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The last piece – with a twist

05 Monday Aug 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, meta

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31st Senate District, campaign finance, Dan Houx, H-PAC, meta, missouri, PAC, Rick Brattin, right wingnuts, theft

The primary election is tomorrow.

The last piece of right wingnut republican attack mail for the 31st Senate District primary arrived in today’s mail:

There isn’t a lick of difference between right wingnut Dan Houx (r) and any of the other right wingnuts running in the republican primary.

“Trying to use taxpayer funds to defend himself in a Twitter [we would have used the term ‘social media’] lawsuit”

True.

Collecting more than $500K in taxpayer funded salaries

That’s probably correct. But it’s a stupid statement. All people who hold elected public office at those levels get paid a salary. Over time it adds up. Dan Houx (r) has been collecting “taxpayer funded salaries” for a while, too.

Sending taxpayer-funded mailers to voters

True. They all can do that. It’s called “franking”. What Rick Brattin (r) did was send a franked piece that looked like a campaign mailing unseemly close to the primary election.

And, China, China, China.

Wait, that image looks familiar.

Those assholes stole my image:

Rick Brattin (r) [2013 Show Me Progress file photo].

[Click on image to enlarge] The dimples and wrinkles in the suit jacket are exactly the same, the hair and hair gel(ish) are exactly the same, the facial expression is exactly the same, the tie and tie knot are exactly the same, the collar and its placement are exactly the same, the stance is exactly the same. They apparently edited out the legislator pin on his lapel.

It was the fifth image in a sequence of five taken from the side gallery of the House chamber:

The image, from external storage/archive:

IMG_6607 [Rick Brattin (r), May 15, 2013]

The data with the original image:

IMG_6607
Type of file: JPG File (JPG)
Size: 5.43 MB (5,694,588 bytes)

Date taken 5/15/2013 1:45 PM
Dimensions 5184 x 3456
Width 5184 pixels
Height 3456 pixels
Horizontal resolution 72 dpi
Vertical resolution 72 dpi
Bit depth 24
Color representation sRGB
Camera maker Canon
Camera model Canon EOS REBEL T4i
F-stop 2.8
Exposure time 1/100 sec
ISO speed ISO-1600
Exposure bias 0 step
Focal length 200 mm

They spent a ton of money on their mailers and yet they were too cheap ass to pay for a tracker or paparazzi to get their own images. They stole mine. Thieving losers.

China, China, China – from a PAC mailer during the right wingnut republican primary in the 4th Congressional District in 2022:

Rick Brattin (r) lost that primary.

Lazy and incurious

30 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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clown, meta, right wingnut, trolling

That’s being charitable.

As always, we don’t allow ignorant trolling comments out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

We see fit.

This comment was submitted today in response to There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican (July 26, 2024):

Arkansas foisted the Clintons off on us. (and we both know he was talking about the US/Mexico border)

Have you seen/read these books? they’re porn, in junior high and middle school libraries. as well as the community libraries in the teen and young adult sections, possibly children’s sections.

If A person can be charged with two murders for killing a pregnant woman, why is it not Murder when Planned Parenhood kills one of the two?

The 2nd Amendment is there for a reason, and it’s not for hunting. Congress is specifically prohibited by it from making ANY gun laws.
Yet they keep trying…

We don’t know what the budget looks like, try to find the info yourself and post a link.

And we ARE worried about men/boys in womens/girls sports. Why should a female lose out on a scholarship because these people want to force the rest of us to participate in their fantasy?

There are people who call themselves moderate republicans, not sure if they are or if they’re dems who know they can’t get elected if anyone knew what they really are.

Maroon.

Resent Arkansas much? Just asking. I hear the catfish is good. Why would a state senate candidate concern himself with the Mexican border?

What’s the current trend in border crossings? Go look it up. There was a bipartisan immigration bill, but Donald Trump (r) bad mouthed it because he didn’t want Joe Biden (D) to get any credit for addressing the issue before the election. There’s that.

I visit libraries all the time. Public and school libraries. Here’s the thing – you don’t want you and yours reading a book? – then don’t check it out. You don’t have any right to impose your pearl clutching censorship on anyone else.

If you drop your peanut butter toast face down on the carpet your bicycle goes faster uphill.

Greg Abbott (r) and your ilk kill both. You nor the state have any business interfering in the reproductive health decision of any other person. Against the death penalty? Good for you. Against war? Good for you. I doubt it for you, though. Dead school children are a small price to pay? You’re not “pro-life”, you’re a fucking psychopath.

You have a reading comprehension problem. Well regulated militia. Try sounding the words out. I doubt it will help.

Go look up the budget yourself. It’s easy enough to do. I suspect you’re lazy and incurious, though.

Gee, everyone or no one gets a sports scholarship, but this is happening everywhere, and this must be addressed so you can happily stew in your bigotry.

Overton Window. Look it up. There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican.

What gave you the mistaken impression that we give a flying fuck about what you think?

By the way, the IP address and email address of all comments are attached to the original comment in our blog operating system.

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

14 Sunday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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meta

Garbo speaks.

Our failed old media experiment

11 Thursday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, meta

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Donald Trump, Joe Biden, media criticism, meta, press conference

There was a press conference.

Joe Biden (D) [2020 file photo].

Jen “I dissent” Rubin @JRubinBlogger
It is time for the press to honestly report Biden is on top of things in a way Trump is not and will never be. “No matter what I did you wouldn’t be satisfied.” He should do more of these
[….]
7:25 PM · Jul 11, 2024

Your choice is between a decent human who gets things done or a Fascist narcissist. No contest.

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

It really is a cult

09 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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abortion, anti-choice, cult, meta, Rick Brattin, right wingnut, troll

We really like that image.

As always, we don’t allow ignorant trolling comments out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

We see fit.

This comment was submitted today in response to Campaign Finance: Aurora, Colorado (September 17, 2023):

Ha Ha CLCP.. Got your disgusting little Rick Brattin smear yesterday. Two minutes later I discover that you’re just rabid, toxic left wing democrats who worship at the alter of holy abortion, which tells all the folks in Rick’s district that he’s doing a great job defending life in Missouri! I wonder if his opponent stands as strong for life? I DOUBT IT! GODSPEED RICK BRATTIN!

“…I wonder if his opponent stands as strong for life?…”

Which opponent?:

Certified Candidate List
2024 Primary Election

State Senator – District 31
Republican

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Rick Brattin P. O. BOX 421 HARRISONVILLE MO 64701 45 2/27/2024

Michael Haffner PO BOX 407 RAYMORE MO 64083 821 2/27/2024

Dan Houx P. O. BOX 115 WARRENSBURG MO 64093 997 2/27/2024

Abortion rights will be on the November ballot:

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom
[May 3, 2024]
[….] In just three months, 380k+ Missourians from every corner of our state have signed the petition to end the abortion ban! Today, we delivered those signatures to the Secretary of State. [….]

“…you’re just rabid, toxic left wing democrats who worship at the alter of holy abortion…”

Apparently, there is more than one “left-wing” Democrat.

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

Wheeling boxes of signed petitions into the building.

CLCP? What’s that?

Certified Loss Control Professional?

Certified Life Care Planner?

Crosslinked Liquid Crystalline Polymer?

Certified Literacy Community Program?

Chinese Language and Culture Program?

Uh, that one was paid for by a right wingnut PAC supporting Mark Alford (r).

Community Litter Cleanup Program?

Customized Language Culture Program?

Just asking.

By the way, the IP address and email address of all comments are attached to the original comment in our blog operating system.

Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].

Previously:

Rick Brattin (r) and his franked list of personal phobias (July 3, 2024)

Ask me how I feel right now. I dare you.

01 Monday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta, Resist

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#resist, meta

Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) @cbouzy

Let me clarify my position so you don’t waste time tweeting @ me.

If you voted for Jill Stein, fuck you.

If you voted for Trump, fuck you.

If you are a former Trump supporter now trying to tell Democrats what to do, fuck you.

If you want to replace Biden, fuck you.
[….]
1:12 PM · Jul 1, 2024

34 felony convictions

27 Thursday Jun 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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meta, troll

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

On occasion we get trolls. This one, an attempted comment to In our town:

Michael Bursin
Looks like a huge store, the best store, the kind of store that puts sleepy Joe to shame.

The name is too cute.

It’s a cult.

The IP Address is from Columbia, Misouri.

The One

11 Thursday Apr 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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Arkansas, meta, Moon, Russellville, solar eclipse, Sun, total eclipse, totality

Our eclipse adventure on April 8th resulted in around 750 images, of which 650 to 700 are of the sun/moon/eclipse. The images in totality number just under a hundred from one camera. I’ve been slowly going through the images, some of which were shot in bursts.

This wasn’t our first rodeo. Still, there’s a lot to cram into four minutes and a lot which can go wrong. I estimate I only got 20% of my planned shots.

This may be the one.

Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 8.0, 1/1000, ISO 200, 400 mm.

Previously:

Everybody talks about the weather, nobody does anything about it (March 28, 2024)

So, there was this total solar eclipse on Monday (April 9, 2024)

Total Solar Eclipse – Russellville, Arkansas – April 8, 2024 (April 9, 2024)

Science. Everything is exactly right here. (April 9, 2024)

Hagiography

27 Wednesday Mar 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, meta

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hagiography, media criticism, meta

Live your life so that you’re not fêted by cable news networks as “the great moderate” when you pass away.

Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.

Break some crockery.

Insistent moderation for the sake of moderation in a time of existential threats to Democracy is no virtue.

Trolling is a 21st Century Art Form

13 Wednesday Mar 2024

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

≈ 2 Comments

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

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Senator Josh Hawley
[March 13, 2024]
What should you do if you have TikTok on your phone?
“. . . Take it off your phone right now and then crush your phone in a blender, I mean, run over it maybe with your truck.
“[TikTok] is a backdoor for the Chinese Communist Party into everything you’re doing.”
[….]

What kind of truck?

The Ivy League vision of a flatbed truck.


Just asking.

Some of the responses:

Very few are going to take adivice from Hawley as he as shown us time and time and time again that he can not be trusted to have our country’s best interest at heart and certainly not the best interests of we citizens of Missouri at heart.

Really…”Democrat leaders love the CCP”…??? Trump changed his mind about TikToc when one of wealthy sugar-daddies told him he’d lose money if they banned TikTok. Talk about being bought by communist!!!!

This move is so the government can shutdown any and all platforms to keep us from communicating with each other when there is an up rising. It’s all about control which our government has to much of.

I thought that you were an advocate of free speech, or at least free speech for everyone but those who disagree with you. This is outright authoritarian censorship worthy of China itself, which has banned American social media such as Google, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, and X

But his bill is so vague that it will give the feds unlimited power to determine who and what we can listen to. NO NO NO.

Thank you for standing against Trump, trying to protect us all from TikTok data manipulations from China. Please quit generally supporting Trump.

It’s hilarious that this is posted on Facebook which is notorious for spying on every user!

Sure, let’s take a $1000 phone and run it over.

Populism!

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