And the No. 1 overall pick in Thursday night’s opening round of the Political Dork draft is … Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers.
The leftist executive sealed the deal this week with a cringe-dorky video on his official social media accounts in which Evers, donning a Green Bay Packers polo shirt, throws a football to himself. Well, “throw” is much too generous a term for the abjectly unathletic arm movement the skeleton-esque governor awkwardly attempts. Upon catching the “pass,” he turns, ambles a few steps, and then spikes the ball in a thrust that may have cost the frail, 73-year-old Democrat a fractured hip. The governor’s touchdown celebration is scored with generic, jazzy Muzak and pre-recorded cheers.
“Less than 24 hours away from the 2025 NFL Draft kickoff in Titletown! Getting warmed up!” Evers claims in the breathtakingly bad clip, in a nod to the much-watched, off-season spectacle held this year in Green Bay, home of the greatest football team God, George Whitney Calhoun, and Earl “Curly” Lambeau ever assembled.
‘Fought Like Hell’
While the geeky video propelled Evers into No. 1 Dork status, you could say he’s been training his whole political life for this moment. The much-mocked short is just the latest in a long line of embarrassingly awful moments from the Badger State’s national embarrassment.
The “funny” clip certainly doesn’t do anything to help the clumsy governor’s wimpy image. The guy who recently vetoed a bill that would have barred dudes from competing against girls in high school athletics throws a ball like a three-year-old girl.
Over his excruciatingly long six-plus years in office, Evers, one of the left’s most loyal useful idiots, has attempted to affect a tough front. He sometimes uses rough language to show he’s fighting those “damn” Republicans. He’s “fought like hell” to protect the unconscionably poor-performing public school industrial complex he ran for a decade as the state’s superintendent of education. Evers’ “fight” for teachers unions and 400 years of public school tax increases for Wisconsin property owners has resulted in single digits of Milwaukee students being able to read and solve math problems at grade level.
He’s “fought like hell” to protect the right to murder the unborn. Of course to DEI Evers, mothers are nothing more than “inseminated persons.”
During the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots that smashed up Madison and burned down parts of Kenosha, Evers “fought like hell” to blame police and systemic “white privilege” racism for the ruins the Marxist BLM movement made.
‘Jazzed as Hell’
But no matter how hard he tries, Gov. “Tough Guy” can’t escape his inner and outer dork. Who can ever forget his cringe-worthy spotlight moment at last summer’s Democratic National Convention. “Jazzed as hell” to announce Wisconsin Dems’ nominating support for Vice President Kamala Harris, another babbling buffoon, it took Evers more than a minute to spit the words out. His bumbling attempt to tie Harris to Wisconsin, to speak in coherent sentences, was stunning in its awfulness. Thank goodness the governor’s pals in the inclusive left, including Ben Wikler, foam cheer hat-wearing grand doofus of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, were there to cheer him on.
“We love you, Tony!” they called out in a pity chant.
Of course, Tony wasn’t alone. A lot of Democrats had a hard time uttering the horrifying words, “Our next president, Kamala Harris.”
But it’s Evers’ shameless genuflecting at he altar of the far left that is most embarrassing for the good people of America’s Dairyland. His administration recently issued a memo telling state employees not to assist federal immigration officials who show up at Wisconsin agencies. Couched in the absurdity of privacy, the memo instructed, that “state employees may not grant ICE or another agent access to any such data or information absent authorization from their legal counsel pursuant to a valid judicial warrant.”
An absolute weenie move from a weenie governor. Republicans called out Evers’ little act of resistance for what it is, a political stunt and “blatant defiance of law and order.”
Standing with political gaslighters like “Maryland Man” Sen. Chris Van Hollen and violent gang members isn’t a good look to the many Wisconsinites who voted against the left’s madness in November.
‘Sure as Hell’
But Tony’s not alone in Dorkville. Wisconsin’s Democratic congressional delegation takes a back seat to no one when it comes to cringe. Check out Milwaukee Rep. Gwen Moore’s robust body of work. And when it comes to embarrassments, Sen. Tammy Baldwin can say to Evers, “Hold my beer.”
In another ouch! social media moment, the lesbian legislator (Baldwin, not Evers) appears with her “twin”, leftist Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota. In the video, the blue pants suit-wearing lawmakers commiserate over the phone about another news story confusing them. Because they look so much alike, in a vague, aging Cheri Oteri kind of way. It’s so bad it makes you wish that telecommunications, video technology and the internet had never been created. Baldwin is clearly, and awkwardly, reading from a script as she and her “evil twin” dog Trump and Republicans about the DOGE. Smith goes blue in this video, too, although her F-bombs and BSes are bleeped out. Just like Wisconsin’s dork-in-chief, they “sure as hell” care about something and they’re “fighting back” somehow.
The “funny” bit ends with the senators back on the phone and the unfortunate viewer screaming, ‘Please, God, make it stop!” Smith asks her “twin” if she can gavel in a committee meeting for her and whether Baldwin can “fill in” and go to dinner with Smith’s husband. Baldwin chuckles. “You know, I don’t think I can help with that, Tina,” a subtle acknowledgement that Sen. Tammy is making lesbians great again.
In politically divided Wisconsin, opinions are like Tony Evers. Everyone’s got one. What Badger Staters should be able to agree on is that leftist politicians who make cringy social media videos for public consumption should be deported.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.