Tag: 800000
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We’re desperate for a win
Lowering expectations to the vanishing point! The world’s greatest democracy seems doomed to endure an entire year of Groundhog Days by nominating super-annuated, increasingly disreputable, and possibly criminal presidential candidates. Trump and Biden will lock horns in some kind of mutual death struggle until a measure of karma is achieved. Only then will the clock…
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Splitting Madison into atoms for Democrat(ic) control!
Guaranteed to satisfy no one! Wisconsin Democrats can pose for a PowerPoint’s worth of holy pictures all they want but Elbridge Gerry never mandered so voraciously. The faceless bureaucrats at the Werkes put the seven proposed legislative district maps under its smudged microscope, focused on the State Senate maps. Sure enough, a 22 to 11…
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You can’t hurry Love
Basking in some vicarious victory today! Like Clark Griswold, Blaska could not be more surprised if he woke up with his face sewn to the carpet. Going into this season we were certain Jordan Love would make Packer fans yearn for the glory days of John Hadl. Seemed wobbly when he filled in for A-Rod.…
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All I want for Christmas
Is a good stiff drink! And another thing, a ring. Today is the shortest day of the year. We’re simpatico with the Eb Scrooge that was still limiting Bob Cratchit to a single lump of fossil fuel. Maybe we’re beaten down by a presidential choice that no one seems to want. One is senescent and…
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‘Twas the week before the 25th …
No refunds given for this blogge! Tom Still (Gawd how we miss his voice on the WI State Journal editorial page) is right about diversity, equity, and inclusion at the UW. The non-normative, intersectional, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ fat lady, he writes, is only clearing her throat. The “standoff between the UW and the Legislature over DEI and…
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But is he FIT?
.. to be tried? This just in: Joe Biden won Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election. That means Donald Trump is eligible to run for president in 2024 after all because it won’t be his third term! The 10 “fake electors” who signed and submitted electoral college ballots declaring Trump Wisconsin’s winner…