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Con Flambers
@themagicconch19.bsky.social
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Wisconsin politics and other things. Opinions are mine and mine alone. He/him

Blog doing deep dives on politics and history here - https://delving-deeper.ghost.io.
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Trump's approval has ticked just a smidge below 40% for the first time on FiftyPlusOne's approval tracker

fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
A screenshot of a graph of two trendlines, a purple one showing Trump's disapproval, and a green one showing his approval. The purple line has steadily gone upward over time, and the green one has steadily gone down. For the data point of November 12th, the disapprove rating reads at 56.3%, and the approve reading reads at 39.9%.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Jack Ciatarrelli, in a state that has never voted for Trump: I love Trump! I give him an A for the job he's doing so far. Trump Trump Trumpity Trump Trump

Republicans: dude Mikie Sherrill is so COOKED lmao we GOT THIS

Ciatarrelli: (loses in a landslide)

Republicans:
The meme of the Pokemon Pikachu looking shocked, with mouth agape in utter shock.
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Also of COURSE Nick Offerman needed to find some way to portray Chester Arthur in something. Look at these mutton chops. There was no other man alive who could do it quite so well.
A black and white portrait of Chester A. Arthur, James Garfield's Vice President who later became the President after Garfield was assassinated. His mutton chops are robust in this picture, as he stares intently off to the side. A mutton-chopped Nick Offerman as Chester Arthur from the Netflix series Death by Lightning about the ascent to the presidency of James Garfield and his later assassination. He stares off to the side, perhaps intently contemplating the magnificence of his mutton chops.
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Gun fetishists when they see Maine, the most rural state in the country, voting in a nearly 2:1 landslide for better gun laws:
The screaming Wojak meme. His mouth is agape, in a look of shock and outrage.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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POV: you're in cardiac arrest and this boy is about to smash your chest so you still get that blood perfusing to your brain, heart, and lungs
A LUCAS 3 CPR machine. It has a yellow backboard to place behind the patient, along with a big suction cup connected to a plunger-like device that hangs over the patient. At the top of it is a user interface to adjust its settings for compressions. It also has straps on the sides of it to secure a patient's hands to.
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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If you're still subscribed to the Washington Post, my very simple question is: why?

I am not even saying it as some sort of gotcha; I am genuinely saying that it is time to to consider whatever benefits you get from it versus continuing to fund the newspaper that puts out stuff like this.
A screenshot of an editorial in the Bezos-controlled Washington Post titled, yes, really, "In defense of the White House ballroom." The article was published by the editorial board.
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Reading some of my writing from when I was campaigning last year and damn I didn't hold back on this one Trump voter

You can read the full article from October of last year here; I think it's aged very well for the most part.

delving-deeper.ghost.io/heartland-in...
Excerpt from my article that reads, "But I am not naive. Sometimes, a conversation can be more like talking to a brick wall. I had one particularly combative voter around my age who I spoke with for about 5 minutes, and during that time it was an unrelenting flurry of swears and Fox News talking points. Among other things, he insisted that "Obamacare did way more to fucking hurt women's rights than anything Trump did." Paraphrased slightly, swearing very much accurate. He also asked me several times why the Democrats put "lies and bullshit" into their ads. A favorite refrain of his throughout this was that "I know the truth!" as he basically quoted Trump and Fox word-for-word to me. Truth is lies, freedom is slavery, war is peace. This man was truly lost in the sauce. But it also drives home this obvious point: lots of voters like Trump. It's not that they're being misled so much as they're clearly seeing what he does and agreeing with it. If their capacity for independent thought goes by the wayside, that's fine - the leader will take care of it."
October 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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POV: the thing you see right before your existential panic attack, caused by you realizing how much of America hates your guts and thinks you're a weird loser
A screenshot from Wikipedia of the 2025 Wisconsin supreme court race, showing Susan Crawford's 55.02% winning of the vote to Brad Schimel's 44.92%, winning 1,301,137 votes to Schimel's 1,062,330. This was an election Elon Musk spent some $50 million on and lost BIG LEAGUE.
October 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Here we go. Just gotta replace Twitter with BlueSky... the classics are always timeless...
The classic post from Twitter user @LinkofSunshine that says, "People on twitter will really be like, 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then not firebomb a Walmart
October 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
A screenshot of the Rotten Tomatoes' page for the Damien Chazelle movie Babylon, featuring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt. It has a 57% of reviews being positive from critics, and a 52% reviews being positive from audiences - both are considered "rotten" under the Rotten Tomatoes' scoring system.
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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People who voted for Trump over Gaza realizing that the guy who has repeatedly used the word "Palestinian" as an insult did not have better policy on Gaza than Joe Biden or Kamala Harris
The meme of the shocked Wojak. He is in shock, with his mouth agape.
September 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Looking back fondly on life achievements this lovely evening
A picture of me blowing a giant bubble with bubblegum. The bubble is grayish but translucent, and is about 1.5x the size of my head.
August 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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What is this poster? It looks like it's from 2003, as if some teenager made it for their MySpace when they thought, "wouldn't it be funny if there was a War of the Worlds movie starring Ice Cube?"

Like... where are the Martian invaders? You know, the whole thing that War of the Worlds is ABOUT???
A poster for the new Amazon remake of War of the Worlds. It mostly just features Ice Cube with a grave expression on his face, apparently to remind us that yes, he is indeed in this movie. There are some smaller black and white images in the background, only one of which appears to feature an actual Martian. The poster looks like it was made over 20 years ago by a teenager messing around in Photo Shop who thought it'd be funny if there was a War of the Worlds movie with Ice Cube in it.
August 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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WisGOP: "we're gonna make him 1 term Tony! haha!"

Tony:
A map, taken from Wikpedia, of Democratic governor Tony Evers' 2022 election victory over Republican Tim Michels. He won 51.15% of the vote to Michels' 47.75%, winning 1,358,744 votes to Michels 1,268,535 votes, or a margin of about 90,000 votes. The counties that Evers won are colored in varying shades of blue, darker blue meaning a higher margin of victory, and the counties that Michels won are colored in varying shades of red, darker red meaning a higher margin of victory.
July 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Here's a statement from DHS itself, taking umbrage at NYC Comptroller Brad Lander's criticism of ICE (notably, Lander didn't actually call them secret police lol - telling on themselves!)

But it's a great ex of how sensitive the gov't is to this criticism. It's a hit dog hollering.
A lie-ridden statement from the official Department of Homeland Security X account responding to a post from Brad Lander saying, "DISGUSTING. First, NYC comptroller Brad Lander assaulted our brave law enforcement. Now he is comparing them to 'secret police.' Our officers verbally identify themselves, wear vests that say ICE/ERO or Homeland Security, and are flanked by vehicles that also the say name of the department. This despicable rhetoric about our brave law enforcement from sanctuary politicians has contributed to a 700% increase in assaults against them."
July 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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A hand-sewn patch showing JD Vance's face in a hideous caricature in reference to the memes of his face that have percolated the internet in recent months.
June 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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The person at WaPo writing this:
North Korean propaganda lady getting ready to spout some regime-friendly lies.
June 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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My friend said this picture of a bubble I did filled him with dread, so I felt it was only natural to post it here too
A picture of me blowing a giant green bubblegum bubble, with a close up shot of the bubble engulfing most of the camera frame. You can see my face in the bubble, as well as the reflection of my arm and phone taking the bubble's picture.
June 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Union voters voted for Kamala Harris by 16 points, an improvement over Biden.

Trump won the popular vote by a little under 2 points. So if you shift the US ~18 points to the left to make it so she wins the popular vote by how much she won union members by, *this* is the map you get for Harris:
A map showing what the electoral map would look like if Kamala Harris won the popular vote by 16 points - the amount she won union voters by in the 2024 election. She wins 417 electoral votes to Trump's 121, and wins the following Trump-won states: Nevada, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, and Alaska.
June 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Thinking about how @lakshya.splitticket.org definitively proved that COVID cost the Republicans winnable races in 2022 owing to more Republicans dying from it in swing states

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A screenshot from Wikipedia of the 2022 Arizona attorney general race's results map, where Democratic candidate Kris Mayes won by less than 300 votes. She won 1,254,809 votes to Republican candidate Abraham Hamadeh's 1,254,529 votes, or a margin of 0.01% - Mayes getting 49.94% to Hamadeh's 49.93%.
May 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Here's Vernon County, 1 out of the ~20 counties in WI-03. Every time Donald Trump has been on the ballot - including when he lost the state in 2020 - he has made gains here. I can easily find many other examples from WI-03 of this, this is actually one of the less bad shifts for the Dems here.
May 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Some have underestimated Tammy Baldwin as a politician but yeah beating a guy who once was by far and away the most popular politician in the state was indeed a flex. Pics related.
A map of then-Governor Tommy Thompson's 1998 landslide victory map, in which he won all by 5 counties in Wisconsin. The margin was 59.7% to 38.7%, 1,047,716 votes to Democratic candidate Ed Garvey's 679,553 votes. A map of then-Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin's 2012 victory over former governor Tommy Thompson for US Senate in 2012. Baldwin won 51.4% to 45.9%, or 1,547,104 votes to 1,380,126 votes.
May 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I get that nobody follows me for this but also... gotta post the flex
A picture of me with a large green bubblegum bubble in front of me that is a little more than twice the size of my head. You can sort of see my arm through the green bubble.
May 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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"So what type of talents would you bring to this organization?"

Me:
A picture of me, wearing a red zipper sweater, blowing a bubblegum bubble substantially bigger than my head.
April 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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It's kinda fashionable these days to poopoo the effects of field organizing on electoral outcomes but till the day I die I'll insist this was the result of a frenzied effort to finally throw him out and elect someone who actually has a shred of decency in his body.
A screenshot from Wikipedia of Wisconsin's 2018 gubernatorial race. The map shows precinct-level results of who won each precinct, with Evers-won precincts in blue and Walker-won precincts in red. The final margin was Democratic candidate Tony Evers winning 49.5% to incumbent Scott Walker's 48.4%, or 1,324,307 votes to 1,295,080 votes.
April 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM