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Campaign Finance: rooting for a scoreless tie

03 Wednesday Jul 2024

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campaign finance, Cops for Kehoe, governor, Lieutenant Governor, Mike Kehoe, missouri, PAC, right wingnut

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission on behalf of one of the many republican gubernatorial primary candidates:

C242733 07/03/2024 Cops for Kehoe Missouri Law Enforcement for Good Government PAC 715 Jefferson St Jefferson City MO 65101 7/3/2024 $125,000.00

[emphasis added]

Really.

Mike Kehoe (r) [2022 file photo].

Heh.

03 Wednesday Jul 2024

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Donald Trump, Grifter, grifting, MAGA, social media

Today:

Jack E. Smith @7Veritas4

Good morning.

Take a walk in your neighborhood today.

Touch some grass.

Grab a coffee with a friend.

All the things Steve Bannon can’t.

7:52 AM · Jul 3, 2024

There’s all that.

Women hold up the sky…

03 Wednesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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…and maintain strength in the streets.


[from 2017]

Let’s all not repeat history.

Early this morning

03 Wednesday Jul 2024

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lightning, missouri, weather

In west central Missouri:

Canon 5D III, 1.8 50 mm.
f 8.0, 1/10, ISO 400, 50 mm.

Too funny

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

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4th Congressional District, Donald Trump, dumbass, Fascist pig, former newsreader, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Steve Bannon, Supreme Court, sycophant

A very strange hill to plant your flag on, Mark (r).

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[July 1, 2024]
Steve Bannon is a political prisoner.
Biden has weaponized the government against his political opponents, and turned the Department of Justice upside down.
Bannon followed his lawyer’s counsel, and the J6 select committee was illegitimate.
This is a disgrace to our country.

A few days earlier, an order from the U.S. Supreme Court:

(ORDER LIST: 603 U.S.)
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2024
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
23A1129 BANNON, STEPHEN K. V. UNITED STATES
The application for release pending appeal presented to The
Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied.

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

Are you planning on doing stand-up when your political career ends? You post some funny stuff.

And after this prison sentence is the trial for defrauding people into donating to build a wall. which he used to live a lavish lifestyle. MAGA…only the best people.

Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, Rick Gates, Alan Weisselberg all sentenced to prison, yes Trump pardoned some of them while Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Scott Hall took plea deals to testify against co-defendants. Many other Trump lawyers are also facing serious charges. Meanwhile Trump boasts he hires only the best people. “Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.” [….]

Let’s not forget America’s Bankrupt Mayor will be having his turn with the “serious charges.”

We now have the great of embarrassment of having Alford in the same breath as Boebert, Greene, and Gaetz.

like Gym Jordan?

Good. You break the law you go to jail.

Congressman Mark Alford did you get your law degree from Trump University?

He should ask for his money back.

Or did he drop out?

Someone who has so little respect for our judicial system does not belong in Congress.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2006: “There is nothing that is more important for our republic than the rule of law. No person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is above the law.”

The party of law and order!!!!

Lies lies lies.

#LockHimUp!

You are a disgrace!

Marky, sit down and shut the fuck up. Bannon isn’t a political prisoner. He was put in jail for failing to follow a Congressional summons. That is called breaking the law in this country. You break the law you do your time.

You’re incompetent and a disgrace.
Not surprised at all by your asinine statement, shilling for crumb.

Congressman Mark Alford, you’re such an IDIOT

You are a delusional supporter of traitors.

The Supreme Court you were licking on for the immunity of your master told Bannon no.

Heh. There’s that.

Mark , I do not think ,your drunk ass friend is liked in the forth district,your need to rest from all your ego lifting,take the day off

Steve Bannon is an adult. He made his choices. Including the choice to defy Congressional subpoenas at the risk of incarceration.
Bannon got what the rule of law proscribed.
It is also what the Rule of Trump always leads to. (The Rule of Trump is that Trump has the Fecal Touch – everything he touches turns to shit.)
And there’s a laundry list of loyal supporters who can tell you the same.

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

Oh, Mark. You’re a farce.
It’s laughable that you claim Biden is weaponizing the legal system. That’s exactly what Donny did and will do again if elected.
That’s called projection, and you’re very good at it.

I’d say Alford projects often, not that he’s good at it…..

Heh.

Steve Bannon is a criminal who was corruptly pardoned by President Trump. He should have been tried and convicted for the We Build the Wall scam with the three other men who didn’t get pardoned by his buddy, Donald Trump. I suppose that left him feeling like he was above the law and so he ignored a subpoena from Congress. No one is above the law, Mark. No one.

Well, now, because of the six wingnut majority on the U.S. Supreme Court Donald Trump (r) is.

Oh ffs.

Mark the Supreme Court refused to save him last week. He refused subpoenas from congress of which you are a member of. That same Supreme Court gave your dictator wannabe some immunity. Was that an example of Biden weaponizing the government? If he is manipulating the Justice dept like rump did in office, why didn’t he in his son’s case? Your logic, judgment and morals are seriously flawed Mark. You believe laws only apply to some people and not your cult. You have betrayed your oath of office and I’m ashamed you horribly represent us in Missouri.

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Campaign Finance: a little money here, a little money there

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Uncategorized

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campaign finance, Club for Growth, Concord Fund, Defend Missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnut

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, just sharing the wealth:

232374 07/02/2024 Defend Missouri Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee 1700 DOGWOOD FARM LANE NEW BLOOMMFIELD MO 65063 7/2/2024 $700,000.00

[emphasis added]

From what? Arkansas? Just asking.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: You think it’s a typo? (June 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: adding it up (June 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: …the matter with Missouri… (June 24, 2024)

The real populist

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

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Joe Biden (D) [2020 file photo].

Yesterday.

The White House
Washington

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 2, 2024

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BIDEN
ON THE SUPREME COURT’S IMMUNITY RULING

Cross Hall

(July 1, 2024)

7:45 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening.

The presidency is the most powerful office in the world. It’s an office that not only tests your judgment, perhaps even more importantly it’s an office that can test your character because you not only face moments where you need the courage to exercise the full power of the presidency, you also face moments where you need the wisdom to respect the limits of the power of the office of the presidency.

This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America. Each — each of us is equal before the law. No one — no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States.

With today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all — for all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.

This is a fundamentally new principle, and it’s a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States. The only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone.

This decision today has continued the Court’s attack in recent years on a wide range of long-established legal principles in our nation, from gutting voting rights and civil rights to taking away a woman’s right to choose to today’s decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation.

Nearly four years ago, my predecessor sent a violent mob to the U.S. Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power. We all saw it with our own eyes. We sat there and watched it happen that day. Attack on the police. The ransacking of the Capitol. A mob literally hunting down the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. Gallows erected to hang the vice president, Mike Pence. I think it’s fair to say it was one of the darkest days in the history of America.

Now the man who sent that mob to the U.S. Capitol is facing potential criminal conviction for what happened that day. And the American people deserve to have an answer in the courts before the upcoming election. The public has a right to know the answer about what happened on January 6th before they ask to vote again this year.

Now, because of today’s decision, that is highly, highly unlikely. It’s a terrible disservice to the people of this nation.

So, now — now the American people have to do what the Court should have been willing to do but would not. The America people have to render a judgment about Donald Trump’s behavior. The American people must decide whether Donald Trump’s assault on our democracy on January 6th makes him unfit for public office in the highest office in the land. The American people must decide if Trump’s embrace of violence to preserve his power is acceptable.

Perhaps most importantly, the American people must decide if they want to entrust the president — once again, the presidency to Donald Trump, now knowing he’ll be even more emboldened to do whatever he pleases whenever he wants to do it.

You know, at the outset of our nation, it was the character of George Washington, our first president, that defined the presidency. He believed power was limited, not absolute, and that power would always reside with the people — always.

Now, over 200 years later, with today’s Supreme Court decision, once again it will depend on the character of the men and women who hold that presidency that are going to define the limits of the power of the presidency, because the law will no longer do it.

I know I will respect the limits of the presidential power, as I have for three and a half years. But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law.

I concur with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today. She — here’s what she said. She said, “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” end of quote.

So should the American people dissent. I dissent.

May God bless you all. And may God help preserve our democracy. Thank you. And may God protect our troops.

7:49 P.M. EDT

There is a difference. Vote for the decent person over the Fascist narcissist. That’s your stark choice in November.

Campaign Finance: slick

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190996 07/02/2024 Conservative Leaders of Missouri Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C171235 07/02/2024 Missouri Senior PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C131007 07/02/2024 Missouri Growth PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C151156 07/02/2024 MO Majority PAC LLC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C171229 07/02/2024 Missouri C PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C141393 07/02/2024 Missouri AG PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

Spreading the…wealth, apparently.

Fifty years in the making

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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John Dean, Richard Nixon, social media, Supreme Court

Yesterday:

John W. Dean @JohnWDean

“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

Richard Nixon, 1974

Affirmed, US Supreme Court, 2024

10:22 AM · Jul 1, 2024

It’s their world, the rest of us only get to live in it.

Previously:

Banana Republic (July 1, 2024)

Banana Republic – Rule of law? What rule of law? (July 1, 2024)

Banana Republic – It’s a cult (July 1, 2024)

Ask me how I feel right now. I dare you. (July 1, 2024)

John Cole is a steely-eyed missile man… (July 1, 2024)

John Cole is a steely-eyed missile man…

01 Monday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Balloon Juice, enough hand wringing, John Cole, presidential immunity, Supreme Court, The End

This evening:

While Trump and Roberts and Alito were lighting the Reichstag on fire…
[….]
I’ve already unleashed most of my venom about the scotus decision on twitter. I just don’t have the patience for motherfuckers right now. Shit is all hands on deck. Again, I am a straight white dude in my 50’s who was baptized christian as a childd, and I will be fine in the upcoming Christian caliphate/Fourth Reich/Magadom. And I can not control how other people vote, but if Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, and the youths want to not support Biden to teach him a lesson, there simply isn’t much I can do. Good luck drinking fracking water, breathing chemicals, and eating poison, and if you are lucky enough to make it, you better have saved some money because they are coming for social security, medicare, and medicaid. They are coming for it all. OSHA is dead, unions are gonna get it next, gay marriage, interracial marriage- it’s all on the fucking table.

I mentioned this on twitter and was immediately accused of “punching down.” Motherfucker, I am not punching anyone. I’m trying to get you to stop punching yourself in the dick and supporting the guy who didn’t fucking use Palestinian as a slur in the debate.

I just can’t with people. Politics is a god damned team sport.
[….]

Previously:

Banana Republic (July 1, 2024)

Banana Republic – Rule of law? What rule of law? (July 1, 2024)

Banana Republic – It’s a cult (July 1, 2024)

Ask me how I feel right now. I dare you. (July 1, 2024)

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