Here’s How It Works
So, here’s the deal.
Wisconsin Republicans own the State House so they are passing, without any hearings, a bill that allows them to spend $680,000 to investigate the 2020 election in Wisconsin. This will be the second 2020 election investigation that they have funded with taxpayer money.
Kooky thing #1: They will not say how the money is being spent until after the bill is passed on Monday. There has already been numerous recounts in the largest counties in Wisconsin but Trump still lost every damn time. Trump has lost Wisconsin more times than a blind mapmaker.
Kooky thing #2: The My Pillow guy, Mike Lindell, is egging this on. I hear that Lindell is losing money on his business because he has discovered that predicting when Trump will ceremoniously replace President Joe Biden is not making as much money as he expected. Right off the top of my head I know the predicted March date made a whimpering sound as it passed by and the August date could be heard belching. The next one Lindell is betting on is sometime next January and I predict the screeching of lost souls will accompany its passing.
Kooky thing #3: The Republicans want to hire former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to run the investigation. I know that Wikipedia is just slightly more reliable than my Aunt Thelma, but according to them Gableman knows about investigations because he has been personally involved in so many, one of which determined his decision to not run for reelection.
So, they are having themselves a wingdinger of a waste of taxpayer money in Wisconsin and they will have nothing to show for it, just like every other Republican attempt to prove we voted dead people.
It is a myth that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.
1Ever since the Civil Rights Act, the GOP has been more focused on winning than on governing. And not only do they have their own propaganda arm to distract the public from this fact, they also have all the major media: Just yesterday, CNN termed the evacuation from Afghanistan “a disastrous rout.” I guess nobody who works there was alive when Saigon fell.
2That’s nothing. Texas still has Wisconsin beat by some $19.3 million in wasted taxpayer (our) money with just this one boondoggle.
The Texas Bullion Depository, sold as a gold mine for taxpayers, could end up costing millions
3Houston Chronicle
August 27, 2021
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/The-Texas-Bullion-Depository-sold-as-a-gold-mine-16416032.php
Wisconsin will waste money on this farce but at least one county won’t take federal money to provide lunch for children.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/08/27/waukesha-wisconsin-schools-reject-federal-program/
I give up.
4I hate to be a nattering nabob of negativity but I spent three days driving around Wisconsin two weeks ago and the number of over the top Trump as Our Savior signage was uncountable.
5We are so close to the precipice in America.
Not every Republican move on elections is costing a great deal more. Voting equipment from Dominion in Mesa County was “decertified” after the Republican/Q Clerk allowed a security breach and joined forces with Mike Lindell in an effort to “reveal” voting irregularities.
On a short time-timetable due to an upcoming election, Mesa County needed to replace the equipment. And they have: “The all-Republican commission voted 3-0 to replace its Dominion Voting Systems hardware during a special meeting Tuesday afternoon and extended the county’s contract with Dominion through 2029 at a cost of $825,281.” It sounds like a great deal of money — but is merely the continuation of the existing contract, extending it for a couple of years. Dominion did not use its position to jack up the price.
Meanwhile, Tina Peters, the Clerk, continues to be out of state — unavailable to cooperate with multiple investigations into the actions of her office.
6I’m a long-time Texas resident who now resides permanently in Wisconsin. Just as in Texas, Wisconsin is divided into Republicans and those who care about the future of the state, i.e. Democrats.
The fact that our Governor Tony Evers is a Democrat has kept the legislature from passing legislation equally offensive to that in Texas. Where I live in Northern Wisconsin, Trump mania is subsiding somewhat. Signs are wearing out or coming down and I see lots fewer bumper stickers for the Dohtard.
Ron Johnson, our morally challenged senator, is incredibly unpopular and either won’t run or won’t be reelected. There are positive signs in Wisconsin but one of the most important things is to prevent racist gerrymandering like occurred under Scott Walker.
7Precipice? You mean that cliff above us as we fall?
8And A.P. broke this a couple of hours ago.
9https://apnews.com/article/technology-software-election-2020-1341028212960b9b4ed713620d764629
when Saigon fell, the NVA rolled in with tanks and APC’s, the Taliban had to walk into Kabul.
1090% of the money will go into their pockets, ……………….
11Gableman ran against the first African American on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Lewis Butler. Lewis was appointed to the court by the Democratic Governor. He was the first sitting justice not to be reeelected since the 1960s and his defeat also meant there was no longer a Milwaukee based justice. In that race, Gableman went hard on the dog whistles. It was ugly. He only won by 20,000 votes. He was investigated for a completely misleading ad.
12http://archive.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/32440994.html/
Heard somewhere that a U.S. Supreme Court judge just recently spoke out on a judge’s responsibility to the Constitution and not to any political party. A state supreme court judge getting involved in an insanity like yet another audit of the 2020 election? This is where it all has to give and come crashing down. If he really does get involved in any way, the rest of the justices on the state supreme court are also going have the appearance of parity, even if they move miles away from this guy in fact and on paper.
13I know we haven’t talked about Afghanistan a lot, and I’m not saying we should. But I posted a comment 2 days ago about it, and realized later that I seriously misrepresented something that I need to correct.
14I said that when Biden took office our troop levels were 2,500, vs. the 4,500 on the ground when trump’s deal was made with the Taliban 11 months earlier.
That’s wrong. Sometimes I have to edit myself a lot because I tend to occasionally be long winded.
When the Doha Agreement was reached at the end of February 2020, U.S. troop levels were around 12,000.
That number was reduced to 4,500 by election day.
Two weeks after trump lost the election, he ordered that number to be reduced to 2,500 by Jan. 15th.
5 days before Biden took office.
That’s what Afghan soldiers saw unfold over the 11 months before Uncle Joe took office.
Sorry.
They’re playing to the base and mike Lindell, verifiably a lunatic, is in charge of the asylum.
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