14 Wednesday Apr 2021
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This morning in west central Missouri:
Red-bellied Woodpecker. Melanerpes carolinus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/400, ISO 1600, 400 mm.
Red-bellied Woodpecker. Melanerpes carolinus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/500, ISO 1600, 400 mm.
Red-bellied Woodpecker. Melanerpes carolinus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/320, ISO 1600, 400 mm.
14 Wednesday Apr 2021
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Tishaura Jones (D) [2019 file photo]
Mayor-elect Tishaura O. Jones @saintlouismayor
Since last Tuesday, Election Day, my team and I have been working diligently to hit the ground running on day one and deliver results for the people of Saint Louis.
2:31 PM · Apr 13, 2021
I have spoken with @GovParsonMO and @LtGovMikeKehoe about the importance of working together to strengthen the Saint Louis region and move our City and State forward.
I’ve also been in contact with HUD @SecFudge, Labor @SecMartyWalsh, and Transportation @SecretaryPete and look forward to working with them to bring federal dollars to Saint Louis.
My team and I had an extremely productive working meeting with @RepCori and her congressional team to discuss our shared values and priorities for Saint Louis City.
I’ve spoken with Pres. @LewisReedSTL and @stlcomptroller about working together to advance the priorities of the people of the City of Saint Louis.
I have begun calling all of the 28 Aldermen and other citywide elected officials, but have not yet made my way through the entire list.
I look forward to working with them to advance good, sustainable public policy for our City and region.
I’ve received congratulatory calls from mayors across this country, and I look forward to continuing the dialogue, learning from them, and bringing solutions they’ve had success with to Saint Louis City. #ReadyOnDayOne
Leadership.
Previously:
Tishaura Jones elected Mayor of St. Louis (April 7, 2021)
13 Tuesday Apr 2021
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
Jason Kander (D) [2016 file photo]
This morning:
Jason Kander @JasonKander
Anti-Union corporatist Josh Hawley’s political strategy is to win over working people by shaming corporations for opposing violent insurrection, discrimination, and voter suppression.Quite the political bank shot, which is a euphemism for “he thinks Americans are stupid.”
8:52 AM · Apr 13, 2021
Well.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
13 Tuesday Apr 2021
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anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-vax, Corona virus, COVID-19, guns, Lauren Boebert, NRA stooge, pandemic, projection, QAnon enabler, right wingnut, social media, Twitter
QAnon enablers, anti-science, anti-mask, anti-vaccine.
Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert
Will ANTIFA be required to get their vaccines before riot season starts?
6:00 AM · Apr 13, 2021
Too late. That started on January 6, 2021.
Would fit right in with the majority in the Missouri General Assembly.
12 Monday Apr 2021
Posted in US Senate
Ep. 59: “King Manchin” ft. Lucas Kunce (MO-D) Senate primary candidate for 2022
APRIL 12TH, 2021 | 02:05:08 | E59
EPISODE SUMMARY
Host Adam Sommer (JD) provides an opening statement on equity creating equality, then has a chat with Lucas Kunce (MO-D) a candidate for the Missouri 2022 Senate race. Then Adam is joined by an expert panel for talkin’ politics to break down major stories from the week that was, which then turns into the last call, a deep dive on a particular issue.
12 Monday Apr 2021
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media
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ALEC, chutzpah, gaslighting, Hypocrisy, Josh Hawley, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Twitter
Finally, a republican with the courage to call out the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for its undue corporatist influence in pushing legislation affecting all Americans. Oh, wait…
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
…it’s Josh Hawley (r).
Last night:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Oligarchy defined: The most powerful corporations in America get together to plan how to control legislation in dozens of states
[….]
8:10 PM · Apr 11, 2021
Some of the comments:
How many corporations decided they could no longer abide by states that allowed segregated public accommodations?
Think about how the MLB decided they would no longer abide by state laws that prevented Negros from playing together on baseball fields.
What are you going to do?
Yeah can’t they just let Republicans suppress voters in peace?
Oligarchy-
See January 6, 2021
Hmm it’s almost like corporate lobbyists have been up to this for years but u liked it then
I’m sure Josh is equally opposed to the work ALEC has been doing for many years (sarcasm)
Like corporations and Republicans never had a cup of coffee together? Nice try, Josh.
No dear, the most powerful co”s in the USA get together to discuss how to stop giving money to states, parties and politicians trying to keep minorities and people of color from voting. You scared? You should be!
Um, y’all are the ones trying to limit who can vote.
Sounds like you should make a stand and return all your corporate contributions.
That’s laugh-out-loud funny! Now tell us how you don’t accept corporate donations, campaign or otherwise, since it would create an appearance of impropriety or an outright conflict of interest.
What’s that? Speak up! We, the People, can’t seem to hear you.
GOP set all this in motion. “Corporations are people”. This was efforts to line the pockets of lawmakers through lobbyists and contributions to campaigns. And this is EXACTLY how it was predicted to play out. Funny how it’s not as cool when against you huh?
I thought Republican values reflected that corporations are like people? Seems like no man, woman, company would want to back such an obvious racist set of voting restrictions.
Oh, but then there’s the GOP!
Think about this, Biden is trying to raise corporate taxes and yet they are still against Republican attempts to limit voter rights. Let that sink in Josh, we’ll wait.
They’ve been doing it forever. They just used to do it behind closed doors and in ways you liked. Maybe if you actually listened to your constituents we wouldn’t have to count on corporations being more in touch with the national pulse.
Oligarchy defined means a small group of people having control of a country or organization.
This is for all the kids who have a history test tomorrow and have seen Josh Hawley’s tweet by mistake
Theocracy is a form of oligarchy…
Isn’t that what you’re going for?Also, if that is suppose to be a definition you texted there, I think you better actually look up the definition this time.
That’s what they’ve been doing up to this point, now you don’t like it?
Republicans supported Corp. donations saying they deserved a voice too. So now they are speaking up. They listen to their customers and employees. Politicians like you do not listen.
Live with it.
“I love the free market, unless the free market does something that I don’t like”
Oligarchy defined. The people already with power and money in government try to fix the voting to disenfranchise fellow citizens so they can get or stay in govt office.
#StopVoterSuppression
It’s called listening to their consumers and being smart enough to know that all these voter bills are just voter supression under the guise of “integrity” nothing less.
Fascism defined: the will of the people takes a back seat to desires of those in power without popular consent.
Republicans complaining about corporate influence. That’s rich.
So it’s okay when they conspire with the GOP to weaken labor and environmental standards, but not when they want to protect voting rights? Hypocrisy is so confusing.
Corporations are people, according to Citizens United, so they have right to free speech, #SeditionBoy. Care to rescind that abomination to democracy?
Overturn Citizens United then
What corporations are funding YOU Joshy? Let’s not pretend you are doing this on $5 and $10 donations, m’okay?!
You are saying groups that want to encourage voting are wrong. How can you be in the US Congress and me against more participation in the republic? Did you EVER take any civics class in your life?
A more accurate definition of oligarchy: ALEC’s voter suppression legislation
template being rolled out by gop state legislator minions in dozens of states.
Well, corporations are people, aren’t they? Citizens United not looking so good now, is it?
Fecklessness defined: Josh Hawley seeing rampant voter suppression, doing nothing, then being angry that corporations are more patriotic than he is.
Just like how your GOP colleagues try to control and suppress voters in dozens of states
you know you’ve REALLY taken a wrong turn when even corporate America can see the GOP is a sinking ship.
Looks like you’ll have to do tricks for donations.
But enough about ALEC
You’re such a thin veil
Ever hear of ALEC?
Irony in josh the insurrectionist’s world is clearly dead
Chutzpah, on the other hand, is very much alive.
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)
Josh Hawley (r): you got your wish (January 31, 2021)
If Josh Hawley (r) steps in front of a microphone today we get six more weeks of sedition. (February 2, 2021)
On the wrong side of everything (February 3, 2021)
Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Crybaby Tour (February 6, 2021)
You got that one right (February 8, 2021)
Senator “Raise My Fist in Sedition” (r) has an opinion (February 10, 2021)
Working on the galley proofs for that right wingnut welfare vanity press book? (February 10, 2021)
Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Indifference (February 13, 2021)
Eric Greitens (r) is on line one… (February 13, 2021)
Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Mail (February 20, 2021)
What is Josh Hawley’s (r) favorite whine? (February 23, 2021)
Again, we already knew that (February 26, 2021)
Offered without comment (March 2, 2021)
The people you pay $174,000.00 a year believe that all billionaires are in desperate need of their help and that you haven’t suffered enough (March 6, 2021)
Home every night (March 7, 2021)
Penrose On Politics: Huckster Hawley (March 13, 2021)
“They could never do more damage than you have already done.” (March 17, 2021)
Anybody see Josh Hawley (r)? (March 17, 2021)
SB 528: Wolverines! (March 24, 2021)
Long term memory loss (March 30, 2021)
A voice in the wilderness (March 31, 2021)
Secretly wants to join the “minutemen of the state” so he can wear a brown shirt (April 8, 2021)
11 Sunday Apr 2021
Posted in Roy Blunt, social media, US Senate
Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].
Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Supreme Court Justices appointed by both Democrat and Republican presidents have shared the view that 9 is the right number of SCOTUS seats.
9:38 AM · Apr 11, 2021
Did you ask Merrick Garland?
Putz.
As always, there’s much hilarity in the responses:
After the Jan 6 2021, I don’t believe too many of us care what you think anymore. @RoyBlunt #InsurrectionHasConsequences
MERRICK GARLAND!
Say his name. Say his name a few hundred times if you have to. Learn it. Any time you say anything about Democrats and the Supreme Court, this should pop into your mind:
Merrick Garland.
Uh, yep.
This statement is blind to the entire history of the court, in the hopes of swaying the public in what seems a purposefully dishonest stance by a man who is supposedly a public servant.
But you’re cool with denying Obama’s pick in 2016 and packing the Court with 5 justices picked by presidents who lost the popular vote. So gaming the system is 100% OK when it benefits conservatives. Got it.
Well, now that you mention it.
You forgot to mention how 6 of the 9 justices were appointed by Republicans even though a Republican has gotten more votes than the democratic candidate exactly once since 1988. So please explain to us how the court is representative of the American people
There are 13 circuit courts. When the number was set at 9 – there were 9 circuits. Butt out.
So if 9 is this magical number that is sacred then why was it 8 for over a year from January 2016 to February 2017?
The number of Justices is neither outlined in the Constitution, nor historically stable or inflexible. If the leaning of the court were reversed you would be first in line to loudly call for more justices. Quit trying to mask your partisanship with weak justification
Thanks Senator, can you point me where in the Constitution it says the Supreme Court is made up of 9 justices? I can’t seem to find that part…
If Republicans can do anything they please with Supreme Court nominations, then Democrats can, too. That’s the way this works. MERRICK. GARLAND.
You and the GOP lost all credibility on this after you refused to seat Merrick Garland.
It’s hilarious that you think the SC isn’t partisan when you’ve gone out of your way to make it so…
Um. I’m sure you won’t mind if we don’t pay much attention to what your party has to say about the Supreme Court.
There is no “right number.” There have been more, there have been less. It is only the number it is now. That’s all.
Having nine Supreme Court Justices seems correct to you because six of them are conservative. I’m sure that fact has nothing to do with your opinion.
According to the Constitution it is not up to the Supreme Court’s justices to decide the appropriate number.
And on and on.
10 Saturday Apr 2021
Posted in Uncategorized
Today:
Rep. Jason Smith @RepJasonSmith
Given how much President Biden loves to talk about unity, his budget shows he’s only interested in uniting his party and putting the interest of his political allies first.
2:44 PM · Apr 10, 2021
There is, of course, much hilarity in the responses:
With all due respect, @RepJasonSmith, you represent a district with extreme poverty and lack of funding for quality education. So far, Biden’s Relief Bill and his initial budget proposal would do more for your district than you ever have in your many years in DC.
GOP’s big lie: Cut taxes on the rich and it will trickle down.
*Between 1989 and 2020, the wealth of the top 1% grew by $23.83 T as that of the bottom 50% by only $1.73 T.
*The top 10% could pay off the national debt and still hold more wealth than the next 90%.
Members of your party appear to have a problem with taking care of the elderly. I’m assuming not all old people are wealthy Republicans? Care to comment? Offer alternatives? Anything?
How are programs that help average Americans and infrastructure that helps everyone put his political allies’ interest first?
It is sure a step up and from the Republican big lie, “Cut taxes on the rich, and it will trickle down.”
He pretty much has unity with a significant number of your constituents; you know, the people you have abandoned to wallow in conspiracy theories. He cares about their future. You don’t.
The nerve of that guy wanting to pull us out of this spiralling, out of control pandemic and recession.
The majority of Americans are in favor, so how is that not unifying Americans?
For example 70% of Americans want gun safety laws yet 100% of Republicans are against it. Unity should involve what Americans want, not party leaders or lobbyists.
Talk to a Missourians that haven’t given you a bunch of money.
Gosh if only he used polite methods like having a group of stooges storm the capital to try and murder his political opponents.
And just how does one negotiate with the party that incited insurrection, ran a disinfo campaign on their own constituents, has no legislation of their own in mind, & only serves to impede getting anything done? Maybe potus is open to suggestions on that.
I think he’s uniting VOTERS just fine thank you.
Passing a bill that only 1% benefited from was real “unifying.”
Stop lying.
Y’all need to check the approval rating champ. Gaslighting isn’t a solution. Performative politics isn’t a policy and the only GQP actions in last 4 yrs were for rich corporate donors NOT regular people. do your job, start with becoming solution oriented and real dialogue
Since the Republicans didn’t do shit for four years. President Biden will finally get it done. You can go hang out with Matt Gaetz. He needs a FRIEND right now.
Ouch. That one left a mark.
I guess you missed it polling shows that a bipartisan majority of Americans support the budget, the stimulus and infrastructure. It’s the @SenateGOP @HouseGOP that have failed to be bipartisan. You know all of you that voted against checks 2 citizens & support for sm business
Oh really? Is that why his policies have the support of a majority of the American people, from all parties? Washington R’s have been given opportunities to negotiate but seem more interested in opposing meaningful legislation & making outrageous demands. Why is that?
Which Biden proposals have the support of less than 50% of the country? Generally his proposals have had from 55% to 80% public support so ….
What is it with Missouri? Is there something in the water?
You don’t want to unite, you want to control, big difference
You’re bad at this.
What are you even talking about, ya doorknob
What’s the point in negotiating with a party whose objective is to simply strip the government for parts and tell people it doesn’t work? Come up with a real solution to a problem, try that first. Then let’s negotiate. Until then, you should donate your salary since it’s a waste.
The voters seem fairly unified. It’s the Republican party that seems out of step.
That’s why Biden has a 66+% approval rating, and most of the country supports his major policies by about 70%. Its only you reflexive jerks in the Congressional GOP who are fighting him on everything, just for the sake of fighting, because you have no principles, or policy.
Republicans that live near me are happy with their stimulus checks and looking forward to repaving roads that are now mainly dirt and bringing broadband internet to our area.
Go sell your lies somewhere else.
Yeah, his allies, the American people. Your allies? Nazi fascists who want to destroy democracy for their own power.
You sound delusional pal.
Lindsey Simmons @LynzforCongress
We don’t negotiate with terrorists, Jason.
[….]
3:55 PM · Apr 10, 2021
Or seditionists.
10 Saturday Apr 2021
Posted in Uncategorized
09 Friday Apr 2021
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Chairs and table – surrender to end the Civil War on April 9, 1865, at Wilmer McLean’s home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. National Museum of American History.
From the inimitable Charles P. Pierce:
Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce
Happy “Suck On It, Traitors” Day.
[….]
4:42 PM · Apr 9, 2021
Yep.
