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I was stunned by Daniel Kelly's petty, bitter tirade! The news anchors had looks of astonishment on their faces when they cut back to the studio! This Wisconsinite is thrilled to have Janet Protaseiwicz on our Supreme Court.

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He did himself and his party no favors. Wisconsin residents don't like threats. Badgers bite back.

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Badgers are good. Industrious and brave.

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I know my mouth hung open in astonishment as I watched KellyтАЩs pouty face. What a sniveling baby!

I am so proud of Wisconsin!

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Badgers are also smart. The Great Lakes states are becoming greater.

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Those I know are. Taught in University of WI for 13 years, so I knew a lot of them.

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... and sharp teeth too.

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Badgers are also tenacious, they don't let go and they will face up to anything no matter how powerful. Politicians could learn a lot and emulate them.

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LetтАЩs hope sore losers are always rejected.

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Then Wisconsonites might need to explain how their Senate just got a supermajority (2/3) in their Senate.

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They know. My last visit there I saw lots of yard signs for "Fair Maps." Swinging out of the Republicans' installing a corrupt state supreme court is the way they will end this nonsense by breaking the chains of gerrymander. If the Republicans try to impeach Evers as a vindictive reprisal for the Wisconsinites vote to reclaim their state, I expect their party to get pounded like never before.

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The Republican who won that seat did so with a 1.8% margin. In that incredibly red, gerrymandered district, the Republican in the last election won by over 8%. Disappointing, certainly. A surprise, certainly not. There is obviously more work to be done.

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How could someone this petty ever rise to higher office?

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He was never elected to office. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Scott Walker. This is his second unsuccessful bid to get back on the Supreme Court.

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Very interesting, Sally. Thank you. Once you explained that he was appointed by Scott Walker, rather than elected, his low class, entitled behavior made a lot more sense.

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If anyone had an unworthy opponent in this race, it was Janet Protasiewicz.

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Isn't it interesting how Republicans project?

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Yes. Another perfect example of projection when he said he didn't have a worthy opponent.

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Indeed. Graciousness in defeat is a lost art for Rs. With the election of death star aka mafia don a lot of these people rose out of the swamp and showed us just how uncivil they are. As for Scott Walker, I grimaced every time I heard what he was doing. I remember a story about someone trying to get a son registered for the first time. Lots of hoops.

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Lost for Rs is also the art of working for good governance for their constituency. Now it is, from what I see, mostly about power plays - any governance seems to be legislating morality (just another power play in order to try and hold onto power by pleasing the Christian Right)

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Not only graciousness in defeat, but the notion of admission of defeat has been lost to the Rs.

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I was so glad to see the execrable Scott walker go. Thanks for letting us know where Kelly came from. The purge continues.

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That was a happy day indeed! I'm so happy we have Tony Evers!

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Obviously there are good reasons why he canтАЩt get elected...

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Right? Election denier, woman-hater, tRUMP butt-kisser.

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Wow!

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Brenda It happens all the time....and it's not new. I worked in GOP politics in MD in the 80's & 90's (talk about a minority) helping train candidates on how to present a speech, how to deal with the media and we made TV spots for them....from City Council races at first and eventually up to Congress. Most of our Red candidates won in our overwhelming Blue state. I helped one very conservative Dem when they came to me. He was making the jump from State rep to State senate and had a consultant from out of GA. The consultant wanted to shoot the TV spots in film...and I asked him if he really thought that would buy one more vote ? He just stared at me. Local boys weren't supposed to question the great oz from Atlanta. He wanted to use his film guy and add about $10,000 to the budget. They had 3 canned scripts they used everywhere...just insert the local candidate. Nice gig...

Back to R's... I just told this story yesterday about how I walked away from that part of my career because of how petty and juvenile some of the people were, especially at the State level of GOP party "leadership". I felt the irony at that time was, they were Christian Conservatives. Because of my work and reputation at the time, I was trusted and heard their behind closed doors pettiness. They really believed that the ends justified the means....and they talked like Jr High entitled brats. I stuck around to find out what was going on...then I worked with Congresswoman Bentley to take the party back from them. We won...and I walked away from political consulting.... but maintained a working relationship with Helen on her Maritime consulting. By the time she died we didn't agree on much politically...but we worked very closely on maritime education efforts and preserving that history...and I still do.

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Are you active politically these days? Nice nitty gritty piece you just did.

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Frank that's a very good question. I won't contribute to either party. I will contribute to individual candidates and to specific causes. I'm a registered D because I live in Baltimore and there's more Green party in this city than R's. You have to be registered D to vote in the primary, because that's where the election is at. No R has poled more than 30% in my VERY diverse district in years.

I have not coached a candidate or made a TV spot for one in over 20 years. I did produce a documentary titled "Fracking Western Maryland?" 5-6 years ago that I made as a journalism exercise. I took no position...had no agenda in the making of the film except to try and discern whether fracking made sense for Western Maryland. The finished film was used by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups in the year before Fracking was eventually banned in MD. Many people have said they believe the film helped create the ban because of it's information value.

I became an activist for the ban in the last 3-4 months before the vote, because I believed it was right for MD and I could not sit it out, knowing what I knew. After that I worked hard to defeat my D State Senator, Joan Carter Conway who was head of the Environmental Committee and had tried to table the issue in her committee. She was great at smoke & mirrors. However she lost control of the issue. The D party establishment supported her for re-election including our Congressman Elijah Cummings who I respected deeply. The Baltimore Sierra Club and others worked together to to defeat her and we did. That was very full filling. This is a video I made of Joan on the floor that we posted just before the Senate vote. She had stated that she thought the Gov would veto the bill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o1-AAU9q-w

Right now I'm working on getting a doc funded titled "Monumental Struggle" via an Indiegogo campaign.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/monumental-struggle-documentary/x/8502925#/

so this is how I now am "political".

I always liked the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band by the way...never worked with them though. Peace

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Very interesting. Fracking though put the US in a net positive hydrocarbon position, though it won't last forever, as oil and gas out of the ground won't, not to mention climate change which is going to run up a huge bill in terms of financial, property and human capital.

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I totally understand. I'm not for pulling the plug on all fracking tomorrow. It was just a VERY bad idea for Western Maryland. Garrett County has a 4 season outdoor tourism economy with water EVERYWHERE. I'm ok with it for now in the middle of nowhere...but we need to develop wind, solar and other sustainable energy as quickly as possible. Here's my doc...just watch the first 3-4 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbugs2iebf0&t=47s

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"... and they talked like Jr High entitled brats."

Yes, but between CPAC, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society and others of their ilk, they are pretty well-organized Jr High entitled brats. Witness Kavanaugh.

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Actually, he didnтАЩt rise to higher office. Thankfully! He was previously appointed to the state Supreme Court by Republican Governor Scott Walker to fill out a term. When he ran for the position he was defeated. This was his second try.

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Fortunately the voters were smart enough both times to see who he was. Too bad that didn't happen with tRUMP but it might this time. He's looking REALLY old and fat lately.

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HeтАЩs a Republican beholding to power.

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Pettiness has been a trend in the Republican Party -- at all levels -- for a long time. We barely survived the last Republican president. May he never darken our doorstep again.

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Gerrymandering

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Uh, TFG??

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Yup тАФ and AOC as well.

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AOC is very smart and decent.

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AOC organized relief for Texas when Cruz went to Cancun.

AOC is smart and hard working.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

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The Former Guy (a.k.a Trump)

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Or, as one among us has suggested, tffg ЁЯЩГ. Not difficult to imagine what the extra f stands for, and it feels like a little steam vent on my rage when I use it.

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Christy, I called him that long before he became "former". ЁЯдн

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Kelly and how about trump and others, Congress if filled with petty idiots. The list is long.

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There are so many others . . . starting with TFG.

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тАЬTFGтАЭ is pass├й. ItтАЩs тАЬdefendantтАЭ now. Or the long form, тАЬcriminal defendant.тАЭ

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Got that right Rex, Criminal Defendant # 491 396 R1. Hat Tip to Substack Author, Michael Moore.

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I read with pleasure Michael Moore's piece and I recommend it. I also posted it on my Facebook page.

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How about "perp"?

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Technically, I think thst would apply after conviction, but magats donтАЩt follow that rule, and maybe their practices should be followed since itтАЩs their man.

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Or, more simply, Queens Man.

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"Queens Man" - an anthropological term, referring to the beforetime.

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Once a QueenтАЩs man, always a QueenтАЩs man.

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Yes! TCD!

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Or TFFG

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Music to my ears!

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My thoughts but we have so many of them. I think it is the people that fail to vote that could make the difference. And how do we get them to go to the polls.

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And that is the most important question of our time! Thank you Brenda.

I hope all will start to ask why it is that tyranny seems ok to so many.

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They live in a different world and don't see their form of "government" as tyranny. Rather than seeing their leaders as tyrants, they see them messiahs who are saving them from the tyrannical Democrats.

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Hmmm...we once had a president like that!

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How? Look at Trump!

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45 did it

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How did TTFG rise to office?

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Petty? It's beyond imaginable... downright rude, uneducated. Too bad when well-educated news anchors are only allowed to show polite astonishment, without asking for Kelly's etiquette and ethics, but I bet he doesn't know those words and is unable to spell them, much less behave accordingly. Back to kindergarten...

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Well, petty, mean and misogynistic are always the characteristics we look for in a supreme court justice (I need a sarcasm font.) The fact that he lost to a woman galled him to no end.

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His grammar isn't too hot either - or else he intended to be even more grossly insulting - "opponent to WHICH I could concede"

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I caught that dehumanizing remark... a complete ass, that Kelly.

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He probably doesn't include "whom" as a working member of his vocabulary.

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It might be a lefty Soros-backed word!

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I'm dying hereЁЯдг

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ЁЯдгЁЯдгЁЯдгMarli, is it possible that the battle of the sexes is really the one weтАЩre having before the whole world? I learned some years ago to call Americans тАЬthe bad teenagers on the block.тАЭ Living in France at the time (Iraq War), that was what I saw from тАЬthe other side.тАЭ Republican desire to kill off anyone who wants real democracy (racism and ageism) and their gun fetishism is simply adolescent. (Seeing DeSantis every day on TV reinforces the opinion stated above.)

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I think it is certainly one of the most salient points of conflict: we are fighting a patriarchal supremacism that restricts its membership to men who are white, conservative Christian (even if only in appearance..), authoritarian, wealthy, cis-gendered, heteronormative, and able-bodied. The list does not end there, but those are the categories I immediately recognize as those by which the rest of us are cast as the Other, as evil, as a threat to "order."

Which is why mainstream feminism itself has had to diversify beyond its origins as a straight white woman's feminism: it turns out that race, sexuality, gender variance, disability, and class are all feminist issues as well.

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It seems to me that in general, just about every step in terms of "progress" (racial and religious integration, equal rights, more women in higher positions, acceptance of LGBTQ etc) is being turned back inch by inch, or more, by insecure narcissist unhinged RICH power mongers. All this is not the work of one insanely stable genius, but he needs to take the brunt of the blame, together with a Dan Kelly, whose rudeness, incivility and respectless behavior would not be tolerated had tfg's behavior not been tolerated for too long.

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Sally Why are you stunned by Daniel KellyтАЩs тАШpetty, bitter tirade? тАШ He seems rather mild mannered compared to his ring master, Bone Spur Donald. Threatening тАШdeath and destructionтАЩ at the time of his initial criminal indictment sets the tone for his foul-mouthed, bitter sycophants.

WisconsinтАЩs most famous citizen is тАШFighting BobтАЩ LaFollette, the distinguished progressive Republican who тАШout progressivedтАЩ Teddy Roosevelt. Its most infamous citizen was Joseph McCarthy, who was a calumny for his country.

Today Wisconsins should proudly be singing ON WISCONSIN, ON WISCONSIN, which is the fight song of the Badgers and the state anthem.

ON WISCONSIN was the battle cry of Lt. Arthur McArthur, Jr. (Father of Douglas McArthur) at the Civil War Battle of Missionary Ridge that rallied his Wisconsin regiment and won him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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Thanks for that bit of history. I'm a former Wisconsinite and did not know about Lt. Arthur McArthur. I'm looking to move back to Wisconsin in 2024 hoping sanity prevails before I return.

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I am thrilled for all of us that Judge Janet won with such a clear, resounding majority! I never heard of Daniel Kelly until today, but I was not surprised. He is the voice of a bitter petty group called the GOP. Congratulations and thanks are in order for this historic election. Thank you, WIsconsin!

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Kelly is just parroting other REPUBLICAN'TS like tRUMP and Lake et al who think they're showing their patriotism by whining and/or refusing to concede. Instead they're just pathetic whiny children and criminals.

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Heaven forbid they concede with grace and look unmanly.

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We Michiganders are happy for you!

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We Did It! Hopefully Wisconsin can, too!

Redistricting тАУ Voters Not Politicians https://votersnotpoliticians.com/redistricting/

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Sally, Daniel KellyтАЩs angry playground response is merely following his partyтАЩs тАЬlost electionтАЭ protocol: deny, denounce, deride. We all know where it comes from--the Loser-in-Chief himself. Long may he LOSE.

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Congratulations! Hopefully, Wisconsin will get back its one voter one vote representation.

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I gave probably more than twice as much as my next largest donation to Janet P's campaign, and I'm relieved that she won.

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Kelly's own mouth demonstrated his injudiciousness, a stunning self-generated disqualification for the role he was seeking!

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I've stopped being stunned by the selfish rudeness of too many republicans and now expect it as a manifestation of their world view. They are miserable, paranoid, angry, and privileged all at once, and think that 'their' people are too, so will agree, indeed applaud, their ugly behavior. Criminal Defendant # 491 396 R1 (Thank you, Bryan Sean McKown), happens to be the loudest, largest media ear worm we have to contend with, but there are many others with GOP tattooed on their psyches who are emulating him. My mother used to tell us to be careful who we hung out with, because тАЬ Before you know it, youтАЩre acting like them.тАЭ Seems she was right.

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Kelly's response should not be surprising when it is perfectly in character. Thank all the thinking people of WI who voted.

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These fascists are definitely smoking their own product....

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