Writes Robin Vos, who has been the speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2013.
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"Wisconsin voters have spoken, and Democrats will hold a governing trifecta for the first time in nearly two decades."
"Governor-elect David Crowley, Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer, and Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein will set the agenda in Madison.... The new Democratic leadership also lacks any real private-sector experience. Crowley built his career in campaign organizing and political staff work. Neubauer and Hesselbein have the same resume. They know politics. Being good at politics will mean paying back their powerful political allies.... Many newly elected Democrats presented themselves as moderates; their leadership team has a different agenda.
Wisconsin’s strengths—our workforce, our communities, and our tradition of common-sense governance—are durable. Republicans will work every day to protect those strengths, highlight what is working, and prepare for the moment when voters again choose balance and results over one-party control...."
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Time for the Brewers to move to Nashville.
The democrat party is a coalition of people who have never run anything. It's astonishing.
I predict Blue State Hell.
California is the model.
“and prepare for the moment when voters again choose balance and results over one-party control”
…you weren’t paying attention- they don’t intend to offer you that choice again. They will likely succeed…
The democrat party is a coalition of people who have never run anything. It's astonishing.
And this guy has?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Vos
Blue State Hell is a bit hyperbole. The weather isn’t good. And neither are the Packers. University of Wisconsin has a skewed female enrollment that’s only getting worse.
But as Blue State’s go it’s not California, Illinois, New York, or Minnesota.
“I predict Blue State Hell.”
You wish. I bet you didn’t predict a Blue Tsunami, did you?
Wisconsin's results are far less surprising than those in some other states.
Inag - I didn't predict anything. If I did, it was in the state I live in - which went just as blue state hell as Wisconsin.
Enjoy your blue state hell. It's what you want. A pack of people who have no clue how reality works.
Just like Labor in the UK, they will misread the election and nothing will change except whose snout is in the trough.
Ross K on Colorado:
"Based on ballot measure results, Colorado is no longer a place where certain voters would vote tax increases on themselves but most of the state would reject major tax hikes. It looks like Amendment 87 (eliminating the flat state income tax and replacing it with a structure that punishes success) has passed. I think it’s the single most harmful ballot measure result in (at least recent) Colorado history. And, shockingly, the Front Range Passenger Rail measure seems to have passed. A train that almost nobody will ride that will likely take years and billions of dollars more to build than currently planned and will be a burden on taxpayers forever…utterly insane."
Blue State Hell = HARM.
Businesses are now going to leave in droves. AND - we get a highspeed rail to nowhere - that will suck our state dry.
How Newsum!
Yes Itchy, move, Colorado won’t miss you. Where will you go, not Texas now that it turned blue, eh? People like you are why there was a Blue Tsunami.
Inag - I am not interested in your obsessive a-hole tips. I was planning on moving anyway. Me and many others will be leaving in droves to find places where it is actually affordable to retire.
Blue State Hell is not affordable.
"They know politics."
Everything in the party
Nothing outside the party
Nothing against the party
This is sad. For the state and for the nation. I can only hope that the damage is limited over the next two years, and that some sense returns in 2028. But I am not optimistic. This outcome is the result of a long march through institutions, particularly education and media. It was planned, and executed with total determination. The people now in charge live for politics. More specifically, they live for the power to tell other people what to do.
It is only a minor consolation that the rats will now begin to attack and consume each other, just as they always do. But this time we may never come back from it. I feel sorry for young people, but they have brought it on themselves (courtesy of our thoroughly corrupt educational establishment.)
It's a very dark day. Good luck, everyone, and be ready to protect yourself and those you love. No one else will.
Again: persepctive.
HISTORY HAS SHOWN US THAT SITTING PRESIDENTS CAN ABSOLUTELY BE HAMMERED BY THE OPPOSITION PARTY IN MID-TERM ELECTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE…
2010- BARACK OBAMA- LOST 64 HOUSE SEATS
1994- BILL CLINTON- LOST 54 HOUSE SEATS
2018- DONALD TRUMP- LOST 42 HOUSE SEATS
2006- GEORGE W. BUSH- LOST 30 HOUSE SEATS
WHEN IT COMES TO THE SENATE… BILL CLINTON LOST 9 IN 1994.
BARACK OBAMA LOST 9 IN 2014.
RONALD REAGAN LOST 8 IN 1986 .
Just some perspective for tonight."
Itchy longs for the US to fail. Sorry itchy, not gonna happen now that Trumpism has been repudiated. Now go lick your wounds you pathetic person.
Oh whoa is me coming from the Trumpists, what could be more satisfying? It will be ok, we are Americans after all. Are we not?
Again Inag- the obsessive....The failure is built into the globalist mob Blue State Hell cake. Enjoy your tribalist wins!
I don't want the US to fail at all. Never said so.
As usual, you cannot cease your wholesale lying. You are the ultimate lie-buyer. Russia Russia Russia, Inag.
So again - savor your Blue State Hell Tsunami. Enjoy the Blue State Hell wins.
HARM lust won last night.
Dark Helmet - Indeed.
Expect one thing. The next two years will be a circus of retribution and payback on the state (Wisconsin) and national level.
Dems love HARM.
Haha, should’ve been “oh woe is me”, but “whoa is me” works too.
"It will be ok, we are Americans after all. Are we not?"
Well, by my lights, no. The Dems are bound and determined to elevate people who like Ilhan Omar or Nur or whatever her last name is. And the 'community organizers' whose main passions seem to be looting, burning and anti-Semitism.
Are they American? I guess they are legally, since our immigration system is incredibly, suicidally broken.
The Left will get what it wants for a while. Then, as Trotsky learned, there will be fewer but 'better' comrades.
Some people learn nothing from history. I suppose if your school doesn't teach actual history it's harder to learn.
hahaha - Inag - enjoy your Blue State Hell.
(D) Slotkin, Vandalism, torching Tesla dealerships, political retribution on private citizens, rage, anger, harm, political assassinations, no qualifications to lead, illegals illegals illegals - and utopian Soviet promises. It's very sad to see our nation cascade down to quickly.
No Inga, no one wishes for Blue State Hell, but we do observe the condition of states and cities that are run by Democrats and wonder why anyone would willingly vote for that. Is it really all about wanting your team to win regardless of the ultimate outcome? I don't give a damn about the Republican party, I just want a government that looks after the interests of its citizens, and the Democrat party seems entirely unconcerned about that.
Looks like BoBo Boebert, Itchy’s fellow Coloradan, may lose her seat. She and Itchy can become roommates when they leave Colorado.
We have a lot of angry, powerless, people glued to their screens, disconnected from their communities and their families, who just delivered a devastating blow to the MAGA movement. These worthless people and their sick nonsense. The disturbing, stupid Russia Collusion filth was replaced by nonstop garbage about White Supremacists and fraternity gang rapes, Epstein and cannibals who rape and eat babies, the Jews and Israel, the Russians!, ICE agents murdering children, nonexistent concentration camps and so on. It's awful.
And, honestly, we should be blaming our women. About 30% of American women experience some form of mental illness every year. Half of these women seek psychiatric counseling and a very, very high number are prescribed medication, mostly anti-depressants and mood stabilizers. These women are overwhelmingly single and they are bear to deal with. We have to confront these women in schools, in the work place, in family courts, wherever. This is too big a problem to ignore.
Indeed. I don't want Blue State Hell. But last night we all got it, good and hard.
Are we to ignore California? Illinois? Major Blue cities like Portland and Seattle? Denver - where our skyscrapers are selling for pennies on the dollar and a formally vibrant downtown is a mostly vacant hellscape? NYC... where a radical Islamic failed rapper/crazy staff are in control. Even blue cities in red states, are in decline. They are all colossal examples of misery.
When I say "Blue State Hell" - it's not a wish - it's a realistic view of what happens when one party destroy our shining cites on the hill.
“I just want a government that looks after the interests of its citizens, and the Democrat party seems entirely unconcerned about that.”
Ah yes, that sounds good, but WHY would you think Trumpism and Trump would do that?
"Please use the comments forum to respond to the post. Don't fight with each other."
Address the issues. I'm not maintaining this forum as a place for you to address other commenters by name and say something nasty to them.
Don't appropriate my site as a hangout for like-minded people. That isn't why I'm doing this. I will delete posts that I regard as "bad faith" — that is, undermining my purpose of maintaining a free and open discussion with varied viewpoints.
I'm starting to like the results. My whole life I've watched Democrats warn us about things that never happened and the Right warn us about things that did come to pass. This is a rather small change politically, but the lessons will be big. I can now bitch less while it reveals itself again, and a new generation learns old lessons.
Peachy said: "Enjoy your blue state hell. It's what you want. A pack of people who have no clue how reality works. "
I concur. As a resident of California (aka Californicate You) we have been dealing with this for decades. Decades of economic horrors, idiotic rules made by people who are clueless about life. Antagonistic policies that drive business out of the State, put small businesses OUT of business. Increased unemployment, increased homelessness, inability to build new housing due to regulations, lawlessness, overwhelmed by ILLEGAL aliens. Highest gas prices and Taxes.
Get ready. It is coming and those people who voted for it deserve every bit of misery you are about to get.
The only thing saving my (and husband's) sanity is that we live in a far northern part of the state, rural and highly conservative. Mostly ignored by the morons in the Capital and forgotten by the rest of the State. That and we are old and do not have to look forward to decades of future idiocy and decline. For us...it is just keep on keeping on, keep a low profile. Also....the three S rule if worse come to worse (Shoot, Shovel, Shut UP)
Expect utility prices to skyrocket. Net Zero mandate coupled with the termination of the federal income tax credits for wind and solar energy.
DBQ - Glad you've carved out a space in a blue state hell.
It's not easy.
One of the states I'm considering is another Blue State Hell, but it's been a blue state hell for decades. WA state. I have friends there.
I've got some checking to do... criteria. so who knows? (not stating the criteria)
So it probably won't happen. But - some red state sanity / red state freedom still exists. Those are all on the table.
Doom. Gloom. But we'll have legal weed.
As far as Lauren Boebert losing her seat - it is a surprise but also not a surprise. I don't live in her district.
Boebert didn't run ANY ads. Nothing. Her opponent hammered her, and her opponent's ads were very effective. Full of BS - but really well done.
The GOP in CO is a joke. I think Boebert wanted out. She didn't even put up a fight.
And so it begins...
𝘈𝘯𝘥, 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯. 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 30% 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳.
As I expected, MAGA Republicans this morning have the worst possible takes and learned absolutely nothing.
A local News hack named Kyle Clark(D)/NBC - is obsessed with Lauren Boebert. He too, hammered her for decades.
It's nice to get free advertising (D) from the local media(D).
Peachy. If you do go to Washington and want to avoid (as much as possible the Blue State Hell) I suggest you stay on the Eastern side of the State. Same for Oregon. Not as beautiful as the western/coastal areas....but not as crazy. Avoid any of the larger cities Portland, Seattle etc as it seems that the "Blue Goo" congregates in Urban areas. Good luck!
IEE(D) Be happy - your tribalist globalist soviets won!
DBQ - thanks. NO way I'd move to Portland or Seattle.
Vos raises a fair question about whether Democrats who ran as moderates will actually govern that way. Still, private-sector experience isn't the only measure of competence. David Crowley has spent six years managing Milwaukee County and Republicans have had plenty of opportunities to demonstrate their own ability to govern.
The new Democratic majority deserves scrutiny, particularly regarding its policy priorities and the influence of political allies. The same standards should apply to Republicans. It's reasonable to question policies before they're enacted but predictions of disaster are premature and seem unhelpful. Let's judge the Democrats by the policies they pursue and the results they produce.
Democrats, after having seen this massive repudiation of Trump's war in Iran, will take it as a mandate to escalate the war in Ukraine.
It's going to come down to France style riots, because there is no voting our way out of this mess.
I thought you were judging the sincerity of our faiths.
I grew up in Wisconsin. The state has a history of supporting socialists and other nonsense. Fighting Bob and all that. It's been a testament to the Republicans in the state that they've able to fight that off for as long as they have. The Left never gives up.
Look to Seattle for what to expect state wide in Wisconsin.
Community organizers running the state? What could possibly go wrong?
If you thought Wisconsin was a leftist state before. You ain't seen nuthin' yet. They're about to tell Minnesota to hold their beer(s).
PS- mccullough- not for nothing, but these days ALL universities skew female. Men aren't going much anymore.
@ Jaq....re your comment about the riots in France this meme seems pretty spot on what have we learned
Peachy, moving to Washington? Have you heard the expression out of the frying pan and into the fire? We left there 23 years ago because it was too looney then. Things have only gotten worse. If you do move go to the northern part of the state. No farther south than Snohomish county.
Amusing thing about "Conservatives" and those on the Center- right, is they never want to fight. Just run away. And then the Left takes over the place they ran to, and then they run again.
This is usually accompanied by "That'll show 'em. We're leaving state X" as if the Left isnt happy you went away.
Washington State is perfectly fine, except for parts of Seattle. Assuming you like rain (western washington) or snow (eastern Washingon) in the winter.
RC Cola - the GOP needs good people to run. We have a shortage - of good people who want to join the meat grinder.
Why do you think Slotkin and the left behave and threaten as they do? it works.
Independent/Conservatives are not like Soviets. Conservatives like to be left alone and they don't want to control others.
The left are obsessed with controlling others - and they all want in on the gov goodies/ gov harm/ and the power.
William50 - oh I know. Believe me - I know.
RCOCEAN II said...
Washington State is perfectly fine, except for parts of Seattle. Assuming you like rain (western washington) or snow (eastern Washingon) in the winter.
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Western side gets snow too and when it does it's a mad house. I know, I lived there for 28 years.
It's one thing to be elected. It's another to govern. A few too many Democrats were elected because they Hate Trump, which is to say that they hate the Country. We'll see what happens.
If you look at in terms of "Inches of Rain" Winter in Western Washington isn't unusual when compared to parts of the eastern USA. The difference is it gets cloudy a lot.
Sometimes the snow can be a good thing, because in a cold snap with the Wind coming from Canada you can get some cold - but clear days.
But mostly Dec-Feb is just one cloudy and partly cloudy day after another. Which is Ok. Some people like that, or don't mind it. And it beats 20 below zero.
People in Seattle freak out over snow. Lots of Hills and inexperienced drivers. Memphis is the same.
“A few too many Democrats were elected because they Hate Trump, which is to say that they hate the Country.”
Why do you conflate Trump with our Country? He’s a human man, not a country.
“As I expected, MAGA Republicans this morning have the worst possible takes and learned absolutely nothing.”
Yes, it will take months if not years to de-Trump these people, some will never come back to reality. Since we are Americans dealing with other Americans we’ll have to let time do the healing.
Europe is facing the same kind of energy problems, the high prices and worse, due to the very unpopular support of the EU's war against Russia, the sending of hundreds billions of euros to be skimmed by corruption or burned in a war that could easily be settled. Europeans are not allowed to vote their way out of it, hence riots.
You know, Inga, I listened to a long podcast by mainstream Democrats about what cost the Republicans so heavily in this cycle? Guess which word was never spoken. Starts with an 'I'
De-Trump these people? F U Inag. you never change - you de-programing obsessive soviet.
Trump lost the youth vote in a big way. 65% of young men voted Democratic yesterday.
Google AI…
According to official data from the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University, 65% of young men voted for a Democratic U.S. House candidate in the 2026 midterm elections.
For more comprehensive details on how youth demographics shifted, you can review the full CIRCLE Demographic Analysis and the broader CIRCLE 2026 Election Youth Report.
How many times do I have to remind Jaq (or whatever he's calling himself on any given day) that Europe's "energy problems, the high prices and worse", are mostly self-inflicted, and have nothing to do with Ukraine or Iran?
One more time: Germany shut down all their nuclear power plants and blew up the cooling towers so the next government couldn't reopen them. I believe other European countries have stopped building them, as the US did until quite recently, and that the anti-nuke organizations are secretly financed by Russia.
“I'm not maintaining this forum as a place for you to address other commenters by name and say something nasty to them”
…I assume Howard’s generalized you cucks talk avoids the censorship of the powerful bad faith magic wand, patent pending…
“I'm not maintaining this forum as a place for you to address other commenters by name and say something nasty to them”
…I assume Howard’s generalized you cucks talk avoids the censorship of the powerful bad faith magic wand, patent pending…
Those crazy Wisconsonites! What will they get up to next? In my locale, Texas Republicans, having gotten way too comfortable in office since the 1990s, now have an opportunity to be uncomfortable here, with the sure help of the Democrats recently elected. Let's hope the Party members learn from what's coming. I doubt they will, the Democrats didn't during their travails in the wilderness for the past three decades, but I have to console me the prospect of hope. Even without any actual hope, the prospect of it helps, and is about all there is left after yesterday.
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
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Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four–
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
- Rudyard Kipling, The Gods of the Copybook Headings
Congratulations, Wisconsin. You've made your first steps at becoming just like Illinois.
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