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Now that’s some serious shade

14 Wednesday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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Colorado, Cory Gardner, John Hickenlooper, shade, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) [2019 file photo].

Last night, in the Colorado U.S. Senate race:

John Hickenlooper @Hickenlooper
US Senate candidate, CO
You misspelled “Donald Trump.”
[….]
8:46 PM · Oct 13, 2020

Ouch. That left a mark.

Johnson County, Missouri – COVID-19 – Statistics – October 13, 2020

13 Tuesday Oct 2020

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From Johnson County, Missouri Community Health Services:

Johnson County, Missouri

Cumulative Positive Cases: 1490

Deaths: 15

Whatever you do, don’t read the social media comments.

Wear a damn mask. And while you’re at it, wear some damn gloves.

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

You’re not “pro life” if you can’t be bothered to wear a mask during a pandemic…

13 Tuesday Oct 2020

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abortion, anti-choice, Corona virus, COVID-19, governor, mail, Mike Parson, Nicole Galloway, PAC, pandemic, single issue, Uniting Missouri PAC

Or if you’ve overseen an incompetent [accessed 10/13/2020] state response to COVID-19.

Thank you for accessing the Show Me Strong COVID-19 dashboards. The public health dashboards are currently under maintenance and were last updated on Saturday, October 10. They will be back up and running soon once a database extract error is resolved. Read more here on the website of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

The indicated link at “here” in the announcement on the Missouri DHSS COVID-19 dashboard site is broken.

…As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 149,731 cases and 2,486 deaths in Missouri since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a New York Times database…

Or if you’ve cut off 100,000 Missouri Children from access to health care.

“…one of more than 100,000 Missouri children who have been dropped from the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program since 2018. In September 2019, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission reported that Missouri had the largest decline — 15.1 percent — in children covered by those two insurance programs between May 2017 and May 2019. Parson became governor on June 1, 2018, following the resignation of Governor Eric Greitens…”

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

We got mail today from the right wingnut PAC, Uniting Missouri, propping up Mike Parson’s (r) gubernatorial campaign:

Ooh. Scary.

State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D) [2019 file photo].

Heaven for the weather, Hell for the company, Missouri for the batshit crazy right wingnuts…

13 Tuesday Oct 2020

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This morning in west central Missouri:

The town where I live has around 15,000 people. There are approximately 53,000 in the county.

Yesterday we made the New York Times list of COVID-19 hotspots in the nation. We’re No. 1.

At midnight Monday our county returned to a mandatory mask order, after over a month off. Last week the county community health board voted to reinstate the mandate. They reportedly received threats.

Yesterday was a state and federal holiday. Before this year we would commemorate this particular holiday by wandering around lost in our local grocery store looking for spices.

Saundra McDowell (r), yesterday, at an anti-mask protest near Johnson County Community Health in Warrensburg:

The video is sad, in a hysterically funny sort of way. Go look it up if you’re curious.

Again, yesterday was a federal and state holiday. The Johnson County Community Health office was closed.

21 days.

Previously:

What fresh Hell awaits us all this morning? (October 12, 2020)

What fresh Hell awaits us all this morning?

12 Monday Oct 2020

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This morning in west central Missouri:

It’s 2020, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is holding Supreme Court nomination hearings three weeks before a national election, and Donald Trump (r) is manically retweeting on Twitter. Oh, and it would be impossible for Josh Hawley (r) to be more of a sycophant. But we already knew that.

Campaign Finance: that was fast

12 Monday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri Governor

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campaign finance, governor, Mike Parson, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Nicole Galloway, PAC

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C201190 10/11/2020 Democratic Governors Association – Missouri Democratic Governors Association 1225 Eye St NW, Ste 1100 Washington DC 20005 10/9/2020 $475,000.00

[emphasis added]

C201352 10/11/2020 A Stronger Missouri Democratic Governors Association – Missouri 1225 Eye St NW Ste. 1100 Washington DC 20005 10/9/2020 $475,000.00

[emphasis added]

State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D) [2019 file photo].

Telling.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: a case of nerves (October 2, 2020)

Campaign Finance: there’s plenty of money to pass around (October 9, 2020)

“Is there official headgear for a republican member of Congress?”

11 Sunday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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25th Amendment, 8th Congressional District, Jason Smith, missouri, social media, Twitter

Evidently anything wrapped in tinfoil.

This evening:

@JasonSmithMO @JasonSmithMO
US House candidate, MO-8
Nancy wants a bipartisan committee charged with reviewing a sitting president’s fitness for office. At first glance, you think this is another attempt to oust President Trump. But it’s far more sinister. They’re preparing the groundwork to oust Biden and instate Kamala.
6:35 PM · Oct 11, 2020

Some of the responses:

Jason Kander @JasonKander
You’re better than this, Jason.
7:02 PM · Oct 11, 2020

Evidently not.

There is nothing in his career that would lead me to belive he is. He’s always rushed to the bottom of the barrel

“Siri, how will our elected officials embarrass Missouri today?”

That will teach you not to be the last one in line when they are handing out talking points

Did you think this up yourself? Who ties your shoes for you in the morning or do you have Velcro straps?

Sometimes you can just leave tweets in your drafts

It’s embarrassing that when I tell people I’m from Missouri, you’re the type of person they think of.

Are you guys just trying to out-crazy each other at this point?

That’s some top shelf idiocy

Man, you guys don’t even bother with the dog whistle anymore.

That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. This is 2020, that’s saying a lot.

That tinfoil hat looks good on you.

Oh honey. Whatever you’re smoking, put it down.

Wow… do you need to visit a chiropractor after hurting yourself with that reach?

Damn dude

Did you get into Don Jr’s coke stash?

There needs to be more qualifications when running for office. you are not rational

Oh ffs

Oh geez. That’s nuts.

What are you smoking?

Um, no.

Magical Story time.

Your tinfoil hat is on wayyyy too tight spanky.

Well, there it is, the dumbest thing I’ve seen on social media today. Congratulations.

That’s some dumb shit right there. You have a panic room with a screen door, don’t you?

So does Jason know this is nonsense and is just playing to the rubes or is he really this disconnected from reality?

We may never know.

Man, between conspiracy theories and claiming Harry and Meghan were interfering in the election, you’ve had a wacky weekend. Bless you terrified little heart.

What are you smoking maaaan? Jeez

Please, let me know what color the sky is in your world, because you’re not in this one.

People actually elected you?

That may be the dumbest thing you’ve ever said. Impressive.

Idiot

Kathy Ellis (D) is a much better choice in the 8th Congressional District.

The final arbiter speaks

11 Sunday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Roy Blunt, social media

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Liz Mair, own it, schadenfreude, social media, Twitter, you built this

The panic is setting in.

Liz Mair @LizMair
I’m really done with hearing from the left about court packing. First of all, no, it’s not OK, and I don’t care whether the Constitution bars it or not. We don’t need more erosion or dissolution of norms. Second of all, keeping Merrick Garland off the court isn’t court packing.
9:10 AM · Oct 11, 2020

You built this. Roy Blunt. Rand Paul. Rick Perry. Scott Walker. I could rest my case at this point.

To someone else earlier in conversation:

Liz Mair @LizMair
First of all, no one did more than me to stop Trump in 2016, the king if norm-erosion. So please don’t tag me with what the GOP as a whole is doing— that’s pretty disingenuous. Second, as I said, two wrongs don’t make a right. We don’t need to hasten the race to the bottom.
9:25 AM · Oct 11, 2020

Working the phone banks, knocking the doors, dropping the literature just like the rest of us proles, eh?

Four years ago:

Liz Mair @LizMair
Morning, all. I’m headed to vote for @GovGaryJohnson. If you hate Hillary and Trump, you should, too. Send the major parties a message!
5:45 AM · Nov 8, 2016

Now, I rest my case.

Hillary Clinton [2016 file photo].

Color, inexorably

11 Sunday Oct 2020

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This morning in west central Missouri.

Change, too.

Fumble

10 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Thank the Lord the SEC brought back football #MIZ
[….]
3:05 PM · Oct 10, 2020

Some of the responses:

The Lord has been busy: having the SEC have football and gifting Trump covid-19. Was He so busy that he forgot about you to get it? If I don’t believe the Lord cares about football, does that make me a religious bigot?

Too bad the Lord didn’t save the 210,000 people that got the Coronavirus because of the GOP’s ineptitude.

But sure, MIZ!

The Lord works in mysterious ways. Fuck 216,000 American citizens but yay football.

Yes! That’s a big win for Jesus! I guess LSU football players have lost favor with God. Of course, that first week loss by Mizzou… not sure how all this plays into the Lord’s divine plan to make Trump our overlord and sovriegn of Christensom. Ask the Proud Boys or Qanon?

Says the Stanford & Yale guy who left Missouri the first chance he got and never came back until he started his political career.

So glad the Lord took a quick break from killing 200K+ Americans so he could help Mizzou win a football game.

You went to Stanford Josh

Yes, football is EXACTLY what concerns my family the most. thanks for making that your top priority, Josh!!!!

Surprised you didn’t thank your orange lord.

College football is what you thank God for? Surprised you could think about anything but your theft of the SCOTUS.

Between all the hate and division in the country, along with the deaths of over 200,000 people in our country alone at the hand of trump and his puppets, I am sure God’s top priority was bringing football back.

Thank the Lord we know your priorities are football first, and suffering Missourians second. Thanks for clearing that up for us. From KMOV: Missouri reached 141,942 cases on Friday. At least 2,409 people have died across the state during the outbreak. #GOPHypocrisy Damn Pharisee.

Yeah, thank the lord. Could you imagine a world where the lord didn’t bring back the sec?It looks like a world where there are still 210,000 dead Americans because of Republican inaction,but there isn’t college football.That would be a terrible world. Lucky we got this world.

Haven’t killed enough of us yet, Hawley?

You have a very very small god, Joshie.

Lol, that’s what you are thankful for?

Wow. You have the tiniest conception of a deity that I’ve ever seen: someone who doesn’t care about His clergy being gassed out of their place of worship so a corrupt criminal racist rapist can hold an impious photo op, but who cares about your personal enjoyment of sports.

Your sky god has nothing to do with football, #heehawley…

Hi, Josh, are you pretending to be an MU fan or just couldn’t resist being a feckless twit?

No one gives a …. about SEC football.

How about stop trying to overturn the ACA?

Is that why over 212,000 Americans are dead because all you so called Christians were praying that your GOD bring back SEC football instead?

You don’t know shit about football

You embarrass true Christians by thinking the Lord cares about SEC football. He’s so much more concerned about caring for his flock. You are an embarrassment to Yale Law, Missouri and Christianity.

Did you wear your red and blue plaid shirt while you watched the game?

lololol jk no way did you watch the game you ridiculous fraud

The Lord had nothing to do with it you fake

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