Signing Tom Steyer's Petition to Impeach Trump Is One Step, an Important Step

America's top dolt is targeting Wisconsin in its Lost Decade

'Spread the damn word'

Popular citizen action forced Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon from office.

Containing citizen action has been an objective of the two prominent political parties resulting in the steady degradation of working families to the spectacle of the 2016 election featuring a lunatic and the odious Hillary Clinton.

Meanwhile, the left-center bulk of the electorate has become so marginalized and confused, its support for President* Trump was partially composed of Trump as a perceived vanguard against black, brown and Muslim hoards who work with corporations against you somehow, (Mal Contends, McCrummen, Washington Post, Chris Hayes Show).

Each new generation comes of age learning to blame black, brown, immigrant, liberal, elite and the flavor of the month for whatever ails white people.

It is clear Trump, allies Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republipukes with no exceptions are attempting a massive heist of the middle class to the corporate class.

Time to wake up, banana republics tend not to fare well.

One step, a thing to do, is to express popular sentiment to impeach Trump. One vehicle is to sign Tom Steyer's impeachment petition that has now drawn over 3,000,000 signatures.

Make opposing Republicans and Trump your civic duty in your community, in Alabama.

Tuesday is election day in Alabama. Protest this motherfucker where ever you are. Spread the damn word.
Get in the streets on Dec 12.
THIS NIGHTMARE MUST END.#NoMoore #nofascistusa #TrumpPenceMustGo https://t.co/jwrebJVmvD

— #TrumpPenceMustGo (@RefuseFascism) December 8, 2017

Kiron and Kenosha—Dumb and Dumber

White and proud of it. Freedom ain't free. Jesus is watching.

Washington Post reporter, Stephanie McCrummen, penned a feature reporting from Kiron, Iowa revealing a defining characteristic of the white supremacist, Trump voters working to make America great again.

McCrummen paints a picture of people of this western Iowa town resembling a composite of Twilight Zone episodes, waking up to discover white supremacists reign in rural America, a psychopath has been elected to the presidency and a white-power party controls Congress.

Writes McCrummen:

Russell [Paulson] listened; he had known Walt [Miller]. At the age of 80, he knew almost everyone in Kiron, a town of 229 people, one of whom is U.S. Rep. Steve King, who has a house on the edge of town. Russell knew King, too, knew that he was the sort of person always stirring controversy, often by raging against what he called 'cultural suicide by demographic transformation.' More recently, King had said that 'we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,' a comment embraced by prominent white supremacists and widely condemned around the country as demonizing Latino and other non-European immigrants.

There was little controversy across King’s district, though, a swath of rural America made up of tiny towns with tiny, aging white populations that routinely elected King with more than 70 percent of the vote. In Kiron, people brushed it off as King being King, a man they all knew, expressing a plain truth they all understood: The white population was shrinking, and towns like theirs were vanishing, with the few exceptions being places such as Denison, a pork-processing town 20 minutes down the highway where population growth was being driven by immigrants from Mexico and Central America.

No, fretting about immigrants blocking restoration of civilization stirs little controversy in the Kirons of America.

Nor among the know-nothings in Kenosha, Kiron's cultural neighbor to the northeast.

Recall the Chris Hayes Show broadcast from Kenosha in December as Bernie Sanders patiently listened and took questions from confused Trump voters.

Reports Josh Feldaman in Mediaite from Dec. 2016:

During another part of the town hall, a Muslim woman spoke up about Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about a Muslims and immigrants on the campaign trail.

The reaction from the Trump voters to the Muslim ban was to say 1) they don’t want that to happen and 2) it won’t happen because either Trump didn’t mean it or Congress would never allow something like that.

Oops.

American political culture is going to have to come to grips with the fact that the Kirons and Kenoshas are full of people for whom bigotry, racism and hate are not disqualifying in candidates for public office, and the impolitic fact that Trump voters are kind-of stupid.

Each new generation comes of age, learning to blame black, brown, immigrant and the flavor of the month for whatever ails white people.

Trump is due in Kenosha today.

No doubt he'll offer dialogue with the natives as edifying as the conversations at the Quik Mart in Kiron, Iowa: What happened to America? Black, browns and Muslims did it.

Republican Malignancy; Dolts and Boobs

Repellent persona of Scott Walker shoos away intellectual and
cultural talent from the progressive state. Walker is not alone.

The Republican effort to transform Wisconsin into a homeland resembling rural Iowa is a strategic mission, composed of many projects.

Republican politics employ excellent project management skill and strategic thinking with no equivalent force in Democratic-progressive efforts.

What's alarming is Republicans are not just building political infrastructure, usurping control of most every lever of regulatory and bureaucratic governmental function.

The dangers of the white party's enterprise lay in the concomitant demolition of civil society, institutions serving the public, and individual liberties—degrading Milwaukee, Madison, voting rights, public universities, public schools, labor unions, environmentalists, multi-generational families wedded to communities, small farmers, local democracy, all while appropriating public resources into the criminal justice system and prison-industrial complex.

One can go on, but suffice to note the Republican objectives are malignant and self-consciously destructive.

This social engineering project is nothing new in American politics, though the scope has been expanded as monied interests expend capital more freely.

It ought to be noted that repeated and ostentatious displays of xenophobia, ignorance, and the repellent persona of the dolt—as exhibited by the Evangelical Scott Walker—is functional to the Republican mission.

High-tech industry, gifted artists, social activists and young intellects are starting to turn away from Wisconsin, as the Republicans have hoped.

I caught the All In with Chris Hayes Show broadcast from Kenosha last night. Several Donald Trump voters explained their positions to Bernie Sanders and a small audience.

Brilliant show, and along with the election of November 2016, illustrates an inescapable conclusion.

White Wisconsin folk are utterly hopeless, and the ignorant, bigoted, irrational boobs emitting their nonsense from Kenosha portend a bleak future. But keep fighting.

Retaliation in Dallas Against Police Terrorism

Update: This is what white people can do to support #BlackLivesMatter, (Washington Post).

Updated - Five police were killed, and six wounded last night in an apparent retaliatory citizen response against police terrorism of Americans, (Dallas Morning News), (New York Times).

No surprise.

The most dense municipal mayor, the most callous police department and the mindless rah-rah police 'supporters' likely will draw bone-headed conclusions about Dallas.

They should wake up.

Police and their political supporters cannot preach and inflict hatred against blacks and Latinos and hope to see no response.

The days of shaking down minority populations have to end, today.

The premise of Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and other anti-minority forces in our society that police should not be challenged is a dangerous position, normalizing killer cops and their dangerous sense of entitlement.

Police today surveil, harass, intimidate, play judge and jury, terrorize, kill, destroy liberty, and work to marginalize entire swaths of human beings. Violence and terror are an every day part of life.

This is routine, and no police officer ever publicly challenges SOP.

This is wrong and should change.

So, what do you expect?

Dallas came from nowhere?

If not for the brave actions of citizens using their cell phone to record police killings, recent police killings in Louisiana and Minnesota would be just another black man killed, covered up by the blue blanket.

I don't shed a tear for dead cops. Not anymore

Madison, Wisc Boys and Girls Club Is Normalizing Police Killing

Institutionalizing Killing Black People Is Not Creeping Fascism, Fascism Is Here

Blaming black folks for being beaten and killed by cops is like blaming women for being raped for the way they dress.

Days after Madison, Wisconsin Mayor Paul Soglin publicly gave the green light to cops killing citizens, news is the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County will offer children advice on how to deal with police and not be killed.

This is really happening and is not the plot for some dystopian movie.

From WISC-TV (Madison):

Following two fatal officer-involved shootings of African-American men in Louisiana and in Minnesota within the last 24 hours, local community leaders are taking action today. The Boys and Girls Club is hosting a discussion for teens to teach them how to interact with police. The teens will receive 10 rules that can help them deal with police encounters. Law enforcement officers have also been invited to join the conversation to talk about the importance of de-escalation tactics and how they respond to these incidents without taking someone's life.

What the fuck?

What is The Boys and Girls Club doing normalizing killer cops when it and other community institutions should be teaching teens that cops' killing and beating and terrorizing black folks or anyone is wrong and should be challenged over and over.

Something is very wrong here.

No One Should Be Sleeping Tonight

"The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander," (Williams, Mal Contends)

Political commentator D.L. Hughley broke down on national TV.

"They’re brutalized, and nobody says anything. It’s too much… It’s too much," said Hughley,

CNN’s Chris Cuomo thanked Hughley, saying, "This is an important conversation to have." A noticeably agitated Hughley didn’t share his enthusiasm for words that aren’t backed up by action.

"I think we’ve had this conversation far too many times," he said. "And after a while, you have to understand that faith without works is dead. So people can have these conversations all day long. People are dying, and if we’re comfortable with it, that is our moral failing and is who we are," (Wellman, US Uncut).

It is a moral failing.

Minnesota's neighbor, Wisconsin, has a moral failing.

Madison, Wisconsin has a moral failing, made worse by Madison Mayor Paul Soglin's incredible green-lighting of Madison police killing this summer. Soglin said it will be the victims' fault when police kill people this summer.

Blacks are demonized by other Wisconsin politicians especially by Scott Walker and vile Milwaukee County racist cops.

The truth is most cops are capable of gunning down black folks.

Anybody tells you the vast majority of cops are risking their lives for the community is lying.

Where is this majority of cops when black folks are hunted, harassed, beaten, arrested and killed? Getting a good laugh.

I'm said it before, and I'll state it again: Just a matter of time before some black folks decide to gun down some white cops.

When this happens, I won't shed a tear. Not anymore.

Color-Brave Approach on Race Is Color-Stupid

Police reformer/humanist David Couper has a talk out today by Mellody Hobson worth a listen because Hobson, as do many progressives, makes the mistake of failing to acknowledge that race is a "dangerous myth" (Ashley Montagu) and racists are—at best—foolish.

The pseudoscience of 'investigation' of race as a scientific concept is making a comeback as the Republican Party needs its Nicholas Wades and Jason Richwines to present their finding that not only is racial classification significant in analyzing the phenomena of "race," but the races have different intellectual capacities and character inclinations that ought inform public policy.

Ms. Hobson proffers that in fighting racism we should be "color-brave" instead of "color-blind" because this topic is apparently uncomfortable to the racists and other know-nothings.

Gee, why would the white party of segregation, dehumanization, racism and anti-immigration need Wade and Richwine ("a disciple of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray"), the Heritage Foundation and the resurgence of nineteenth century anthropology?

Ms. Hobson should consider the question; one hopes the answer is obvious.