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Still silent

30 Tuesday Nov 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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gas, gasoline, Josh Hawley, missouri, right wingnuts, Vicky Hartzler

Still going down.

The word from Josh Hawley (r) and Vicky Hartzler (r) on the dropping retail price of gasoline:

Nothing.

The retail price of gas today in west central Missouri:

The silence from the previously whining right is telling.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

Passing gas (November 11, 2021)

Josh (r) and Vicky (r) are having a sad… (November 26, 2021)

The silence of the right wingnuts (November 29, 2021)

Incoherent word salad

30 Tuesday Nov 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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Attorney General, Corona virus, COVID-19, Eric Schmitt, missouri, pandemic, right wingnut, social media, Twitter

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Last night:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Covid tyrants are selling fear to be your savior.

WE THE PEOPLE have had enough. We want our country back.[….]
7:30 PM · Nov 29, 2021

“Covid tyrants are selling fear to be your savior…”

Eric Schmitt (r) became self-aware shortly before 7:30 p.m. Central on November 29, 2021. Then, it quickly faded.

Some of the responses:

I had no idea that Missourians want more filled hospitals, more sickness, and more deaths.

This Missourian does not a return to that. Why are you calling for that?

Covid deniers are selling death to win a primary. You keep killing your voters, we’re going to get our state back. [….]

15,458 Missourians have died from COVID. That’s larger than the population of your hometown of Bridgeton.

Dude, you’ve been in one elected office or another for 12 years. If there’s a problem, you’re it.

Don’t you mean “We want our Covid back”? You seem to be playing on the Delta/Omicron team. [….]

“COVID tyrant,” says the guy complaining about fear mongering. [….]

Covid opportunists are selling deadly anti-science hogwash for political gain.
They use terms like “WE THE PEOPLE” and wanting “our country back” tribally, dividing a nation that has lost 750,000 souls.
They use flags for punctuation, but peddle selfishness over citizenship.

You ok man? I think you hit the party line fearmongering talking points pipe a lil too hard here hoss…

You want our country back to pre vaccine covid? Back to lock downs and closed schools? Back to massive unemployment? You’re killing your constituents by peddling selfishness over responsibility to one’s family, neighbors and community.

You’re the only one selling fear Eric. Without it, you have no platform of your own. You fear the end of the pandemic as it will reveal just how useless you and the GQP are.

The sewer you crawled out of wants you back…its fresh out of bottom-feeders.

There you go.

The silence of the right wingnuts

29 Monday Nov 2021

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

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gas, gasoline, Josh Hawley, missouri, social media, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler

From Josh Hawley (r) and Vicky Hartzler (r):

The retail price of gas this afternoon in west central Missouri:

Let’s pass the gas.

What’s that? They have nothing to say? Typical.

Previously:

Passing gas (November 11, 2021)

Josh (r) and Vicky (r) are having a sad… (November 26, 2021)

Wait, what?

29 Monday Nov 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Corona virus, COVID-19, missouri, Omicron, pandemic, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, Vicky Hartlzer

This morning:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
We don’t need government shutdowns again.

We need our kids in school, our businesses open, and Americans back to work.
[….]
8:43 AM · Nov 29, 2021

A few of the responses:

The Association of Funeral Homes and Crematoriums approves this message.

So there are no shutdowns planned, and instead of being proactive in the very unlikely scenario that they do happen, you are gaslighting with no plan of action. That’s sounds about right. Just like last time.

If we can get everyone vaccinated, we can devote more resources to other areas. My MIL is in Vandy Medical & has to wait for her biopsy because the hospital is slammed w/ unvaccinated Covid patients. GOP, Fox, Q, Trumpers… all of you are to be blamed.

And now, the truth.

1) No shut downs are being planned
2) Thanksgiving day spending set a record at 5.1 billion
3) Inflation is a global consequence of the pandemic, not a political economic package that hasn’t even gone into action yet.

Y’know what helps with that? Masks and vaccines.

It really will be okay if we all do our part to help.

God forbid this group of GOP hustlers ever does anything proactive.

No one is shutting anything down. Maybe if Republican voters would wear masks and get vaccinated our situation would improve.[….]

But Republicans excel at government shutdowns. Y’all didn’t pass a budget from 2011-2015.

Then you should encourage your Deplorables to do the right things. Mask up, get vaccinated, etc. And then support civil penalties for not doing these *simple* things. Levy fines and/or ban people from public places.

Just saying “we don’t need this” doesn’t HELP.

yes, let’s ignore the virus, that’s been working really well so far

Then maybe the cult should get vaccinated and wear masks instead of being outraged at literally everything

The Omicron variant & the pandemic would like to have a word in this.

Which is exactly the reason we NEED those vaccine mandates. That would ensure that MOST of the kids and workers would be safe at school or work.

What if we learn the omicron variant is more deadly than the delta variant?

As a proud pro-life person, you must know doing nothing will lead to more death and suffering.

Are you really “pro-life”?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result

Everyone wants the virus to go away. You can’t think of anything to do but blame others. Thanks for nothing.

Any member of Congress who talks about getting kids back to school, businesses open and Americans back to work and doesn’t encourage vaccinations is a fraud. But we already knew that about you.

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

Actually, no

28 Sunday Nov 2021

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

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Josh Hawley, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate, Virginia

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday, the third Senator from Virginia:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
She’s right
[….]
10:28 AM · Nov 27, 2021

And, a succinct response:

MaKin @KiarKini
Replying to @HawleyMO
Dude you have an Apple podcast
12:30 PM · Nov 27, 2021

Heh.

There are barbarians at the gate

27 Saturday Nov 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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book banning, censorship, library, missouri, Missouri library Association, right wingnut dogma

Because it had to be stated:

MO Library Assoc. @MOlibraries
On behalf of our members, member institutions and professional ethical standards, we at the Missouri Library Association (MLA) stand with librarians, library workers, and other educators in the state of Missouri as they select and provide access to their collections for readers.
1:14 PM · Nov 27, 2021

We further support the processes and procedures our libraries have in place to deal with challenges with concerned parents and community members and are deeply troubled by efforts to circumvent these processes for political gain or as a result of moral panic. (2 of 14)

Libraries as public institutions have existed in the United States for over 250 years. Each year, we promote our foundational ideals, provide access for our patrons, and find better and more equitable avenues to improve our institutions. (3 of 14)

Perhaps our most important guiding principle comes from Ranganathan: “Every reader, their book and every book, its reader.”
The “freedom to read” is more than just a shorthand for encouraging curiosity and inquiry. It is a pillar of our democracy. (4 of 14)

Intellectual freedom means that all of us have the right to explore and engage with the ideas we choose, and to be informed about the world around us. Adults have intellectual freedom, but so do youth. (5 of 14)

We support @MASLOnline’s statement that says, “Students should have choices in what books they read.” We librarians are skilled, credentialed and thoughtful professionals who make it our work to champion inquiry, curiosity, democracy and access to information. (6 of 14)

Librarians support the rights of parents to choose books for their own children, but not the rights of one person to choose what books are right for an entire classroom, school, or public. (7 of 14)

Through our deep immersion in books and materials, librarians and library workers understand the greater context of knowledge and understanding facilitated through our collections. (8 of 14)

We reject the claim that removing, labeling, or relocating a title will somehow shield children from the ideas contained within, especially in the context of our connected digital world. (9 of 14)

We further reject the notion that anyone can perform the work we do without significant engagement with the professional ethics and expertise of librarianship. Public and school libraries are safe places for children to encounter ideas in an environment that nurtures curiosity.

Occasionally these encounters will include ideas that might be challenging. We support the right of readers to be challenged, to learn, and to grow. Librarians and educators are the critical connection between readers and their books. (11 of 14)

It is our responsibility to champion these rights.
We support the expertise, thoughtfulness, and care exercised by thousands of librarians, library workers, and educators in the state of Missouri to foster the curiosity and inquiry that lives in young people. (12 of 14)

Signed Cindy Thompson, Missouri Library Association President
Members of the Missouri Library Association Board
Members of the Missouri Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee

[….]

To do otherwise would be…uncivilized.

Josh (r) and Vicky (r) are having a sad…

26 Friday Nov 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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gas, gasoline, Josh Hawley, missouri, Vicky Hartzler

This afternoon in west central Missouri:

Let’s pass the gas.

Going down, eh?

Previously:

Passing gas (November 11, 2021)

Friday Breakfast

26 Friday Nov 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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breakfast, missouri, pie, Thanksgiving

Early morning:

And it was good.

Josh really does make it so easy

26 Friday Nov 2021

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

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Chuck Hatfield, Josh Hawley, social media, Thanksgiving, Twitter, video games, Virginia

Trolling the ridiculous scold, right wingnut, and third senator from Virginia:

Chuck Hatfield
@chuckhatfield
Little thanksgiving fun—to own Josh Hawley.
[…]
12:33 PM · Nov 25, 2021

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

Apparently Ted Cruz (r) was getting too much attention… (November 7, 2021)

Not understanding that you’re the punch line in your own joke (November 10, 2021)

Dumbassery

24 Wednesday Nov 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Fascist pigs, H.R. 6070, Kyle Rittenhouse, Marjorie Taylor Greene, right wingnuts, U.S. House of Representatives

Yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives:

21st Century America.

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