The Badger Pundit

Former Fed economist, covering economics and politics in the Badger state, data geek, common sense is my super power.

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

Truth.

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

No Jew will forget where they were when they heard about Hamas's mass raping, mass murdering, mass kidnapping spree into southern Israel on October 7, 2023. In addition to the horror at the violence, American Jews were shocked to find they had been abandoned by their allies on the Left. They were told their Zionism is racism, their support for Israel defense of a "genocide."

How did we get here?

My new book, "The Jews and the Left," explains why the Left turned on the Jews, and where we go from here. 🔗👇

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

Wisconsin is fourth last in job creation since 2019. WI still beat Illinois which finished dead last.

[Jen @IlliniJen]

Illinois ranks dead last in jobs growth among big states under Pritzker.

Even as he touts economic momentum and new investments, only 9,400 private sector jobs have been added since 2019 for 0.75% total growth. Neighbors grew 2.5%.
Government added 36,600 jobs with your tax dollars, while professional services lost over 50,000 positions.

This is what @JBPritzker calls “success.”

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

@BillMcCoshen11 @SenGillibrand @grahamformaine And more great one liners too!
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@wisconsin_now She doesn't seem to support vouchers. From her website:

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

@EricJBott The most revealing thing about these lightning rounds is that Barnes and Roys were with Hong on every question other than the data center one. Shows how deeply ingrained socialism is in the Democratic party.

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@EricJBott @RoKhanna @FrancescaHongWI Graham Platner will go down as the fuhrer ... er father ... of a million one-liners.

https://t.co/EwmKiVeqhF

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

The Economist: “Across the West, young graduates are losing their privileged position; in some cases, they have already lost it”

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

This is the basis for the rise of Democratic Socialism: the insecurity of the elite class.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani:

“The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession”

“I think that annoys the fu*k out of these people”

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

@wiz_political They gave up being woke and the stock price and earnings boomed.

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

The Spencer Pratt videos just keep getting better and better. I thought it would be hard to top the Lego one but this one does it.

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

Spencer Pratt is going to win tonight!!!

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

Governor Evers just dropped a 10 megaton truth bomb on the Democrats by implying that Senate Minority Leader Hesselbein is running a patronage machine in her caucus.

[Matt Smith @mattsmith_news]

"I'm sure she's got people wrapped around her finger by giving them jobs that they want."

Gov. Evers after Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein said the Senate won't re-vote on failed tax relief deal: "If their leader is saying no way, my guess is it's going to be no way."

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

@BruceR0dney In the era of self-driving cars and soon to be self-driving busses, a train from Madison to Milwaukee is an idiotic idea.

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Great news for retail establishments in Kenosha and Walworth counties.

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@BruceR0dney Illinois residents can be taxed by from 7,000 to 9,000 different jurisdictions according to AI. New Jersey is just as bad.

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

The first clue was when Platner listed his pronouns as "He/Himmler"

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

@TheBabylonBee @ConceptualJames Platner`s pronoun are He/Himmler.

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@gregoryjon @FrancescaHongWI You want the worst candidate? Bangstad says "hold my beer."

[The Badger Pundit @JamesBohnWI]

The Madison city slickers at @wisdems don't know farming. Dairy cows are typically used for ground meat, not T-bone steaks, because they are leaner than beef cattle. "All hat, no cattle."