Category: January 6 insurrection

  • The WI GOP is fighting off a coup

    from Charlie Kirk‘s Turning Point USA. Second of three parts. We’re expecting an old-fashioned donnybrook at the Wisconsin Republican state convention this weekend outside Wausau, hopefully without gallows or the QAnon shaman. But you never know. The spectrometer at Blaska Policy Werkes shows three groups jostling for power in a deeply divided party. We examined…

  • Republicans are battling for their soul

    at next weekend’s WI GOP convention. Part 1 of 3. In our Boomer-addled imagination, the Wisconsin Republican convention opens May 16-17 outside of Wausau with a full screen, close-up of Bette Davis. As Margo Channing, she advises, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy weekend.” The long knives are out. Names are being…

  • Resistance takes many forms

    Many of them, counter-productive! Encountered an anti-Trump demonstration massing at James Madison Park on the shores of Lake Mendota, Saturday 04-19-25. Likely headed for Wisconsin’s beautiful state capitol a few blocks away. We kept driving. Good on the city’s daily newspaper for devoting not one pica of soybean-based ink to the rally, protest demonstrations being more…

  • Our own worst enemy

    WI GOP riven by election deniers! The Wisconsin Republican party has been infected with a virus. It may yet prove to have originated in a change of function laboratory in Wuhan. More likely, it originated in Washington D.C. or Mar-a-Lago FL. The sickness expresses itself as a bad acid trip every time a Republican loses…

  • Now the truth about January 6 can be revealed!

    … if it hasn’t been already, truthers! The 45th and 47th President has been in office a full month. He pretty much has his people in place. Pam Bondi at Justice, Kash Patel at the FBI, and Dan Bongino as his chief deputy. They’ve been issued their pass codes, assigned prime parking spaces, and settled…

  • Is anyone cheering Trump’s pardons?

    He put them in prison; now he’s releasing them! Leave it to Donald Trump to poop in the punch bowl even as the smart set danced the inaugural night away. Not 12 hours after promising a new “Golden Age,” the reinstated President unconditionally pardoned fifteen hundred cop beaters, vandals, and seditious conspiracists attempting to subvert…