Wisconsin is up Sh*t Creek.

[kentuck]

They win the prize today. No one got more screwed than they.

They were forced to stand in long lines for hours, in the cold, some with masks, just to get to vote. And then, they will soon need a picture ID to vote? It sounds like the Russians are taking over Wisconsin. There is some alien force taking over the will of the majority of the people of that great state, the symbol of progressiveness. The minority find a way around the idea of democracy. And they have to prove they are Americans before they can vote?

By the rules of the road, the legislature was permitted to be led by the minority Party, because of the way the districts were gerrymandered? They appointed the majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In a quick turnaround, the US Supreme upheld the Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court and ruled that they could not postpone an election, or vote by mail, and would have to proceed with the election as scheduled, even though the entire country is in the middle of a deadly epidemic.

What criminal would treat American citizens like that?

When a citizen has lost the right to vote, or to have their vote fairly counted, they have lost a basic freedom. It is a freedom guaranteed by our Constitution.

Wisconsin is just the canary in the coal mine. Either we stand up for our freedoms, and tell these people to go to hell, or we will lose everything our ancestors fought for in the last 240 years.

But wait. Be patient. The election is in November.

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. I can't help but ask - how many canaries do we need? I hope we are at saturation point.

[StarryNite]

26. The canaries are dying left and right but

we're still in the mine!

[Dan]

2. A long time ago, the man said

The ballot or the bullet.

[pbmus]

3. I think our former Presidents should on some form of social media,

State very clearly that our republic is based on free and fair elections and to emphasize that there will be an election in November...

[safeinOhio]

4. "Taxation without representation is tyranny."

The chant from the late 1700s that paved the way for our nation.

Anyone that is blocked from voting for their elected official should be excused from all taxes, Federal, State and Local.

Lets get back to what this country was founded on.

[aggiesal]

18. Tell that to the citizens of DC ...

They have no representation in the House or Senate.

Their license plate says "Taxation without representation"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. What was on the ballot in Wisconsin that would have been especially affected by low turnout?

[RhodeIslandOne]

7. Supreme Court justice elections

They didn't give a crap about the primaries, just their own asses.

[snacker]

9. An important WI Supreme Court race

between Dan Kelly (appointed by Scott Walker) and Jill Karofsky. Also an important Milwaukee Public School referendum.

[kentuck]

14. The pandemic did not help.

...with the turnout, perhaps?

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. I cannot help but visualize SCJ Roberts presiding over the Impeached tRump

with him sitting on his hands...doing nothing..

[TDale313]

8. People need to be paying attention to this.

This is a test for November. They are seeing how hard people will push back if they are disenfranchised. How much can they get away with fucking with the General election. Oh, and lookie here- they also want to grant themselves new powers to lock people up in cases of national emergencies- including those caused by “civil disobedience”

Go on. Tell me I’m being too cynical. I want to be wrong.

[Greybnk48]

10. We are the test case on cheating the 2020 election.

We've been the test case since they cheated Walker and this pack of vile scum into office in 2010. The so-called teabaggers, funded by the Koch's, Bradley's, Mercer's and any other scumbag with money you can think of.

This is not new, but is a long term plan to take Wisconsin. Don't forget the International Headquarters of the John Birch Society (the Koch family), was moved to Joe McCarthy's (and my) hometown of Appleton WI in the late 80's early 90's right before the Gingrich clusterfuck in Congress and the march of the radical Republican Party started.

[Firestorm49]

11. Spot on, Kentuck.

Living in WI where I grew up is more difficult by the day. Republicans simply don’t care what they say or what they do. They’ve rigged WI the way that what’s his name and his cabal is rigging the country. It’s honestly hard to imagine what’s up their sleeve for the fall, but here, just like in DC, it seems like there is nothing that can be done about it. And please don’t tell me that the vote can change things when nearly 200,000 more people voted for Democrats than Republicans in the last WI election, and yet Republicans retained control of the Senate and Assembly through corrupt, and secretly drafted gerrymandering. Here, just like at the Supreme Court, they own the majority of state Supreme Court seats. They’ve restricted our governor’s powers to where he’s nothing more than a figurehead , while they gave Skippy Walker wide sweeping control - the most of any governor in the country at that time. It’s sickening and it’s not representative government at work, as it is on the national scene as well.

We’re fighting a very tough competitor and seem to have water in our boots.

I’ll vote. I’ll write letters, send email and texts. I’ll contribute to our side. I’ll do what I can, but this is frightening, discomforting, and sinister.

[Midnightwalk]

12. Anti-democracy's laboratory

For quite a long time now. It’s where republicans have been testing out new insidious ways of subverting democracy.

Yesterday was a trial run for November. Close most polling place in Milwaukee and force people to wait hours in line during a pandemic.

I have a lot of respect for the people in Wisconsin who have been fighting this crap since the scott walker sit ins.

“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”

John F. Kennedy

[Beringia]

13. I thought Wisconsin was red

except for Madison and Milwaukee. Mainly farmers there.

[plcdude]

15. At this moment

Wisconsin has 2,710 positive with 100 deaths at 3.7% mortality rate. Let’s see what voting with others does to them.

[plcdude]

33. Update April 30th

At the start of this day 6520 cases, 308 deaths, 4.7% fatality rate, 4% cases growth rate, and 3% death growth rate. What did this election cost?

[plcdude]

34. And now

May 20th 13,413 back on April 8 2710

[jalan48]

16. Weren't the Koch Brothers instrumental in what has happened to Wisconsin?

[spanone]

17. Worse than the Russians, they've been taken over by the Republicans.

[WinstonSmith4740]

19. I've been saying this for years....

The rethugs are always going to try to come up with slimier and slimier ideas to keep the "wrong" people (us) away from the voting booth, because as Drumpf just admitted, the more people who vote, the worse they do.

So instead of raging at the skies and wringing our hands over the latest wrinkle, how 'bout we try this. It's not like we don't have some damn wealthy people on our side of the political aisle. This is where the Bloombergs, Steyers and Soros' can come in. Instead of funding TV ads, how about paying for transportation to get folks to where they have to go to get that damned picture ID? Set up a grant fund that will pay for that ID. Lots of people looking for work right now...pay them to check voter roles to make sure people haven't been purged. We KNOW they'll shut down polling places. Run buses to take people to those remote polling places they'll replace them with. Set up phone banks to counter the lies about voting days and places. There's too much we can do, and we should start by using their own weapons (money) and tactics (scorched earth) against them.

[johnthewoodworker]

20. As a resident of Northern Wisconsin I can say that republicans in this state are as racist

and hateful as anywhere else. Unless and until there are demonstrations in the street this country is compromised.

[dickthegrouch]

21. Look at the silver lining though

The Supreme Court has said you can’t postpone an election.
Now we just have to survive until November.

[kentuck]

22. That is a good point...

But they would argue a distinction, I am sure.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Wisconsin already needs a photo ID to vote - been that way for a couple years. GOP bullshittery.

The GOP have so totally fucked the state of Wisconsin, one wonders if that state will ever become the bastion of progressive, sensible, earth-friendly, across-the-aisle bipartisanship that it used to be admired for.

[Igel]

31. That's okay.

SCOTUS didn't rule on postponing elections, just extending mail-in-balloting.

The WI supreme court didn't rule on mail-in balloting, just postponement.

Complementary, not complimentary, decisions.

[live love laugh]

24. Wisconsin has been under Republican siege for a decade.

Republican fascists are desperate to retain power.

[riversedge]

28. Unfortuately, we are VERY gerrymandered also.

[The Wizard]

25. Just about all of Wisconsin

repubics are on the koch payroll.

[riversedge]

27. It is hard to stand for for our freedoms when the US Supreme Court shoots us down.

[nordenbluejay]

29. Nordenbluejay

Could Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg, and Tom Steyer coordinate an effort to outfit a caravan of semi-trucks and trailers to go from state to state producing, on location, free legal IDs for people? That would be money well spent.

[beachbumbob]

30. taken years for GOP to establish a stanglehold in Wisconsin just like they have done elsewhere

doesn't mean the people can't take it back but they have to do more than just bitch about it

[kentuck]

32. Everytime they get into power, there is some sort of disaster.

But this may be the last straw?