Ron Johnson Just Gets Worse and Worse

I really don’t like having to concentrate so much on how crappy the current Republican party is. I would love to go back and write about sports and music and pop culture and other fun stuff. But now is not the time for that. The current Republican Party is slowly, inextricably destroying the country. And it’s not just Trump. Even though he is currently the president for a few more months, he is more a side-show attraction these days…doing his racist rallies for a dwindling base and rage tweeting 24-7. No, the more insidious destruction is coming from others. Mitch McConnell certainly. The feckless Lindsay Graham, the oily Tom Cotton, dinosaurs like Chuck Grassley and slimy loons like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz. And then there is Ron Johnson. This guy continues to double-down on conspiracy theories and BS even as the house of cards he has built comes crashing down. Knowing he doesn’t have to face the voters this time gives him confidence that he can survive the blue wave that’s coming. So he continues to carry Trump’s water using the tired old crap that “Democrats hate America”. He uses his position as a US Senator to smear Joe Biden with disinformation that is almost certainly coming from Putin’s FSB. It’s Johnson, using discredited information that was fed to Steve Bannon (indicted for fraud) and the hopelessly compromised Rudy Guiliani. I won’t go as far as some and say Johnson is compromised too, but his behavior since his trip to Moscow in 2018 has been troubling to say the least.

Republican leaders in the Senate have shut down a bill that would create a domestic terrorism law, something civil rights leaders and federal authorities have begged the government to create, according to HuffPost. The United States has no domestic terrorism law, making it difficult for federal authorities to levy charges against groups committing acts of terror across the country, particularly white nationalist or white supremacist groups that have been at the center of dozens of recent attacks.

And that was only the second shittiest thing Ron Johnson did last week…

“Whoa. The Republicans tried to tie Hunter Biden to child pornography. This is a 100% FSB tactic. The FSB ALWAYS claims/plants Child porn on their opponents. So of course @SenRonJohnson carries Moscow’s water. He’s their made-man.”-Malcolm Nance

https://twitter.com/fred_guttenbe

“You know who doesn’t particularly like America? Joe Biden supporters,” says @SenRonJohnson – warming up the crowd at @realDonaldTrump rally in Janesville, WI. Considering that more that half of the country are Joe Biden supporters…wouldnt that make them “America”?

It took too long…but John Kelly finally weighs in….

Trump’s former Chief of Staff on Trump: “He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1317188482251608066

“Lock ’em up. I once thought we needed “truth and reconciliation” like South Africa had, but these people literally have no shame, no remorse, and no willingness to confess or atone for their crimes against our nation and all life on earth. They’re irredeemable: Lock ’em up.”-Thom Hartman

https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1294412030267588609

Was the debacle in Tampa a one-off or a sign of more serious problems for the Packers? I read last week that the Packer O-line is one of the best in the NFL. They got destroyed on Sunday. The schedule is favorable for a bounce back the next four weeks. But you gotta think that JJ Watt will be licking his chops while watching this game film.

Purdue coach Jeff Brohm tests positive for COVID-19 /college/wisconsin/Article/Purdue-coach-Jeff-Brohm-tests-positive-for-COVID-19-153216791/ via @247sports

Just another reminder that the Badger game this week has been moved to Friday night. You can hear it on WSAU.

John McClane is back! Sort of….This aired during the Packer game yesterday.

Twin Cities media icon Sid Hartman died at 100 years old. They don’t make em like Sid anymore

https://www.startribune.com/legendary-columnist-sid-hartman-dies-at-100/572788662/

Covers Of The Day   (Happy Birthday to Jennifer Holliday who turns 60.)

Jennifer covers Donnie Hathaway

Jennifer covers Etta James

Can’t share this too many times…..

Don’t want to hear my politics? Skip this post. I’ve been waiting 4 years to make it.

Today, I voted with my friend’s wonderful (and disabled) child in my heart. Because the current administration seeks to abolish the ACA and she is forced to fight for access to Medicaid therapies every year. And Biden cosponsored the Americans with Disabilities Act 29 years ago.

https://www.cbpp.org/…/trump-administrations-harmful…

https://joebiden.com/healthcare/

I voted with my daughter in my heart. Because the president said “ I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.” And then a nation of people elected him anyway. https://www.nytimes.com/…/donald-trump-tape-transcript…

https://joebiden.com/vawa/

I voted with my Granny in my heart. Because she died of Covid. And I wasn’t there. She died alone. And the current administration doesn’t listen to scientists and doctors, says “it affects virtually nobody” and bullies mask wearers and is so flippant about the situation that he says he is (wrongfully) immune and that he wants to come kiss everyone in the audience while being still potentially contagious at his non-socially distant rally on Monday. https://www.nytimes.com/…/trump-coronavirus-virtually…

https://www.forbes.com/…/trump-repeats-claim-he-is…/…

https://joebiden.com/covid-plan/

I voted with my gay friends in my heart. Because their equality matters very deeply to me, and they are likely to lose many protections soon. And though I may not know any trans people yet, I’m voting for them too because we have a long way to go to take care of them. https://www.hrc.org/…/the-list-of-trumps-unprecedented…

https://joebiden.com/lgbtq-policy/

I voted with Mother Earth in my heart. Because I’m horrified in this administration’s acts in rolling back environmental protections. We were already almost out of time for the future, and now we will be trying to right his wrongs for years to catch up. We need a Green New Deal. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/…/most-trump…/

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/regulatory-rollback-tracker/

https://joebiden.com/climate-plan/

I voted with my black friends and friends of color in my heart. Because the nation is alive and energized with anti-racism. This administration has forced me to see what has always been there and take action. We need to listen and we need to make change. I’m not against the police, but I am against police brutality. There is a problem and we must solve it. https://www.theatlantic.com/…/09/the-end-of-denial/614194/

https://joebiden.com/blackamerica/

I voted with my son in my heart. Because he knows better than to say AND BELIEVE “laziness is a trait in blacks”, that a woman who is challenging him has “blood coming out of her whatever”, “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her”, and to call women “horseface” “fat pigs” “nasty” and “dogs”. I don’t let him watch the president speak because I don’t know what hateful rhetoric will come out of his mouth at any time, and I don’t want my son to hear it or think that is an appropriate way for adults (or anyone) to speak about another human being.

(Sources too numerous to count)

I voted with the women of the world in my heart. Because in September, a woman said that the president sexually assaulted her in 1997 at the U.S. Open tennis tournament; he was 51 and she was 24. “He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off,” she said. “And then that’s when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything.” I also vote with the 26 other women who have accused him of sexual assault since the 70s. https://www.nbcnews.com/…/ex-model-amy-dorris-alleges…

https://joebiden.com/womens-agenda/

I vote with immigrants and their families in my heart. Separating families, caging people, and blocking asylum seekers who have survived all manner of atrocities and are fleeing to the greatest country on earth should find help here. The horrors that they face in the United States of America are unacceptable. Our president has said “these aren’t people. These are animals.” If anyone thinks this treatment is OK, I weep for you, too.

http://hrlr.law.columbia.edu/…/enter-at-your-own-risk…/

https://www.usatoday.com/…/trump-immigrants…/617252002/

https://joebiden.com/immigration/

I voted with health care and education and government programs in my heart. Because our president isn’t paying his share of taxes. And many huge companies aren’t either. And I’m proud to. https://www.nytimes.com/…/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html

I voted because our president was Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. The only reason he wasn’t removed from office is that his Republican apologists blocked a meaningful trial in the Senate.

I voted because Biden is compassionate. And for many other reasons. He’s not perfect. Nobody is. But truly, I choose him simply because he is kind and decent. And I vote with my own heart and mind, but also he is endorsed by more than 50 Republican former national security officials, 489 national security experts including 22 four-star officers, Scientific American, top scientists, researchers, and climate experts, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest labor union, retired military leaders, American Federation of Teachers and even departed members of President Trump’s administration. Also, Taylor Swift.

Politics is one thing. Humanity is another.

“Before any media outlet or American citizen gives Steve Bannon’s smear campaign against the Bidens even a minute of consideration, please remember that he is currently charged with Fraud. Now he’s working with Russian disinformation to smear Trump’s opponent.”-Mrs Krassenstein

“Steve Bannon is a terrorist more dangerous to the United States than Osama bin Laden ever was. He belongs in a high security prison for life. Any journalist or news outlet treating him as anything but a code red threat is aiding and abetting the enemy. Everyone is on notice.”-Alexandra Chalupa

https://twitter.com/warroompandemic/status/1317504966521688064

“Conservatives always insist that celebrities should stay out of politics. Maybe that’s because whenever a celebrity speaks up on their side, it’s always someone as pathetic as Kirstie Alley.

If MAGA and Scientology get a divorce, who gets custody of Kirstie Alley?

These are the kinds of wackos still clinging to the Trump train as it goes over the cliff….

“The only way Republicans can win elections in much of America is to lie and cheat. And they’re quite enthusiastic about it. Republican propaganda sites pretending to be local newspapers are on the rise: “-Thom Hartman

https://rawstory.com/2020/10/republican-propaganda-sites-pretending-to-be-local-newspapers-are-on-the-rise-report/#.X4y5C73-d1I.twitter

Treating the Government like a personal business account….

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/520549-tax-records-show-200-companies-groups-and-foreign-governments?fbclid=IwAR2VokYcUp3KYuraEfyDT0QEPHr