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About the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/crawford-schimel-wisconsin-supreme-court


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/31/elon-musk-1-million-dollar-checks-wisconsin-voters-supreme-court-election
Musk has been paying citizens of Wisconsin checks for ONE MILLION DOLLARS as a public bribes to get them to vote for and campaign for the conservative on Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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The GOP has won the FL special election by a much, much tighter margin than they went for Trump. That's good news for down the road, but it doesn't cut to the heart of the issue which is that just winning a couple future cycles is not going to be enough to undo what is being done to the country, not just institutionally but in the information space and how it's poisoned voters.

That work will take a massive new media investment by Dems and seriously constraining the tech oligarchs. And it will be a generational project most of us will probably not see the final or full result of in our lifetimes. But hopefully someone will get started.

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Florida remains Florida, but thank God Elon's cash didn't buy victory in Wisconsin! Congratulations to State Supreme Court Justice-Elect Susan Crawford!

(The media seemed stunned at how quickly this was called. Indeed, it seemed like Crawford wiped the floor with Schimel.)

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He's right though, because I think he's talking about something different. They fúcked up hardcore over the last year, and I'd rather somehow acknowledge it than have Schumer continue sitting around rubberstamping Trump and pretending everything's fine and that the norms will hold if we all just vote through his budget.

Booker admitting the Senate Dems in particular have failed to meet the moment with any real urgency beats them all whining on background to Politico or Axios about Biden or Harris or minorities and how fúcked they are for being liberal. That's the kind of internalized contempt that really irks me.

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"meet the moment"
"urgency"

That's all about vibes and vibes are how we got here.

Schumer is the reason the courts have been able to stop Trump. Not just because the government is still open but because he and Joe Biden stayed laser focused on filling as many judgeships as they could. The screw up was pushing Biden out but people don't want to admit that so they've doubled down on "Yeah, we know we suck." Exactly why would I vote for that?

I'm also not interested in bashing Schumer because he's just the latest scapegoat. In Trump's first term it was Pelosi. During Biden's term it was Garland. Dems can't move forward because a coalition can't work without a basic level of trust and that trust is gone.

But like I said, I'm out. Like so many Black women, I'm #MindingMyBlackAssBusiness and #ReclaimingMyTime.

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I think fights have to be strategic, but I also don't think people really care what Dems fight for right now so long as they fight on something. That's why we're seeing the anger and energy we're seeing from the base, and it's not from the deranged dead end left, it's from normie Dem voters, rational people. And in this case, I don't think Schumer has the will. I think he's a good man who's done good work through a long career, but who also thinks that if he just stays the course it'll all work out. It won't and it hasn't, and faced with that his approach seems to be that eventually his friends on the other side of the aisle who he goes to the gym with (this is from his own recent interview) will come to their senses in another 6 months. I think that's indefensible in the crisis we're in. Hell is here and the devils are loose.

So at this point I'll take a change. I don't see how rubberstamping Trump's budget made sense, and I don't see much of anything actually stopping Trump right now. Any minor legal victory is just smashed by the next power grab, because we're beyond the beyond. So while I have zero faith in the current party leadership, i'm willing to try just about anything new short of Bernie !@#$%^&*]in' Sanders. YMMV though and I respect that, because I respect you. And I don't blame you for getting out. I'm pretty much out myself.

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But none of this is new. This is exactly where we were eight years ago.

  • The white left was celebrating the fact that Trump won and attacking Black Dems (We're seeing that now with the attacks on Jeffries, Clyburn, and Booker.)
  • Bernie was doing his white grievance rallies and crapping on Dems
  • Leftists were fixating on primary challenges
  • White Dems doubled down on chasing the "working class"
  • People keep screaming at the Democrats they hate - the ones they refuse to vote for - to save them.
  • People who didn't vote right decide to do a pointless protesting. Last time it was the Womens March, this time its April 5.

We already lived through this. None of it is new and it was all unavoidable.

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I think what Booker did yesterday was worthwhile, I'm not attacking him (nor do I have some deep love for him). I'm also glad he called attn above to the inertia among a number of the Senate Dems and their inability to face the current situation for what it is. Most of all I'm grateful he at least stood up vs. being another Dem cowering and running to talk to the DC media on background about how pathetic they all think the party is. As opposed to Bernie who I am sure just thinks now is his moment to run, again.

I have no patience for the left divesting itself from any responsibility for their actions and viewpoint for the umpteenth time. Nor am I interested in the Dem reps' constant leaks to Politico bemoaning our need to coddle 'the working class' even more. So when it comes to the leftists and the Senate, I can have smoke for two entirely different groups. Because AFAIC both had a key hand in getting us here. JMO. I don't know the solution and we may not see it in my lifetime, but I've had about my fill of both.

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I'd add that many on the left are begging Trump to love them, and he just shits all over them, as he always has. They won't stop begging though. 

Nearly every group in America hates Democrats, and beyond that, hates anyone who is compassionate, anyone who genuinely cares beyond a sneer and a tired one-liner. At least conservatives are honest about it. The dead end left, and the "sensible" podcasters who are always chasing their past fame (like the Pod Save guys who were the worst of Obama's tenure, Jon Stewart, Ezra Klein, etc.)  simultaneously tear the party apart yet expect them to do everything. That's why they are still yammering about Biden's age, or about Klein's jerkoff "abundance" book and how superior it is to Biden. And when Trump and all the malevolent forces around him stomp on us again, they say - do something, why aren't you doing something? The Pod Save bozos were throwing tantrums about why weren't Democrats helping get prisoners out of El Salvador? Why aren't they arresting Elon? What in the hell are they meant to do? 

Most of the left, and even the middle, hates us, and hates America, more than they want to improve anything. It doesn't make them feel morally superior, it means they might have to do something beyond tweeting and podcasting, so they don't want to hear it.

There's no real hope remaining for this country. Much as voting is mocked, it does help, but we may not even have that right much longer - and I know many never did in the first place. 

Anyone who can leave, should. They don't deserve what is coming. The rest of us will just try to get by day to day, as it has always been, until there's nothing left.

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I guess this just shows the complete ignorance of this administration.   

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‘Nowhere on earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica Australian prime minister surprised after external territories – including tiny Norfolk Island and remote islands home to penguins – targeted by US president

Those darn penguins just need to be taught a lesson, right?!   

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