Dan Kelly Throws Tantrum After Losing Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

[thebishop]

I don’t know. I’m just aware of all the impeachment chatter.

[playitagainrowlf]

@dangoodbar

That is there is no doubt that if Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature, who are only in the state legislature because of how they have abused their power to subvert democracy, had the power to impeach Supreme Court justices they do not like they would do it in a New York minute.

I detect a second underlying reason for the impeachment threats - after all, if both sides are impeaching and arresting people, it’s clearly all politics and TFG is “obviousilly innoscent!”

Given this, I’m also waiting for some Red State DA to lay some bogus charges against somebody, anybody on “the other side” to prove that it is ALL a hoax!

[bigbraxstone]

All of these rigged machinations are brought to us courtesy of highly partisan so-called conservative Supreme Court that are okay with their faux democracy. It ain’t legit unless it favors right-wing BS.

[danny]

“So I respect the decision that the people of Wisconsin have made,” Kelly said at the end of his pseudo-concession speech. “But I think this does not end well.”

There’s always a “but” with these asses.

[silas1898]

Awww. Snowflake is having a sad.

[davidn]

Dan Kelly clearly stated that a person running for an elected office should NOT inform the voters on how they stood regarding issues of that office relevant to the voters.

While I understand this is totally the standard GOP policy position, and has been for sometime, I have never heard it stated so bluntly nor also projected onto the Democratic opponent as a requirement for office too.

[playitagainrowlf]

@occamscoin

They do filthy things with cheese when the moon is full. don’t ask.

Suffice to say, tonight they’ll be having a gouda time with the Swiss!

[dangoodbar]

You are correct.

I checked up on it after my post. While they cannot spare a single vote in the State senate, Republicans in the legislature do now have the power in Wisconsin to impeach anyone they want including the Governor.

[occamscoin]

@davidn

I have never heard it stated so bluntly nor also projected onto the Democratic opponent as a requirement for office too

Well, I think he’s trying to thread a needle of “you shouldn’t be expressing a legal opinion until you see with what kind of spin we dish up the case.” Nobody’s buying it, because repealing the 1849 law is not spinnable. It’s ancient and well known.

[occamscoin]

@playitagainrowlf

tonight they’ll be having a gouda time with the Swiss!

…and morbier. Always morbier.

[castor_troy]

Wisconsin is a very specific threat for a very specific reason. To prevent the supreme court there from keeping abortion bans from happening and to keep them from undoing the gerrymandering in the assembly and Senate, which would throw the majority to the Dems in the first election after that.

[zandru]

@bcgister

there might be some question about his ‘judicial temperment;’ although, I doubt that would have been an impediment …

The new standard (thanks, “Beer” Kavanaugh!) is to turn purple with rage, froth at the mouth, and then cry. So Kelly’s response is “fit for purpose.”

[thebishop]

There is (should be?) a little more to this than just the mechanics of legislature math. The new justice has to do something wrong, and public opinion, as proved buy this latest wipeout for Kelly, would be overwhelmingly against this move. Republicans are a bunch of suicide bombers, often impervious to reality, but reality has a way of dealing with people who don’t recognize it.

[richardinjax]

I’m not sure they took the low ground in this election. They just hit hard and took punches that their opponent set up. I think we’ve reached a point that a losing GOP’er can be expected to make their defeat a crime rather than a political loss. Like a child that can’t take no for an answer.

This guy entered a political contest in America in 2023. What did he expect? He may have been the victim of all he cried about but he lost because he couldn’t fight the attack on him. He was not a man that could win on that battlefield but he stepped on it feeling entitled to win. His protest is an admission of inadequacy laced with truckload of cry baby bullshit.

[chelsea530]

Gotta keep fighting. Good things happen when we persevere.

From MI dems:

Moments ago, Governor Whitmer signed legislation to repeal Michigan’s archaic 1931 abortion ban.

This is a huge victory for every Michigander. By repealing the 1931 abortion ban, Governor Whitmer is making it clear to everyone in our state that reproductive freedom is protected in Michigan.

This moment would not have been possible without Michigan Democrats. Voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights and elected a Democratic majority to the state legislature who was ready to fight to repeal the 1931 abortion ban swiftly.

[zandru]

@rickjones

And the WI Republican legislature should consider the consequences if they try any supermajority shenanigans - but they probably won’t stop to think…only reflexively react.

Also, remember a trapped rat is at its most dangerous.

[occamscoin]

@zandru

turn purple with rage, froth at the mouth, and then cry. So Kelly’s response is “fit for purpose.”

Yeah, but he didn’t do it until after the vote. So some would say he’s doing it wrong.

[castor_troy]

@thebishop

The new justice has to do something wrong,

“Corrupt conduct in office” is whatever a majority of the assembly and 2/3rds of the Senate agree it is.

With as gerrymandered as Wisconsin is, they’re not worried about whether something is popular.

[richardinjax]

Which means his PRIOR performance must have been on the voters minds. Twice. They saw him for what he is…said fuck that and went for another option. Screw em.

[xcopy]

@occamscoin

and morbier. Always morbier.

You speak of the Raclette paddle incident?
Edam was never the same after that…