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Monthly Archives: September 2023

If “taxation is theft” then what are you doing here?

09 Saturday Sep 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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missouri, Turning Point USA

From the Anti-Defamation League [ADL]: Turning Point USA

From the American Association of University Professors [AAUP]: Turning Point USA

The Center for Media and Democracy – SourceWatch: Turning Point USA

Today, in west central Missouri, at a campus street fair:

Role models for America’s youth.

“Taxation is theft”

“Taxation is theft” (detail)

At a state university. Think about that for just a second.

Campaign Finance: “There’s no need to fear – Underdog is here!”

09 Saturday Sep 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC, Wonderdog PAC

Oops, wrong dog. Sorry about that, Jim.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C211648 09/08/2023 The Wonderdog PAC Richard Miller 610 East Jefferson Street Pittsburg KS 66762 MPIX CEO 9/8/2023 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Kansas? And a reference to Jim the Wonder Dog, “the official Wonder Dog of Missouri”? Just asking.

Campaign Finance: feeding the beasts

08 Friday Sep 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:

C141313 09/08/2023 FREE AND FAIR ELECTION FUND Axiom Strategies 800 W. 47th St. Ste. 200 Kansas City MO 64112 9/8/2023 $15,549.15

[emphasis added]

C091269 09/08/2023 FREEDOM PAC Axiom Strategies 800 W. 47th St. Ste. 200 Kansas City MO 64112 9/8/2023 $109,266.05

[emphasis added]

C180455 09/08/2023 Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund Axiom Strategies 800 W. 47th St. Ste. 200 Kansas City MO 64112 9/8/2023 $109,266.05

[emphasis added]

Must be nice.

About that

07 Thursday Sep 2023

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

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

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday, from Josh Hawley (r):

[image cropped]

Senator Josh Hawley
[September 6, 2023]
Hawley Urges Postal Service to Prioritize Rebuilding Post Office Destroyed in Baring, Mo., Tornado
[….]

We go there for the responses:

Election year fluff piece – Baring has a pop. of 125, and the next post office is 7 miles away and half the homes there are now uninhabitable anyway. Resign.

How about looking into ethics violations in the “supreme” court? You’re a joke. Resign you complicit pandering lying hack.

I am sure that not having a Post office in this town is a inconvienence or a problem for the less than 150 people who live there and for many of the others who live in the area surrounding the town, and I am sure that the 15 minute drive from here to Edina will not be easy for some. Are the people able to recieve and send mail at this time? I would remind you that the Post Office is a self-funding organization, not paid for by taxpayers, and I would also remind you that Postmaster de joy, who was supported by trump when he was chosen in 2020, was noted for closing Post Offices. Finally, this tornado was about a month ago. Interesting facts. Are you running out of people to harass?

DeJoy keeps trying to dismantle and/or privatize the USPS. Republicans, and Donald Trump in particular, have launched attacks at the postal service in an attempt to disrupt and discredit mail-in, or absentee, voting.
*Thankfully President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bill into law on Wednesday that will overhaul the US Postal Service’s finances and allow the agency to modernize its service. [….]

Could you explain Section 3 of the 14th Amendment? And detail how it relates to you, directly? Considering you voted No to certifying the election. You continue to give comfort and aid to trump. You signed how many letters concerning the false election lie. You were proud to defend the 60 plus lawsuits filed by or at the behest of trump, all denied, rejected, tossed and shredded by courts. And you continue to support that one term, twice impeached, 4 times indicated, charged with 91 Felonies, has to pay a hooker for sex creature.

Let’s hope that the newly constituted Board will fire DeJoy and undo his damage. No thanks to you or any other repug.

Hawley finally paying attention to Missouri….must be an election year. [….]

Almost.

Socialism! [….]

Run Joshy Run

Isnt the USPS something you conservatives are always trying to end and privatize?

What about that $240,000 you still owe this taxpayers of Missouri

What have republicans tried to do to the post office! Remind me.

Dude is a Nazi

Josh Hawley is a traitor and a coward

They have opinions.

Campaign Finance: There is another

07 Thursday Sep 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Another Viceroy PAC, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, Viceroy PAC

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232499 09/06/2023 Another Viceroy PAC J&J Ventures Gaming of Missouri, LLC 120 South Central Avenue Clayton MO 63105 9/5/2023 $30,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s a nice chunk of change.

It’s a new PAC:

There was a PAC with a similar name:

No longer.

Vaccinated with a phonograph needle

06 Wednesday Sep 2023

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

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anti-mask, anti-science, anti-vaccine, blame William Jennings Bryan, Corona virus, COVID-19, Eric Schmitt, Fascist pig, missouri, natural selection, pandemic, right wingnut, social media, U.S. Senate

And the player is stuck on repeat.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo}.

Yesterday evening:

Eric Schmitt
[September 5, 2023]
No vaccine mandates. No vaccine passports. No mask mandates. No lockdowns.

Some of the responses:

I didn’t comply last time and won’t this time . If Trump is not on the ballot in 2024 i’ll vote for the constitution party candidate .

Proceed.

No THOUGHTS…No IDEAS…No MESSAGE…No PLANS…No NOTHING….just sitting here in DC sucking up YOUR tax dollars….Senator Eric Schmitt…

There are none of these in place now. But if the need arises again, I will wear a mask and get a vaccine passport if it will save my life or the life of others.

Hope MO schools hear your words loud and clear. Please keep a close eye on them.

What’s he going to do? Issue a harsh statement on social media?

If you actually wanted to be helpful you could petition your GOP senate colleague to stop holding up military promotions and endangering our national security.

There’s that.

Who has implemented any of these at this time? No one has made any laws taking the most precious of Republican commodities away from all citizens of the US, so you can still have your freedom to spread disease, own gas stoves, guns, washing machines and driers, cars, amd ceiling fans, or drink beer till you pass out. In fact, the only things being banned are books in schools. and that is not President Biden. Quit spreading propaganda.

No one knows the exact number. How many died from heart attack or something else and they put down Covid. It’s God’s plan when you die. How many people died from pneumonia?

Has difficulty understanding the concept of excess deaths.

We can blame William Jennings Bryan for that one.

Maybe civilization will be smarter when all these people who can’t spell virus [….] or mutation pass on

Get back to work and do something meaningful

Quit stirring the pot and get back to work. You’re wasting my money

Didn’t comply before, won’t comply if they try the scamdemic again.

No science, no critical thinking & you sure seem to want body autonomy. Let’s have a group of women vote on the control you have. Your rhetoric is so dated.

So Eric did you and your family receive the vaccine last time? Just asking for a friend.

You are spineless. It is so easy to write such words when to date none of these things have been implemented. It is so easy for you to rile up your base. But what is not easy is to take a stand against a first term Senator with no political experience who is holding up at least 250 military promotions. Not only are you and the other cowardly senators affecting the military readiness, you are affecting the lives of the families of these people. So please spare us your Covid outrage. Your inactions show you really do not care

No one is asking for them so how about stop fear mongering.
Causing a problem when there isn’t one

red meat for his followers.

Can you tell me where this is happening in 2023 in Missouri?

Dude. Who the fuxk is talking about any of that shit but your loser ass with nothing better to say but bullshit!
Asshatt.

You better stop the executive orders and bureaucrats who are wanting to control stoves, dishwashers, gas cars and ceiling fans.
Also stop IRS’ building of an army of armed agents.
Also stop the ATF from trying to make every citizen who wants to privately sell a firearm into a criminal.
Also stop the Executive Branch from banning the transport of LPG (propane) on trains.
These people are lunatics, and we want you and Sen. Hawley to stop them from violating Constitutional rights and the Republic
Thanks for listening

Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy – not complete

I’m going to hold you to your word. If the feds try coming to our state and want to override you, you better not give in! I don’t know who is in charge of your page here, but I hope you tell our AG we will never comply and he better not give in!!

GFY

Storm

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Mammatus clouds, missouri, weather

Mammatus clouds this evening in west central Missouri:

Detail.

It’s not mass murder, it’s single intentional deaths, one after another, really fast

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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

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4th Congressional District, dumbass, former newsreader, gun violence, guns, Mark Alford, missouri, no hat, NRA whore, right wingnut

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday, on social media:

Mark Alford
[September 4, 2023]
It’s not “Gun Violence”. It’s “Shootings”
Quit blaming the gun!!!

What a dumbass.

Next

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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FAFO, Insurrection, January 6th, sedition

Twenty-two years in federal prison. FAFO.

Late this afternoon:

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years, longest Jan. 6 sentence yet
The former Proud Boys chairman wasn’t present at the Capitol attack, but prosecutors said he acted as “a general rather than a soldier.”

Sept. 5, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT / Updated Sept. 5, 2023, 4:53 PM CDT
By Daniel Barnes and Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON — Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday afternoon following his conviction on a seditious conspiracy charge in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

[….]

Next.

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

A seat at the table

04 Monday Sep 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, social media

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1776 PAC, campaign finance, Jess Piper, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC, social media

If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.

Yesterday:

Jess Piper @piper4missouri
Meet the Missouri 1776 PAC.

Their Vision:
“We seek to ensure the great state of Missouri not only remains a RED STATE, but also takes its place alongside states like Florida and Texas, as beacons of Liberty and Freedom for the rest of America to follow.”

What do you notice?
[….]
8:17 PM · Sep 2, 2023

There’s a certain sameness, don’t you think? I can’t quite figure it out.

Pastel shirts appear to be a thing. They are indoors. The table is set for a meal. Didn’t their mommas teach them to take their hats off at the table? Oh, and elbows off the table, too.

From the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C211643 06/11/2021 1776 PAC Richard Pogue 31855 Pogue Rd. Wright City MO 63390 Self-Employed Entrepreneur 6/11/2021 $200,000.00

C211643 06/13/2022 1776 PAC Missouri Justice PAC 222 W Columbia St Farmington MO 63640 6/13/2022 $30,000.00

C211643 06/13/2022 1776 PAC 100 PAC 2977 State Hwy K Suite 281 OFallon MO 63368 6/13/2022 $10,000.00

C211643 06/13/2022 1776 PAC Alliance For Progress LLC 230 W McCarty Street Jefferson City MO 65101 6/13/2022 $8,600.00

C211643 06/17/2022 1776 PAC MO Coalition for Video Lottery PAC PO Box 161 Wright City MO 63390 6/17/2022 $25,000.00

C211643 07/02/2022 1776 PAC MO Republican Attorneys for Civil Justice PAC PO Box 1792 Jefferson City MO 65102 6/30/2022 $25,000.00

C211643 07/18/2022 1776 PAC 100 PAC 2977 State Hwy K Suite 281 OFallon MO 63368 7/18/2022 $10,000.00

C211643 07/26/2022 1776 PAC Air Comfort Service Heating and Cooling 11920 Missouri Bottom Road Hazelwood MO 63042 7/25/2022 $7,500.00

C211643 10/19/2022 1776 PAC Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Missouri-Kansas Area PAC 1401 Hampton Ave Saint Louis MO 63139 10/18/2022 $10,000.00

C211643 10/24/2022 1776 PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 10/24/2022 $15,000.00

C211643 10/31/2022 1776 PAC Paladin PAC PO Box 161 Wright City MO 63390 10/31/2022 $6,500.00

C211643 11/09/2022 1776 PAC Professional Irrigation Systems 304 TCW Court Lake Saint Louis MO 63367 11/9/2022 $6,500.00

Previously:

Campaign Finance: sigh (October 24, 2022)

Campaign Finance: passing it around (July 2, 2023)

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