30 Sunday Nov 2025
Posted in social media
Murder.
Today:
Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social
Aside from the extremely dubious question of whether the occupants of the Venezuelan boat even qualified as “combatants,” ordering a second strike from an aircraft for the sole purpose of killing defenseless people was absolutely an illegal order.
29 Saturday Nov 2025
Posted in social media
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
10.6k ReTruths 43.9k Likes Nov 29, 2025, 6:43 AM
No blood for oil.
28 Friday Nov 2025
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House
Tags
54th Legislative District, Brandon Phelps, General Assembly, missouri, Public Education, right wingnut, vouchers
Brandon Phelps (r) [2025 file photo].
From the Missouri State Treasurer:
Under the guidelines established by the Missouri General Assembly in 2021, MOScholars tax credits may be awarded to individuals and businesses that file a Missouri income tax return and make an eligible contribution to a certified educational assistance organization (EAO). These private contributions for tax credits fund scholarship accounts for students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and students living in low-income households.
A MOScholars tax credit is equal to 100% of an eligible donation, not to exceed 50% of the donor’s state tax liability for the tax year the credit is claimed. MOScholars tax credits may be carried forward for four (4) subsequent tax years. The tax credit is not sellable, transferrable, or refundable.
[….]
About your tax dollars:
Two-day trial reveals inner workings of Missouri private school voucher program
Less than 2% of MOScholars students are funded through donations this school year. The rest depend on general revenue from the state budget
By: Annelise Hanshaw
November 26, 2025More than 98% of scholarships administered by the MOScholars program this school year are funded by Missouri taxpayers. And though there are strict eligibility requirements for private-school scholarships, eligibility isn’t checked after the initial scholarship is awarded or for siblings of students who received a scholarship.
The revelations about the inner workings of Missouri’s private school voucher program came to light over the course of a two-day trial in Cole County Circuit Court this week.
[….]
When state lawmakers created the program in a 2021 bill, they set it up to run on donations that are eligible for a 100% tax credit up to half of a donor’s tax liability. In the first three years of the program, donations totaled $33.8 million.
Gov. Mike Kehoe announced in January that he intended to bring a major infusion of funding to the program through a $50 million appropriation of general revenue. This windfall for MOScholars has allowed the state to nearly triple the amount of scholarships awarded this fall.
“If not for general revenue, would many of (the new) scholars be able to receive a scholarship?” Assistant Attorney General Peter Donahue asked the treasurer’s director of programs, Trent Blair.
“No,” Blair answered.
[….]
Of 6,418 scholarships awarded this school year, only 111 are funded through tax credits. That includes the 2,405 students who were in the program last year. So if MOScholars did not receive the state appropriation, the funding would cover less than 5% of the renewal students going into the school year.
[….]
The treasurer’s office uses an education management system called FACTS to review applications and determine eligibility. Haggard asked if the software checks if renewal students still meet eligibility requirements.
It doesn’t, Blair said.
“So a student can receive a scholarship even though they don’t meet the IEP or income requirements?” Haggard then asked.
“Yes,” Blair said.
When a student is eligible one year, the system presumes that they retain eligibility. The siblings of renewal students are also deemed eligible.
[….]
And Brandon Phelps?:
“…Supported and passed legislation to expand MO Scholars giving low income families more options in education…”
“…Of 6,418 scholarships awarded this school year, only 111 are funded through tax credits….”
Our tax dollars at work, for private educational interests.
Previously:
Hey Brandon Phelps (r), we hear you’re afraid of church ladies (September 18, 2025)
27 Thursday Nov 2025
Posted in Congress, social media
Tags
7th Congressional District, ACA, Eric Burlison, healthcare, missouri, Obamacare, right wingnut, social media
Eric Burlison (r) [2025 file photo].
Last week:
Rep. Eric Burlison
November 21 at 9:37 AMAffordable healthcare begins with empowering consumers with choices and forcing market competition.
Supercharged Health Saving Accounts, ones that go beyond the scope of traditional HSAs, could be the off-ramp from Obamacare that Americans need.
[….]
Some of the responses:
Dude just described what a company matched HSA/FSA is already.
Concepts of a plan remain unchanged…lol
Look into what industry Eric worked in before his political career.
Love the idea of better and more widely available HSAs…but that doesn’t help those with low income. And how does that “force market competition”? How does that address the cost of pharmaceuticals, hospitals, DME?
Instead of bashing the great benefits of the ACA, why not work to fix its weaknesses. Nobody claims it’s perfect, but unless you’re prepared to set up Medicare for all or another universal healthcare plan, then let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.
So you have the same concept of an idea , have you had it for 10 years
Ok. The bottom line is there is a huge part of the population who does not have the resources to put into a health savings accounts. The problem is your party has no plan. Medicare for all is the answer. Start there
My son has a small business. His ACA premium went up 110%, making his healthcare twice his home mortgage.
Us “simple people” have reasoned that It begins with AFFORDABILITY.
What say you Congressman?
Psst ~ We the people would like a town hall!!! 🙂
You are clueless. Please resign . That would be the best Christmas present ever!
People need to be accountable for their own health conditions to some degree. No one was born obese. People who never get off the couch are bound to have health problems later on. People who did everything right should pay less regardless of health people who did little or nothing should pay more.
Who among us does not run marathons?
Nonsense.
Burlison offers nothing other than ranting against Dems. He has no plan. He has no accomplishments. His constituents deserve more.
Rep. Eric Burlison, how about you and your colleagues use your plan for a year then let us know how it works out for you.
Like you would know anything about healthcare. If it’s one thing the GOP is allergic to it’s working on decent healthcare for this country.
Please provide examples of where your plan has successfully brought down costs & improved health care for citizens.
The illusion of ‘market competition’ was the reason ACA was created. Your idyllic, utopian, libertarian, trickle-down notions have proven to be seriously flawed.
Institutional greed still corrupts most for-profit service industries. Insurance companies have indeed become bloated because they are for-profit entities. They measure success in $$$$ not healing.
That your party has blocked or sabotaged and even tried to overturn it, multiple times, at EVERY attempt to improve the ACA is the very reason it is on its knees now.
People don’t want to shop for insurance. They don’t really want thousands of ‘plan’ options, they just want to know that if they or a loved one is injured or ill that they have access to actual medical services without fear of bankruptcy.
OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY FIGURED THIS OUT!
“…Other developed countries have already figured this out!” Yeah, but just take a look at their quality of life and the happiness of their citizens. Oh, wait….
Affordable healthcare comes from taking out the profit! #Medicare4All
Eric, This does not help those with low paying jobs and no health care plan.
He and his party have no credibility on health care they fought it tooth and nail before the Aca was passed the heritage foundation and Jim Demint vowed to make it Obamas Waterloo. They still have proposed anything meaningful in 15 years. I agree it never did anything to lower costs. The industry threw campaign money at them so they did nothing. They only care now because it could cost them in the Midterms. We as voters need to remember this at the midterms and make them pay for not caring and not even bothering to do shit for 15 years
So is this the too good to be believed Trump plan he boasted about in 2016 but has kept secret until now? You are right, this plan is so bad it can’t be believed.
Seek professional help
A thinly veiled attempt to price almost everyone out of having health insurance.
If you are a healthy 21 year old, sure, there are a lot of choices. The 50 year old with high blood pressure and bad knees, not so many.
Universal Healthcare for all Americans!
What a joke.
I missed the bit in the Bible where Jesus healed the sick then asked for a bag of denarii as payment. You hate free healthcare because it is Socialist. But praise Jesus for doing Socialist things… 🤔
the only GQP healthcare plans offered… bankruptcy and death
[….]
Did an insurance company draft this post?
“If you’re connected to a charity and they want to donate . . .”
WTF?
So the plan is…..no insurance and deal with the fallout….sounds about right
Or we could just try something that hasn’t been tried and failed in the US….
We hate your plan it doesn’t enrich our donors enough. Unfortunately, we can’t figure out how to make you pay more for less without you figuring it out. I believe this is what you actually meant.
Same tired lies.
Quiet, piggy!!!!
We’ve already done this and it didn’t work. Billionaires want even more tax cuts and by golly, you are working hard to get it for them!
Stupidest thing I ever heard you puke
This has got to be the most poorly thought through proposal for health care reform that I’ve ever heard. You can’t seriously think that this would work in the real world. 😆 Millions of Americans would be bankrupted and/or sent to early graves under this lame-brained plan.
Why fuck up something that was already working and in place?! This is nothing but a shit show for the Republicans, because they screwed their followers and now they are forced to do something! Fuck the republican party!
This is a BS scam!! Nothing but a con game!
You’re a joke. That whole concept is bullshit, and you know it.
Stupidest thing on Facebook today.
You are completely clueless. 60% of your constituents in Missouri can’t afford to try and put money in an HSA. They need comprehensive health insurance that pays for their health care expenses as they are incurred. You rant about health insurance companies then take money from them and keep them in business.
…said the self-dealing guy who enjoys taxpayer-provided healthcare.
This guy doesn’t get it. The ACA works. They need to stop fucking with it.
What a bunch of crap!!! 🤮
Bullshit. Another Burlison lie. Health Savings Accounts are great if you have a high income and can afford to put money into them, but middle class and lower income families, often living paycheck to paycheck, don’t have disposable income to set aside.
Conservatives are the most economically-uneducated people on the fucking planet. Ask any of them how this would work, even just a basic explanation, and they can’t.
Why not look at healthcare every other country provides for its citizens? After 15 years of Republican failure to come up with any plan, you gonna fix it in 6 weeks?
Quiet, Piggy!
We’re way beyond tired of paying for gold-plated healthcare for moochers like yourself while you vote to cut or deny altogether coverage for the rest of us.
Vote out this useless screwball.
How ridiculous. Are you going to give everyone a half a million dollars in case they suffer a catastrophic illness like cancer? Or have a baby born with health problems that has to spend months in the NICU? Or suffer a catastrophic stroke that requires months of rehab? Or a devastating auto accident that requires years of physical therapy? Are you really this stupid or are you counting on your constituents being that stupid?
“…Are you really this stupid or are you counting on your constituents being that stupid?” Yes.
25 Tuesday Nov 2025
Posted in Resist, social media
Tags
Jess Piper (D) {2025 file photo].
This morning:
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social
Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
We always knew that. The demi-trillionaire’s hellsite inadvertently confirmed it.
A few of the responses:
Bald eagle profiles for the people who read below a sixth grade level. Easy words they have memorized. White, Race, women, color, black, Mexican immigrant, jobs, crime, gay bad for 🇺🇸
The same folks who fear immigrants living in our communities are the same ones duped into following foreign invaders who via social media are living in their homes and influencing their thoughts and beliefs.
They invited the evil actors into their homes.
When Trump refused to condemn David Duke, it told me everything I needed to know about his base.
This story truly reveals how easily we can be manipulated; it should be a warning to all of us
Critical thinking skills could help. Oh, wait.
It started the day he came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, with the rent-a-crowd waiting for him
24 Monday Nov 2025
Posted in social media
Tags
Arizona, Article 90, Article 92, Fascist pigs, illegal order, mark kelly, Pete Hegseth, Rule 916, social media, Trump administration, UCMJ, Uniform Code of Military Justice, weaponization, Whiskey Pete
Pete Hegseth (r).
Weaponization of the law.
This morning:
Department of War @DeptofWar
OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality. Further official comments will be limited, to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.
The Department of War reminds all individuals that military retirees remain subject to the UCMJ for applicable offenses, and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. § 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces. Any violations will be addressed through appropriate legal channels.
All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. A servicemember’s personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order.
“…otherwise lawful order.”
Responses on social media:
Tell us you don’t know the difference between “unlawful order” and “order” without telling us
This is hilarious. He didn’t do anything illegal by reminding those in active duty service that they have an obligation to follow the constitution and that they have not only the right, but the duty to ignore UNLAWFUL orders.
“Orders are presumed to be lawful…” except when it’s obvious that they are not. Service members have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders.
Sound like everyone is on the same page
Mark Kelly: “You have an obligation to refuse illegal orders”
SECWAR: “You must obey legal orders”
What’s the issue?
He reminded service members that their oath is to the Constitution, not to any individual leader. That is literally what every officer is trained to uphold. There is nothing unlawful about reminding troops of constitutional principles. In fact, it’s encouraged in military ethics training because the military’s loyalty must always be to the Constitution above any person or political figure.
the troops take an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not to the president as an individual. While the oath includes a pledge to “obey the orders of the President,” it is in the context of following LAWFUL orders according to the Constitution and the UMCJ.
Kelly was reminding the troops of their oath and to protect what they’ve earned.
25 years of dedicated service to our military including combat missions during the Gulf war. During his Navy career, Kelly received two Defense Superior Service Medals; one Legion of Merit; two Distinguished Flying Crosses; four Air Medals (two individual/two strike flight) with Combat “V”; two Navy Commendation Medals, (one with combat “V”); one Navy Achievement Medal; two Southwest Asia Service Medals; one Navy Expeditionary Medal; two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons; a NASA Distinguished Service Medal; and an Overseas Service Ribbon. Now he faces political retribution from the appointed civilian figurehead in charge of the “Department of War”. Thanks for your service, though.
“orders are presumed to be lawful”
99.9% of the time, this is correct. But presumption is not legally binding. Orders are lawful unless they’re very clearly not. So, advising to not follow **unlawful** orders has absolutely no conflict. They can try bringing it to UCMJ, but it’ll fall through without merit.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Department.
What’s the department of war? Because we’ll never hear that name again in three years.
Did you type this with a straight face?
Whiskey Pete has fallen off the wagon.
I’d be surprised if there’s anybody left in the JAG corps competent enough to take something like this on let alone excessively prosecute him.
Time to remember your oath of office, members of the department. You yourselves are gonna be liable for what you do. Captain Kelly is trying to remind you of that.
I think the most laughable part of that release is where they talk about the investigation being “impartial”. There’s nothing impartial about any of this. It’s Whiskey Pete continuing the Orange Donald’s campaign of retaliation. This has nothing to do with right or wrong…it’s good old fashioned revenge.
Ol Pete needs to lay off the whiskey for a few days and sober up. This is pure comedy at this point.
This isn’t an official department. Quit posing as such.
What a load of crap lol. Talk about political retribution just for what the ucmj already states. Any common sense judge would just throw any case out for wasting a court’s time. Oh did you also forget, it’s still the Department of Defense without Congressional action……
If only the top JAG officers weren’t fired, they’d be able to weigh in.
Order is Order, duty is duty.
[….]
On following orders:Service members of the United States Armed Forces are required to disobey orders that violate the law. As retired Marine Corps General John Allen recently said: “When we swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution…one of those is to ensure that we do not obey illegal orders.” While the Uniform Code of Military Justice demands obedience to the lawful orders of a superior commissioned officer, it equally demands disobedience when the order given is illegal. Military leaders such as Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland have spoken out to reaffirm that the U.S. military will not commit war crimes: “We are bound by the laws of armed conflict. And you know at the end of the day, it doesn’t only matter if you win, it matters how you win.” Both international and domestic courts have a robust history of convicting service members who carried out unlawful orders. When former Nazis claimed to have just been following orders, this defense was unequivocally rejected during the Nuremberg trials.
[….]
[….]
Principle IV
The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
[….]
[….]
Previously:
It is happening here (October 31, 2025)
On the throne (November 21, 2025)
24 Monday Nov 2025
Posted in Congress, Mark Alford, social media
Tags
4th Congressional District, former newsreader, gaslighting, Mark Alford, missouri, Propaganda, right wingnut, sycophant, that ridiculous hat, Trump sycophant
Yesterday:
Congressman Mark Alford
[November 23, 2025]
Americans are sick of being gaslit.
Home prices are out of control right now…but we have full confidence that the One Big Beautiful Bill will deliver real relief, & House Republicans will continue to work with POTUS to get America booming again.
[….]
What did he expect?:
Y’all are spewing enough ‘gas’ to heat the entire state this winter…
The BBB will cause v rural hospitals to close.
Yup. Prices on those homes in healthcare desserts will come down when the occupants die on the way to a big city hospital.
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The Big Beautiful Bill does nothing for home prices. Stopping investment companies from snapping up homes will.
Mark Alford
[….] how do you do that?
what does your favorite piece of legislation have that will increase housing affordability? Besides giving tax breaks to the wealthy, shafting people with higher insurance costs, and your President’s great idea is a fifty year mortgage. Student loans are preventing families from buying homes. The median age of the first time buyer is forty.
…you pass legislation that regulates it like you do any other industry with regulations?
regulations. Spain just did it to rein in the US hedge fund companies buying up all their residential property.
The naughty word Republicans hate. Regulations!
just ask JD. He’s very much into the “farm markets “. Do a lil research , he’ll show you how to get rich off the backs of laborers.
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all those, “we buy ugly houses” ads lol
the poor farmers are getting trashed by this administration. To make matters worse JD Vance is involved in buying up farms that have lost almost everything due to this administrations stupid policies.
its probably so he CAN benefit from buy all thoes farms then sell them back at a profit
Concepts of a plan
Percentage of a concept of a plan.
very vague concept. Almost a plan to have a concept of a plan.
a concept of an outline of a plan!!! 12 years in the making!!!
right. The bill was already passed. But we have to wait like trickle down economics. Wait for nothing to trickle down from billionaires with huge tax breaks… oh. And less jobs. Worst economic policy since Reagan.
Remind us which party is in charge of the government please?
*looks at notes* is that why both times hes been elected the first and fastest deal to pass was tax breaks for the ultra wealthy and then the extensions for it? Amazing how the 1% and mega corps get socialism while the rest of us live in capitalism. 👏
I thought Trump was gonna fix this all on day 1, Mark
Thought he was doing that day one??
Quiet, quiet Piggy
We all know when we’re being conned!! I doubt you even understand what affordability even means, just using it as a catch phrase for those of us who understand it very well because we live it every day!
Here’s an idea, just hear me out. Instead of working for the president, you start working for your constituents? Crazy, I know, but imagine the possibilities!
So you saying thoughts and prayers I guess?
“God has a plan!” SMH
Damn you and FOX are still sleeping together?!
Looking to tackle? Where’ve they been?
Yes, we’re absolutely tired of the GOP’s gaslighting.
Ahhh more ideas about the concepts of a potential plan. It’s not just housing man, and all of us middle classers know this. Healthcare, automobiles, housing…you know, all the actual really important stuff.
No it will not
Healthcare has been a problem so long that there is nothing you can do to change the fact that the big beautiful bill is going to take away from Medicare and assistance for people and these things actually have impacts on normal insurance and our insurance is going to be insane because of this.
If we want affordable houses we need to stop letting companies buy them. It’s really that simple.
But he keeps saying it is already booming. Best economy ever, highest stock market, huge profits from tariffs, best job growth, no inflation blah, blah, blah….
So you’re telling me I want my homes value to go down? Make it make sense.
Oh?? Wait, I thought prices were lower than ever?? Isn’t that what Trump assured us?? I’m am confused!! So now the gaslighting by Trump is reversing course??
lol there ya go everyone just have the same confidence as this man and your grocery bills will be fine
Yeah, a 50 year mortgage ought to fix that.
In a 50 year mortgage you can pay interest 10 times the value of the house you bought
Thus speaks, Alford, GURU of GASLIGHTING!!!!💥
Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].
I’m sure the billionaires are celebrating the Big Billionaire Bill😡
Right & u are the tooth fairy!!
Gonna payoff for who?
Lowering interest rates will increase home prices even more. Most people owning homes are not going to be happy if their homes are suddenly worth less.
Well the tariffs are causing building supply costs to rise…
Sounds like gaslighting.
Speaking of gaslighting ..
If you are a billionaire, you get relief.
Holy shit. Imagine thinking giving giant tax breaks to millionaires and cutting education funding will make things more affordable.
Well. You know the dummies in the cult think that.
Does the Trump administration have a “concept “
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After your 45 day paid vacation, it would be great if you got back to work again. Please don’t focus on gold medals, focus on rising costs, decreasing health coverage, poor air transportation, failing businesses, and I don’t know maybe setting up a tax code that requires the wealthy to pay taxes.
pretty much all things that the Big Beautiful Bill he is praising works against.
==========
Address gaslighting by gaslighting
The only plan this administration has is to make themselves even more wealthy than they are already.
Says the guy holding the match!
Good for you. So happy you are confident the outcome you say will come about, but what happens if it doesn’t? What skin in the game do you have to lose if everything goes south? Nothing really, you will not feel the effects that most other folks I lower economic situations will face.
Republicans are experts at gaslighting. Lies are the language they speak
lol. Before Mamdani you guys could not spell “ affordability”.
Funny that.
Sure 50 year mortgage solves everything
Starts off by saying Americans are tired of being gaslit…. proceeds to gaslight
Read the room, Mark Alford.
Who could have predicted that tariffs, essentially a national sales tax, would land most heavily on folks who are already at the edge on affordability? Asking for anyone who spent 20 minutes in a macro-economics class.
Having any town halls by chance? 🥴
We’re 10 months into The Felon’s reign and NOW you want to talk about affordability? Whatsamatta, last election shake yous guys up a bit? Giving folks’ tax dollars away to Argentina, tax breaks for millionaires, tariffs, gutting Healthcare, “modifying” a plane from Qatar, golf trips, say when… These are NOT conducive to “Affordability”. I thought The Felon said he didn’t want to hear that word again.
Sure, if only we could believe you. Stop giving tax breaks to the wealthy.
Make healthcare affordable
Relief by higher taxes and reduced services.
No one is concerned with the economy “cooking for the midterms”, they are worried about paying their utility bills and buying groceries. This statement is not what people want to hear from an elected official. They deserve resolution and resources, a solid plan and action behind it. Telling people they are mentally ill for voicing their financial hardships is morally wrong.
Well…if you studied economics and history you would see trickle down economics doesn’t work for the middle class and below.
First, he gives away billions to the rich, supports the big ugly bill that is damaging to the middle and lower class, and now he poses as a savior of prices. These guys think we’re all stupid. No Marc we’ve got you and we know who you serve. It isn’t the middle class or the poor.
Gaslighting? You should look it up. You congressman voted to cut snap Medicare and Medicaid. You are part of the affordability problem
Do they ever just shut up and actually do something. All republicans do is talk and go on vacation.
They consider that a feature, not a bug.
And so Congressman, your solution is more gaslighting. No thanks. We need actions, not more bluster.
You mean the bill that made it more difficult to get funding for certain professions?
The bill that gives the largest tax cuts to the already wealthy?
The bill that claims to be no tax on tips or overtime but comes with hefty stipulations?
Maybe it’s the bill that cuts multiple millions on Medicaid over the next 10 years.
That bill?
You were saying about gaslighting?
You live in Missouri, in. November. Why the tan???
I wish I could make a career of just saying random ridiculous shit and not have anyone question it.
The Big Beautiful Bill? Really? Did you actually even read it before eagerly voting for it? It cute SNAP and Healthcare, making life worse for your constituents. It eliminates school lunches for 420,000 students. And it adds $3.4 trillion to the debt. For what? Tax breaks for millionaires. You think this will help your constituents?
Are you joking right now???? We ALL know this bill will screw everyone but the billionaires!!
On and on…
21 Friday Nov 2025
Posted in campaign finance, Congress
Tags
campaign finance, Donald Trump, gerrymandering, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Petition, Redistricting, referendum
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the movement gathering signatures to reverse the Trump/MAGA gerrymandering of congressional districts in Missouri:
253606 11/21/2025 People Not Politicians Judith Fiskin 10615 Blythe Ave Los Angeles CA 90064 artist 11/21/2025 $10,000.00
C253606 11/21/2025 People Not Politicians Tides Foundation 1012 Torney Ave San Francisco CA 94129 11/19/2025 $300,000.00
[emphasis added]
A representative Democracy, if you can keep it.
Sign the petition if you haven’t already done so.
Previously:
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) – on Donald Trump’s (r) early redistricting scam (August 29, 2025)
Hey, Brandon Phelps (r), are you going to vote for this gerrymandered bullshit? (August 30, 2025)
HB 1: Gerrymander this (September 9, 2025)
Campaign Finance: putting up the money (September 14, 2025)
Gaslighting and Gerrymandering (September 28, 2025)
Campaign Finance: getting the signatures (October 4, 2025)
Campaign Finance: indeed (October 22, 2025)
Campaign Finance: working people, for the people (October 27, 2025)
Put Donald Trump (r), the Republican National Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee First (November 6, 2025)
Campaign Finance: for all the marbles (November 9, 2025)
Campaign Finance: But wait, there’s more… (November 15, 2025)
Campaign Finance: Putting Donald Trump (r) First (November 16, 2025)
Campaign Finance: trying to keep up (November 17, 2025)
21 Friday Nov 2025
Posted in social media
“No King”
(2025)
Posterboard. Permanent marker, acrylic. 22 x 28.
(Thank you, Tom Tomorrow)
Yesterday:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
[….] It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET. President DJT
5.56k ReTruths 18.2k Likes
Nov 20, 2025, 8:08 AM
Also yesterday:
Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
And:
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
Previously:
It is happening here (October 31, 2025)
20 Thursday Nov 2025
Posted in Congress, Mark Alford, social media
Tags
4th Congressional District, affordability, former newsreader, health care, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, rural hospitals, social media, sycophant, Trump sycophant
Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].
Today:
Congressman Mark Alford
[November 20, 2025]Today is National Rural Health Day is a reminder of what’s at stake. I’ve been in nearly every rural hospital across the Fourth District, talking with the people who are doing everything they can to keep health care close to home.
When the government shut down, we didn’t. We kept visiting hospitals because rural Missouri can’t afford political games. Democrats wanted to put the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program on the chopping block.
We actively fought to stop that and keep our rural hospitals open—for the families who depend on them!
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Some of the responses:
Who is going to tell him?
it doesn’t matter what you tell him. He’s going to lick the boots and pander to the MAGA crowd. It’s all he’s capable of.
Well, that and being a bully.
You voted to kill our hospitals when you voted for the Big Beautiful Bill.
Hey Mark Afraid, A Fox News Poll shows 76% of voters say the economy is in bad shape. Remember saying we are in America’s golden era? Maybe a golden shower era or the gaudy golden oval office era???
If you’re so committed to rural healthcare, then why did you vote to gut Medicare and Medicaid? The BBB will actually hurt rural providers. But you knew that already, didn’t you Mark?
He voted that way because his orange master told him to. He doesn’t have the ability for independent thought just like the rest of the rePubes.
St. Mary’s, Blue Springs. Lee’s Summit Medical. Rural hospitals??!! 😂🤣
How’d you vote, Mark ??!!
Do you ever read the comments? Just asking.
Rural Missourians don’t need another photo-op hospital tour.
They need leaders who will actually fix the root problems not just blame Democrats while voting against the very policies that would save rural care.
Why cut Medicare?
That’s why you voted to cut $137B from rural health, right Mark?
Wait, we care about health these days? That’s funny!! 🤣
That’s it. The day is over.
Research suggests that Congress members who get fat healthcare donations are about as likely to support tough price controls as a cat is likely to take a bath voluntarily.
The U.S. healthcare industry isn’t just in the business of healing-it’s basically a political superhero with a cape made of lobbyist checks and PAC contributions.
Thanks to this superpower, bold reforms like negotiating drug prices or expanding Medicare-for-all often hit a wall thicker than a hospital bill, even when most Americans are cheering from the sidelines.
Toadie that forgot that he voted to gut the funding for rural healthcare services
He didn’t forget.
As a rural healthcare provider in your district. I have no words for how ridiculous you are. You do everything in your power to remove the ability of people to pay for healthcare putting my job at risk and other people‘s lives at risk. I cannot wait to vote you out.
Hey Mark! Your pants are on fire again.
If the president is calling for the execution of lawmakers he should be removed from office immediately
When you voted for the BBB you told us how invested you are in rural health.
You voted to gut funding.
Your rural constituents are aware you are not working in our best interests.
So you’re celebrating by closing rural hospitals? 🤦🖕
Say goodbye, rural folks.
Your voting record says otherwise
Only rural millionaire health
Because you visiting hospitals after voting to cut their funding by millions of dollars does nothing but photo ops.
Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo].
And here you voted to disembowel the programs that aid in rural medical facilities…you’ll make more sense if you only talk out one side of your face, scumbag.
As a 40 year rep in rural healthcare, you are the worse one to be posting about how you are helping!
I hope you are voted out, along with the top down mess we have!
Please resign now and save yourself a huge embarrassment in the thrashing you see coming.
hush, little bootlicker
Idiot.
We’re laughing at you Alford
The money you are “giving” is much less than what you took away to put in the pockets of the 1%. Its despicable of you to keep touting this. Is this an example of the GOP healthcare plan you are working so hard on?
Quiet piggy
Ouch.
Right now, you and the rest of the Republicans are waaaay on the wrong side of history.
Congressman you voted against Rural Healthcare. Don’t be a hypocrite. We are smarter than you think.
By the way why did you give Argentina $40 BILLION? That’s not America First.
Hey Congressman Mark Alford you want to turn the temperature down. Tell that orange motherfucker in the White House to stop making death threats. If you want to make this normal, what happens when a Democrat majority is elected. You best put a check on that asshole
Except you voted for a bill that causes rural hospitals to close. You’re a joke
We know this is a fucking lie Congressman Mark Alford. When the government shut down, you went home on vacation for 6 weeks. You toured manufacturing facilities for photo ops. You didn’t go to hospitals in the 4th district. If you had you would have made sure to make photo ops of the visits. You never pass up an opportunity for a photo opportunity. Yet, we never saw any pictures of you at hospitals. We are not as dumb as your midget ass looks.
Same bullshit, different day from Markey McHypocrite.
You still have a leftover tan from your seven week vacation!!!! You didn’t work!
AND, WHAT ABOUT OUR HEALTHCARE TAX CREDITS???
ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!!
LIAR
Trump has illegally murdered over 80 people from South American countries. Trump doesn’t give one rat’s ass about anyone living in a rural area.
Pull your head out of trumps ass
Did the orange pedo tell you to post this? Asking for a friend.
You voted for Medicaid cuts. Spare me your fake concern.
Is that why you voted for the healthcare cuts in your BBB this past summer, before your extended vacation? Quit with the lying Republican propaganda…no one is buying it.
Don’t you ever get tired of lying? What kind of person are you? Not the kind I want to represent me. I sure hope that the gerrymandering petition and upcoming election keeps me in the 5th district and not in yours!
We got notice that Healthcare for One adult went from $790.00 per month to 1750.00 per month. No changes in health, no changes in deductible. Increases for in network office visits and higher deductible for prescriptions. Thanks little scamper alford. You voted for this in your “big beautiful bill.”
That doesn’t include changes in Medicare and supplements, for another adult in our home, haven’t got that part finalized yet.
Can’t wait for the rest of your Constituents to get their final adjustments on Healthcare. You may need to swap your lift boots out for some running shoes.
Trump is making death threats against Democrats who have told the military not to follow orders that go against the constitution.
And you and your MAGA friends once again stay silent
Liar liar. The bBB cut Medicaid /Medicare funding
You are so embarrassing
Too bad you voted to get rid of rural healthcare centers. Asshole.
No one is falling for your shit.
Alford’s daily lies are easily disputed. The Medicaid cuts he and the Felon’s other MAGA Morons voted for have put these Missouri hospitals at risk for closing:
Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia;
Scotland County Memorial Hospital in Memphis;
Parkland Health Center in Bonne Terre;
Lafayette Regional Health Center in Lexington.
Trump calls for democratic lawmakers to be punished by DEATH this morning. What are the consequences for this extremely dangerous talk? What if his comments were directed at you?
Republicans are worse than Spam calls. Always trying to CON the citizens with bull 💩
They’re not buying it.
They seem upset.