it will drive down the wages of others who are in low wage jobs as they can be filled with those illegal immigrants.
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My comment about tearing down the wall was in reference to a system that accelerated in 2012 as a result of misguided dairy policies established by the Walker administration.
You stated: “That was life was like back in the early 70’s in a rural community. Probably not much has changed in the way life in those communities is run today.” You are wrong. The small dairy farmer, the bedrock of many of those small communities, will soon be extinct. The personal tragedies are on-going.
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And affordable diesel fuel and fertilizer cuz those tractors do not run on unicorn farts and fertilizer on unicorn poop.
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Lefties suffer mightily from chronic sadz and are real REALUNHAPPY.
Why?
The democrat Party Is EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR Right Now.
I’m shocked…SHOCKED says no one!
The Gotch
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I read your crap 4 years ago and Evers won and he will do it again.
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Très cute!
Despicably clueless Lefty pols heading out to rural WESconsin is a breathtakingly laughable attempt to prove they’re DIALED IN.
It’s really no different than FIBs staying at some Flea Bag in the $#!t-Heap Dells and, while inhaling fudge and mainlining funnel cake, thinking they’re Up North.
#PitiablyPathetic!
The Gotch
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Most rural folks that I’ve talked to were fed up with being duped and left to rot by leftists a long time ago. You don’t have to go outside Dane County to experience the well-placed resentment these people feel towards Madison. Democrats may have cared about these people decades ago, but they now instead cater to woke academia, tech elitists, guilty white liberal bourgeoisie, and incurable urban scofflaws. Until these Democrats can prove that they actually have something in common with rural people, I don’t see why they even bother trying to campaign with them.
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Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: Debunking AP’s ‘2000 Mules’ Hit Piece – RedState
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https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/05/10/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-2000-mules-n561941
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