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An elitist spork tries to attend a knife fight

20 Thursday Jul 2023

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

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Fascist pig, insurrectionist, Josh Hawley, seditionist, Senate, social media, U.S.Senate, Virginia

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Today, from Josh Hawley (r):

Senator Josh Hawley
[July 20, 2023]
Hawley says DOJ continues to interfere with GOP ‘efforts to find out: Is the president of the US a crook?’
[….]

If it’s not political, why would the GOP be making ‘efforts’. Why not the U.S. Senate? Just asking.

Some of the responses:

It’s mind boggling the comments supporting searching for something, anything to try to find a way to make Biden look bad.
But trump, with all the crimes he committed, still has people cool with all he did. Defend him like he did nothing wrong. Make excuses for him. I just don’t get it.

Can you tell me what Hawley has done in the past 4 years to improve the lives of Missouri’s residents? He must have a list of accomplishments, I just can’t find any…thanks for your enlightenment.

and you notice, it’s like crickets whenever you ask that question. Never a response.

Thank you; I’m trying to understand how Missouri elects someone who doesn’t care about improving the lives of its residents. Missouri is one of the states listed as receiving the highest Federal Aid for underserved residents. Wages are low, the school systems are rated at the bottom, the wealthy are not fairly taxed, health care is abysmal, especially for women and children. I hope the voters educate themselves before marking their ballots in 2024.

they love him because he hates the same people.
They care about what they are told to care about then they blindly follow.
The gov recently declined federal aid to the needy.
These are self destructive hate filled …. people.
It’s bad here. Real bad. Most can no longer afford rent even in two income homes.
Food cost have forced many to stop eating meat alltogether. ( interesting that artificial meat suddenly appears )
Health care is abysmal and cost for care make most choose to die. They’re great at collecting Healthcare debt. Really good at that
Dental care is … awful coupled with crooked providers.
The list goes on.
But hay they saved unwanted babies and increased the likelihood that you’d have one too.

He (Hawley) should be investigated for fomenting insurrection and then running like a little girl.

Good grief. Then we should look into the criminality of Hawley and his support/association with Jan 6 insurrectionists. Hawley continues to support the former president who has 71 pending felonies, and it appears there more to come. Until only recently, Hawley’s cover photo “proudly” displayed a picture of himself and the former president, who led an insurrection based on lies. Hawley promoted this man’s lies while giving the insurrection crowd a raised fist of support. And glory be, a Twitter post from Dec. 2020 shows that Hawley even has the support of currently indicted Meshawn Maddock, one of the Michigan fake electors, then Hawley went on to contest the Electoral Count even after the horrendous attack on the US Capitol.
But Hawley has never raised an eyebrow or criticized their lies or lawlessness. Biden has never had a hint of criminality in his past while the former president has a long history of questionable acts and immorality, many based on court testimony and court judgments, as well as testimony of close GOP close and attorneys. Recently, Hawley spoke at a Florida conference that featured the former president and many who reportedly participated in the Jan 6 insurrection plans, who still peddle 2020 election lies, and who continue to support the twice (soon to be three maybe four) times indicted former president who has already been found civilly liable for sexual abuse, whose charity was dissolved for misusing funds (stealing from charity), who closed his own university (settled out of court) due to “shocking pattern of illegality,” whose attorney and CFO were sent to prison for actions either ordered or approved by him.
Maybe the Congress should question Hawley’s criminality based upon his support, without reservation or remorse, of those who have and those who have allegedly committed crimes against our government. How much money does he receive for his on-going attempts to deceive his constituents?

And you tried to interfere in a fair election! Now you are scared you might be held accountable for your actions! Run, Josh, run!

I wish Missouri had a Senator that worked for the people of Missouri.

No such luck.

This man has done absolutely nothing for Missouri since he was elected all he done is self-promote and make political talking points

Your problem is not that a President may be corrupt. Your problem is that YOUR ex-President is being accused of serious crimes and you don’t want to have to admit, if necessary, that he was anything but perfect. That would reflect on your past support of his actions. What you are looking for is revenge in a two-tiered system of justice white-washed with complaints about what is an even-handed rule of law.

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

If Democrats were “rigging elections,” we’d have single-payer healthcare, clean water, no Fox News and solar cars by now

There’s that.

Some crook named Trump is under indictment for stealing classified materials

There’s that, also.

Campaign Finance: sending the BILL

20 Thursday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190784 07/20/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC The Simon Law Firm 800 Market St Louis MO 63101 6/30/2023 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

By people who know a lot a bout BILLing.

Campaign Finance: From the ashes?

18 Tuesday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnuts

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190996 07/18/2023 Conservative Leaders of Missouri Phoenix Home Care 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 7/18/2023 $40,000.00

C171235 07/18/2023 Missouri Senior PAC Phoenix Home Care 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 7/18/2023 $40,000.00

C131007 07/18/2023 Missouri Growth PAC Phoenix Home Care 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 7/18/2023 $40,000.00

C151156 07/18/2023 MO Majority PAC LLC Phoenix Home Care 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 7/18/2023 $40,000.00

C171229 07/18/2023 Missouri C PAC Phoenix Home Care 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 7/18/2023 $40,000.00

C141393 07/18/2023 Missouri AG PAC Phoenix Home Care 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 7/18/2023 $40,000.00

[emphasis added]

Hot.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: putting a torch to it (July 11, 2023)

Salem, Massachusetts – 1692

17 Monday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford

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4th Congressional District, former newsreader, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media, that ridiculous hat, The Devil

Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Yesterday:

[image cropped]

Mark Alford
[July 16, 2023]
We are in a spiritual battle…. A fight between the demonic forces of this world and the church, the called out. Put on the full armor of God. (Ephesians 6:10-18)
[….]

Mainstream media? Wait, wasn’t somebody a morning television newsreader for a number of years?

A part of the conversation:

[….] What is the level of demonic or Satanic forces currently in DC Congressman? My guess is rampant.

Mark Alford
[….] I don’t know exactly. I’m continually asking God for discernment in that area. I’m involved in two Bible studies there in various offices and committee rooms. And there are many strong Christians seeking God’s will for them and our great nation.

“…I don’t know exactly…”

Tried looking under the bed or in the hall linen closet? Just asking.

“We are the granddaughters of the witches you were never able to burn”

Flight

17 Monday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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birds, House Sparrow, missouri, Passer domesticus

Yesterday in west central Missouri:

House Sparrow. Passer domesticus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/1250, ISO 1600, 400 mm.

House Sparrow. Passer domesticus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/2000, ISO 1600, 400 mm.

Squirrels aren’t allowed anywhere near Eric Schmitt’s (r) social media pages because they’d scare off all of the nuts

16 Sunday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, social media, US Senate

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Eric Schmitt, Fascist pig, missouri, right wingnut, social media, U.S. Senate

Squirrel!

Yesterday, from Eric Schmitt (r):

Eric Schmitt
[July 15, 2023]
Do you regard Dr. Anthony Fauci as a hero or a fraud?

The right wingnut base reveals itself in the comments:

One word would save lives that was denied “Hydroxychloroquine”!

and ivermectin!

The ignorant among us, will destroy us!! Do some research the MSM is run by BigPharma, suppressing the data, deaths, disabilities this virus and vaccine are causing.

Read that one again.

Fauci lied people died. He needs to be tried for crimes against humanity. Please do something!

“Dr” should not be placed anywhere near his name. It is a disgrace to that profession.

He’s not a fraud. He’s an accessory to millions of murders committed by the CCP around the world.

You need to research him, Fraud! He’s responsible for murdering people with COVID19 and vaccine. He violated US Gain of Function moratorium by funding WUHAN Inst of virology through EcoHealth Alliance(Peter Daszak).

Obama was also part of it.

Yes, Obama funded Ukraine biolabs in 2014, they were working on coronavirus, also. Hunter Biden (and Joe) RosemontSeneca were involved. Obama toppled Ukraine government and installed Zelensky, their puppet. Democrat money laundering through Ukraine back to Democrat candidates.

no, Fauci is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. And he is responsible for the mass hysteria that the China flu caused.

Fhony Fauci is a murderer of people and beagle dogs, in his sick experiments!

A fraud and should be jailed for all the lives lost due to his negligence, recommendations, and mandates. Also his crimes against humanity. But where is Fauci now ?

A traitor to this country, and he should be treated as such back in the old days

He’s a monster. Between the AIDS epidemic and the CV flu, he caused the death of millions of people. That isn’t political. He’s a monster.

He is a fraud. I’ve read many articles about him and I have no doubt in my mind that he should be tried for crimes against humanity! He caused
The deaths of millions of people in the USA and in other parts of the world.

“…I’ve read many articles…” Maroon.

Fraud, one of Biden’s flunkies

And Donald Trump (r), right?

Fraud is too kind. He is a war criminal who used a bioweapon against the world.

Which war? Just asking.

The real crime is still being covered-up––namely the injection of the genetic code of this Chinese engineered gain of function spike protein into millions of citizens. Sure, Fauci funded the creation of this chimeric spike protein, but more criminally he mandated injecting it!

General Jack D. Ripper was a prophet, apparently.

Fauci is the biggest fraud ever! He should be in prison!

This lab leak was paid for by the US taxpayer, funded by Fauci, to EcoHealth alliance(Daszak) and research by Baric at UNC, Chapel Hill. Fauci covered up, they suppressed IVM and HCQ. The virus and the vaccine are bioweapons. Spike protein is pathogenic. Arrest Fauci, Collins, Baric, Daszak, Bill Gates, Anderson, Birx, Garry, Farrar, et all. MILLIONS DIED because of them.

Both the virus and the vaccine? Think about that for just a second.

Complete Post Modern quack fraud incapable of basic scientific observation. Clowns like him cost many lives. A real vaccine could have been developed from the blood of people like myself, that never got ill even after verified Covid-19 exposure. Anthony Fauchi deserves no less than the Utah classic death penalty.

Uh?

Fraud- needs to be at GITMO!!

Fauci should be in jail for all his lies he told such as … control tactics
Masks work….proven not to work
6′ distancing….not based in science
lockdowns…proven not to work
Jab safe…proven not safe
Jab keeps you from transmitting…nope
Jab keeps you from spredding…nope
Jabs effective…not effective
Jab for kids … not proven science
Ccp19 was from bats…from lab leak
Not funding gain of function…Lie!
MANDATES…AGAINST CIVIL LIBERTIES. OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS
The whole time he used scare TACTICS and people fell for it. CDC even posted there was 99.995% survival rate. Who thinks this was really a pandemic??

Amazing.

A fraud and a mass murder—he and Gates and the others committed mass genocide and should be held accountable and get the same punishment that anyone else would get, not a free pass, or a slap on the wrist.

Nuremberg Code could be applied for many of the government acts.
1)voluntary consent – Biden Admin made it mandatory
1)Also in point 1, no “coercion”. The government were offering “incentives” as a true form of “coercion”. Feds were giving money to states to use to “bribe” people to get these shots.
There are many other medical issues. But, if you use the Nuremberg Code, that should be used to deal with all involved.

Fraud. He lied to protect himself and his mistake to fund the lab in China. As a result, many Americans died. Sounds like a prosecution is in order.

So, then the pandemic was real? Just asking.

He helped kill my grandson.

Fraud- and should be charged with crimes against humanity!

Domestic Terrorist!

FRAUD needs to go gitmo/guillotine

Alliteration is apparently a requirement in some right wingnut dogma.

He tried to kill all of us

War criminal

Which war? Just asking.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Johnson County Democrats – July 15, 2023

16 Sunday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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57th Legislative District, Democratic Party, missouri

Johnson County Democrats held a picnic in a Warrensburg park yesterday. About forty individuals attended, including Democrats from nearby counties.

Johnson County Democratic Committee chair Ray James spoke and introduced other speakers:

Ray James, Chair of the Johnson County Democratic Committee.

Cass County Democrat and Missouri Democratic Party State Committee member Lorree Voight spoke on organizing and voter turnout, particularly in Cass and Johnson Counties:

Loree Voight, Vice Chair of the Cass County Democratic Committee and member of the Missouri Democratic Party State Committee from the 31st Senate District.

Missouri State Democratic Party Vice Chair Yvonne Reeves Chong, from Pulaski County, spoke on voter turnout in rural counties and on running for office:

Yvonne Reeves Chong, Vice Chair of the Missouri Democratic Party.

Former Missouri State Representative Deleta Williams (D) also spoke about her ten years representing the then 121st Legislative District and Johnson County in the General Assembly. The Missouri General Assembly had definitely been more responsive, representative, and productive during that period.

Mike Walbom, from Johnson County, announced he was running as a Democratic Party candidate for the 57th Legislative District in the Missouri General Assembly:

Mike Walbom, Democratic Party candidate for the 57th Legislative District.

Dogma and the lunatic fringe in Congress

15 Saturday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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4th Congressional District, abortion, former newrseader, Mark Alford, missouri, NDAA, right wingnut, social media, that ridiculous hat

Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Yesterday:

Mark Alford
[July 14, 2023]

Ronny Jackson
[….]
Historic news! The Jackson-Roy amendment to END the Biden administration’s ILLEGAL abortion policy was just adopted! I will never waiver in my defense of the unborn!

Quoting that doctor. Interesting.

Some of the responses/conversation:

Does this mean you are going to start having Mondays With Mark, at local orphanages? Help get the unwanted children wanted again? Approve the funding for those orphanage’s while you are at it.

who the hell would want to screw you?

no one I guess. Never been into that whole, being a billionaire simp, thing. You can bend over and have it all buddy.

Mark Alford
[….] kill innocent babies because no one wants to take care of them? That’s a sick disgusting way of looking at life

Simpleton.

but you want to put women through risking pregnancies that doctors now have to tell them to wait because you and other Republicans have made the law so blurred as to what counts as a necessary abortion? Maternity rates just for wanted pregnancies along have increased drastically in states with same anti abortion laws because women are going through unviable pregnancies or miscarriages, and doctors are having to basically wait until the mother herself is dying before anything can actually be done.
History has shown that anti aborti9n and heavy restricted laws don’t stop abortions and only creat more illegal abortions that are much more harmful than the practice our doctors were trained for.
You and the others in your party don’t actually care about life. And sure as shit don’t care after it’s been born!

THAT is what birth control is for! Abortion is NOT birth control. EVERY baby is a blessing

Obviously hasn’t been keeping up with right wingnut dogma.

Totally ignoring the Military Troops and Leaders advice of ” By not supporting ALL of us, we are weakening the Military as a whole”.

Nobody is going to put their life on the line for Joe Biden. Put Trump back in, you’ll have more than enough people inlist.

One takes an Oath to protect the Constitution and enemies, both foreign and domestic. tRump actually created his own domestic terrorists who are paying time for their treason.
How did that pan out?
Biden has put America back in standing with our Allies and protecting against foreign terrorists.

ok dumb dumb Quit smoking crack with hunter in the WHITE house.

Spelling isn’t their strong suit either.

I just wish you cared about the living children.

This is not an abortion policy.
It is a travel policy. Allowing a soldier to travel to get legal health care not available in their location.
We medically evac family members and troops all the time to receive care not available at their location.

Mark Alford
[….]it’s called the Hyde Amendment

aware of the Amendment. DOD is not paying for the abortion.

Mark Alford
[….] paying to facilitate it

Dogma.

Campaign Finance: They keep saying that

14 Friday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C222341 07/14/2023 Missouri Agrees John McDonnell 1 Serendipity Ln St Louis MO 63131 Retired 7/12/2023 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

As if repeating it will make it so.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? (February 21, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? – part 2 (February 23, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? – part 3 (March 9, 2023)

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” *

14 Friday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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B-2, missouri

* J. Robert Oppenheimer (1965)

By arrangement and through reassuring multiple layers of serious security throughout the process we were able to tour a B-2 bomber at Whiteman AFB, Missouri. No phones, no cameras, no hats (potential FOD).

The tour is fascinating and, of course, sobering.

One comes away with a greater appreciation for the dedication and professionalism of the ground and flight crews. They don’t have easy jobs.

Photo: 131st Bomb Wing Public Affairs,
Airman 1st Class Phoenix Lietch

A bit of tour swag:

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