McCarthyism Comes Back to Wisconsin, Dem Primary Race for Governor Goes Rancid

Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy (R) led a national descent 
into madness as the infamous 'Red Scare' champ lied and
 defamed his way into the leading anti-communist, ruining 
lives and families along the way. McCarthy-lite is the 
order now-a-days, as anti-Semitism charges are thrown
about like fireworks and confetti by inheritors of this 
putrid man who stood for nihilism and lies as values.

Democrat-launched Slurs Do 'Gunner Joe' Proud, to Wisconsin's Shame

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Madison, Wisconsin—Wisconsin's political class has been clamoring for a split among Wisconsinites in the race for the Democratic Party nomination for governor.  

They got their wish.

 Zionist liberals in the Wisconsin media and allied candidates share a desperation to keep Wisconsin State Rep. Francesca Hong from running away with the Democratic Primary.

War, genocide and a shaky economy see an emergence of pro-working class, anti-war candidates across the nation whom corporatist liberals are working to stop.

Corporate and establishment Democrats falsely accuse candidates such as Francesca Hong of virtually everything, as Party establishments continues to alienate the working class, right as progressive strategists point to new data showing workers overwhelmingly support progressive economic policies—including raising the minimum wage, expanding Medicare, and higher taxes on corporations.

Faux Scandal

Now, corporatists have discovered what they believe is a campaign sandal involving Francesca Hong: Nothing Hong has said or done, rather Hong's public appearance with a social media streamer/content creator named Hasan Piker on social media sites, Twitch, and Youtube, is is the asserted scandal.

Nothing Hong has said or done on Piker's show either. Just hostility towards the mere fact of Hong's appearance with Hasan Piker is presented as scandalous, because bad-faith effort to silence legitimate anti-Zionist dissent and progressive policy advocacy for working class Americans.

The issue is Piker is a critic of Genocide, torture, slaughter of children and rape by israel in the occupied territories, among Piker's other moral condemnation of atrocities, such as war; bombing girls' schools, so on, therefor Francesca Hong must be held to account for each and every statement, formulation of statement and others' intentional misrepresentations of statements Hasan Piker has ever made on social media, including all slurs and lies that 'critics' have hurled towards Piker for appearing on a live-stream show with a Piker.

Piker has also mads statements echoing U.S. intelligence on the danger of blow-back when various geniuses in the White House decide to start a war or three.

Who is running for Wisconsin governor: Piker or Hong? 

It's the way it is now. Hong even appeared on another social media show in late June. 

The Wisconsin State Journal republished the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's absurd hit piece on Hong, (authored by Hope Karnopp and Molly Beck) though most of the piece is about Piker who is defamed, and then falsely presented as having relevancy to Wisconsin's gubernatorial campaign, in a display of third-rate McCarthyism by Wisconsin's two largest dailies. 

Hong's social media appearance is presented by Journal-Sentinel's Karnopp and Beck as somehow defining Hong, and uses the polemical device, 'critics call,' 'critics have called,' (references to Piker), as a method to portray this dishonest hit piece on Piker and Hong as objective reporting.

Hope Karnopp, Molly Beck and most corporate 'journalists,' including Wisconsin State Journal editors, are just shoveling slop, lies and misrepresentations. 

And Karnopp and Beck know fully well what they're doing.

Karnopp's colleague, Molly Beck, at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran an even more absurd piece on the governor's race in the Spring featuring a Trump flunky, Tom Tiffany claiming Francesca Hong is a Satanist who wore a hat bearing the mark of the devil—three sixes. Sincerely.

Molly Beck ran the absurdity as a he-said, she-said piece, not bothering to report the lack of evidence of satanism, the falsity of what Republicans said, the utter ridiculousness of the charge, or the fact that the Republican attack is not true. 

This is what passes for modern journalism. 

If you subscribe to Wisconsin State Journal and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, dump the trash.

Hong campaign opponents, David Crowley and Kelda Roys, facing little pathway to the nomination on Aug 11, issued critical statements that this writer will not bother posting here because of the pure inanity of the comment; see Heartland Post.

Ann Jacobs, Political Mania

Meanwhile, the unhinged Ann Jacobs, former Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Commissioner, and a supporter of David Crowley, blasted Francesca Hong in a fit of Hypomania and falsehoods, calling for banning of speech and speakers such as Piker whom Jacobs views as hateful for opposing Genocide. 

Reports Urban Milwaukee on Jacobs' incoherent and defamatory rant:

[Jacobs] tweeted that Hong was "willing to sell out the Jews of Wisconsin for a few bucks."

"Why are those people you want to be in conversation with? Is it just for the money? You’re willing to sell out the Jews of Wisconsin so that you can raise money? That’s disturbing," said Jacobs, who also co-chairs the Jewish Caucus of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio.

"I don’t think we should tolerate all forms of opinions," Jacobs added. "I don’t think that we should tolerate antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all these other hate groups that are rampant right now on social media."

Jacobs reposted on X, posts by David Crowley and Molly Beck.

In the political atmosphere today, anyone objecting to israel-committed Genocide, slaughter of children and rape are asserted to be per force anti-Semites.

Absurd, but the McCarthyite defamation helps the Democrat Party to smash candidates who stand with working class families, always a frightening prospect for the Democratic Party establishment.

History repeats.
 
McCarthyism

In the 1940-50s, Truman, Democrats and Joe McCarthy ushered in an era of suppression, working to squash labor-led effort to help out working class folk, as McCarthyism ruined lives to counter the "energizing effect of the war and the depression in mobilizing the population, and causing them to challenge the- to reveal the mysteries of government, and do all these bad things," noted Noam Chomsky, (Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Delivered at University of Wisconsin – Madison, March 15, 1989). ... "Wars, depressions, and such things, they have a way of arousing people from apathy, and making them think, and sometimes even organize."

Progressives and working-class advocates thinking, organizing and running for office have caused Democrats to veer into political hysterics.

As Trump, delving into lunacy extreme even for him. declares prominent politicians opposing him as a 'communist' and 'anti-Semitic' and 'terrorist,' those who either have lived through McCarthyism or are students of the political mania, see history repeated in many Democrats and media propaganda led by the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

 

McCarthyism is alive and well in Wisconsin, though the conventional slur today is anti-Semite, not communist, unless you're the president.
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Top candidates for the 2026 Democratic Party nominee for Wisconsin governor include: Mandela Barnes (the top Zionist), Francesca Hong, Sara Rodriguez, David Crowley, and Kelda Roys.

Election Day is August 11.
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Kamala Harris 2019: Colin Kaepernick's Taking a Knee Was 'Not a Thing' until Russian Intervention

As the nation races toward the September-November presidential election, the Democratic Party has consolidated its status as the neo-McCarthyite party.

In Summer 2019, the party's vice-presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, was out spreading disinformation that an iconic civil rights worker, Colin Kaepernick, was insignificant until "Russia bots" pushed the issue onto the American public in a bid to sow discord.

Eric Ting reports in the San Francisco Gate last year, (see also other sources):

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the controversy surrounding the national anthem protests of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was 'not a thing' until Russian trolls started fanning the flames on social media.

During a Friday interview with the radio show 'The Breakfast Club,' Harris discussed Russian interference in the 2016 election, and said the easiest way for Russian online trolls to sow discord in American politics is to stoke racial animosity.

'They test out a couple of things to see what can get the American public going at each other, pointing fingers at each other,' Harris said. 'Guess what gains the most heat? Race.'

'Remember the heat that ended up around the 'bend the knee' and Colin Kaepernick?' Harris asked. 'Many smart people have said it actually was not a thing, the Russian bots started taking that on.'

Things were fine and peaceful here until the Russians showed up.

There is no question that police violence and targeting of black and brown people in American society is news to Harris.

But outside of Harris' bubble, Black Lives Matter and others fighting the destruction of American minorities know that Kaepernick has been a "thing" since he sacrificed his NFL career and $Millions in the pursuit of justice by taking a knee starting in 2016.

No matter the damage Biden and Harris have inflicted onto black and brown lives, Colin Kaepernick will likely continue his work as the Democratic Party attributes stands for justice as Russian-inflamed, an exercise in McCarthyism that now defines Democrats.

The utter incapacity of Democratic Party organs to recognize how destructive Kamala Harris remains is yet another example of how propaganda and thought control define Trump, Biden and Harris who keep telling us to look over there.

Wisconsin Newspaper That Fought McCarthism Ignores Democratic Party - Corporate Media Smears Against Pres Candidate Tulsi Gabbard

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is a candidate for the
presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.
Gabbard is pictured above in 2008, training at Fort Hood
for her second combat deployment in Iraq. Gabbard took
lessons of war to heart, becoming along with Sen. Bernie
sanders the leading peace candidate for the presidency.
Reads Rep. Gabbard's candidate website:
The first day Tulsi arrived at her camp in Iraq, she
saw a large sign at one of the gates that read,
"Is today the day?" It was a blunt reminder that today
may be the day that any  of the soldiers would be called to
make the ultimate sacrifice for their country. It caused her
to reflect on her own life and the reality that each of us could
die at any moment.

While serving in a base in the Sunni Triangle at the height of
the war, Tulsi had the heart-wrenching daily responsibility
of going through the list of every injury and casualty in the
entire theatre of operations, looking to see if any soldiers in her
unit were on the list, so she could ensure they received the
care they needed and their families were notified.

She was hit with the enduring pain and hardship of her
brothers and sisters in uniform, and  the stress and pressure
on their families. She wondered if those who voted to send
soldiersto Iraq really understood why they were there
—if lawmakers and the President reflected daily on each
death, each injury,and the immeasurably high cost of
war.

Having experienced first-hand the true cost of war, she
made a personal vow to find a way to ensure that our
country doesn’t continue repeating the mistakes of the
past, sending our troops into war without a clear
mission, strategy, or purpose.

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — "It's been a while since Wisconsin sent Joe McCarthy to the U.S. Senate where he became our 20th century embarrassment," writes The Capital Times editor, Dave Zweifel, in a November column. "We're still living down McCarthy's disregard for Americans' constitutional rights and his witch hunt [.]"

Zweifel takes Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R) to task for the senator's attacks against enemies of Pres Donald Trump among the executive branch:

"Before Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman even appeared before the Intelligence Committee's public meetings last week, Johnson disparaged the Iraq War hero and security council specialist and questioned his credibility.
'A significant number of bureaucrats and staff members within the executive branch have never accepted President Trump as legitimate and resent his unorthodox style and his intrusion onto their 'turf,' Johnson declared in a letter to committee members. ... "

"Not a scintilla of proof. Just innuendo the way Joe McCarthy mastered it."

Thing is, Ron Johnson is right and his fact statement (right or wrong) is not innuendo. Few non-political national security and foreign policy staff in the executive branch appear to be political fans of the lunatic in the White House, a fact acknowledged by those who rightfully challenge Trump's many counter-punches against such opponents.

Consider as well that McCarthy's smears against so-called Reds are hardly the same as noting anti-Trump sentiment, the existence of which is surly to the credit of those holding to these viewpoints, though our senator does not believe so, (Timpf, The New Republic). See also the new book, A Warning, by Anonymous.

But Zweifel's use of McCarthyism is preposterous when considered under the light of the McCarthyite work of the political party for which The Capital Times fronts — the Democratic Party.

Johnson's stated opinion regarding anti-Trump bias in the executive branch is invisible next to the sustained bombardment of presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D) by the Democratic Party establishment and its major media allies, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

The Capital Times like every other Democratic Party organ is silent on the real perpetrators of neo-McCarthism today.

Consider Rep. Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a military combat Army veteran, is a fierce opponent of war and American empire, positions that have provoked defamation and character assassination on a level that Ron Johnson could not approach in 1,000 lifetimes.

Writes James Carden in The Nation:

The war of words between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and current 2020 presidential aspirant Tulsi Gabbard has been, in some respects, clarifying. Clinton’s insinuation that Russia is 'grooming' the Hawaiian Democrat for a third-party run in order to influence the outcome of next year’s election, instead of provoking a 'have you no shame' response from the establishment media, was gleefully repeated by such establishment fixtures as the journalist Jonathan Alter and the scholar Norman Ornstein. In other words, McCarthyism has gone mainstream. ...

Left-leaning outlets and think tanks like MSNBC (Hardball host Chris Matthews has decreed that loyal 'Americans don’t go to Russia'), The Daily Beast, New York magazine, Think Progress, the Center for American Progress, and The New Republic have all recklessly accused scholars, journalists, and activists with whom they disagree of being Kremlin 'toadies' and 'useful idiots' — this last, of course, having been a common trope marched out by the John Birch right during the Cold War, and even in the years following.

So, where are the Dave Zwiefels and other Democratic Party allies? They are either silent or complicit.

For a critical piece of reporting on the topic, see the interview with Glenn Greenwald on Rising, The Hill.tv with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. [For more continuing coverage of the topic, see also the Jimmy Dore Show, Secular Talk with Kyle Kulinski, and the Rational National with David Doel.]:

Said Saagar Enjeti in the interview with Greenwald: "Glenn, one of the things that really struck me yesterday [Nov 19 hearing before the House Intelligence Committee] was that there was actually a particular question from the Democratic [Party] counsel in which they asked Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, they said: 'Were you aware that the president was departing from official U.S. policy?'"

"It struck me very much that the national security state was the one that was setting official U.S. policy and the duly elected president was departing from that?"

Replied Greenwald in part:

That's been one of the primary themes of the Trump presidency. This idea that's what's most dangerous about Trump is that he believes in a whole set of foriegn policy beliefs that he actually campaigned on and that therefore were ratified by the American people, that are dangerous because the CIA, and the Pentagon and the bipartisan military and think-tank class in Washington doesn't accept.

What I find actually dangerous, independent of those debates, is the idea that it's not the elected president, but the whatever you want to call them — Dwight Eisenhower called them the 'military-industrial complex,' people have called them the 'national security blob,' the 'permanent power faction' in Washington — the idea that they and not our elected officials determine foreign policy.

Obviously, there's this narrow question in impeachment about whether Trump did typical Trumpian things in kind-of linking the investigation of the Bidens to military aid, but the much broader and more important theme is anger over Trump for his foreign policy views about Russia and Ukraine. ...

That's the real issue driving the impeachment hearings, and this much narrower issue is just a pretext.

The idea that Sen Johnson, Greenwald, Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti share is skepticism that a  permanent-power faction in D.C. should determine foriegn policy, national security and empire. Departure from the permanent-power faction's policy is exemplified by Rep. Gabbard and to a lesser extent in practice — Trump.

Tulsi Gabbard, along with Bernie Sanders, is the preeminent peace candidate. For their stands on war and peace, Gabbard and Sanders are near-constanly derided as doing 'Russia's work.'

That's McCartyite and this deserves challenge from those claiming fighting McCarthism as political heritage.

Scott Walker Kick-off Event Bounced Ticket-holder for Signing Recall Petition

A Waukesha, Wisconsin man picked up a ticket to Scott Walker's presidential campaign kick-off event last week.

He walked into the event, was welcomed, and then politically vetted on the spot and asked to leave because he had signed the Recall Scott Walker petition.

His name had been entered into a hand-held pad by a Walker staffer and the pad indicated: Rejected.

Typical Scott Walker: Vindictive and petty.

Chris Liebenthal has the story at Crooks and Liars.

Walker believes he has a warrant from God, (and he has prayed on this, Walker says), for his political campaign, and apparently feels opposing God and Walker is wrong.

Also wrong is opposing any sneak legislation sprung onto the Wisconsin people who don't count as stakeholders in the massive social engineering project Walker is inflicting onto Wisconsin, driving away as many people as possible to Minnesota.

So look for more campaign rhetoric that Walker was and is facing massive opposition in Wisconsin linked with references to god.