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Andrew Galan's avatar

"We've got people doing poems on aircraft carriers"

Right, because being in the military means you can't express yourself in any way, please don't pay attention to the volumes upon volumes of poetry and prose that have emerged from every single conflict throughout human history that's obviously woke propaganda.

I do love the phraseology of "doing" poems, like it's some sort of hard drug. Everyone starts so innocent, just a little haiku, no big deal. Next thing you know you're up at four AM in your bunk with bloodshot eyes, rattling off two cinquains and a limerick just to feel anything in this grey abyss of a world.

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Here's what will happen with this Wisconsinite if the state GOP opts to overturn the results of a legally-conducted taxpayer-funded election. The GOP forfeited forever my vote for them when they pushed through the anti-public sector Act 10 without campaigning on it, simply because they could do so. All else they have done in the realm of hyperpartisan divide-and-conquer politics, including self-serving grossly gerrymandered redistricting, simply reinforces that decision. They made this former Republican an Ex- of their own free will. But I was not an activist before. If the GOP goes nuclear, I will become one. I will vigorously fight back and do everything within my legal power to reach others, spread the word, keep it on the radar screen for years to come, and identify any and all ways that my fertile mind can think of to get them defeated at the polls and embarrassed in public.

I am ready for this battle and will do my part, and more, whatever it takes. If the GOP wants to declare a war on democracy, I will bring as many soldiers to the battle as I can muster. It will make the Act 10 protests around the state capitol look like a walk in the park if the GOP formally opts to declare null and void an election they lost fair and square. If they want that fight, they will get it.

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