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Didn’t quite think this one through…again

20 Tuesday Jun 2023

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

This morning:

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Mark Alford @RepMarkAlford
For months, my @HASCRepublicans colleagues and I’ve been pressing DoD leadership on the over politicization of our military.

It’s time for change. That’s why tomorrow, I’ll be filing amendments to the NDAA to defund DEI officials & extremism work groups.
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7:57 AM · Jun 20, 2023

Some of the responses:

Discharging members of the military who believe in the violent overthrow of our government is only opposed by people who support the violent overthrow of our government.

What a waste of time 🤡

Mark, I don’t understand exactly what you are proposing, but I trust you. Please don’t change. Be that guy who keeps getting called into the producer’s office for speaking his mind on the morning news. Don’t get pulled into the big money & unlimited power of DC politics.

Yes, they’re out there. In the ether.

Why would you not want to keep extremists out of the military?

And this is a priority how you TV evangelist wanna be.

[….] You don’t have the first clue sadly

It’s Tuesday.

Marjorie Taylor Greene & Lauren Boebert still haven’t impeached anyone.

James Comer, Jim Jordan, Byron Donald, Nancy Mace, Marsha Blackburn and Chuck Grassley haven’t produced any audio tapes or witnesses.

Keep the gaslighting America Tour going this week!

Wokeism. A word made up by politicians that are too stupid to govenern on their own

There’s that.

Song of the South

20 Tuesday Jun 2023

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday, from Josh Hawley (r), the third senator from Virginia, on Juneteenth:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Today is a good day to remember: Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die
11:02 AM · Jun 19, 2023

3/5 of what?

Article VI of what Constitution?

The only Confederate flag that ever mattered was a white rag on a stick.

With the exception of almost everyone else.

Rip Van Ashcroft

18 Sunday Jun 2023

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Asleep for over twenty years.

Jay Ashcroft (r) [2021 file photo]

Yesterday:

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Jay Ashcroft @JayAshcroftMO
This is a very troubling development. The Communist Chinese government has infiltrated MO and using our land to assault our way of life. I wrote legislation to forbid China from buying ANY land in Missouri, but the Jeff City insiders refused to stand up to China. The China threat is real and as Governor, I will put a stop to their activities in our state.
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1:26 PM · Jun 17, 2023

It’s your party, Jay.

Some of the responses:

Writing legislation isn’t your job as secretary of state. What an embarrassment you are. Unelectable even.

Jeff city insiders? All those republicans. Since this state has been run by republicans for decades. Insiders likes @Eric_Schmitt Who people like you backed and voted for. Will Missouri voters fall for it again?

Yes. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

This is your party, Jay?!
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We said that.

Thanks to Republicans, eh?

The GOP had held the MO legislature for 20 years. This is all on you.

How long has the @MissouriGOP held a super majority to completely controlled Missouri politics?

Who voted to sell Missouri farmland to foreign buyers, Jay? Tell the folks the truth.

Hint: It was the Missouri GOP supermajority in 2013.

You mean the Republucam leaders that allowed the purchase.

“Jeff City insiders?” Correction: Republicans in Jeff City. Democratic Governor Jay Nixon VETOED the bill allowing the sale of farmland to China, and the GOP-dominated legislature overrode his veto.

Like we believe you-it was the GOP that did this on the first place.

Oh jeez @Eric_Schmitt this is gonna be awkward. Who’s gonna tell Jay why?

You had a 20 year supermajority. You are the one you criticize.

Your hypocrisy is astounding.

Gaslighting, really.

“Jeff City insiders” = Republicans, Jay. You’re one of them.

Have a look in the mirror.

@JayAshcroftMO the Jeff city insiders have been republicans for the last 20 years. You as Governor is NOT the answer to Missouri problems.

Wait…aren’t the “insiders” your own party dumbass? Do you think we don’t know you have a super majority of the legislature and administration? Are you too much of a coward to say it’s your own party?

That’s the problem with legacies…

It was the GOP in MO that refused the block foreign buyers in MO farmland. The calls are coming from inside your own house Jay.

These “insiders” you speak of, is it the same GOP members who have controlled the Missouri legislature for decades??

Yes. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

GOP did this in 2013. You are in the wrong party if this is your issue.

It’s hard to take you seriously.

Your hypocrisy is mind boggling

Gaslighting.

Missouri’s retrograde politics coming home to roost.

Our way of life? What is that supposed to mean?

Dude… it’s on you. “Jeff city insiders”????

Republicans have had total political control of Missouri for 20 years. Anything that you think is a problem is the fault of the MO GOP.

Man, and I thought your dad was a buffoon. You far surpass him.

When people get confused about the term “gaslighting” I’m going to refer them to this tweet. Your party is the exact reason MO farmland was sold off to China. In fact the MO GOP overrode a veto to make it happen. It’s amazing lying is expected from GOP politicians nowadays.

You must really believe people are idiots, Jay. Maybe supporters of your own party.

The Republican Party is Missouri literally okayed this. What a bunch of stinking hypocrites you all are.

There’s all that.

Same planet, different worlds – part the infinity

18 Sunday Jun 2023

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Mike Parson (r) [2022 file photo}.

Friday morning:

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Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
Missouri is on the move. Businesses are investing, growing, and creating jobs in our state.

Our unemployment rate is at 2.5 percent and employment increased by 3,700 jobs in May.
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9:48 AM · Jun 16, 2023

Some of the responses:

Why would businesses want to move here when we’re in favor of poisoning the air and water, trans people are fleeing the state, queer people are terrified, and women and people who can get pregnant are treated as less than human?

Thanks President Biden!

People are on the move OUT of Missouri bc the Republican dominated @MoGov prefers giving tax breaks to billionaires, instead of funding our schools, infrastructure, & teachers pay. You’ve stolen our Rights to women’s healthcare. It’s a pit of misery, & I’d leave too if I could.

You’re welcome!!!

And yet we have kids living without food, teachers paid the least in the nation, schools closing or going to 4 day weeks because of a lack of funds, and rural hospitals closing all around the state. But, thank the Lord corporations are making money.

Your state is stagnant with no appreciable growth in the last five years. This is due to the GOP supermajority making the state hostile to investment by pursuing a radical and extreme social agenda that seeks to criminalize large portions of the population.

Unemployment is at 2.5% and food insecurity state wide is 11.6% affecting 800,000 Missourians. The working poor of Missouri deserve so much more than a 20 year supermajority of republicans in #moleg.
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Couldn’t pay people enough to live in a regressive state like MO.

Mike. What is wrong with you?

Sorry Governor but the facts say otherwise. Major employers are avoiding Missouri line the plague and more businesses are moving out. You have a dying off elderly residency and the younger generation wants no part of this backward state.

Because, Missouri:

Great. Now let’s move to establish constitutionally protected rights for Missourians to own, hold, use, and mine #Bitcoin like other states have established.

I’m all for that, but… Not for selling out Missourians To The Global Communist Agenda (WEF, NWO , Great Reset, ESG, CBDC…) nor MO land to communists. How is it that so many Missourians worked hard for SB100 & [….] If y’all (Plocher & etc) in JCity are not corrupt, prove it!

Deification

18 Sunday Jun 2023

Posted by in Congress, Mark Alford

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Mark Alford @RepMarkAlford
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

— President Ronald Reagan
12:20 PM · Jun 17, 2023

That would explain the ridiculous hat.

Some of the responses:

What does that really mean to you Congressman?

And if we ever forget what one state, the state of Missouri look like under one rule, the rule of the GOP looks like, 9th in per person in gun death, crumbling infrastructure, persecution of women, starving of little ones, MarkAlford promises to continue that rule

And that’s exactly where you’re party is leading us. Fascism

Lies. We are not one nation under god. That was added later. That’s not even real.

An actor. Another grifter like yourself.

God? Your God? Who’s God? Cause we all know who’s your Orange God.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check. Arraignment. Check.

Did you and your entire party forget the separation of church and state?

what does that even mean?

Congress added “Under God” to the Pledge in ’54 during the Cold War. Congress wanted to emphasize the distinctions between the US & the atheistic Soviet Union. Our own Senate in 1797 stated that “the govt of the USA isn’t in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”

Tell that to Trump, who couldn’t name a favorite Bible verse or if he liked the Old or New Testament over the other during the 2020 election. Seriously Mork, he’s not a Christian. How could he not pull John 3:16 out when asked? The man is a fraud.

Hey Mark I know the constitution isn’t really respected by your party anymore but the 1A says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…”

Whose God Mark? We are a freedom of religion nation too and that doesn’t mean Christian values are law. You are a dying breed.

Which one?

Ronald Reagan was an actor & brought us voodoo economics.

Fuck Ronnie.

How many pinheads can dance on the head of a desiccated corpse?

Juneteenth Celebration – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 17, 2023

17 Saturday Jun 2023

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Today, in Warrensburg, celebrating Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation:

Early in the morning Warrensburg Mayor Jim Kushner reads the city proclamation commemorating Juneteenth in front of the Old Johnsson County Courthouse.

Warrensburg
Missouri
JUNETEENTH DAY OF OBSERVANCE 2023
PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, in 2021, the President of the United States declared June 19th as the Juneteenth Day of Observance across the nation to acknowledge and celebrate the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of Black Americans; and

WHEREAS, on June 19, 1865, almost ninety years after the country was founded, and more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received word by Union soldiers that they were free from bondage; and

WHEREAS, as first-time citizens, Black Americans came to commemorate Juneteenth with celebrations of new lives and traditions across the country known by many names as Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, and Liberation Day; and

WHEREAS, since 2003, Juneteenth has been recognized by law in Missouri as Emancipation Day and dedicated by statute inscribed that “Americans devote some part of the day to remember the proclamation that began the full realization for all people in the United States of the self-evident truth, that all people are created equal;” and

WHEREAS, the citizens of Warrensburg are urged to recommit with purpose and resolve to the work of equity, equality and justice for all.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that I, Jim Kushner, Mayor, of Warrensburg, Missouri, along with the Warrensburg City Council, do hereby proclaim June 19, 2023 to be the JUNETEENTH DAY OF OBSERVANCE, in the City of Warrensburg, Missouri.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and seal this 12th day of June, 2023.

Jim Kushner, Mayor
Bruce D. Uhler, Chairperson Pro Tem

ATTEST: Tarl Bentley, Council Member
Eddie Osborne, Council Member
Jan Jones, Council Member
Jodi L. Schneider, City Clerk

The Warrensburg city proclamation.

Throughout the day there were readings in the old courthouse, tours of the historical museum, tours of local sites, presentations, vendors, and food trucks.

Three yeers ago I couldn’t spell scyance, now I are a sentor

17 Saturday Jun 2023

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Yesterday:

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Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Time to toss those weird Fauci candles in the ash heap of history.
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4:12 PM · Jun 16, 2023

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Health Statistics
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

…Estimates of excess deaths can provide information about the burden of mortality potentially related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths that are directly or indirectly attributed to COVID-19. Excess deaths are typically defined as the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods. This visualization provides weekly estimates of excess deaths by the jurisdiction in which the death occurred. Weekly counts of deaths are compared with historical trends to determine whether the number of deaths is significantly higher than expected.

Counts of deaths from all causes of death, including COVID-19, are presented. As some deaths due to COVID-19 may be assigned to other causes of deaths (for example, if COVID-19 was not diagnosed or not mentioned on the death certificate), tracking all-cause mortality can provide information about whether an excess number of deaths is observed, even when COVID-19 mortality may be undercounted. Additionally, deaths from all causes excluding COVID-19 were also estimated. Comparing these two sets of estimates — excess deaths with and without COVID-19 — can provide insight about how many excess deaths are identified as due to COVID-19, and how many excess deaths are reported as due to other causes of death. These deaths could represent misclassified COVID-19 deaths, or potentially could be indirectly related to the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., deaths from other causes occurring in the context of health care shortages or overburdened health care systems)…

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Over a million Americans died.

Some of the responses to Eric Schmitt (r):

You, sir, are a bloviating bag of gas. You hinder progress and public safety at every opportunity. You & the senior senator from Missouri an embarrassment.

Total fraud Eric Schmitt believes in the Republican First Commandment: Trump is the Lord thy God and Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me.

The guy who has spent his entire career fighting infectious disease for the betterment of mankind, that Fauci?

You’re a fraud

Thank you Dr Fauci. No covid or long covid for me. Just got another booster. Ignore attacks on retired octogenarians by folks who think Trump is a role model. When you are.

Politicians who only appear on Fox and Newsmax are publicly announcing that they have nothing worth listening to, but are so anxious for publicity that they will recite the gospel of tRump to the other losers. Quit practicing medicine without a license.

Eric’s epidemiology and virology degrees were from tRump University. I know who I’ll listen to……

Unbecoming of a US Senator

Thank God we had Fauci.

Not what the majority of what Missouri is saying. After surviving covid, they’re saying they wished they would have listened to doctors instead of politicians.

Just say you couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask to protect others and we’ll understand.

Thank goodness for Dr Fauci!! His medical advice saved countless lives.

Where’s your scientific proof to back up your claims? All you have is conjecture and misinformation. You are nothing but a bully and a coward. So unless you have solid scientific proof sit down and be quiet.

Meanwhile Missouri Red and rural vax resistance had 4600 more deaths than births for 1st times ever in 2020 & 2021 including the 1918 pandemic, one of only 25 states to avoid science with such dramatic results. Republicans strike again.

Fascism – Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Are you the douche that sent his kids to a private mask mandate school and fought public schools to drop theirs? What a hypocrite.

What the fuck is newsmax?

Dr. Fauci is a renowned doctor and super star in the infectious disease area. He has been cited across all scientific journals and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush. You on the other hand are a total fraud and embarrassment to the State of Missouri.

I wonder what history will say about you? Your career will be nothing compared to Dr Fauci’s. His contribution to AIDS research and work during the pandemic make him a true gift to America. You, on the other hand, will have no real accomplishments.

To what end do you spout such mindless drivel?
Fauci likely saved tens of thousands of lives.

Unbelievable that you’re still on this. He’s smarter than you. Just get over it.

Does the Republican Party go out of its way to nominate the stupidest people possible for high office?

They always have a pool of possible candidates for office.

Campaign Finance: Miami, Florida

16 Friday Jun 2023

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Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232434 06/15/2023 CN-MO PAC Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits of Missouri 1600 NW 163rd Street Miami FL 33169 6/15/2023 $125,000.00

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It’s a new PAC:

Last month:

232434 05/19/2023 CN-MO PAC Missouri Time Sales Service, Inc. P.O. Box 104445 1025 NE Drive Jefferson City MO 65109 5/19/2023 $25,000.00

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What’s up with all this?

Hillary Clinton’s Deep State Ate All of My Homework

16 Friday Jun 2023

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Sycophants gotta sycophant.

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Mark Alford @RepMarkAlford
America deserves to hear these tapes immediately.
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6:07 PM · Jun 12, 2023

Some of the responses:

I’m excited to hear what the next turn in the Republicans weaponizing government against a private citizen to hurt his dad politically is after these tapes turn out not to exist or resemble Grassley’s description of them.

Allegedly doing so much heavy lifting, my grandpa’s mule team would be impressed. Please have some respect for your constituents who don’t fall for every Faux News link.

Do you get tired of falling on your face and sounding like a fool? Missouri residents want to know.

You all need to start being sued for libel at this point. Using your office to continually defame not only Biden but his family. I mean, if you acted like you gave a shit about Kushner getting 2 billion in foreign cash I might listen to you but you’re just partisan schills

Missouri deserves someone who will work to help people not a partisan hack who soul purpose is to spread lies to gullible MAGA rubes

You can’t because they don’t exist. Unlike the smoking gun tapes of Trump admitting that he knew what he did was wrong. He is guilty of violating the classified records legislation he supported and signed into law. Hypocrites, every one of you.

And again, you do nothing but tweet. Pandering to your base is getting really pathetic. You prove every day that you are useless to this state

Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
15 audio recordings with Hunter.

2 recordings with then-VP Joe Biden.

My colleagues and I on @GOPoversight will leave no stone unturned in our investigation into the Biden family’s influence-peddling schemes.
9:29 AM · Jun 13, 2023

Some of the responses:

Anti-American extremist Eric Burlison has unsubstantiated gossip he got thirdhand via notorious liars.

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you just keeping throwing crap

No surprise with this Tweet. Deflection from today’s arraignment of DJT facing 37 charges related to mishandling classified material.

Shorter Eric: hasn’t heard a second of these. But yeah, keep fishing without a license little buddy.

How ’bout taking a look at the $$$ the Saudis gave Kushner?

Damn, never thought I’d miss Billy Long

Are you all just going to say you have these “recordings” or are we going to hear them? You all said you’d release them then nothing. Silence. This smells like bullshit

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