We need to protect the sanctity of women as 'earthen vessels'.
Daily Kos, 12/3/2021
This illustration by Seth Gruber is simple, but it’s what our nation has done to the most precious image of all—the image of God. Madam Speaker, a silent genocide has slipped beneath the conscience of America. Precious works of our creator, formed and set apart, meet death before they breathe life. Eternal souls woven into earthen vessels sanctified by almighty God and endowed with the miracle of life are denied their birth by a nation that was born in freedom.
12/3/2021 update starts here
We need more one-way, top-down messaging, just like the Chinese.
New York Times, 11/23/2021
The ruling Communist Party communicates through one-way, top-down messaging. It seems to have a hard time understanding that persuasive narratives must be backed by facts and verified by credible, independent sources.
11/29/2021 update starts here
We need to prevent women and minorities from serving in positions of leadership.
11/28/2021 update starts here
We need more Trump sycophants!
Business Insider, 11/27/2021
Former President Donald Trump has raised the stakes in his mission to mold the GOP to his liking, eagerly wading into 2022 Republican primaries to boost particular candidates — and in some cases — seeking to push out party members that he has soured on, according to a CNN report.
In three states — North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama — the former president has played an outsized role in propping up candidates that have earned his endorsement while looking to push out Republicans who didn't make the cut.
11/25/2021 update starts here
We need to GOP to change the color of our drinking water.
Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/24/2021
Might as well call it the Roadblock Act
The Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, or REINS Act, was signed into law by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2017. Republican lawmakers have said it provides more scrutiny of agency regulations that could cost millions for businesses and taxpayers.
The law requires legislative approval of agency regulations that are expected to cost more than $10 million over any two-year period. It also requires a preliminary public hearing earlier in the approval process and allows an independent analysis of costs related to implementing agency rules. [emphasis added]
11/24/2021 update starts here
We need to fuel the Cult of Trump!
Washington Post, 11/22/2021
In October, the RNC made two payments totaling $121,670 to the law firm of Ronald Fischetti, a veteran defense attorney whom Trump hired in April. According to a person with direct knowledge of the payments, the requests came earlier this summer but were voted on by the party’s executive committee only in recent weeks.
11/23/2021 update starts here
We need the GOP to divide and conquer, to keep workers down and continue to protect the oligarchy.
Screenshot from YouTube video
Over the last several years, the Republicans who control the state House and Senate have introduced a series of labor-related measures with the same general thrust: making it easier for workers to opt out of unions, making it more onerous to form unions, and making it harder for unions to raise money for political work.
11/21/2021 update starts here
We need the GOP to double down on its politics of menace!
Meet Arizona GOP menace Paul Gosar
masked up and ready to release another video
New York Times, 11/22/2021
But the Republican response to Gosar’s eventual censure was just as striking: Party leaders in the House pointedly refused to condemn the video, and their rank and file nearly unanimously closed ranks around Gosar. A dozen or so Republicans huddled in solidarity around him as he was censured.
11/21/2021 update starts here
We need to ensure that the Wisconsin GOP can continue to gerrymander districts and preserve a white, conservative, and disproportionally rural representation in the state legislature.
So a bunch of mostly White rural counties that preferred Trump saw the state go to Biden thanks to voters in the big city. Those rural counties are disproportionately represented in the state legislature. And so their residents get this sense that elections are being unfairly skewed by citizens who don’t look like them from parts of the state that don’t look like theirs.
11/20/2021 update starts here
We need to ramp up the book banning frenzy in schools!
Meet Iowa State Senator Jake Chapman
masked up and ready to hunt for porn in schools
Des Moines Register, 11/18/2021
Committee members said parents Mandy and Rodney Gilbert complained at the beginning of the school year that bestsellers "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie were inappropriate and obscene. "The Hate U Give," by Angie Thomas.
In Iowa and across the country, attempts by parents and conservative politicians to ban a variety of books for different reasons have become increasingly common over the past school year.
11/17/2021 update starts here
We need to insure that the oligarchs continue to keep our system of government unbalanced!
The New Republic, 10/4/2021
Wisconsin’s Republican-led state legislature is working toward similar goals from the opposite direction. State lawmakers recently proposed changes that would make three elected statewide offices—the state superintendent, the state treasurer, and the state secretary of state—into appointed ones. Its proponents argue that the change would make those positions more accountable and strengthen Wisconsin’s executive branch, which is currently led by Democratic Governor Tony Evers.“It says, yeah, those positions are legitimate, but those positions should have more responsibility and should be under the governor and part of their cabinet … the buck stops with the governor,” Shae Sortwell, a Republican state senator [Tell that to Andre Jacque! Shae's a member of the State Assembly] who co-authored the proposal, told The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “We’re not eliminating anything. We’re putting them under the governor so we can give them more responsibility and more accountability.”If enacted, however, the proposal would ultimately transfer power over those offices away from Wisconsin’s electorate and toward the Republican-led state legislature. That distinction is less important in states where the statewide electorate can also exercise its will over state lawmakers. But Wisconsin’s state legislative map, building on geographic advantages, is so thoroughly gerrymandered that Republicans can secure roughly two-thirds of the seats even when Democrats win a majority of the statewide vote. That disparity effectively entrenches the GOP’s legislative majority into power regardless of the overall preference of Wisconsinites.
11/16/2021 update starts here
We need to ensure that women are denied their reproductive rights.
Cincinnati Enquirer, 11/2/2021
House Bill 480, introduced Tuesday, would allow anyone to sue a doctor who performs an abortion or an individual who "aids or abets" an abortion. Anyone who performs or assists in an abortion could face a fine of at least $10,000 per abortion.
The bill includes a broad definition of abortion, including a ban on administering, procuring or selling any instrument, medicine or drug to terminate a pregnancy. The proposal would add to Ohio law the language: "All human beings are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
The bill goes a step further than Texas's law by banning all abortions rather than only those after a fetal heartbeat is detected. [emphasis added]
11/15/2021 update starts here
We need to erase certain parts of American history, especially as it pertains to slavery and racism.
Let's replace it with the 'happy, dancing slaves' myth.
"Slaves's life hard realities are erased in
Christmas tours of plantations"
(The Conversation, 12/12/2019)
Grand Forks Herald, 11/12/2021
Critical race theory is not taught in North Dakota schools, but Sen. Donald Schaible, R-Mott, said the bill was a preventative measure.
"The bill is more preemptive to try to make sure that it doesn't come to our schools," Schaible said Friday.
The bill defines critical race theory as "the theory that racism is not merely the product of learned individual bias or prejudice, but that racism is systemically embedded in American society and the American legal system to facilitate racial inequality."
Multiple senators acknowledged that the controversy over critical race theory, which is a hot button issue for many conservatives today, is something that was created with political motivation to try to control how race is talked about in schools. [emphasis added]
11/14/2021 update starts here
We need more Covidiots to help spread the virus!
Meet Ron Johnson and Chris Kapenga
Wisconsin duo ready to do their deadly duty
Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/11/2021
Tauchen is one of a relatively small number of elected Republican leaders in Wisconsin who've been willing to be a part of campaigns to publicly encourage vaccinations. GOP leaders like U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson have spent months promoting false or misleading information about the vaccine. In August, state Senate Majority Leader Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, encouraged hospital workers to defy their employers' vaccine mandates. [emphasis added]
Public health leaders say the politicization of the vaccine campaign has had deadly results.
11/13/2021 update starts here
We need more Trump loyalists in leaderships posts.
Meet Michigan's Matt Maddock
Trump loyalist
Bridge Michigan, 11/11/2021
State Rep. Matt Maddock, R-Milford, on Thursday tweeted a signed note from Trump that was written on top of a Detroit News article about his candidacy for the GOP leadership post.
"I am with you all the way," Trump wrote. "Also, you have a great wife."
11/12/2021 update starts here
Why not have idiots with guns in control. What could possibly go wrong?
New York Times, 11/12/2021
At a conservative rally in western Idaho last month, a young man stepped up to a microphone to ask when he could start killing Democrats.
“When do we get to use the guns?” he said as the audience applauded. “How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” The local state representative, a Republican, later called it a “fair” question.
11/12/2021 update starts here
Meet Darin LaHood
masked up and ready for
another day in Congress
Just what Congress needs. Republicans that vote against the 'clear economic interests' of their districts. Yee-haw!!
In that atmosphere, Mr. LaHood appears to have put aside the clear economic interests of a district that will soon be radically reconfigured and stuck with his party’s line — and that of Mr. Trump — against the bill. The former president and his allies in the Republican leadership in Congress argued that the measure deserved to be defeated because Democrats were pushing a social policy and climate change “reconciliation” bill at the same time.
“I will continue to advocate for the transportation and infrastructure needs of my district, but I will not take part in helping the Democrats and Speaker Pelosi pass their irresponsible and partisan reconciliation package,” Mr. LaHood said in a statement explaining his vote. He declined to discuss it further.
11/10/2021 update starts here
The insurrectionists demand it!
Detroit News, 11/9/2021
More than 90% of the calls are coming from outside of Upton's southwest Michigan district, a spokesman said, including one man from South Carolina who left this message: "I hope you die. I hope everybody in your f------ family dies," while calling the longtime lawmaker a "f------ piece of s--- traitor." [emphasis added]
11/9/2021 update starts here
Meet Paul Gosar
Masked up and ready for work
Masked up and ready for work
Washington Post, 11/8/2021
Gosar has long drawn criticism for his extremist views, including his spreading of conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob and the deadly white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017. In February, he appeared at an event whose organizer called for white supremacy. Gosar later distanced himself from the organizer’s remarks.
The congressman’s Sunday night post — which he shared on Twitter and Instagram — appeared to go further than his previous contentious remarks and social media posts, raising the specter of political violence in a manner similar to former president Donald Trump’s frequent allusions to armed revolution.
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