Why America is doomed. In four sentences.

31 Tuesday Oct 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

An exchange of comments on Josh Hawley’s (r) page:

Your arrogance is laughable, especially in light of running away from trouble on 1/6. Run, Josh, run!!

And then, four sentences:

[….]they were all told to leave quickly. He waited until the others were well on their way then ran to catch up. Just because something is videotaped doesn’t mean it tells the whole story. Missouri loves Josh Hawley!

Say that really fast without taking a breath.

It’s a cult. We’re all doomed.

Previously:

Josh Hawley (r) steps on his….tie, once again {October 31, 2023)

Josh Hawley (r) steps on his….tie, once again

31 Tuesday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Today, in Washington, D.C.

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Typical:

Josh Hawley (r): …I think that your performance is despicable and I think the fact that you are not willing to provide answers to this committee is absolutely atrocious.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: Mr. Chairman, may I?

Senator Gary Peters (D): Like if you’d like to have a, a minute to respond you were…

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: I would and I’m not sure I’ll
limit it to sixty seconds.

Senator Gary Peters (D): That’s fine.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: Number one, uh, what I found despicable is the implication, uh, that, uh, this language,
tremendously odious, um, actually could be emblematic of the sentiments of the two-hundred-sixty-thousand men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, number one.

Number two, uh, Senator Hawley takes a adversarial approach to me in this question and perhaps he doesn’t know my own background. Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor, perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family at the hands of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced, I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage, and I do not expect an apology, but I did want to say what I just articulated. Thank you.

Josh Hawley (r): Mr. Chairman can, can I just respond since he
has referenced me personally?

Senator Gary Peters (D): Senator Hawley, we need to move on….

Not a demon, more of a clown, really, or maybe a demonic clown

30 Monday Oct 2023

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

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4th Congressional District, clown show, clowns, former newsreader, Mark Alford, Mike Johnson, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Speaker

“…Dems Quick to Demonize New Speaker Johnson…”

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 30, 2023]
I was proud to vote for Mike Johnson for Speaker.
He is the right man for the job.
He has unified the House GOP.
We are a team. We are ready to work.
[….]

Just a few responses:

America is not a theocracy.

but the declaration and Constitution and pledge and our currency all mention him. You won’t break if you say his name.

“Beelzebub” is in the Constitution? Just asking.

The U.S. Constitution does not mention God. The Pledge of Allegiance is not a founding document. The original text of the pledge, written by a socialist minister in 1892, had no mention of God.

A little early for a victory lap. Still much to do.

🙏

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Previously:

Elect republican clowns to Congress, expect a clown show (October 3, 2023)

This. Exactly. This. (October 4, 2023)

When all you ever do is feed the beast it will never be enough (October 5, 2023)

You voted for the rule, schmuck (October 6, 2023)

Maybe you should elect a Speaker at some point? (October 12, 2023)

This hasn’t aged well (October 13, 2023)

What else would you expect, Ann (r)? (October 14, 2023)

You asked (October 15, 2023)

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican – part the infinity (October 16, 2023)

You are the choices you make (October 16, 2023)

The insurrectionist clown in a yellow tie (October 19, 2023)

Who’s next? (October 20, 2023)

You keep asking… (October 21, 2023)

We’re not surprised by this, Mark (r) (October 23, 2023)

This aged really, really well (October 23, 2023)

Another one bites the dust… (October 24, 2023)

Still the same circus, just another clown (October 25, 2023)

Campaign Finance: sounds ominous

29 Sunday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C211547 10/29/2023 The 100 PAC Believe in Life and Liberty P.O. Box 84 St Charles MO 63302 10/27/2023 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

A hundred of what? Just asking.

To be a fly…

28 Saturday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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fly, Mike Pence, presidential campaign, right wingnut, social media

Mike Pence (r) has suspended his 2024 campaign for President.

Mike Pence

Some of the comments:

I’m so sad to hear you are dropping your campaign.

So glad he dropped out of the Presidential Race. He “shot himself in the foot” and can’t blame Pres Trump for his problems! Just my opinion [….]

He’s a TRAITOR

We all know this Rhino failed America.
You must be a Liberial.

It’s impossible to win when everyone hates you.

It’s about time you seen sense after what you done to the people !

Sad because you said it yourself America is not my problem and you said we need to send hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars to Ukraine and fund wars all over the world sad.. And people like you believe that America’s military should be used to protect the borders of every country in the world and give the middle finger to the American border and the American people sad again. You sure surprised me and you betrayed America and America’s President Donald John Trump.

You couldn’t even DEFEND America or follow the Constitution on January 6th, 2021. You went along with the COUP & Narratives of the Uni-Party & ignored the Alarms over the Election FRAUDS.
You’re already toooooo PRIVILEGED to be relevant.

Now just imagine if you hadn’t wasted all of the other candidates’ time and opportunity to make some ground on Trump with the oxygen given at the debates. What…a….waste. You should have made a wiser call a long time ago. You never had a shot.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!!!

Yesssss so happy you are suspending campaign, go retire and take care of your LBBB!!!

Mike Pence couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag…..

do nothing VP wanna be President to also do none for the people. never once did he stand for the people. it was Trump going to the border, Trump meeting dignitaries. Pence road Trumps wave and then knifed him in the back.

It’s a cult.

Disloyal, Uniparty, phony. You wouldn’t be President if you were the only one running.

Pence is a Deep State operative.

Deserted Trump and talked crap on him and here you are finished. What you did to the Country and will never be forgotten. Your finished.

Hey Mike Pence. I heard Walmart is hiring. Lol

Good riddance, traitor. Nothing honorable or effective about you.

MAYBE TRUSTEE AT GITMO. WHY ARE ALL OTHER TRUMP ACQUAINTANCE BEING ATTACKED, EXCEPT BENEDICT PENCE. FINANCIAL RECORDS COULD PROBABLY ANSWER THAT.

Mike you need to hang it up. No one likes you. No one.

You had no other option but to drop out. Cowards have no place anywhere near the people’s house. Now do yourself a favour, yeah? Come out and say you were a coward and apologise to the American people and the greatest, and future President Donald J. Trump.

Your decision is the best news I’ve heard all year! You are a traitor! Good riddance!

GODS GRACE YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GRACE YOUR A TRAITOR!!!!!

And ye shall no them by there illiteracy…

YOUR A TRAITOR
GOOD RIDDENS

We’re not making any of this up.

President Donald J. Trump is the LORD [….] Jesus Christ chosen and anointed President for the USA. [….]

Bye bye Judas

Give it up. You will never be president and your wife will never be the first mother. [….]

You helped build this, Mike.

The Headless Republican

28 Saturday Oct 2023

Posted by penroseonpolitics in Congress

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House Freedom Caucus, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Representative Jim Jordan, Republican Election Deniers, Republican Party, Republican Party Dysfunction, Republican Speaker Cartoon, Republican Speaker's Race, Trump Republican Party

Dude, you were a happy talk newsreader on a morning television show

27 Friday Oct 2023

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

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4th Congressional District, former newsreader, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 27, 2023]
As a career communicator, with more than 35 years of broadcast media experience, and more live on-camera experience than anyone in television history, I will bring a unique skillset to the role that would best help to advocate for Republican success.
That’s why we have decided to announce our candidacy for Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference. With each of my colleagues support, I will help our Conference to deliver our message so that we all will win big in 2024.
[….]

Some of the responses:

this is absolutely embarrasing. You can’t legislate, so you want to go back to being a tv teleprompter reading waste of time.

You were elected to help Missouri NOT be on television.
Ask the women at Fox 4 what a good job you did.

“…more live on-camera experience than anyone in television history…”
What a claim. Show the proof.

Mark Alford
4 hours average on air a day for 50 weeks a year for 23 years

That’s quite a record, no doubt. It seems many anchors and hosts with 24 years experience or more could make the same claim.

It’s hard to believe when Don Alhart (winner of 5 Edward R Murrow awards) has been in TV news for over 57 years and is still on the air.

He should apply to Guiness Book of World Records lol,

Mark Alford
I have 23,000 hours
Regis philben has the Guinness record 16,572 I think
Because he paid to get listed
I’ve got him beat by well over 5,000 hours

Dude, you’re comparing yourself to a happy talk talk show host.

Application process does not cost anything when applying to break an existing record…go for it.

Mark Alford
did and that’s not what I got from them

How is this all relevant or of any importance?

Hoping you are voted into the position! Your experience is needed!

his experience reading a teleprompter?

“We” have decided? “Our” candidacy?

Heh.

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

The story of the gun

26 Thursday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Eric Schmitt, gun violence, guns, Josh Hawley, Lewiston, Maine, missouri, U.S. Senate, Virginia

Bad timing.

Roll Call Vote 118th Congress – 1st Session
Vote Summary
Question: On the Amendment (Kennedy Amdt. No. 1354 )
Vote Number: 268
Vote Date: October 25, 2023, 03:10 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Amendment Agreed to
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 1354 to S.Amdt. 1092 to H.R. 4366 (No short title on file)

Statement of Purpose: To prohibit the availability of funds for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Vote Counts:
YEAs 53
NAYs 45
Not Voting 2

Missouri: Hawley (R-MO), Yea Schmitt (R-MO), Yea

[emphasis added]

(Sec. 422) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used to report certain determinations regarding a veteran’s mental incompetency to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is used to conduct background checks to determine if an individual is eligible to receive a firearm.

[….]
Sec. 422. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report a determination under section 5502 of title 38, United States Code, and section 3.353 of title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations, to the Department of Justice National Instant Criminal Background Check System established pursuant to section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901).
[….]

38 CFR § 3.353
§ 3.353 Determinations of incompetency and competency.

(a) Definition of mental incompetency. A mentally incompetent person is one who because of injury or disease lacks the mental capacity to contract or to manage his or her own affairs, including disbursement of funds without limitation.
[….]