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23 Monday Dec 2024

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“Family Values”

IOKIYAR*

The report, released today:

IN THE MATTER OF ALLEGATIONS

RELATING TO REPRESENTATIVE

MATT GAETZ

R E P O R T [pdf]

COMMITTEE ON ETHICS

December 23, 2024.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered
to be printed

[….]
In sum, the Committee found substantial evidence of the following:
• From at least 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.
• In 2017, Representative Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl.
• During the period 2017 to 2019, Representative Gaetz used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.
• Representative Gaetz accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging in connection with a 2018 trip to the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts.
• In 2018, Representative Gaetz arranged for his Chief of Staff to assist a woman with whom he engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating
to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent.
• Representative Gaetz knowingly and willfully sought to impede and obstruct the Committee’s investigation of his conduct.
• Representative Gaetz has acted in a manner that reflects discreditably upon the House.

Based on the above, the Committee concluded there was substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, acceptance of impermissible gifts, the provision of special favors and privileges, and obstruction of Congress.
[….]

Donald Trump (r) nominated Matt Gaetz (r) to be the Attorney General of the United States. Think about that for a second.

* it’s okay if you’re a republican

Planned Parenthood remains subject to TRAP restrictions in Missouri

21 Saturday Dec 2024

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“….However, the practical effect of the decision is that no health center in the state can restart abortion services because none has an abortion license, or can get one under the state’s draconian requirements. The vast majority of Planned Parenthood health centers cannot comply with the medically irrelevant size requirements for hallways, rooms, and doors—and no health centers are able to comply with an equally irrelevant, invasive vaginal exam for patients seeking medication abortion. Plaintiffs will continue to fight to see that these restrictions are enjoined….”

“Abortion is health care”

Yesterday, in the Jackson County Circuit Court a significant number of TRAP laws (“targeted regulation of abortion providers”) in Missouri statutes were enjoined. However, certain restrictions remain in place, creating barriers to the resumption of women’s reproductive health and abortion rights in Missouri as guaranteed in Amendment 3 which was approved by Missouri voters in November.

Yesterday, from Planned Parenthood – Great Plains:

Two weeks after Amendment 3 takes effect, Planned Parenthood providers remain unable to restart abortion care due to court order allowing multiple TRAP laws and other restrictions to stay in effect

For Immediate Release: Dec. 20, 2024

Missourians remain unable to exercise their constitutional right to abortion under Amendment 3 at Planned Parenthood clinics after a Jackson County circuit court judge issued a mixed decision that leaves in place numerous abortion restrictions. While Planned Parenthood stands ready to start providing abortions in Missouri again as soon as the Court permits, the abortion restrictions remaining in effect – including Missouri’s medically unnecessary and discriminatory clinic licensing requirement – make this impossible.

As a result of today’s mixed decision, Missourians continue to be deprived of time-sensitive, essential, and constitutionally protected health care, despite voting in favor of a constitutional right to abortion.

In a win for abortion rights, the court enjoined the state’s abortion bans, including the Total Ban, as well as the vast majority of the TRAP laws Plaintiffs challenged, including the 72-hour mandated delay period, biased information requirements, and hospital admitting privileges.

However, the practical effect of the decision is that no health center in the state can restart abortion services because none has an abortion license, or can get one under the state’s draconian requirements. The vast majority of Planned Parenthood health centers cannot comply with the medically irrelevant size requirements for hallways, rooms, and doors—and no health centers are able to comply with an equally irrelevant, invasive vaginal exam for patients seeking medication abortion. Plaintiffs will continue to fight to see that these restrictions are enjoined.

The licensure requirement also leaves Planned Parenthood facilities at the whim of anti-abortion officials in Missouri, who can continue to weaponize the licensure process to limit abortion access, as they have done for decades. In 2019, for example, the Department of Health and Senior Services used facility licensure as the tool to target the last-remaining abortion facility in the state in an attempt to eliminate all abortion access. The effort was later rejected by the State’s Administrative Hearing Commission. During this process, the Department invented a new requirement that patients seeking medication abortion must submit to a medically unnecessary invasive vaginal exam. It was revealed during that litigation the Health Director maintained a spreadsheet of Planned Parenthood patients’ menstrual cycles.

The health care providers who filed the challenge, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers–Missouri, would have been able to immediately resume abortion care if the court had granted the requested preliminary relief. Plaintiffs are evaluating their legal options, as they vow to continue fighting to fulfill the promise of Amendment 3 and restore abortion access in Missouri.

Emily Wales, Planned Parenthood Great Plains President and CEO [2024 file photo].

“It is unacceptable that tomorrow, just like for the past two weeks, Missourians will have a constitutional right that cannot be realized in their home state,” said Emily Wales, president and CEO of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains. “We’re relieved the court recognized and enjoined many oppressive laws on the books that serve no purpose except to put abortion out of reach. Unfortunately, a key tool weaponized by anti-abortion politicians — the licensure process — remains in effect, and we are unable to restore care. We stand ready to begin providing access to abortion in Missouri and will keep fighting to ensure Missourians’ rights are fully realized as soon as possible.”

“While we are pleased the court blocked most of the abortion bans and restrictions in the lawsuit, we are disappointed that today’s decision continues to allow the State of Missouri to deprive Missourians of their constitutionally protected right to abortion,” said Richard Muniz, interim President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers. “Last month, Missourians voted to ensure abortion is available for those who need it, but this decision keeps that care out of reach, blocking patients from care and highlighting just how extreme anti-abortion politicians have been in their crusade to ban abortion. But make no mistake — this fight is not over. As litigation continues, we will do everything we can to ensure our patients have access to abortion care, no matter what.

“It is disappointing that two weeks after Amendment 3 took effect, Missourians are still unable to exercise their right to reproductive freedom,” said Planned Parenthood Federation of America president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. “ This is unacceptable, and we will not stop fighting to ensure that Missourians’ vote on Amendment 3 is fully realized and protected. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and our affiliated health care providers in Missouri will continue working alongside our partners to restore abortion access and protect Missourians’ reproductive freedom.”

“Today’s decision to block Missouri’s total abortion ban and several of the medically unnecessary restrictions is the first step to realizing the promise of Missourians’ new constitutional right to reproductive freedom,” said Gillian Wilcox, Director of Litigation at the ACLU of Missouri. “While the decision will not allow for plaintiffs to immediately open their doors to provide care because of restrictions that have not yet been enjoined, hospitals and health care providers across the state will be able to provide more care today than they could yesterday without the fear of criminal prosecution. We will continue to fight to see that Missourians’ constitutional rights are fully recognized by the courts.”

The case, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers v. State of Missouri, was brought within 24 hours of Missouri voters passing the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative, which appeared as Amendment 3 on the 2024 General Election ballot. The amendment creates and protects the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which is the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions.

“Bans off our bodies”

Previously:

Chutzpah (Kansas) (August 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Not too sure about that (January 16, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – women’s rights initiative petition for 2024 ballot (January 18, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Remember Kansas? Missouri is next. (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: own it (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: We’re not in Kansas anymore (January 19, 2024)

Mark Alford (r) – failure to read the womb, again (January 21, 2024)
Campaign Finance: More (January 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and more (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: It does, but not in the way you think. (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and even more (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “No one expects the anti-choice imposition” (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: this is the beginning, not the end (February 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming (February 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: philanthropy (February 6, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – volunteer training, petition signing, rally – Kansas City, Missouri – February 6, 2024 (February 6, 2024)

Rev. Holly McKissick – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Rabbi Doug Alpert – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Dr. Iman Alsaden – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Hartzell Gray – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the world in which they want you to exist (February 9, 2024)

Signing, Everywhere, All at Once (February 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: definitely a global impact (February 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: forward (February 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: still more (February 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: more forward (February 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (March 5, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Sedalia, Missouri – March 17, 2024 (March 17, 2024)

Campaign Finance: there’ll be more (March 20, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Warrensburg, Missouri – April 5, 2024 (April 5, 20204)

Campaign Finance: sign the petition (April 10, 2024)

Sign the Petition (April 15, 2024)

Signing the petition in Lexington, Missouri (April 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: on several levels (April 27, 2024)

Signing the Petition in Raymore, Missouri (April 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: guess what’s next (April 29, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions (May 3, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions – part 2 (May 3, 2024)

Abortion Rights Rally in Jefferson City – May 3, 2024 – Press Gaggle (May 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised? (September 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a friend (September 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: wedge issue (September 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no time to waste (September 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: time is almost up (October 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Who would have thought? (October 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: unequal and opposite (October 9, 2024)

Campaign Finance: not messing around (October 10, 2024)

Donald Trump’s (r) World: they want you to continue to live in it (October 15, 2024)

Campaign Finance: In 20 days (October 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more for choice (October 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: what she said (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: after that forced birth, you’re on your own (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: everyone knows someone (October 27, 2024)

Campaign Finance: making it their business (October 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: gird your loins (October 29, 2024)

Campaign Finance: To spend on what?

Fuck You, Fuck You, Very, Very Much (October 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the forced birthers spend their money (November 2, 2024)

On the same ballot (November 6, 2024)

And here you thought you were safe (November 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: missed it by that much (November 9, 2024)

Andrew Bailey’s (r) favorite whine (November 27, 2024)

SB 119: right wingnut lunacy (December 5, 2024)

Amendment 3: a number of Missouri’s TRAP statutes enjoined by the Jackson County Circuit Court (December 20, 2024)

“We will not go back”

About last night

21 Saturday Dec 2024

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Congressman Mark Alford
[December 20, 2024]
5 days ’til Christmas, not a lawmaker was resting—not even their spouse.
A CR stalled, a shutdown looms.
Let’s fund defense, aid farms, and protect Americans.
This Christmas, give the people their due: a funded government. America first, & to all, a good night.
[….]

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

The vote:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 517
H R 10545 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 20-Dec-2024 5:59 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
BILL TITLE: American Relief Act, 2025
[….]
—- YEAS 366 —

Alford
Bush
Cleaver
Graves (MO)
Smith (MO)
Wagner

—- NAYS 34 —

Burlison

—- ANSWERED “PRESENT” 1 —

—- NOT VOTING 29 —

Luetkemeyer

[emphasis added]

Some of the responses:

Hey, all you Alford voters here dependent on disaster relief, farm bill funding, Social Security checks, Medicare, Medicaid, and more. DEMOCRAT LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL SAVE THE DAY WHEN IT COMES TO KEEPING THE GOVERNMENT OPEN – AGAIN.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE HOUSE: WORKING FOR YOU!

We see what you did there.

[….] republicans just cut a measly $190 million for kids’ cancer research. You think they’re NOT going to cut SS? They’re coming for your or your granny’s social security next, PAL. Enjoy your beans and rice 7 days a week.

Wow, how desperate for attention can one man be? Let’s hope some of these paid representatives are actually earning their salaries and working on legislation instead of sound bites.

[….] made a fool of himself with this jingle on the House floor this afternoon.

We The People deserve to know what exactly is in this CR !! We demand transparency and if you voted it in we’re COMING FOR YOUR SEAT ! btw I live in your district

All bills are available online. He already did. You won’t. That doesn’t really matter to him.

A bipartisan agreement killed by an oligarch.
No cutesy rhyme needed.

An incoming president threating,his own party to do his bidding, does this sound like America, or Germany?

In the 1930s.

Talk to President Musk.

President Musk, everyone! [….]

And the DEMOCRATS came through for the PEOPLE again!
Republican infighting will be the ruin of the next Congress- par for the course.

In the end, the Democrats saved the day. The GOP could not have passed the bill on its own. Every member of the Democratic caucus (save one) voted in favor of the CR—which is the only reason the bill passed. (One Democrat voted “present.”)
In contrast, 34 Republicans voted against the bill—which means that Republicans needed Democrats to reach the two-thirds majority to pass the bill under “suspension of the rules.” Indeed, Republicans could not have passed the bill on a simple majority vote even though they hold the majority in the House!

Stop putting all the pork in these bills!

Go ahead, take this one.

Right .. 1)Paying people to DO THEIR JOBS is “pork”? 2)Sending a Rep to DC to represent this state’s “interests”, i.e. bring Fed $ HERE – but everyone ELSE is “pork”??? 3) This was a REPUBLICAN BILL… 4) WHAT “pork”?? – air traffic controllers? paying the troops?? kids with cancer?? — EXACTLY WHAT PORK are you whining about??

Is it A REPUBLICAN BILL OR A DEMOCRATIC BILL CONGRESSMAN!?? PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT IT IF IT’S NOT FOR US!!

So much confusion.

Funny? or Embarrassing.

Shut this down vote NO

Outstanding. What remarkable and lyrical eloquence supporting socialism.

Bah, humbug.

Alford votes to cut kid cancer research and told farmers in Missouri’s 4th to fuck off.
No farm assistance for farmers.
No Social Secuirty for granny.
No cancer treatments for kids.
Merry Christmas from mark alford and president musk.

What is wrong with you

So dum

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Previously:

“It’s a Christmas miracle.” (December 19, 2024)

Temper tantrum (December 19, 2024)

Cognitive Dissonance (December 17, 2024)

Amendment 3: a number of Missouri’s TRAP statutes enjoined by the Jackson County Circuit Court

20 Friday Dec 2024

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After voter approval of Amendment 3 in November, providing access to women’s reproductive health care and abortion:

“…the Court finds that Plaintiffs’ Motion should be and is hereby, GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. State Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss should be and is hereby, DENIED…”

TRAP is the terminology for “targeted regulation of abortion providers”.

Today, the Order from Jackson County Circuit Court:

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
AT KANSAS CITY

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
STATE OF MISSOURI, et al., Defendants.

Case No. 2416-CV31931
Division 3

….NOW on this day, the Court takes up Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction, or, In the Alternative, Temporary Restraining Order filed on November 6, 2024, and State Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss filed on November 25, 2024….

….Missouri has a number of statutes and regulations governing the provision of abortions and abortion care. Plaintiffs seek to enjoin Defendants from prosecuting and enforcing some of these laws. Plaintiffs allege the challenged laws in this matter penalize Plaintiffs for providing reproductive health care. It is uncontested that Plaintiffs assist patients in exercising their right to abortion and that Plaintiffs would be subject to criminal penalties for violating the challenged laws.

The Court finds Plaintiffs have standing in this matter. Plaintiffs also have third party standing to bring claims on behalf of their patients….

…Where the statutes at issue unquestionably conflict with the newly established rights afforded by Amendment 3, because they “den[y], interfer[e] with, dela[y], or otherwise restric[t]” the right to reproductive freedom, irreparable injury has been established….

….As Plaintiffs argue, they and their patients are suffering serious harm, whereas Defendants only stand to lose the ability temporarily to enforce some laws that are likely to be held unconstitutional and which further no valid compelling state interest….

….By the language of Amendment 3, the public interest is clear that voters, i.e. the public, intended to create a new fundamental right to reproductive freedom for all Missourians….

The Missouri statutes addressing a total ban on abortion, gestational age ban, and reasons ban have been enjoined by the court. The statute requiring physician admitting privileges has been enjoined. The statute requiring a medication abortion complication plan has been enjoined. The statute with pathology requirements has been enjoined. The statute requiring abortion-specific informed consent has been enjoined. The statute provisions requiring 72 hour and 24 hour waiting periods have been enjoined. The statute with the “telemedicine ban” has been enjoined.

"My body, My choice, My life, My voice"

“None of your business”

72-hour waiting period among Missouri abortion laws temporarily struck down by judge

Previously:

Chutzpah (Kansas) (August 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Not too sure about that (January 16, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – women’s rights initiative petition for 2024 ballot (January 18, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Remember Kansas? Missouri is next. (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: own it (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: We’re not in Kansas anymore (January 19, 2024)

Mark Alford (r) – failure to read the womb, again (January 21, 2024)
Campaign Finance: More (January 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and more (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: It does, but not in the way you think. (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and even more (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “No one expects the anti-choice imposition” (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: this is the beginning, not the end (February 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming (February 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: philanthropy (February 6, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – volunteer training, petition signing, rally – Kansas City, Missouri – February 6, 2024 (February 6, 2024)

Rev. Holly McKissick – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Rabbi Doug Alpert – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Dr. Iman Alsaden – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Hartzell Gray – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the world in which they want you to exist (February 9, 2024)

Signing, Everywhere, All at Once (February 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: definitely a global impact (February 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: forward (February 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: still more (February 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: more forward (February 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (March 5, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Sedalia, Missouri – March 17, 2024 (March 17, 2024)

Campaign Finance: there’ll be more (March 20, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Warrensburg, Missouri – April 5, 2024 (April 5, 20204)

Campaign Finance: sign the petition (April 10, 2024)

Sign the Petition (April 15, 2024)

Signing the petition in Lexington, Missouri (April 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: on several levels (April 27, 2024)

Signing the Petition in Raymore, Missouri (April 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: guess what’s next (April 29, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions (May 3, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions – part 2 (May 3, 2024)

Abortion Rights Rally in Jefferson City – May 3, 2024 – Press Gaggle (May 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised? (September 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a friend (September 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: wedge issue (September 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no time to waste (September 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: time is almost up (October 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Who would have thought? (October 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: unequal and opposite (October 9, 2024)

Campaign Finance: not messing around (October 10, 2024)

Donald Trump’s (r) World: they want you to continue to live in it (October 15, 2024)

Campaign Finance: In 20 days (October 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more for choice (October 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: what she said (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: after that forced birth, you’re on your own (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: everyone knows someone (October 27, 2024)

Campaign Finance: making it their business (October 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: gird your loins (October 29, 2024)

Campaign Finance: To spend on what?

Fuck You, Fuck You, Very, Very Much (October 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the forced birthers spend their money (November 2, 2024)

On the same ballot (November 6, 2024)

And here you thought you were safe (November 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: missed it by that much (November 9, 2024)

Andrew Bailey’s (r) favorite whine (November 27, 2024)

SB 119: right wingnut lunacy (December 5, 2024)

“Abortion is health care”

Behold, the President (not elected)

20 Friday Dec 2024

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Very early this morning:

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Only the AfD can save Germany
[….]
12:03 AM · Dec 20, 2024

Via Deutsche Welle:

[….]
The AfD is officially suspected of being an extreme-right organization by Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesverfassungsschutz or BfV).

In the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia it is officially categorized as such.
[….]

What could possibly go wrong?

“It’s a Christmas miracle.”

19 Thursday Dec 2024

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Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Eric Burlison
[December 19, 2024]
On Tuesday, I was angry and fed up with the same DC games.
But YOU, the American people, stepped up.
Your calls and voices helped stop the CR in its tracks.
It’s a Christmas miracle. [….]

How seasonally appropriate. Bah, humbug:

Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk’s Meddling
The House GOP has been in a state of chaos after the billionaire led a campaign to kill a bipartisan funding bill
By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Ryan Bort
December 19, 2024
[….]

Actually, it’s a cult.

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

Some of the responses to Eric Burlison (r):

Unelected Elon and not yet president Trump stopped it. That is wrong.

I really hope that the next 4 years aren’t a dumpster fire. Also, you realize that more people voted for “somebody else” than voted for Trump, so that big mandate everyone is talking about doesn’t exist.

Last night, news broke that congressional leaders had struck a bipartisan deal to keep the government from shutting down. The proposed 1,500-page measure extended the farm bill for a year and provided about $100 billion in disaster relief as well as about $10 billion in assistance for farmers. It also raised congressional salaries and kicked the government funding deadline through March 14. It seemed like a last-minute reprieve from a holiday government shutdown.
So you think you deserve a raise but don’t support the farmers in MO.
You shut down the government then you shouldn’t get paid until you take care of your constituents.

“””Oooohh.. Elon Musk re-tweeted me ..!!! “””
Sad!

Donald Trump added more debt on there than anybody.

AND wants to add more by making the 2017 tax cuts permanent.

You are not God’s gift to the planet. Your imagined entitlement is destroying the USA. Funding the government is the minimum job of Congress, and you are happy/celebrating that you cannot do the minimum required of you in your job. You are an embarrassment.

President Musk requires you to kiss his ring, peasant. And you did.

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Previously:

Temper tantrum (December 19, 2024)

Temper tantrum

19 Thursday Dec 2024

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 19, 2024]
Just spoke truth to power on the House floor and the progressive Democrats can’t handle it!
If a shutdown occurs, it will not be a Republican shutdown—this will be a DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN.
[….]

Oh, really?

House rejects Johnson’s plan B to prevent shutdown
[….]
The measure — which Johnson rolled out hours roughly three hours before the vote — failed to clear the chamber in a 174-235-1 vote, falling short of the two-thirds threshold needed for passage under the fast-track suspension of the rules process.
[….]

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

Mark Alford It Will Be President Trump/Musk’s Shutdown ! Please Pay Attention ! Tell Speaker Johnson To Cut The Pork Out of the Bill “Pay Raise for Congress” ! Congress Doesn’t Deserve a Pay Raise ! ! Congress Deserves a Pay Cut ! !

Who is president now?

Sadly It Looks Like a African Billionaire “Elon Musk” ! [….]

Heh.

I hate to break this to you, but your orange shitstain is personally responsible for well over 35% of that number, and experts have been warning for months that the orange shitstain’s plans will add another $10 Trillion to the debt – and in just a few years. Google it. Read about it. Learn. Catch up with the #FACTS

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

And the almost only trillionaire in the world is pulling all the puppet strings and making the GOP jump thru his hoops …. so, your point is?

There was a bipartisan bill and that was knocked down because REPUBLICANS do not want compromise. They want it all their way. Well then have it your way. It rests on Republicans. As long as Republicans hold the majority, no one and nothing is safe. Unless it is billionaires.

Shut down killed our business [….]

Why the theatrics?

Hey farmers in the 4th—Mark Alford just took away money from the Farm Bureau because President Musk said you have to suffer. There you go farmers–MARK ALFORD JUST TOLD YOU TO FUCK OFF. Alford only cares about what President Musk wants.

Eight people in the room between your tv clown shows.
You are an absolute embarrassment. You can stand up there and lie all you want. Your so called party is in shambles. Trump is answering to Musk and you are on tv all the time.

Trump sucker Mark

BS President Musk shutdown

Congressman Mark Alford. Democratic shutdown? My ass. You are a very small man telling vrey big lies. Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. [….]

Actually, it is very, very clear, and has played out on the airwaves, (just like Jan 6th did) showing the entire country exactly who is to blame for this – and this rests completely on the GOP. It’s another shining example of the fact the Republican Party simply cannot govern.

Alford speaks. Hilarity ensues.

But, wait, there’s more:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 19, 2024]
A picture is worth a thousand words. Today, I proudly voted for President President’s [sic] version of the continuing resolution (CR). This bill keeps the government running, addresses the debt ceiling, extends critical provisions of the Farm Bill, and delivers much-needed disaster relief for our farmers.
For too long, Washington has been plagued by reckless spending and broken promises. President Trump is already proving his commitment to restoring fiscal responsibility and putting the needs of everyday Americans first. This CR is a lifeline for our farmers, who have endured devastating natural disasters and four years of hardship under Biden’s policies.
We stand with President Trump in his fight to end business as usual and ensure that hardworking Americans can thrive in the face of adversity. Together, we’re working to secure a stronger future for our nation.

More responses:

President President’s version of the CR??? So the president has a president.
Looks like you are acknowledging Musk.
It’s become quite obvious, Trump is not going to be in charge. You lied to everyone. You did it again.
How many tv spots do you have lined up for tomorrow????

You like to reference “We”. Are you referring to to the house majority that didn’t pass it?

Good boy per President Musk

Correct me if I’m wrong. This bill did not pass the house correct? The house is Republican majority, correct? How is this a Democrat problem?

Alford never fails to embarrass

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

“President President”??? Is that Elon Musk’s new name?
Reckless spending like $1600 for water? $120k for office rent in your district? $55k to host Zoom meetings?

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Josh Hawley (r) wears a hat

18 Wednesday Dec 2024

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One of his favorites:

Today:

Senator Josh Hawley
[December 18, 2024]
Biden and the intel community have gone silent because they don’t want to tell us the truth about these drones.
The American people deserve answers when Air Force bases are getting shut down.
[….]

What a maroon.

Some of the responses:

No, YOU tell us what’s going on. You’re part of the guvmint. If you can’t find out as a US Senator, what good are you?
Speaking of which, given your innate horror at the thought of Commie Chinese breathing anywhere on the planet…tell us how appalled you are at The Mango Mussolini entertaining the billionaire Tik-Tok commie chinese guy right there in Mar-uh-bloggoh.

The TinFoil is strong in this one.

Hawley is back on Foxnews, his safe place where he feels all warm and fuzzy.

MAGA Greatness. Gaetz, Santos and Cawthorn (remember him?).

Josh is sooooo cute

Like the answers you never gave about your deep,[…] deep involvement on Jan 6.

They are going to try and shut down the power grid and get the predator drones ready to go to the Red Target locations.

Oh, no! We like shopping at Target. Oh, wait…

Senator Josh Hawley You are an idiot. [….]

Previously:

“Oh my God, it’s full of….drones.” (December 18, 2024)

Josh Hawley (r) [2024 file photo].