“That the Senate would launch such a grave accusation via Twitter not only
before waiting for an answer to your questions, but also before your so called
“audit” demonstrates to the world that the Arizona Senate is not acting in
good faith, has no intention of learning anything about the November 2020
General Election, but is only interested in feeding the various festering
conspiracy theories that fuel the fundraising schemes of those pulling your
strings. You have rented out the once good name of the Arizona State
Senate to grifters and con-artists, who are fundraising hard-earned money
from our fellow citizens even as your contractors parade around the
Coliseum, hunting for bamboo and something they call “kinematic artifacts”
while shining purple lights for effect. None of these things are done in a
serious audit. The result is that the Arizona Senate is held up to ridicule in
every corner of the globe and our democracy is imperiled.”

Ouch! A shitshow is defined as a situation characterized by chaos, confusion and incompetence. A clusterfuck is defined as a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation. A sandwich is something you eat. Arizona republicans are going to be munching on this one for a long, long time.

The leader of the state Assembly earlier this year rejected an immunocompromised lawmaker’s request to work virtually on the basis that COVID-19 could not be transmitted through the air, despite guidance from epidemiologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying otherwise.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and the Legislature’s human resources director, Amanda Jorgenson, have rejected requests from Rep. Jodi Emerson, D-Eau Claire, to participate in floor sessions and committee hearings from her office.

The requests were made by Emerson and her doctor to reduce Emerson’s risk of contracting the virus until she became fully vaccinated because of a medication she takes to suppress her immune system to manage an autoimmune disease Emerson was diagnosed with years ago.

“As you are aware, COVID-19 is not an airborne transmitted disease,” Jorgenson wrote to Emerson on April 4 rejecting the request. “Therefore, protection for you is based on limiting particulate exposure.”

Fast forward 100 or so years and enter Wisconsin’s getting-dumber-by-the-minute Senator Ron ” Covid Ronnie “Johnson.

While it’s unclear how many people Johnson may have infected with Covid-19 last Fall, it’s pretty clear that for months he’s been steadily infecting the public discourse with a combination of misinformation and murky fear mongering about the effort to vaccinate our way out of the pandemic. Last December Johnson used his position as Chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to host a panel of physicians and academics touting the use of ivermectin as both treatment and prophylaxis regarding Covid-19. A Wisconsin physician, Pierre Kory, basically called it a miracle drug at that hearing, though the research manuscript Kory referenced at the hearing has since been deemed unreliable by the NIH which stated that most of the studies claiming the benefits of ivermectin contain ” “incomplete information and significant methodological limitations, which make it difficult to exclude common causes of bias.”

Not content to simply champion an unproven ” miracle” drug, Johnson has since gone on to become one of the nation’s top vaccine skeptics. A couple of weeks ago he wondered aloud at the urgency behind the effort to vaccinate all Americans, and just a few days ago he ratcheted up the fear mongering by spouting false numbers of vaccine related deaths and suggesting, with zero evidence, that the vaccine could be dangerous to people who’ve already been infected.

Johnson’s recklessness comes at a particularly precarious moment. The AP reported just a couple of days ago that multiple states are scaling back their vaccine requests due to low demand, with Wisconsin requesting just 8% of our 162,000 dose allotment for this week even though less than 50% of Wisconsinites have been vaccinated. Not good.

While we can’t indefinitely quarantine Covid Ronnie, such as was done with Typhoid Mary, aren’t there some responsible republicans out there who can convince him to shut his damn mouth? Mitch McConnell actually made himself useful several weeks ago when he said all republican men should get vaccinated. Mitch, can you lock Covid Ronnie in his Senate office for a couple of months and shut-off his wifi? Please?

Because this would prove that tens of thousands of fraudulent ballots were flown in from Asia to ensure Biden’s victory in Arizona. This bears repeating. BECAUSE THIS WOULD PROVE THAT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FRAUDULENT BALLOTS WERE FLOWN IN FROM ASIA TO ENSURE BIDEN’S VICTORY IN ARIZONA.

Jesus Christ. What’s next? Ballots micro-chipped by Bill Gates? Fraudulent ballots from Scotland sailed across the Atlantic by the Loch Ness Monster?

The real question here is this: if you’re a republican official in Arizona who’s gone along with this ” audit”, how do you live this one down? How do you save face when this is over?

All of which makes me think, has anyone seen Janel Brandtjen lately? I wonder if she’s in Arizona?

Hurley appears to be building his defense of Antonio on an admission from Fox’s own lawyers who argued last year that you can’t take Tucker Carlson to court for slander because, essentially, no reasonable person would believe what Carlson says. Antonio, poor fellow, apparently didn’t realize Carlson is just plain full of shit.

Other defendants charged in the riot have blamed Donald Trump for their actions, which is almost the same as blaming Fox News.

As more and more defendants blame Trump and Fox News for their actions during the January 6th riot, it should be come to known as the ” Flip Wilson ” defense. While Wilson is no longer with us perhaps defense attorneys could play the video clip below in court.

Sen. Mitch McConnell and his ilk (and their supporters) are precisely the reason why we can’t have nice things here in the United States.

Blogging Blue has obtained exclusive footage of Antifa’s dastardly operation. The threat to our democracy is obvious. Warning: the footage below contains graphic images of violence and mayhem and may be alarming to some viewers. Brace yourselves. It’s worse than we imagined.

Predictably, some social media nutjobs have already been claiming that the audit has turned up 250,000 fraudulent votes which prompted USA Today to publish a fact check debunking the claim.

Is this where we’re heading in Wisconsin? Will the WisGOP bring this circus to town? If so, we look forward to awarding the whack-a-doodle designation to one of our own in the future. But in the meantime, congratulations Arizona State Senate Republicans! You are Blogging Blue’s ” Kook of the Month!”