Wisconsin Supreme court seat loss is an unmitigated DISASTER for the GOP........

[Takket]

In a year where a global pandemic lead to 175 of 180 polling locations in Milwaukee (a Democratic stronghold) being closed, and absentee ballots were tossed because somehow they didn't get a postmark... this should have been a CAKEWALK for the GOP. Despite a mass voter suppression effort where voters literally had to RISK THEIR LIVES to vote in blue areas, the GOP STILL LOST.

In a state drumpf HAS TO HAVE in 2020, this isn't just a canary in a coal mine, it is a reason to absolutely PANIC not just for drumpf but for rethugs all across the nation up for election.


In 2016 about 200,000 people voted in Milwaukee county's primary. 100,000 voted in the GOP primary. This year 180,000 people voted. Even if you assume ALL the rethugs stayed home since there was no contested presidential primary, that is still a 10% drop off due to voter suppression, and the gop STILL lost the seat!!!!!!!!!

This bodes VERY well for November.

[WVreaper]

1. About fucking time.

[dweller]

2. tip of the iceberg

for the trumptanic..

✌🏼

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It might be a warning to the GOPers

that pissed-off Democrats will swim a mile through shark-infested sewage after crawling naked over broken glass in order to vote.

[msongs]

6. if there's no broken glass I'm not voting lol nt

[DeminPennswoods]

8. LOL!

Thanks for the

[MaryMagdaline]

12. Good one msongs! We must have glass

[lastlib]

23. could we replace it with cactus plants?

[Dem2theMax]

26. OUCH!

🌵

[BlancheSplanchnik]

58. Here's a cactus...for Shitler.

?a440160

[lastlib]

59. I would CARRY that one to the polling place!

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over broken glass!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

70. 😆

[alterfurz]

61. Saludos al Pendejo Naranjoso

[BlancheSplanchnik]

71. 🙌🏾🙌🏻🙌🏿

[Dorian Gray]

11. I will purchase a space suit

and crawl through a lake of maggots to vote.

[bronxiteforever]

17. +1 your post speaks for me!

Nothing will stop me voting! Can’t wait to kick the Rethugs out!

[GulfCoast66]

30. I'd crawl thru a lake of maggots naked to vote.

And I know 3 republicans that are voting Biden. Not religious types. Just selfish SOBs.

[Dorian Gray]

48. My parents

lifelong Republicans, both said they're voting Biden. In Florida.

This will happen.

[relayerbob]

20. shark-infested sewage?

Did they move all the polling places to the Oval Office?

[klook]

38. "Shark-Infested Sewage IV" is in production -- to be released this summer as a drive-in feature (nt)

[lastlib]

25. Let us not get too cocky or confident.....

There is still a LONG way to go, and lots to happen between now and November.

Putin and GOP dirty tricks have yet to rear their ugly heads in full. Yeah, the GOPhers tried this time, and got beat, but they ain't takin' yes for an answer, not when their power and money are on a knife's edge. Vladdy-Daddy is bound to try something.

So work your asses off as if this was a crushing defeat that we have to overcome. Becuz there is still shit ahead--count on it.

[samsingh]

51. Yes - it seems to me that the GOP have waged war against democracy

starting with what looked like george bush's theft of the election against Al Gore

to the supreme court drama by mcconnell and now the efforts under drumpf

[Under The Radar]

4. perhaps this is the reason the GOP is breaking the treasury

[uponit7771]

16. +1, ... and the reason Red Don went off the rails today. He was not doing good

[Sunriser13]

68. Things ain't workin' out quite the way he'd planned.

Article from March 30 after tRump talked his little shit about what oversight he would or wouldn't accept as he signed the bill:

Nancy Pelosi Is Already Talking About the Next Stimulus Bill for Coronavirus Relief

In a signing statement on Friday, Mr. Trump suggested he had the power to decide what information a newly created inspector general intended to monitor the bailout money could share with Congress — in effect ignoring some of the oversight conditions.

But Ms. Pelosi made it clear that if the administration did not honor the conditions, it would receive no cooperation from Congress on future legislation to deal with the pandemic.

“We have passed legislation with conditions in it,” Ms. Pelosi said. “I believe they understand that it isn’t the last bill that will ever be passed, and if they expect any future cooperation on anything else, that they should honor this bill.”

Still, she said that Mr. Trump’s tendency to undercut what other members of his team agree to in complicated negotiations made it more difficult to hammer out the kind of relief plans that are needed in a crisis.

The above if from near the end of the article, but the whole thing is interesting...

[Kath2]

5. YES!!!

THANK YOU to all voters!!!

[RKP5637]

7. The blue wave tsunami is taking off. n/t

[malaise]

9. Good

The end is nigh

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Only 10k fewer voters in Milwaukee when there

were only 5 polling places. THAT is some impressive determination!

I agree this is a bad, bad omen for the Rs come November.

[MaryMagdaline]

13. Wow! Now that's a statistic with meaning!

[MFGsunny]

64. + 1000 n/t

[Takket]

14. Biden dominating in drumpf strongholds.....

Link to tweet

?s=20

[MyOwnPeace]

31. Oh, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!!!

Please make it be so!!!!!!

We can do it - Wisconsin showed us the way!

[uponit7771]

15. That's damn near impossible ... I, that's ... Trumps going do something really bad to win

[c-rational]

18. Full speed ahead, or better yet - Ramming Speed.

[WheelWalker]

24. "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed!".

[GulfCoast66]

34. Classic! Love DU for our knowledge. Those guys had balls for sure.

But so do we!

[Skittles]

19. THANK YOU WISCONSIN VOTERS

YOU KNEW WHAT HAD TO BE DONE AND YOU DID IT

[Ohioboy]

21. Good job Wisconsin voters!

We're proud of you!

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. Karma's a b****, ain't it?

[DENVERPOPS]

27. Don't under estimate the Republicon's corruption

Watch out for Nov 3rd, and Nov 4th...........It makes no difference if he cheats and wins the election, or if by some miracle he loses the election.......What you see Trump and Republicans do, in either case, will Rock the U.S. like nothing ever before in the history of our country and Democracy.......

I truly am frightened, by what the entire nation may witness, on those two days.............

If you think, for one moment, that they will just roll over dead, you haven't been watching what has been going on since 2000. They are one millimeter away from reaching a coup to establishing a Corporate Fascist Tyranny......
THIS Republicon Party, without a doubt, is by far the most corrupt political party in American History, not only despicable, but totally, absolutely corrupted and un-questionably criminal........

[Odawg]

62. Spot On!

....before we go s*c?%i&g each other off... these assholes don't give up and they play hard ball. The way the turtle has been acting lately you got to figure they have got a plan to cheat up their sleeve. They have stole 3 out of 5 presidential elections this century. They are experts on voter suppression and cheating. They will cheat.

[Heartstrings]

28. YES!

Wisconsin Dems are very excited tonight!

[mountain grammy]

29. Yes, thank you!

And a big thank you to all in Wisconsin who literally risked their lives to vote.. waited in lines..

[TeamPooka]

32. Rise up!

[dflprincess]

33. They are going to double down on voter suppression

I imagine their favorite tactic with purging the voting lists in states that don't have same day registration.

And every one lives in a state that does have it - bring what ID/documents you need to re-register with you when you vote, just in case.

[muriel_volestrangler]

60. Good news on that front: one of the conservatives voted against a purge before

Vos and Fitzgerald were fighting for their political lives, because their lives depend on Wisconsin's maps being gerrymandered to shit. Those maps netted the GOP 64 percent of the seats in the Wisconsin Assembly on the strength of 46 percent of the actual vote. Dan Kelly would have blessed that gerrymander for all eternity, which is why Vos and Fitzgerald were willing to risk the lives and health of millions of their own constituents to keep him on the court when the electoral districts get redrawn after the 2020 Census. (And if we can oust conservative Chief Justice Patience Roggensack in 2023, we can take this court back.)

But in the short term, Kelly would have greenlighted the purge of 200,000 voters from the rolls before the November election. With Karofsky being sworn in on August 1, that plan is dead. The court will still have four conservatives and three liberals, but conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn voted against the purge last time, and Kelly had recused himself. With Kelly out and Karofsky in, Democrats at least have a fighting chance against whatever insane vote suppressing fuckery the GOP is plotting for the fall.

https://www.wonkette.com/wisconsin-gop-vote-suppressing-f-ckery-bites-em-in-the-ass

Kelly presumably recused himself because he had an upcoming election then, and so had an interest, but would have been able to say "this doesn't affect me now". See:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court won't hear an expedited appeal of a ruling that could purge more than 200,000 names from Wisconsin's voter registration list, leaving the case in the hands of a lower appeals court for now.

The court split 3-3 Monday on whether to take the case immediately, with newly elected conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn joining the court's liberals in voting to deny the petition. Fellow conservative Justice Daniel Kelly, who is up for election in April, declined to hear the case.

https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-supreme-court-wont-hear-immediate-appeal-voter-purge-ruling

[patphil]

35. The results in Wisconsin have renewed my faith in the people of that fine state.

My parents came from there...traveled east during the Great Depression when the factory my father worked in packed up and moved to New York and told their workers they could keep their jobs if they followed along. Of course it would be at their own expense.

Sadly, I watched as the right wing Republicans of Wisconsin demonstrated time and time again that they didn't care for laws unless they supported their position.

Perhaps this latest indignity has gotten the residents of Wisconsin to say, as the cartoon character Popeye always said, "That's all I can stand and I can't stands no more!"

Oh! Hurry November, the nation needs you!

[yonder]

36. Great news!

[MustLoveBeagles]

37. Fingers and toes crossed

[lunatica]

39. This explains Trump's insane behavior in the COVID 19 press update today.

He just lost Wisconsin.

[NoMoreRepugs]

41. You may be on to something lunatica. Let's hope

more and more reporters start piling on and twisting him like a spring.

[Lokilooney]

40. I'm wondering if the reason why...

Is that the demographic that is most likely to be severely affected by the virus aka older people aka the ones more likely to vote GOP didn't want to risk it and either stayed home or voted by absentee ballot...

[BadgerMom]

42. On Wisconsin! Proud BadgerMom here!

[Blue Owl]

43. K&R

[sunonmars]

45. Bloody hell she won the seat by 150,000 votes....11% She flattened him.

Amazing.......this was a juggernaut in the end, not even close.

Jill Karofsky
855,981 55.3%
Daniel Kelly*
692,523 44.7

[ibegurpard]

46. I don't think we can overstate how massive this is

Considering that Trump won Wisconsin and the inroads the right wing has made there and the fact that they were counting on the roadblocks this pandemic put in place for their forced primary. With all that an incumbent right wing judge was voted out in favor of a progressive. It's seismic. For the first time in my memory people on OUR side seem to be willing to crawl over broken glass to vote these fascists out. Onward to November!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

47. I am sick of 40 fucking years of radical, RED reaganite republicanism.

[Ani Yun Wiya]

49. To me the 2020 elections will not be

A blue wave, it will not be a blue tsunami, it will be a blue flood of biblical proportion...

[moose65]

52. I think I agree with you

Trump and his ilk have unwittingly woken up a LOT of people!

Think of all the special elections that have either been won by Democrats or have been far, far closer than they should've been.

Think of the Dems winning a Senate seat in Alabama.

Think of the 2018 elections, when they got the shit kicked out of them and Trump wasn't on the ballot. Now imagine it when he IS on the ballot.

This Wisconsin judicial election is the cherry on top!

People are seriously WOKE and PISSED. I hope the blue flood this fall makes Noah's flood look like an April shower.

[BigDemVoter]

53. Thank you, Takket!

[bucolic_frolic]

54. re: RISK THEIR LIVES

If I have to crawl 4 miles to the polling place and back, I will be there. If they have to wheel my hospital bed, I'll be there.

[keithbvadu2]

55. Every republican running should have his image paired with an image of Trump saying "I take no respo

Every republican running should have his image paired with an image of Trump saying "I take no responsibility at all."

[onetexan]

56. "canary in a coal mine" - Love it!!

My impression is that there are also nevertrumpers who've voted in 2018 & in the Dems primaries to date, helping to drive up our turnout numbers. Let's hope the next Blue Wave is a Tsunami!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

57. This most likely means, in my view

that the GOP doesn't have the horses. IOW their people are turned off by pandemic, or the corruption - Donald John Trump is coming home to roost.

[MFGsunny]

63. Confirms my favorite non-mathematical probability, which is ::

KARMA is a bytch, and she's got sisters (who also show up)!

[MH1]

65. Expect the GOP to fight like a cornered animal, with

loads of dirty tricks and criminal activities to undermine the Democratic vote.

[Grins]

66. Better...

The Democratic candidate for the state Supreme Court beat the INCUMBENT Republican authoritarian by TEN PERCENTAGE POINTS!

It was that “bigly”!

[ailsagirl]

67. Gee. That's too bad.

[spudspud]

69. Send the Repukes back into the wilderness for another 40 years!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

72. This kind of begs the question

Why is fat ass Trump inserting himself in what should be a local issue?