Oppose Trump by Understanding Idiots

Kathe Kollwitz—Mother and Dead Son

Meaning in the 2016 elections

Updated - The suggestion that white, Trump-voting Americans represent some salt-of-the-earth demographic demanding public policy reforms is ludicrous. White Americans are dumb and dangerous, and generic fascism is forever busy.

Trump appealed to white America because he made racist and idiotic appeals and pointed to culprits, (not the actual culprits but those to whom Trump assigned blame)—corporate America and the corrupt political system that only Trump can resist, its jobs-destroying mission implemented by Ivy Leaguers; those ass-hats from Malaysian and Indian call centers who frustrate real Americans while taking away American jobs; Jewish politically correct academics trying to tell you what to do; vote fraudsters cancelling your vote; and an assorted cast of elites, others and aliens who in some way on some day are coming after you to finish the job; a process begun by first frustrating and then ultimately killing you with Islamic terrorist reprisals against the gentle volk of America, ripped from the decent culture Trump will reinstall to make America great again. It has to come from here, the gut, and Trump has it.

That the above Trump riffs are incoherent nonsense is not important because Trumpians do not think in far-reaching political terms; Trumpians do not respect logic or empirical investigation. They feel and emote in the expiation drama Trump directs as a red-blooded, real and strong leader who simultaneously is one of us. Trump is the ultimate troll for many Americans for whom trolling offers empowerment.

Assorted Trumpians abound. In Milwaukee County the Sheriff's skin color can be overlooked as long as one David Clarke wears a cowboy hat proving Clarke is our African-American who don't take no shit from the liberals and Jews, lib-tards and know-it-all fuckers with no conception of manhood.

Republicans have been making appeals with nonsense for decades but Trump's failings as a human being and psychopath do make Trump an urgent threat. Trump will burn it all down because he is gallant and strong, and real Americans are the only way of building it back up anyway.

In opposition to the Trumpian state that fake libertarians now love is an appeal to humanity. Decency still sells, and exposing the indecent anti-rational is critical.

Dumb America is now less-thinking than any time in decades precisely because progress in decency has been made over the last 60 years. Yet Americans remain reachable through reason and through art.

Art history friends have long explained the power of Eugene Higgins (1874-1968), Ben Shahn (1898-1967), and Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945). Consider why social realism and critical realism as art movements are vital to civilization. "Higgins was concerned about what was going on around him. He cared about helping people's lives by changing society," said Jackie Captain, a Wisconsin progressive who obtained a Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after doing work on Higgins and Ben Shahn with Jim Dennis.

People remain reachable through decency, art and reason. Trumpians are not metaphysical. Organize a little more, be creative in reaching the population, lead with your heart and never give up.

It's no coincidence Trump and the current band of Republipukes are targeting art, public education and civil rights.

Sheriff David Clarke, D.C. Cops—A Slice of American 'Law Enforcement'

Police lies are routine in America, the mass-incarceration-police state few
highlight. Wrongful convictions, police corruption and police misconduct
remain rackets protected by prosecutors, paid for by the American public.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Three Deputies and One Sergeant Got Away with Battery, Assault, Corruption and Cover-ups

As Democracy Spring protesters demanding an end to "corruption of big money in our politics ... [to] ensure free and fair elections" were arrested in record numbers at the U.S. Capitol, (U.S.Uncut), it should be noted law enforcement in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has long veered into the corrupt, a national epidemic mostly ignored.

Appearing on national Fox News rightwing broadcasting this week, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke opined President Obama has left the country in "ruins," (The Blaze), typical blather from Clarke who wants to be a rightwing media star.

Who is this Sheriff David Clarke? He's a corrupt piece of human garbage with a badge, who should be facing misconduct in public office charges in Wisconsin.

Ira Robins, a former Milwaukee cop and private investigator, offers one summary of one recent miscarriage of justice, after penning a similar comment on Facebook in reaction to Clarke's latest insult of President Obama.

By Ira B. Robins

Sheriff Clarke is a self-serving politician who couldn't care less about our country.

In one 2013-14 incident where one of his deputies, [Joseph Quiles, one lousy, corrupt SOB], was involved in an accident and was clearly at fault, (and the video was there to prove he was at fault), the good Sheriff David Clarke blamed it on the woman driver, [Tanya Weyker], who is the victim of Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff Joseph Quiles.

The Sheriff had evidence for more than a year that the woman was not at fault in the Quiles' crime, yet was falsely charged with driving while intoxicated. She was forced to retain an attorney.

Sheriff Clarke refused to cooperate with the media and made one derogatory remark about them after the other when they ask to see the tape recording that he was hiding. Eventually the case was dismissed against the woman and she is presently suing Sheriff Clarke and his Department for false arrest along with other various crimes, (Federal law suit, Weyker v. Deputy Joseph Quiles, et al).

The taxpayers will have to pay the bill.

This scumbag Sheriff pretends he is a stand-up guy but he is only using his office for personal gain. The kind of expert Fox News pretends is a wonderful person when he adds nothing positive to the County of Milwaukee.

A report, (and first-rate investigative journalism), from WITI-TV (Milwaukee) in July 2104 confirms Robins' narrative, as does the federal court decision, TANYA WEYKER, Plaintiff, v. DEPUTY JOSEPH QUILES, et al., Defendants, (Case No. 14-cv-782-pp), (2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118463) in which Milwaukee County was ordered by United States District Judge Pamela Pepper to pay $65,239.33 to attorneys defending Tanya Weyker in September 2015.

It's likely most of us never heard of Tanya Weyker and her ordeal with the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and Milwaukee Country District Attorney.

As Radley Balko notes in the Washington Post:  "So the sheriff’s department had the video that exonerated Weyker two days after the accident, but it continued to allow prosecutors to prosecute her on provably false charges, even as she lay in traction in a hospital bed. And were it not for that video, it seems likely that she’d still be facing charges. (Add this to the growing bank of 'But for video …' stories.)"

By Stephen Davis and Bryan Polcyn

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- A Milwaukee County Sheriff's Deputy rolls through a stop sign and causes a violent crash. So why was the victim placed under arrest?

A FOX6 Investigation finds that a deputy's changing story may have changed one woman's life forever.

Tanya Weyker was hurt so badly, she couldn't blow into a breath-testing device or perform field sobriety tests. But a Sheriff's deputy arrested her for drunk driving anyway. And the County hung those charges over her head for nearly a year, even long after blood tests proved she was perfectly sober.

Tanya Weyker remembers it clearly. Not just the crash that broke her neck in four places, but the false accusations that followed.

"My reputation is everything to me," she said.

At the age of 25, Weyker's criminal history is as flawless as her posture. She was diagnosed with cancer at age three, and the prolonged radiation treatments literally curved her spine. So doctors inserted metal rods to keep her back straight.  The lifelong medical complications have not stopped her from pursuing a college degree. Or from driving a car. In fact, Weyker had never gotten so much as a speeding ticket until the night she crossed paths with Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff Joseph Quiles.

It was February 20th, 2013, and Deputy Quiles was working the night shift on patrol at General Mitchell International Airport.

As he pulled out onto Howell Avenue to make his rounds, he T-boned a passing car and sent it spinning into a tree.

"Very scary," Weyker recalls.

Her spine was already fused with steel. Now, she had a fractured neck to go with it.

"It was a miracle I wasn't paralyzed," she said.

As rescue workers tended to Weyker, police and Sheriff's deputies started asking questions.

"One asked if I had anything to drink that night," she said. "And I told them a few sips from a friend's drink."

A deputy noted a light odor of alcohol on her breath. He said her speech was slurred. And her eyes looked red and glassy.

"I explained to him my eyes were red and glassy because I was crying," she said.

Tanya Weyker suffered a broken neck in the crash, but was arrested for drunk driving.

There is a lesson to be learned from Tanya Weyker's assault at the hands of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department. Cops routinely lie, cheat and steal; and have the protection of fellow racketeers with a badge. Prosecutors will go along for the ride.

It's called a License to Lie, and it's endemic across America.

Scott Walker, Campaign Used Public Office to Flack for Walker During O’Donnell Park Death

Death of young man in 2010 concerned Scott Walker; Walker was
worried the tragedy would hurt Walker politically. Walker’s campaign
manager, put it immediately after man was killed: "Make sure there is
not a paper any where that details a problem at all." Cover-up and lies.

Lisa Kaiser has the must-read story on Scott Walker corruption and his appalling insensitivity to the death of a young man in 2010.

Walker's cynical and persistent actions in reaction was that the death of 15-year-old Jared Kellner and two others injured on June 24, 2010 at the Milwaukee County O’Donnell Park parking structure could hurt Walker’s political image.

Reports Kaiser:

In the initial phases of the John Doe investigation, the public learned how then-Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s county aides worked on his gubernatorial campaign while working at their taxpayer-funded jobs. Some of these aides were prosecuted for their illegal behavior.

But the release of hundreds of emails sealed for years under the John Doe’s secrecy order—recently released as part of the litigation involving the O’Donnell Park tragedy—reveals more serious evidence of how Walker’s top campaign advisers were actually calling the shots on county matters to protect Walker and his campaign for governor from political damage from this tragedy.

And make no mistake: Scott Walker was definitely aware that his campaign and county staffers were working together to shape his image as he ran for governor in 2010.

Walker was copied on almost all of the emails ....

Nowhere in any of the emails released is there evidence of Walker or any of his campaign or county staffers expressing sympathy or concern for the Kellner family or the public’s safety. Their only interest seems to be managing Walker’s image and distancing himself from any potential cause of the structure’s failures.