I’m seeing this tweet, from Milwaulkee, all over the political feeds I follow…
Asked why he was voting today, Michael Schuster unzipped his jacket. “Better to vote than to start shooting all you progressive guys,” he said. “It’s better to vote. I’m not a violent person.” pic.twitter.com/o5IvHRQyUo
— Rory Linnane (@RoryLinnane) November 2, 2021
… but not so much the follow-up, from the same reporter:
The Mequon-Thiensville School Board recall effort has failed. Incumbents finished with over 58% of the votes. More than 11,600 ballots were cast. Incumbents thanked supporters while recall organizers promised to "keep fighting." https://t.co/KcylZ90GuR
— Rory Linnane (@RoryLinnane) November 3, 2021
It’s an imperfect world, and the idiots / monsters are everywhere. But they don’t necessarily win — unless they can persuade us to give up!
Baud
I’ll settle for us not persuading us to give up.
BGinCHI
Doubtless that shithead knows fuck all about the Bible and would likely shoot his eye out.
N M
Lurker and born-and-raised-in-northwest-Milwaukee-suburbs person here. I am mildly surprised the recall effort failed! While Mequon has not quite the red hot Republican politics of nearby Washington or Waukesha County (generally speaking), it’s definitely a bastion of wealthier, predominantly white folk. Bully for them, as TR would say!
debbie
Is Schuster a random guy or someone whose name I should recognize?
Ohio Mom
Some of us may be discouraged about current events but I take comfort in tne eternal verities, in this case Cole big- footing Anne Laurie.
dexwood
@debbie: I think he’s just a good example of another proudly ignorant, asshole republican.
Steeplejack
@Ohio Mom:
Truth. He is like a moth to the flame. ?
debbie
@dexwood:
Well, he’s pretty good at being that!
Winston
Wondering what all the hype about “Beloved” was, I downloaded the Kindle app and selected my first read. Was surprised that both were free with my prime subscription. Read the book over 16 hours and then watched the 3 hour movie starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover et al. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120603/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 for $3.99. Well worth it.
The only thing that bothered me was the supernatural appearance of the Beloved character. I thought the adventures left out of Paul D would have been better than the fattening of Beloved.
Cameron
Give the bro an F for Firearms and Fairy Tales.
Seanly
To the guy with the 45 Colt threatening a Bible – “okay, smart guy, which Bible? Which set of 10 Commandments?”
And if you have Bibles & prayers in school, is the Baptist parent alright when the Lutheran teacher or Catholic coach is leading the prayers? What if the teacher is an agnostic or UU or Muslim?
You just circle back around to easier to follow the fucking Constitution and keep your fucking sky fairy BS to yourself and your shitty offspring.
Comrade Colette
@Seanly:
The one Jesus brought down from the Sermon on the Mount, obviously. You know, the tablet thingies.
Wapiti
@Seanly: Heck, some of the hard-core Lutherans won’t abide praying with an Episcopal, never mind a Catholic.
Chris Johnson
I would want to poke him in the Bible side and go “THAT one. You need to go back to THAT one. What the fuck do you think you are doing? Were you even listening?”
Jacel
@Wapiti: For that matter, some Missouri Synod Lutherans won’t pray with ELCA Lutherans.
sab
@Jacel: My Lutheran friends say Missouri Synod Lutherans don’t like anyone at all.
ItinerantPedant
I thought for sure that when I saw I was number 401 at my voting location (2 of 11 wards) here AT NOON that the current board was in trouble. When Ms. Pedant voted after work (as a teacher) they were at over 1000. It was not encouraging. I guess Mequon has less Nazis than I had assumed.
Either way the reason there were 4 candidates was the board has 7 members. It was a MAGAt takeover attempt that had everything to do with two weeks a year ago…when the schools were 100 percent virtual at the very start of the 2020/2021 year. La Schroeder must have been one of the dozens of Mequonites with too much time on her hands and easy access to a lawyer in the form of a hubby or neighbor.
I knew something like this was coming after corresponding with the board at the start of last year about their COVID guidelines and seeing the public outrage.