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Josh Hawley (r): you got your wish

31 Sunday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Insurrection, Josh Hawley, Lincoln Project, missouri, sedition, U.S. Senate

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

From the Lincoln Project:

The transcript:

Narrator: Senator Josh Hawley.
You ran in the right circles.
Went to the right schools.
Your path was set, but you blew it.
After a lifetime of preparation, you’re going to lose it all.
And as the walls close in, remember,
you
did this.
You did this,
and this,
and you did this.

Videos like this one,
showing an officer being crushed by rioters

Narrator: It’s your fault, Josh.
You led it.
You own it.
You spent your life
trying to become someone that history would remember
Well, Josh,
you got your wish.

A center of attention. Isn’t that special?

Some of the comments:

This take down is going to be satisfying to watch.

He’s still trying to hang on by his fingertips……but the spectacular fall is coming. A creep in denial is pathetic to watch.

Pop some popcorn!

Pass the popcorn.

He’s put his money on the wrong horse. He’s going to lose.

Hawley is everything that a leader shouldn’t be.

It is called to be on the wrong side of the History.

I prefer my elected officials to NOT be traitors.[….]

The condemnation and consequence and accountability has to come within the ‘current’ republican party and McCarthy and McConnell and all of their leader ship has shown only cowardice, this country will continue to pay the cost of their failure.

And definite traitor, whether witting or unwitting doesn’t matter. Traitor is the name history will remember him by.

Oh it’s witting. He knows exactly who he incited.

There is no room for sedition in our democracy. Hold every seditionist accountable. No one is above the law. Ashamed that he represents MO a state he doesn’t even reside in. For shame.

I wouldn’t trust this guy to dog sit my pooch, much less govern.

As someone who lives in Missouri and is ashamed of Josh Hawley’s conduct, I love this ad.

Yep, Josh Hawley belongs in the Hall of Shame for sure.

100 years from now when somebody down his line does some ancestry research ,they’ll probably be disappointed, embarrassed and sad

Josh “fist bump to traitors” Hawley you did this

Put all your eggs in the Trump basket. Would have been easier to work for respect.

Ain’t that always how it goes?

I wonder how him and his family feels seeing this devastating ad all over the airwaves? When will these people understand that everything that Trump touches dies

Great takedown! He deserves this and SO much more for his actions.

As bad as he’s been, Hawley will get worse.

He says he’s not being allowed freedom of speech. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. Such a tool.

The word “deplorable” comes to mind.

They used to say “The most dangerous place to stand in Washington DC is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone.”

Now, the most deadly place in America is anywhere between Senator Josh Hawley…and the Lincoln Project.

Phenomenal ad. Phenomenal.

Still do.

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Unprincipled ambition. If he is willing to do this to get ahead, what else has he done?

When I see the pictures of that day,I feel sad,angry,mad. History won’t forget Josh,you were on the wrong side of it. Someday the books will say so.

Another over-ambitious, self-absorbing politician who doesn’t have any principles. I will never trust this man.

You’d think that his Stanford and Harvard law education would shape him into a person guided by a moral compass , coupled with civility and wisdom- to differentiate between right and wrong. Well, it seems all of that went out the window on Jan 6th…

In anything having to do with numbers and data: “Garbage in, garbage out.”

Some people just have the heart and soul of a fascist. He is one of them.

Ouch.

And on and on.

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024 (January 23, 2021)

After 17 days of silence (January 24, 2021)

Yeah, but those seven Senators didn’t pump their fists at insurrectionists immediately before the breach of the Capitol (January 25, 2021)

A shooting star elbow drop from the ropes (January 28, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Green? Green.

30 Saturday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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ballot initiative, legalization, Marijuana, missouri

Well, that too.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the committee working to place an initiative on the 2022 ballot to legalize adult use marijuana in Missouri:

C201444 01/30/2021 Legal Missouri 2022 Growth Horizons, LLC 2609 Rock Hill Industrial Court Saint Louis MO 63144 1/29/2021 $7,500.00

[emphasis added]

Definitely green.

Campaign Finance: Uniting what now?

29 Friday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Uniting Missouri PAC

Now what?

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180490 01/28/2021 Uniting Missouri PAC CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS 12405 POWERSCOURT DR ST LOUIS MO 63131 1/27/2021 $10,000.00

C180490 01/28/2021 Uniting Missouri PAC MO OPPORTUNITY PAC 2345 GRAND BLVD SUITE 2200 KANSAS CITY MO 64108 1/28/2021 $35,000.00

[emphasis added]

They’ll always have more than enough.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: sowing the ground with salt (December 2, 2020)

A shooting star elbow drop from the ropes

28 Thursday Jan 2021

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

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Claire McCaskill, Insurrection, Josh Hawley, missouri, sedition, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

Today:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Hawley can try to lie his way out of what happened but…
On Monday evening, Jan 4, on national tv (Fox) Hawley response to question as to whether he was “saying as of Jan 20 Trump would be President”?
His reply… “Well, Bret, that depends on what happens on Wednesday.”
10:55 AM · Jan 28, 2021

Yep.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024 (January 23, 2021)

After 17 days of silence (January 24, 2021)

Yeah, but those seven Senators didn’t pump their fists at insurrectionists immediately before the breach of the Capitol (January 25, 2021)

You get the same candidate in 2024 then…

28 Thursday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Roy Blunt, social media, US Senate

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Donald Trump, facebook, impeachment, missouri, Roy Blunt, social media, U.S. Senate

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Tuesday, on social media:

Senator Roy Blunt
January 26 at 2:45 PM ·
Statement on my vote to declare it unconstitutional for the Senate to proceed with an impeachment trial of a president who is no longer in office:
“I believe the constitutional purpose for presidential impeachment is to remove a president from office, not to punish a person after they have left office. No consideration was given to impeaching President Nixon when he resigned in 1974. The Constitution hasn’t changed and the Congress should not set a new, destructive precedent.”

Some of the responses:

How about removing his secret service protection after he spent his term making money off them. How about making sure he can’t run again. And most importantly, keeping him from getting intelligence briefings that he can’t be trusted to keep secret. Are those things worth doing?

I disagree Senator

You are helping to perpetuate the myth that trump won, and I suspect there will come a time when you will regret helping to destroy the Republican Party.

The house impeached him before he got out and the first time he should have been removed this was a unforgivable move on his part you cannot let him get by with this do your job

So, the president can not be held accountable while in office, because he is in office, and he can’t be held accountable when he leaves office, because he has left office. Using your logic, EVERY president is in fact a king or ruler, answerable to no one. Remember that when the Democrats use it against the Republicans.

So let me get this right(correct) – The senate decided to hold the impeachment trial after the inauguration so as not to disrupt the inauguration. Now, impeachment is wrong because he is no longer president. He was not going to be president on February 8th when Moscow Mitch decided that it was best to wait. So maybe Mitch should be tried for being an accomplice to Trump’s insurrection.

This guy is freaking nuts. He definitely needs to go.

I guess Roy doesn’t understand the constitution, but hey whatever.

Trump did incite an insurrection against the United States. That is a fact. And the Republican Party has supported him in all his antiAmerican behavior. Watching you stand behind Trumps shoulder in front of the cameras was always disappointing to me as a citizen of MO. You have been on the wrong side of all the care that we as a nation has taken to better our world. You will never have my vote, and I pray that you will have second thoughts about your backing of Trump, and instead back our country.

If only we had some arm of the government who’s job it was entirely to decide constitutionality…. oh wait isn’t that the Supreme courts job?
Pretty crazy were in a time where “unconstitutional” has become a catchall for anything Republicans don’t agree with. Lost an election, disagree with a long established policy, different point of view? Unconstitutional.

I say if the Senators do not want to do their jobs, just resign. In the years to come we will all find out exactly why all the GOP people are so terrified of #45. I remember the look on all their faces 4 years ago. The GOP party has lost their minds hopefully the conservatives will renew their fate in their party. Right now they look like fish on shore flopping around. Pitiful looking cowards for not doing their job!!!

So as a US Senator you choose to IGNORE and LOOK THE OTHER WAY when trump, the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES incited insurrection BY URGING his followers to storm and destroy the U S Capital – SEAT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY? YOU ARE NOT A PATRIOT.

Except he was in office when he did what he did, and the whole point is to keep history from repeating itself with another Trump campaign. Weird how anything the right disagrees with suddenly becomes “unconstitutional”.

I’m incredibly tired of Republican stall tactics that block legislative actions and enable individuals to avoid consequences. Former President Trump should be held accountable despite Mitch McConnell’s insistence on waiting until the day before Trump left office to accept the articles of impeachment from the House. We ARE paying attention and will vote accordingly in the mid-terms. If anyone believes Trump is done causing trouble they are wrong. Now is the time to stop this blight on our democracy.

Disagree. The destructive precedent is to ignore the dangerous actions of someone holding or having held the office of President. Maybe your position is guided by self-interest

Congress needs to follow through, and provide consequences for actions that led to some tragic events. They need to act accordingly to show future generations that behavior such as Trump’s and his cronies is not acceptable, and that there are consequences. To say, yeah well he’s gone now is also not acceptable and the process needs to be completed.

Fuck you Roy. Don’t you have anything else better to do? You fucking waste of space

There is whole list of people that need to be held accountable. Everyone is responsible for their own deeds and words.

Fuck all the way off man

For 4 years you have condoned everything that Trump has done. I believe that makes you just as guilty as Trump for the Jan 6, 2020 attempt to overthrow the will of the people. If you can’t prosecute Trump because he is no longer the president, then every politician that commits a crime while in office merely needs to resign and then you would say it’s too late to prosecute and for the sake of unifying the Country we need to just forget about it and move on. Get real Senator.

Without accountability there is no justice. Do your job Senator. If this was not an impeachable offense, what is?

Given the fact that we’ve impeached people who’ve left office before, your “belief” is obviously self-serving bullshit. You are giving license to future office holders to break the law, betray the country, and act horribly without possible consequences. You are a terrible human being.

And on and on…

In the snow

27 Wednesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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American Goldfinch, birds, Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, Carduelis tristis, Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, missouri, snow, weather

This morning, in the snow in west central Missouri:

Dark-eyed Junco. Junco hyemalis
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/640, ISO 3200, 400 mm.

Cardinal. Cardinalis cardinalis.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/640, ISO 3200, 400 mm.

American Goldfinch. Carduelis tristus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm.
F 5.6, 1/640, ISO 3200, 400 mm.

It’s cold out there.

Campaign Finance: suddenly flush

27 Wednesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, david Gregory, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC, Show Me Growth PAC

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C171173 01/26/2021 Show Me Growth PAC Alliance For Economic Progress PO Box 843052 Kansas City MO 64184 1/25/2021 $200,000.00

[emphasis added]

What’s up with that? Why now? Just asking.

Sunset Hills state rep, and possible candidate for Missouri auditor, scores big contribution from secretive nonprofit group

JEFFERSON CITY — A political action committee supporting a Sunset Hills state representative weighing a statewide campaign landed a $200,000 contribution from a secretive nonprofit on Monday.

In November, state Rep. David Gregory, a Republican, changed his committee registration to reflect that he was exploring a run for statewide office, presumably auditor, the only statewide position in Jefferson City up for grabs next year.

The Alliance for Economic Progress Inc. sent Gregory’s Show Me Growth PAC $200,000 on Monday, according to the Missouri Ethics Commission. The original source of the money was not clear. [….]

Well, click on a link and call us a blog.

Johnson County, Missouri – COVID-19 – Statistics – January 26, 2021

26 Tuesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Corona virus, COVID-19, Johnson County, missouri, pandemic, statistics

Today from Johnson County, Missouri Community Health Services:

Note: Numbers for adjacent counties are no longer updated at this site.

Johnson County, Missouri

Cumulative Positive Cases: 4219

Deaths: 34

23 additional cases since yesterday’s report.

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

It’s really cold out there

26 Tuesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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birds, Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, missouri

This morning in west central Missouri:

Dark-eyed Junco. Junco hyemalis
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/1250, ISO 3200, 400 mm.

Maybe some snow tomorrow.

Johnson County, Missouri – COVID-19 – Statistics – January 25, 2021

25 Monday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Today from Johnson County, Missouri Community Health Services:

Note: Numbers for adjacent counties are no longer updated at this site.

Johnson County, Missouri

Cumulative Positive Cases: 4196

Deaths: 34

110 additional cases since the January 20th report.

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

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