This morning I need to discuss a phenomenon that I've noticed since my return to dailykos in early February, and that is that almost every time I'm in a Wisconsin diary a certain group of people come in to rock the boat. It doesn't happen every time, and at first I thought it was random and these were just individual pinheads saying unknowingly cruel and heartless things. They've stated outright of Wisconsinites that: "We must love Scott Walker." "We elected the man 3 times." "We get what we deserve." "We get what we voted for."
The more I've blogged here in the last month, the more I have noticed what appears to be a bunch who fight every thing we're trying to do here in Wisconsin. They don't exactly say overtly offensive things, they just slickly argue every minute point. I understand that debate strengthens our arguments and if all we did was sit around petting each other then its no more than a circle jerk. I'm not looking for an echo chamber, just a little common courtesy.
We need our allies support and assistance not the abandonment and derision we've been getting from more than a few shitheads around here lately. Whether you realize it or not, your comments are abusive and demoralizing and they're PISSING ME THE FUCK OFF!!!! If you are going to posit a conflicting opinion you had better couch it in the most empathetic words you can muster. It's not hard to be understanding. It's not hard to be caring.
Let me give everyone a tiny bit of advice. Today is not the day to be fucking with your Wisconsin bloggers. I have had enough of the bullshit, and I'm not fucking taking it anymore... Not one fucking bit of it. What kind of asshole kicks his friends when they're down? No kinda friend of mine that's for sure. I don't want to hear one more goddamned comment about how the referendum we lost Tuesday was no big deal. If that's what you think then you obviously don't know shit.
Remember back in 2010 when the entire country lost big time across the board? Everybody, and I mean everybody, on this site was feeling the same damn sting.
Then,,, Wisconsin started fighting back and surprised all of you. The Democrats in our legislature joined in by leaving the state to prevent a quorum, and shocked the nation. 100,000 protesters rallied for weeks on end, and gave you hope. The Overpass Light Brigade created a whole new medium for social protest and touched your hearts. Grandmothers joined the Solidarity Sing Along and warmed your souls.
Four years ago this week, we picked up 30 percentage points in 35 days and came one bag of miraculously discovered "tainted" ballots away from kicking David Prosser off the Wisconsin Supreme Court. We gathered enough signatures to recall six Republican state legislators and picked up two seats in the process. We also gathered enough signatures to recall Scott Walker. Yeah, in the end we lost that Governor's race, but we took pride in the fact that we did our best and almost fucking pulled it off! We made fucking history!
Leading the charge all the way was an intrepid group of incredible bloggers. Some of them are still here plugging along who you all recognize: Giles Goat Boy, blueyedace2, Puddytat, ruleoflaw, noise of rain. The great sage and imminent guru of Madison, Ben Masel, has passed away but he's still with us in spirit. Others are still around but write less frequently these days like Jud Lounsbury, Mike Kahlow, and invisiblewoman.
There are others though who appear to be just gone such as stcroix cheesehead, xofferson, and WI Deadhead. I wouldn't presume to know their reasons, but I certainly miss their contributions. I'm sure there are many individuals I have missed. Feel free to share your recollections in the comments.
The Wisconsin Uprising was 4 long years ago and we've all been fighting the best government takeover that money can buy every step of the way. Even though we keep getting knocked down; we just get up, dust ourselves off, and keep on fighting.
We don't need that crowd that comes into every Wisconsin diary and not just insinuates but outright says that we brought this shit on ourselves. We're expected to bite our tongues, when what we'd really like to do is unleash all of our anger and frustration with Walker and his minions at some heartless jackass who claims to be a Kog and should by all rights be our ally.
Well, don't expect me to hold back anymore. If you can't keep your fucking comments to yourselves, don't be surprised when I let you have it. I'm not taking it anymore. From now on when these individuals cross that line and get on my last nerve, I am going to simply reply, "Good Day Sunshine!"
When I say good day sunshine what I really mean is, "Fuck off you goddamned troll!" or "Eat shit you motherfucking asshole!!" You get the idea.
Yeah... "GOOD DAY" as in goodbye and good riddance and "SUNSHINE" in a condescending and dismissive sense of the word. All the while the Beatles song is going to be going through my head, restoring my heart and soul. I love the state of Wisconsin and I know she loves me. I'm not going to let Scott Walker, David Prosser, the Koch Brothers, the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, or ANYONE whether they call themselves a Kossack or not come between me and my goal of restoring this state to it's former PROGRESSIVE glory.
Having said all that I understand that a substitute for an ad hominem attack is the same as an ad hominem attack. I don't want to run afoul of the rules here. I'm not going to be going around on edge just waiting to go off half cocked. If I believe somebody is sincere in their argument I would never resort to name calling, but if somebody's consistent behavior is dickish or trollish I'm going to give them both barrels slathered in syrup and rainbow sparkles.
So watch out. Be kind or SYFPH!