16 Sunday Apr 2023
Posted in social media
Yesterday:
EQV Analytics @AnalyticsEqv
Don’t worry. Sex-obsessed Republican school boards will ban chess in schools once parents learn that a pawn can transition into a queen.
[….]
7:32 AM · Apr 15, 2023
Despair and confusion now reign in the Missouri gop.
15 Saturday Apr 2023
Posted in Congress, Mark Alford, social media
Tags
18 U.S. Code Chapter 37, 4th Congressional District, Espionage Act, former newsreader, fundraiser, Jake Teixeira, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnuts, that ridiculous hat
On Thursday:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG
Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar.That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime.
And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more.
Ask yourself who is the real enemy?
A young low level national guardsmen?
Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?
3:46 PM · Apr 13, 2023
The company one keeps.
Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].
Doing anything today, Mark (r)?
Yesterday:
Mark Alford @RepMarkAlford
If we have learned anything for this intel leak — it’s that the vetting process for TS SCI clearances must be addressed.We cannot allow something like this to happen again.
12:53 PM · Apr 14, 2023
Dumbass.
Yesterday morning:
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
It’s a beautiful day!!!
7:15 AM · Apr 14, 2023
Some of the responses:
It’d be an even better day if you’d RESIGN!!
You’re hosting a dinner tomorrow evening with traitor Marjorie Taylor Greene, yes?
[….]
Way to go Mark. Are you going to put this future felon up on a pedestal tomorrow night like your co-host is doing today? Does Mark Alford put espionage on a pedastal? Is Alford going to leak info himself??? [….]
Just another reminder of what you will be tied to forever. Way to go Mark. What a legacy
[….]
Isn’t it GREAT Mark. You are going to be on stage with a radical that supports the pentagon document leaker. How does it feel to be just hours away from being tied to her the rest of your life. Her tweets will be your tweets. Her interviews will be yours.
That’s about all you know.
It was until you showed up.
for Republicans in Jackson County to reveal they celebrate someone who praises a racist, anti-semitic traitor. Thanks for showing how much you hate America.
[….]
Suck it.
Be better if you would resign. Truth does not matter to you. You are a partisan liar.
Ignorance seems bliss for you, Alf.
[….]
Previously:
A gathering of right wingnuts (April 9, 2023)
15 Saturday Apr 2023
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House
Tags
budget, defunding, General Assembly, Jonathan Capehart, Katie Earnhart, missouri, MSNBC, Peter Merideth, public libraries
It’s what follows that makes everyone in the future pay.
Missouri House Republicans want to defund libraries. Here’s why
Politics Updated on Apr 14, 2023 11:39 AM EDT — Published on Apr 13, 2023 5:11 PM EDTST. LOUIS– Missouri’s Republican-led House voted to cut all funding for libraries in its version of the state’s annual budget, an unprecedented move that has angered librarians and patrons across the state who rely on the facilities for everything from books to educational programming and internet access.
The proposal is not yet final; it now sits before the state Senate’s appropriations committee along with the rest of the annual $45.6 billion budget, and Republican chair Sen. Lincoln Hough said it would be his intention to restore library funding.
But for those who manage or use the state’s 160 library districts, especially in rural areas where services are not as robust, the threat feels real, librarians and patrons told the PBS NewsHour.
[….]
Tamara King, a parent and resident of St. Charles County, told the NewsHour it feels like the state’s residents should still be concerned even if the budget is not yet final.
“You start by taking away small things, right? And then you do that, you gain your support and then you go for the jugular, right? So that’s what they did. They took away everything. Now, where are these kids supposed to go and learn and have those activities that involve books?” King said. “Books create imagination.”
[….]
The right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly, go figure.
Jonathan Capehart: Representative Meredith, you’re on the Missouri house budget committee. What was your reaction to this budget proposal that [cross talk] seeks to essentially defund libraries?
Rep. Peter Meridith: I mean, honestly, you can just, [cross talk], that’s right, even just hearing you talk about the facts right now, walk through the circumstances, it’s hard to believe. And that’s how we felt when it was first presented to us, when the budget chair presented his proposal that Library funding be zeroed out. And then when we asked him why he actually went so far to explicitly say it was because of them suing over this book ban and how dare they sue against a bill that the Missouri legislature passed, that they believe is unconstitutional and has created a really big problem.
Jonathan Capehart: And Katie, help us understand why librarians in Missouri wanted to fight this state law creating criminal penalties for workers like yourself, um, criminal penalties for what the law says is distribution of sexually explicit material?
Katie Earnhart, director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library: Yeah, I mean, obviously we are for Americans’, uh, First Amendment freedoms. We want to make sure that people have access to information. That’s, that’s a core tenet of our profession and we rely on that. And right now that’s in jeopardy which puts our jobs in jeopardy and that’s, that’s something that is concerning for, for all people in this profession. And it’s not happening just here in Missouri, it’s across the country.
Jonathan Capehart: And to that point, Representative Meredith, um, this effort to cut the library’s budget isn’t just happening in Missouri. In Llano, Texas this week Republican Commissioners walked back their threat to close three libraries over their opposition to a book ban that residents argued violated First Amendments rights. You know, why do you think, uh, Republican elected officials turn to defunding libraries when there’s pushback over legislation restricting access to certain books?
Rep. Peter Meridith: Honestly, in places like this they have what feels like absolute power to them and they’re appealing to the furthest right in their base. And so, right now they have decided somehow that libraries and teachers and schools are, uh, the bullies they want to call the enemy and talk about brainwashing our kids. And, you know, like this library thing they can’t point to a single example in Missouri of, of something inappropriate and obscene being given to a kid. but they’re gonna manufacture this problem to work up their base. Uh, and then the defunding the libraries just feels like the next step to them and how they exert power and punish them for, uh, exercising their First Amendment rights. It’s, it’s, straight out of a dystopian novel in my opinion.
Jonathan Capehart: Right, you know ,Katie the majority of Missouri’s public libraries are in small and rural communities. Describe how a budget cut like this would impact libraries like your own in Cape Girardeau.
Katie Earnhart, director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library: Yeah, Jonathan, we’re set to lose roughly twenty-six thousand dollars with this cut, um, for our upcoming budget year. That’s money that we use for our collection development, to buy the books that you see behind me. And for us that makes up about twenty percent of our collection development [cross talk], collection development budget. You know, for, for us it, it’s only two percent of our overall budget, but for some libraries it’s a much larger, uh, percentage, a much larger impact that they’re going to have to, uh, withstand. Some libraries are going to have to evaluate whether or not they stay open as, as many hours whether or not they reduce services that they provide, very important services that they provide for their communities. And it’s something that we don’t want to have to, to worry about that. We already have shoestring budgets and when we have that money taken away, even a little bit ,it just makes our jobs that much harder to provide the needed resources and services that our communities rely on.
Missouri, where readin’ isn’t fundamental.
Peter Merideth (D) [2021 file photo].
14 Friday Apr 2023
Posted in campaign finance
Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C180490 04/13/2023 Uniting Missouri PAC CURIO HOLDINGS, LLC 215 Washington Ave Towson MD 21204 4/13/2023 $10,000.00
[emphasis added]
Coming soon to Missouri? Just a guess.
13 Thursday Apr 2023
Posted in Eric Schmitt, US Senate
Tags
Clarence Thomas, Eric Schmidt, Fascist pig, judicial ethics, missouri, real estate deal, right wingnut, silence
Nothing. Zip. Zero.
What’s up with that, Eric (r)?
Damn, if we had only known earlier that someone could be bought for just $133,363.00.
13 Thursday Apr 2023
Posted in Josh Hawley, US Senate
Tags
Clarence Thomas, Fascist pig, Josh Hawley, judicial ethics, real estate deal, right wingnut, silence, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia
Nothing. Zip. Zero.
What’s up with that, Josh (r)?
Damn, if we had only known earlier that someone could be bought for just $133,363.00.
13 Thursday Apr 2023
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate
Lunacy.
Mike Moon (r) [2018 file photo].
Because he believes that nothing is wrong with this.
Today:
[image cropped]
Senate Democrats @MoSenDems
BREAKING: Republican Senator Mike Moon seeks to clarify his endorsement of child brides after a clip went viral of him supporting 12 year olds getting married.In his clarification, Sen. Moon wants everyone to know the girl was 11, not 12, and she was impregnated. #moleg
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2:20 PM · Apr 13, 2023
What?
Some of the responses:
OMG!!! The parents should be in jail.
Ah, well, that makes it all fine then. /s
What year is it again?
This explanation does not help explain the confidence in his position. In fact, why would parents support this travesty?
Oh, that makes it much better. Jesus
The “young man“ was 12. At 12, you are not even a teenager, much less a young man. He was a child, as was she. You know some horrible religion was involved to sanction the child abuse. I am so sorry for those kids.
Well, that makes it all better. Shotgun weddings are so underrated.
These Republicans are insane. No intelligent & civilized society supports this.
Yeah. That’s doesn’t help his position at all.
Every time he clarifies this story, he makes it worse.
Keep digging, Mike sweetie. The whole just keeps getting deeper.
Why did they even need to get married then? Never mind, being rational is too high a bar.
FFS, he’s making it worse.
WTF? Does Senator Moon not understand how dangerous that was for the pregnant child? And are we so disconnected each other that he didn’t think we would be horrified by his answer?
This is supposed to be a standard for our children? What is wrong with these people?
Not the least bit better. He’s as ignorant as they come. [….]
In the news:
Missouri senator says he doesn’t support adults marrying children, after comments went viral
[….]
Moon said the example he was referring to is a couple he has known for about 40 years.
“The young man was 12; the girl was 11,” he said. “Their parents allowed them to marry. There was no forcing in the situation. But the parents wisely took the boy to their home, and the girls’ parents took her to their home.
“Eventually a child was born to the girl, and then years later, when they were able to support themselves and they were more mature, they were able to begin living together, and still living together today,” Moon said, adding the 2018 legislation would’ve made that type of marriage illegal.
[….]
Previously:
This is Missouri (April 12, 2023)
You might want to stop digging, Mike (r) (April 12, 2023)
13 Thursday Apr 2023
Posted in Congress, Mark Alford, social media
Tags
4th Congressional District, ahistorical fool, former newsreader, France, Lillard County, Mark Alford, right wingnut, social media, that ridiculous hat
Going to work to change the name back, Mark (r)?
Ahistorical dumbass.
Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].
Earlier this week, from the former newsreader:
[image cropped]
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Macron and the rest of France would be speaking German if it weren’t for the USA!!! If y’all want to speak Chinese then….go for it!!!
[….]
7:10 PM · Apr 11, 2023
Some of the responses:
mark, you been drinkin’ tonight?
This is what our embarrassment is bringing to town
Yeah, about that.
People speak a lot of languages in the US, Mark. Do you hate all of them or just Chinese?
You must be practicing for Saturday…what’s next Jewish space lasers
Well…
America wouldn’t exists if it wasn’t for Frances help on the revolutionary war as well.
Mark. The United States wouldn’t exist if not for France. Our alliance stretches through multiple wars. We’ve killed and died for one another many times over. Try to break that bond forged in blood at your political peril.
Y’all? WTF is wrong with you
I was today years old when you confirmed what moronic ideas you have about international relations
The company Mark (r) keeps.
12 Wednesday Apr 2023
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate, social media
Lunacy.
Mike Moon (r) [2018 file photo].
Mike Moon @realmikemoon
Something that is often missing is the back story. With regard to my answer, I did not discuss the details: a 12 year old impregnated a minor of similar age. With consent of the parents, they married… and are still married today.
2:01 PM · Apr 12, 2023
Some of the responses:
So this girl was raped & impregnated at 12. She was then forced into “marriage” & CHILD BIRTH while still in middle school, just so the church could “bless” her being raped forever by her “husband.” Now you tell us she’s still trapped today & that’s supposed to make it better?
Mike Moon (r) keeps digging:
Mike Moon @realmikemoon
You clearly did not understand. Her parents consented – no force. Their marriage is thriving.
3:09 PM · Apr 12, 2023
I’m trying to figure out if you’re being serious, or just trolling.
It doesn’t matter if their marriage lasts 70 years. It shouldn’t have started when she was 12 yrs old. The parents never had the right to give their consent. We don’t live in a Third World country
Ahem, Missouri.
It’s impossible that two married 12 year olds are thriving. This is just horrible. I hope this is just a story he made up to try to cushion his position and it’s backfired on him.
With all due respect, Mr. Moon: you’re arguing semantics.
At the first mention of someone questioning whether the marriage of a 12-year-old is acceptable, your answer shouldn’t be “it’s up to the parents.”
It isn’t up to the parents. We answer to a rule of law.
Also don’t lose focus on the mealy mouthed “minor of similar age” which means the girl was probably even younger than 12.
We don’t actually know that. It’s bad enough as it is.
Disgusting. People want to know what is happening in the USA. Fascism and it is hitting the GOP States first. Next, you will want 9-year-olds to work in unregulated factories.
The back story is that a 12-year-old child was raped because, as a 12 yr old, she cannot offer consent.
And no sex education classes because that would be grooming. Epic fail on his example and defense.
Do you really think that makes it valid?
Ah that’s absolutely fine then – carry on promoting that backstory [….] dear lord America you are so so broken
Gross. What’s wrong with you?
That’s not marriage. That’s rape
So you want 12 year olds giving birth more freely
The scariest part is that you think there is an explanation
Define ‘similar age’ here.
You disgust me.
This doesn’t have the mitigating effect you might hope.
And that makes it okay? Sure sounds like rape, not consent.
Let me first say that a 12 year old girl is not capable of giving informed consent – she is a child for heavens sake
Anybody arguing it was OK for a grown man to marry a 12 year old girl is a GROOMER – pure and simple!
You should be ashamed of yourself
#PedophileEnabler #GROOMER
There’s no circumstance where it’s OK for 12 year olds to marry each other.
If you can’t drive yourself to the courthouse or chapel you shouldn’t be getting married.
Becoming a parent does not instill a sudden well of common sense, knowledge, or good decision-making. Some parents, like these, who would consent to marriage and sex between children are committing child abuse.
Hey Mr Freedom Mike… the freedom to marry at age 12 isn’t freedom. That’s straight up creepy and disgusting.
12 years old.
You’re approving marriage for minors.
There is no further explanation needed.
Something that is missing, Mr. Moon, is even a modicum of sense from you. But hey, congratulations! You’ve garnered national attention with your comments, so now it’s not just folks in Missouri who will be helping your opponents going forward. Have a great day!
That is still rape even if they are young. Forcing marriage on the 12 year old rape victim is NOT Justice.
You claim to hate groomers, yet here you are being a mouthpiece for groomers, giving them the power to rape little girls who cannot consent to rape. But you claim a piece of paper from the government gives those groomers the right to do as they wish
You’re disgusting.
So they should be allowed to vote then??
We all know the back story and it’s despicable.
Twelve year olds can’t drive, enlist, work 40 hours a week, vote, buy ATF, but can marry and raise a child? Since you’re a champion of this, I assume you’re sponsoring a Minors Raising Minors act where medical and living expenses will be paid for them? No? Didn’t think so.
Jfc, that does NOT make it ok. She’s trapped. Nasty child fookers. Talk about #Groomer
What exactly is of similar age? This is still an abomination. She was raped, you sick SOB.
So you left the door open for adults to marry kids? Simple question, Mike.
So a raped 12 year old should be forced into marriage and parenthood with no education and no means to support said “family”? And no social systems to help, because the GOP opposes all of that as “socialism”. Keep them ignorant & enslaved seems to be what you’re about.
There’s no fcking back story! No children should be married and raped under any circumstance! Unfckgbelievable.
So, would be your opinion be if the marriage was NOT thriving?
WTF does “minor of similar age” mean – was the girl even younger?
Was this child allowed to finish school or immediately indentured to the life of mother and wife?
The fact you think the marriage is thriving shows you also don’t understand how grooming works.
Uh… with absolutely zero respect… you’re fucking vile.
So wait….no minor transgender surgeries, no tattoos without consent, but “it depends” on a 12 yer old getting married?
You’re a sick fuck.
There is NO possible context that makes what you said ok.
Your party is for 12 year old children being married.
Your position is: better a 12 year old child be forced to marry their rapist than an abortion happen.
There is NO fucking cleaning that up moron!
Great logic you ignorant jerk. You are an embarrassment to Missouri.
Please stop yourself from talking right now.
My God, stop talking.
This isn’t better. Babies having babies IS NOT BETTER.
Seriously, what in the Hillbilly Fuckery is wrong with you. Caveman talk.
Honestly, this was a horrible take by you. I am disgusted as a fellow human.
In Missouri.
Previously:
This is Missouri (April 12, 2023)
12 Wednesday Apr 2023
Lunacy.
In the Missouri General Assembly:
Rep. Peter Merideth (D): I’ve heard you talk about parents’ rights to raise their kids the way they want. In fact, I just double checked, you voted ‘no’ on making it illegal for kids to be married to adults at the age of twelve if their parents consented to it. You said, actually, that should be the law because it’s the parents’ right and the kid’s right to decide what’s best for them. To be raped by an adult. Okay. [crosstalk] With marriage.
Sen Mike Moon (r): [crosstalk] Do you know any kids that have been married, age twelve?
Rep. Peter Merideth (D): That was the law. [crosstalk] You voted not to change it.
Sen Mike Moon (r): Do you know any kids? [crosstalk] Do you know any kids that have been married at age twelve?
Rep. Peter Merideth (D): I don’t need to. [crosstalk] Uh.
Sen Mike Moon (r): I do. And guess what? They’re still married.
[….]
Mike Moon (r) called them “kids”. He knows.
We called Rep. Peter Merideth’s (D) office in the capitol in Jefferson City to confirm that this exchange with Sen. Mike Moon (r) at a House committee hearing did indeed take place.
It did.
Mike Moon (r) [2019 file photo].
From Rep. Peter Merideth (D) [April 11, 2023]:
Just had a rough inquiry with Sen Mike Moon on his hateful ban on trans medical care. I asked about his typical opposition to government interference with parenting decisions, even those that (unlike gender affirming care) are considered dangerous and harmful by pediatricians and psychologists around the country. I pointed to this vote of his from a couple years ago.
That’s right. He believes government has no right to prevent a 12 year old girl from marrying and legally having sex with a 40 year old if their parents are ok with it. But he thinks it’s the government’s role to ban kids getting medical treatments that have the support of their parents, the overwhelming medical community, and years of medical and psychological counseling and deliberation.
[….]
Peter Merideth (D) [2021 file photo].
This is Missouri.