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Mark Alford (r): you can smell the desperation

07 Saturday Nov 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

The new ultra-minority party in the upcoming U.S. Congress is presenting panic.

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 7, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS! 🇺🇸
Your tax dollars deserve accountability!
This Congress, as Chairman of the @HouseSmallBiz Oversight Subcommittee, I joined my Republican colleagues in demanding answers from the SBA over allegations that the Biden Administration concealed misuse of pandemic-era relief funds.
Small businesses played by the rules. Washington must be held to the same standard.
[….]

Was this written by a seventh grader using crayons? Just asking.

The responses are lit:

Why wasn’t that done in the last two years?

Audit the pentagon?

“Small businesses played by the rules”—unless you count the millions in forgiven PPP loans that went to wealthy corporations and members of Congress. Funny how “accountability” only matters when it’s not your own caucus cashing the checks.

That left a mark.

Like the reflection pool and ball room!

He is chairman of the “small” biz committee, how fitting.

Not for long.

What bills have republicans passed to help the working men and women of America?

👏take me to your leader

We will see how tough you will be in January?

We showed you results on Tuesday.

“Washington” — “held to a standard.”
This really can’t be being said with a straight face. My word. Is the electorate really presumed to have not been seeing the events of the past two years?
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz.
The deaths of servicemembers.
The combat missteps.
The waste of weaponry.
Proposed sell-offs of public lands.
Destruction of heritage landmarks.
Federal officials treating individuals as if they deserved to be assaulted, thrown around, or shot.
Rapacious impoundment of federal funds.
Pushing DoD away from political and religious neutrality.
Firing senior military personnel apparently for upholding standards.
The Oval Office, the East Wing, a “ballroom,” the the Reflecting Pool, statues, Kennedy Center, or attempts at changing names of territory.
If I were to actually search for the trashing of standards instead of riffing on the obvious, this list would be interminably long.
“Upholding standards,”indeed —

An investigation of data from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) finds that, in Donald Trump’s final days in office, his administration rushed to eliminate oversight for loans which were flagged for potential fraud or further investigation — and wiped flags from nearly every one of the largest PPP loans.
As the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) revealed in a report published Wednesday, over the course of several weeks before President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the Trump administration went on a spree of eliminating flags on PPP loans, the majority of which went directly to personally enriching the richest Americans. Officials in the Small Business Administration (SBA) eliminated 2.7 million flags between December 2020 and January 2021, as the administration was in its lame duck period.
Special preference was given to the largest loans, which often also went to the largest corporations. On January 16, 2021, four days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s SBA wiped 99 percent of special review flags, which were given out to every loan above $2 million for separate investigatory purposes.

How about focusing on stuff that DIDN’T happen four years ago.

So no more for the war and the bullshit trump has wasted on

Stephen Miller. Dana White. Mark Alford.

Alford definitely doesn’t deserve his paycheck!

I thought after this feckless Muskrumpian shill saw the results of November 3 he would quit being such a feckless Muskrumpian shill. But, I was mistaken because lil Markie Allfraud doubles down on his stupidity and continues to support and worship the sexual predation of women and children, a 34 times convicted felon, serial grifter, and mentally unstable traitor. Such an ignorant twit lil Markie Allfraud is.

Voted for the war voted for BBB no accountability

Like you g.a.s. about fraud and abuse..stop with the propaganda statements 🙄

$1.4 Trillion for socialist redistribution of wealth/voter bribe
(~ although I guess that’s off the table now ~)
$170+B for ICE and Border Patrol
$160B (& counting) in Iran
$40B for Argentina (not incl. beef)
$8B to bail out farmers as a result
$3.8B annually for Israel
$1B to refurbish Trump’s Qatar jet,
which is not in service
$1B to Colombia
$900M+ for DC construction
$495M for an old prison worth 1/10
$464M for unused deportation planes
$230M for Trump’s DOJ
“compensation”
$200M for Kristi Noem’s jets
$185M for Trump’s golf outings
5+M for Liberia
Even $2M + for banners of Trumps face
Etc., etc., etc.
Add: The largest deficit in US history, up almost 30% in only 6 years under trump/GOP
But no money to lower your healthcare costs. No money for SNAP benefits.
“AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THE BALLROOM IS REALLY THE PRESIDENT’S MAIN PRIORITY.”
Karoline Leavitt, verbatim
YES REALLY ~

OMG …. Let’s keep focus on issues Mark, time to take accountability and stop blaming others.

Now you pretend to get outraged? What a dick head you are,

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

What a joke! Accountability? Hypocrite.

The Trump administration has transferred or reallocated $1.25 billion in federal funds to the Board of Peace, alongside a total announced U.S. pledge of $10 billion

Does little Mark know that almost every abuser is Republican? Is he about to ask Cushner to repay, or Chuck Grassly to repay the $1.5M he took for tuning up his hubby farm?

What the fuck does this mean? Please interpret. Let’s talk about DJT

I would like answers from this administration. What are you going to do to help with health insurance? Did you not see what is going on with Children’s Mercy?

Hear it comes I saved the fiscal responsibility request but new that you would circle back to your circus, let’s see 468 million for a Minnesota jail that they have had listed for 75 million the word among locals is they would have taken 25 to unload it, then you have cor civic in Leavenworth empty for decades they where trying to bull doze it 238 million maybe you should try toilet seats seems to be more up your alley, never mind tearing up healthcare offering nothing cutting 180 billion then adding 50 billion to claim you where doing something besides helping the 1% another not yours joke, finally we got the tearing up a 1.2, billion dollar NATO agreed upon with international inspectors with Iran 🇮🇷 to spend 50 Billion to attack Iran using 2 million dollar missiles to take out 200 dollar drones more fiscal Alford alfalfa math gymnastics. Finally the farmers market buddy diesel fertilizer through the roof we could have purchased the diesel from Canada according to Ford and Carney and most of the fertilizer at 1/4 of the cost and delivered almost immediately if we did not turn are backs on Canada South America Europe and buy oil from Marks fascist Communists friends Putin congratulations you are now seeing real political politicians that want to reach across the aisle and serve all constituents read this and absolutely do not say you support this or actually understand The Fake Press book burning 🔥 diplomatic former television host dipstick if it fits scum bag wear it

Oh, that’s rich. Now apply this to your beloved felon.

How about impeachment? Ending the war in Iran? How about working on affordability?
Stop being a lapdog for Trump. It’s embarrassing

Audit the grifter in the Whitehouse.

You have no sense of reality about what is going on!

And just like that Mark Alford is pretending he cares about fiscal responsibility after 2 years of writing blank checks for Trump. Classic Alford so full of 💩

How much was spent on Trump’s failed campaign rallies?

Use RICO laws to indict the entire Trump crime family. Be a fucking hero instead of a loser.

Not likely.

Good luck, with Democrats owning Congress now. (Thanks to Trump’s screwy priorities.)

Just shut up Mark! You’re the minority now and I’m really happy republicans got their collective azzes kicked!

You work for trump. Buzz off.

Stfu

Previously:

Mark Alford (r): manufacturing hysteria (November 7, 2026)

Mark Alford (r): manufacturing hysteria

07 Saturday Nov 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

FBI Crime Data Explorer

Reported U.S. Violent Crime Trends, July 2025 – June 2026
-8.6%

Murder -18.2%
Rape -10.3%
Robbery -19.0%
Aggravated Assault -5.8%

Reported U.S. Property Crime Trends, July 2025 – June 2026
-12.2%

Burglary -16.5%
Larceny -9.7%
Motor Vehicle Theft -21.5%

Crime in Missouri

Violent Crime

Violent Crime consists of Murder (consisting of murder and non-negligent manslaughter), Robbery, Aggravated Assault and Rape. Victims are always individuals and one crime will be counted for each victim.

-25.27% Compared to 2025

Burglary

The unlawful entry into a building or other structure with the intent to commit a felony or a theft

-28.29% Compared to 2025

Motor Vehicle Theft

The theft of a motor vehicle (defined as a self-propelled vehicle that runs on land).

-44.26% Compared to 2025

Fraud

The intentional perversion of the truth for the purpose of inducing another person or other entity in reliance upon it to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right.

-28.11% Compared to 2025

Arson

To unlawfully and intentionally damage or attempt to damage any real or personal property by fire or incendiary device.

-33.97% Compared to 2025

Larceny (Theft)

The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession, or constructive possession, of another person.

-32.33% Compared to 2025

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Mark Alford (r), yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 6, 2026]

American families deserve to feel safe in their homes and communities. That starts with holding violent criminals accountable, especially repeat offenders who continue to put innocent lives at risk.
This Congress, I joined @HouseGOP in passing the Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act to increase accountability for bail funds and help protect American communities.
Do you support tougher penalties for repeat violent offenders to keep our communities safe?
👍 YES – tell me why
👎 NO – tell me why not
[…..]

There is skepticism in the responses:

Mark, how do you feel about congressman who enable illegal wars, tariffs, and corruption?

What about penalties for 34x felons?

You mean like all the January 6th criminals Trump pardoned and they then committed more crimes?
[….]

Let’s start at the top of the list Trumpstien that work for you Alford

Perhaps many of your constituents support tougher penalties for repeat offenders (especially sexual offenders) to keep our White House safe?

You’ve done nothing the last 2 years, why would the next 2 be any different?

Your bill? Sitting in the senate since MAY… going nowhere.

Laws haven’t mattered for decades, unless you’re middle class or worse.

You’re talking about cops that keep getting excessive force charges, right?

May justice be done, without fear or favor – agreed?
No one is arguing others are above the law, the hypocritical GOP is arguing that Trump is.
[….]

Yes, I support tougher penalties for Donald J. Trump and all of the weak, spineless, cronies who have coddled and enabled him to commit the atrocities he has against our country and our Constitution.

I love your “let’s talk about it” especially since you never come to Columbia to “talk about it”…70% of Columbia that you represent here voted against you why don’t you ever come here mark? Why don’t you ever come&stand in front of us&lie to us face to face mark? Are you too much of a coward to face the base that sees you for who you truly are? Come on mark, come to Columbia where the vast majority of the population despises you and “talk about it”

Belton, Missouri:

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo].

Do you realize just how,stupid you sound? Your orange leader who is a 34 count felon in his own right pardoned 1500 violent criminals,who stormed the capitol on J6 and wiped their shit on the walls. He pardoned the leader of one of the biggest drug scams in the history of,the US. He hired people convicted of sexual abuse and pedophelia. The trump family is running one of the biggest grifts right in front of our eyes and no one stops him. You are so inconsequential.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

About 1300 criminals participated in an insurrection January 6th and your rapist felon president pardoned them.

Could you go back to doing nothing? We’re tired of you posting photo ops , and we can’t keep pretending your opinions matter.

If it’s Trump and your corrupt buddies we’re talking about…. Then let’s go!!! You may not be violent but you’re destroying more families and businesses than any single person… oh… and does that mean we get to lock up all the criminals Trump pardoned?

Plan on being miserable for the next two years, and you deserve it, goddamned Trumpsucker!
[….]

Manufactured fear. Manufactured distraction. Apparently it’s the current and future strategery of right wingnuts in Congress.

Squirrel!

Mark Alford (r): baseless scare tactic

01 Sunday Nov 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 31, 2026]

The real Halloween horror story: phantom votes and election integrity tricks at the ballot box. 🎃 👻
Missourians deserve elections decided only by legal American citizens. The House has already passed the SAVE America Act to require proof of citizenship and photo ID so every vote is protected. ✅
It’s time to give America the election security it deserves.
[….]

Wait, then how did you get elected?

Some of the responses:

You are the one pulling all the tricks! But we are about to get one Big Treat. Herrera for Congress

I’m an election judge and you already have to show photo identification to vote. We also have great training.

Thank you for working the elections! I enjoy doing it, too!

how do you feel about being demonized by Congressman Mark Alford?

watch the video from the TPUSA sponsored forum in Marshfield. It was as full of lies as it was poorly produced. It was reminiscent of bad sketch comedy.

they don’t want honest elections if they’re attacking the honest local people running them.

More women have credibly accused Donald Trump of sexual assault than non-citizens have voted in federal elections.

I did by voting yes on 6 and no on everything else

me too!!!

YES on 6…. Fuck No on the rest of the tricks!

The Save Act is voter suppression especially for women and a poll tax. The senate is smart not to pass it!

The real Halloween horror story is a congressman spreading debunked voter fraud myths to justify laws that suppress turnout among seniors, veterans, and rural voters who lack the required documents. You want to solve a problem that doesn’t exist while MO-04 constituents are losing Medicaid, SNAP, and their local hospitals. Jordan J Herrera is focused on real problems. Vote Herrera for Congress by Nov 3rd! jordanjherrera.com 🎖️🇺🇸🗳️

Keep ballot candy out of propositions, too.
[….]

Like you?

Yes on 6 the rest are tricks and Jordan Herrera for Congress. ✅

I did. Voted on 6 and no on the rest and voted Herrera for Congress!!!
See ya Mark! Would love to say it’s been fun but I cannot afford fun under you and the orange idol.

Yes on 6 no on the rest

As usual, no facts just hypocrisy

As an election judge, you already have to show your MO ID or you can’t vote. There’s no need for the SAVE Act.

#VoteOutTheGOP
Congressman Mark Alford
I thought the plan for midterms was to let Democrats win so you can blame us when the big ugly bill goes full force.
#voteblue
#VoteOutTheGOP

So your election 2 years ago was compromised?

Why don’t you tell these nice folks how the “Big Beautiful Bill” is going to strip even more assistance from needy Americans in December? (conveniently timed to be AFTER the midterms, but just in time for Christmas).

Congressman Mark Alford
Vote out the bums. No Republican Congressman or Senator deserves to be re-elected.
The Republican majority congress has done absolutely nothing this year. Mike Johnson sent you home Sept-10. You have done nothing since. Congress worked only 72 days this year. The least productive Congress in the history of the US.

Missouri already required a valid photo id to vote and has since I began voting. So you did nothing for your constituents really.

This gives “blame the refs” energy. I would invite every citizen to work even one election as an election judge. Work the polls at one election, of any level. These GOP / MAGA people are banging an old drum to make you think there’s fraud, when there isn’t. Work one and you’ll see the care and process that goes into making them safe and secure. They only scream fraud when they lose, or know they are going to.

Wow. Your running out of material.
Circling back to this favorite in hopes to cast doubt on Tuesday’s election results?

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Missouri voters are done with the Missouri Republicans that don’t listen to them

More right wing propaganda of the day. They just have to lie about everything.

Alford has no independent thought left. He just spews idiotic trump BS

We see you projecting your intentions to try to play tricks.
We know you’re gaslighting.
Valid ID is already required in MO to vote. Our citizenship is checked and verified when we register – that’s what we pay Election Authorities to do already.
Stop trying to suppress women’s votes and please, please, quit taking your orders from Republicans leadership and Trump.
All you can do is read a script.
I vote for Jordan J Herrera!!
He is much more qualified and actually listens to the constituents of this district.

You still on that BS bandwagon?

But, But, But MARK! The mo gop purposefully wrote Admendment 3 to TRICK VOTERS!!!

Still yapping about the Big Lie

Oh good, you’ll be stepping down then? 👏 👏 👏

You are the trick on the ballot. You should go sit down

You are such a useless idiot 🙄

Maga gaslighting

You mean like the 2 Republicans who dressed up like Muslims and tried to vote, who then got caught and are now being charged with fraud?

Trump’s puppy, Alford keeps pushing the MAGA lies.

You’re the ones pulling the tricks and lying about election security.

Yes, keep the Republicans tricks out of the ballot box. It looks like they are the ones playing the tricks all over the country.

Keep Musk out of our elections and it will be a fair election.

You are the trick. A one trick pony, short on substance and known to leave piles of shit behind him. And the sooner you are loaded up and hauled off the better.

More false propaganda and scare tactics from Congressman Mark Alford … If he actually looked into and studied voter fraud… He would find fraud at the hands if his republican cohorts… # vote for Jordan J Herrera

You’re the horror story.

The only honest ad Alford could make would be to say ” I’m going to do whatever Donnydaddy says “

You all are the masters of projection and corruption, Marky Mark.
I hope Jordan J Herrera trounces your lying ass and my vote has already been cast that way.

Look here you asshole! MO and especially Jackson county have very safe and secure voting processes. Quit trying to scare people about something you know nothing about and doesn’t exist! We have had virtually ZERO voter fraud throughout the entire country over the past 40 years!!! Our election officials are dedicated to their jobs to ensure citizens have free and fair elections. If you’re so sure of phantom votes and election integrity being broached then provide fact based examples. I’m waiting🤬 in the meantime shut the hell up about voting fraud. It doesn’t exist. Shame on you as an elected official supposedly trusted to work on behalf of the American people. You’re just a cheap shill in an expensive suit. FY

Biggest threat to free and fair elections is Republicans
#J621
#musk

You are embarrassing

Republicans do what Russia wants

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

The MAGA elected official voting manipulations are right in front of our faces. MAGA seems to be having trouble proving their accusations in the courts.

You infuriate me with your baseless claims of MO voter fraud. Prove it on your way out the door.

The Price of a Golden Ballroom
400 current Children’s Mercy Hospital patients
55,000 area Children on the ACA
” Keep The Tricks Out of The Voter Box ” – Mark Alford 72 Day House Representative
Vote in record numbers Cass County
Imagine the TRICKS The Rural Children will be facing after January 2027
CUTTING SNAP WASN’T ENOUGH

Nice ghost story Mark…get back to us Tuesday after your party tries the real election interference….

I believe the focus should be on reeling in Trump and his MAGA regime from pulling their tricks trying to steal the midterm elections! That is the scary part of the elections! Screw the SAVE America Act! Congress can put on their big boy and girl panties and stop this freak of a president from running amuck and making illegal decisions!

Such BS !!! Election tricks ??!! What about your Uncle Donnie ‘offering’ $5000 for voting ??!! Such BS – admit it !! I’m voting for who showed up at the town halls and talked to people – not someone spewing ‘wins’ online and trying his damndest to be just like DJT.

Are you saying the GOP who controls Missouri politics is guilty of cheating in an election? Have the Republicans compromised our elections??? 😱😡😱😡😱😡😱😡😱😡😱

You Republicans keep YOUR tricks out of the ballot box, and we’ll all be fine.
Shithole liars.

You are completely wrong. The SAVE act is a way to eliminate legal voters like women, the elderly and low income households. It is used in the same way back when poll taxes were used to eliminate black votes. You are not for the people of this state.

The “tricks” are lies told to pit voters against each other! Your years as a representative were spent lying and shilling for the 34 count Felon, adjudicated rapist and insurrectionist! You were and are a mistake that will be corrected November 3rd!
[….]

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Mark Alford (r): Is somebody going to tell him?

30 Friday Oct 2026

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They did.

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 30, 2026]

For far too many rural Missourians, getting routine checkups, seeing a specialist, or handling an emergency means burning gas, taking time off work, and driving hours away from home.
@HouseGOP is taking action to strengthen our rural health infrastructure—boosting investments in local clinics, expanding telehealth access, and keeping critical medical care right here in our local communities.
Should Missouri families be able to get quality healthcare without driving hours from home?
👍 YES – tell me why
👎 NO – tell me why not
[….]

Some of the responses:

They should get what their representative voted for: cuts to rural healthcare in exchange for billionaire tax cuts

That’s exactly what happened.

Should Missouri families be able to AFFORD healthcare?yes, but they can’t because you passed your big bogus bill. Somw ^success^.

Cool. Didn’t you vote to cut Medicaid?

lies

WWJD? He’d advocate for universal Healthcare
[….]

You voted for the big bullshit bill. You have no leg to stand on, here. Missouri deserves better.

You’re doing what Trump does. You’re saying the exact opposite of what you’re doing.
Anything to divert attention away from the Epstein scandal

Absolute falsehood!! My GOD – have you NO shame??!?
YOUR tax law last year cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income people, over the next decade. Right AFTER the midterms…

The BIG BOGUS BILL states…THAT IS A LIE!!!

To bad you voted for the BBB that killed them

Sure is a shame you voted for a budget to cut funding for them, ain’t it?

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how republicans have acted my entire life. Create a problem, then convince stupid people that the ones who created the problem are the only ones who can “fix” it. And they keep getting away with it, because they know their constituents are stupid.

YEP! So, why did you vote to cut the funding for rural hospitals?
You are an idiot Congressman Mark Alford.

They use to be able to. Now this is the nearest thing to that healthcare measure we waited 2 weeks for 10 years. Nice job Republicans the only ones you fool are yourselves.
[….]

funny how you only post asking what we the people need or want, a few days out from the election….. I never even saw a post or heard anything from you until just a few months ago… buzz off! You do not give a rip about anyone unless it keeps you in your seat…

Really, you need someone to tell you??

Sadly, yes.

They should! And you voted to cut funding for our rural hospitals. What a silly goose!!

What we should get is a congressman that doesn’t spend 63,000 dollars on dinners and bars. While we are out here struggling you are paying for 2000 dollar dinners. 1000 dollar lunches and bar tabs that could pay someones rent. That’s sick

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Mark Alford (r): “Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies…”

28 Wednesday Oct 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 28, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
After visiting nearly every rural hospital in Missouri’s Fourth District, I’ve seen firsthand just how important these facilities are to the communities they serve.
That’s why I introduced the Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act to give hospitals like Bates County Memorial a new pathway to Critical Access Hospital status, helping them remain financially stable and continue caring for families in MO-04. 🏥
We’re fighting to protect our rural hospitals and make sure Missouri families continue to have access to emergency care close to home!
#ShowMeResults #WorkingForYou
[….]

Some of the responses:

Congressman, your voting record appears to have wandered out of the photo.
On July 3, 2025, you voted YES on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That law was projected to cut federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over ten years, including approximately $137 billion in rural areas.
Now you’re posing at a rural hospital under “SHOW-ME RESULTS” and asking us to admire your commitment to keeping the doors open.
Some of us read the roll calls between photo opportunities.
Your proposed Medicare reimbursement fix could help Bates County Memorial. Good. Pursue it. But explain how that squares with your vote for Medicaid reductions that put additional financial pressure on rural healthcare providers.
And before the predictable response about the $50 billion rural health fund: that money lasts five years, serves purposes beyond hospitals, and doesn’t fully replace the projected rural Medicaid losses. Putting some money back doesn’t make the larger reduction disappear. Arithmetic remains stubbornly unimpressed by campaign graphics.
Your post says you introduced legislation. Introducing a bill is a step. It isn’t evidence that a hospital has received additional reimbursement or that you’ve saved one from closure.
So here’s the question your post conveniently avoids:
How much funding do hospitals in your district stand to lose under the law you supported, and how much would your proposed bill actually restore?
Show us those numbers, Congressman.
You brought the photograph. Bring the accounting.

Over the last 10 years (2016–2026), 12 to 14 rural hospitals have closed in Missouri (out of 21 total hospital closures across the state during that span). Recent 2026 reports indicate that roughly 50% of Missouri’s remaining rural hospitals are considered at risk of closing due to workforce shortages, inflation, and federal funding pressures, with a significant percentage projected to face severe jeopardy within the next few years. Medicaid cuts are a major contributing factor.
Whats taken you so long to notice?
Herrera for Congress!!!

hmm, seems like maybe the Trump admin shouldn’t have dismantled all of the oversight bodies. We need to eliminate and prosecute fraud, not cut healthcare

Midterms Approaching Propaganda and significant self-promotion

ACA was implemented 16 years ago! I don’t understand why people keep blaming everything on it and not doing anything to change it!!

Before the BBBill they were in good shape
You broke them

Congressman Mark Alford
Bullshit MAGA Kool-Aid!
What about your vote and support for The Big Bullshit Bill?
I cast my vote today for Herrera for Congress 🗳 🇺🇸
Be sure to look both ways before you go fuck yourself!

Did you tell them you voted to cut their funding???

Mark Awful, liar.

How did you vote on the big beautiful bill that takes away healthcare? Munchausen by proxy? I’ll make healthcare sick then pretend to nurse it back to health in an election cycle.

Markey Poo 💩,
Do you ever read the comments after you post this garbage? You and your ilk are going down.
Vote Blue
Flush this turd down the toilet!

AGAIN INTRODUCED. That gets us nowhere. You’ve not stayed in session long enough to get anything done.

Revisionist history! Fox TV personality Marky Asswipe voted to cut healthcare for Missourians. Vote him out!!

Mark Awful, why don’t you tell your constituents what happens to Medicaid on Jan 1, 2027. Come on Mark, you voted for it.

Funny how Alford wants applause for introducing a bill to help rural hospitals after voting for Trump’s legislation that included Medicaid cuts which will expedite rural healthcare facilities closings.
You don’t get credit for putting out a fire while helping start it.
Vote for Jordan J Herrera.

Alford voted with Trump to cut Medicaid Medicare and insurance premium subsidies causing rural hospitals to close. This post is a lie . Vote him out vote Blue everybody.

So..
Bailing out hospitals your trump supporting agenda wrecks?..?
Weird.

This guy has such a dominant maga voter base that he just lies right to our faces

Bla,Bla,Bla lil’ boy!!!🤡🤡🤡🤮🤮🤮

I think Mark Alford didn’t read the Big Beautiful Bill before he voted on it.
One of the changes that Republicans won’t talk about is going to create an even worse doctor and nurse shortage in rural Missouri:
Graduate Medical Loan Changes
• Beginning July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans will be eliminated for new borrowers and new
lifetime borrowing caps will apply for medical school and nursing students.
[….]

Big Beautiful Bill? Remember voting for it and cutting healthcare? I remember!

Good morning to everyone except the incumbent politicians suddenly knocking on doors and begging for votes:
Years of ignoring your constituents. Seven days of pretending to give a fuck.
We’re voting you out.

Why are we inviting criminals into the United States?
A senior State Department official says Brazilian opposition candidate and Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas after his weekend presidential election loss.
Bolsonaro had been ordered in Brazil to surrender his passports and said yesterday that he had no plans to leave his country, amid an investigation into alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
[….]

Fascists get in for free.

How about holding Marco Rubio accountable?
On March 18, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed the reins of the US Agency for International Development to Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School, former investment banker, and affiliate of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. At the time, Lewin’s appointment drew criticism because of his lack of experience in government, diplomacy, or foreign assistance. But for career staff inside the agency, the issues surrounding Lewin’s new role were much more alarming than his thin résumé.
For at least two months, USAID senior staff had no knowledge of how Lewin, who appeared at the agency one day as a policymaker on an obscure detail from the General Services Administration, could have suddenly begun wielding the powers of the agency’s top official.
Internal USAID emails reviewed by WIRED reveal that during the three-week period of March 18 to April 4, during which Lewin began canceling lifesaving aid programs and personally signed off on the termination of thousands of USAID employees, he did not sign the paperwork typically required by law to begin work at the agency, despite repeated requests. In fact, his appointment was so mysterious that USAID security was unable to issue him an ID card because they had no records of his employment.
[….]

Where’s my DOGE check? Can you check on that for us? Christmas is coming up soon.

expect it in about two weeks along with that healthcare plan they’ve been promising for 10 plus years😂

I wish you and all the government officials could live my (or any middle- or low-income people) lives. Then maybe you would understand what you and your buddies have done to the US!!!!! Shame on you.

You’re a little late. Our hospital has already shut down several departments and laid off lots of people!!!! Just because you want votes, you’re saying this!!!!!

Visiting another rural hospital for a photo op that you voted to close in the big bullshit bill?… Way to go sleepy mark!
[….]

Is that why you voted to cut millions from them through Medicaid and Medicare cuts?

After the midterms the $500 billion cuts to Medicare begin! The Republican Big Beautiful Bill is stealing your healthcare! 😔

Wwjd?
[….]

That’s super fantastic.
So, anything on the crippling prices of gas, diesel, groceries, health insurance or housing? How about a plan to help OUR farmers instead of enriching Argentina’s farmers with their uninspected mystery meat. Maybe a check on the out of control corruption? Perhaps a sound plan to stop the needless war that trump started? Epstein files? Anything at all?
[….]

So, is everybody ready for the 2026 version of “Stop The Steal”? I wonder if Gym Jordan and the other maga dirtbags have their bullhorns and posters out of storage yet. I do hope they try it again, would love to see what happens this time.
[….]

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Mark Alford (r): they ain’t buying the spin

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 26, 2026]

Under Republican leadership, we’re putting the safety and security of the American people FIRST! 🇺🇸
Illegal southern border crossings dropped 95% in FY2026 compared to Biden level-eras. 📉
President Donald J. Trump is backing our Border Patrol agents, enforcing our immigration laws, and taking action to secure our southern border.
A secure border means safer communities, stronger national security, and greater protection for American families. That’s what we’re fighting for! 🇺🇸
[….]

Some of the responses:

Congressman Mark Alford, there is always more than one way to interpret data. And MAGA Republicans have become notorious for spinning valid data points into propagandized poppycock.
[….]

Where does the war in Iran fit into the program?

You should visit your buddies in northeast Vernon county. 🖕🤡

How does Trump 1 term compare to Biden?

As an Independent voter, I used to believe that Republicans were honorable, honest, moral, had integrity, and were devoted constitutionalists. MAGA changed that belief. Until MAGA is fully extinguished, I will not vote for a Republican.

Beware of the desperate unarmed brown people!! Their misery will be transferred to you! To exterminate your troubles theirs must be ignored!!
They’ve actually convinced you that the presence of a POOR person is what is making you poor ~ NOT the fat rich guys? The ones with ALL THE CAPITAL?? That pay no taxes???
That their proximity has made you financially less somehow, or in some manner denied you some important thing…??
Really?? The people with nothing are the ones ripping you off??
“Your enemy isn’t carrying all their belongings in a plastic bag. Your enemy is carrying an investment portfolio. Wake the f*ck up!”
– Liam Cunningham, Irish actor
But you never read a single word the GOP tax bill or the Mueller Report, or any of those indictments after that, nor paid any attention to where the money is actually going, have you?
For gods sake, a woman with three kids didn’t walk from Guatemala to break into your double-wide and steal your jewels…She didn’t come up here to sell you meth…
She isn’t stealing your underpaid job.
She came up here to survive.
CBO Director Phill Swagel wrote in a note accompanying his economic forecasts: As a result of these immigration-driven revisions to the size of the labor force, “we estimate that, from 2023 to 2034, GDP will be greater by about $7 trillion and revenues will be greater by about $1 trillion than they would have been otherwise.”
Got that? The surprise increase in immigration has led a multitrillion-dollar windfall for both the overall economy and federal tax coffers.
The truth is: the only truly corrupt and dangerous minority is the rich.
In the unlikely event that the facts matter:
Undocumented immigrants don’t receive food stamps, live in public housing, enroll in non-emergency Medicaid coverage or receive supplemental security insurance or cash assistance. They are eligible to receive emergency medical services, enroll in public schools and participate in meals programs there, and participate in Head Start or WIC. There is no federal program that directly gives cash to immigrants in the country illegally.
Look it up…
AND…it is not a violation of any US law to arrive at a port of entry seeking assistance and asylum – those that do are NOT HERE ILLEGALLY.
[….]

President Trump and the Republicans have made America the least safe it has been in over 80 years by trying to end alliances which have kept us safe. This is a travesty and you are complicit.

White House propaganda.
What they aren’t telling you is that Trump’s boarder policies are cutting strategic LEGAL immigration far more than illegal immigration.
What they aren’t telling you is how much MAGA inferiority complexes are costing American citizens.
Missouri has had enough.

and how many folks had their due process violated? american citizens killed?

Keep lying Alford. It’s all you have left.

Please explain how this helps the cost of living to hard working Americans. Is this what the GOP is hanging their hats on? Get real!

Trump has made 81 million off gas aka Iran war

I don’t care about undocumented immigrants!!!!
I am not afraid of undocumented immigrants!
Undocumented immigrants are not destroying my life!
Undocumented immigrants CONTRIBUTE TO OUR ECONOMY.
Undocumented immigrants are NICER than any MAGAs I know!
STOP with FUCKING SCARE TACTICS regarding undocumented immigrants!
Stop with the INHUMANE and ILLEGAL detention of undocumented immigrants!
COME UP WITH A BETTER PATH TO CITIZENSHIP!
THAT…IS WHAT WE WANT!

You’re a joke….. TRUMP invites Iran to bomb US cities…. Said it’d be ok. Any citizen saying that would have been arrested and locked up.
He took a $400 million jet from Middle East countries.
And you’re worried about the border?? Vote BLUE

You mean the safety of Rich White Men….

WWJD? Welcome yhe stranger!!

In Two months the Big Medicaid cuts come into affect
[….]

Meanwhile, how many citizens have we shot?

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Previously:

Mark Alford (r): Quick, look over there! (October 26, 2026)

Mark Alford (r): Quick, look over there!

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 26, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
Rural Missourians deserve quality healthcare close to home!
Last year, I joined our congressional delegation in urging state leaders to prioritize rural healthcare through the Rural Health Transformation Program.
Now Missouri is putting that $216 million to work — strengthening rural hospitals, expanding emergency and maternal care, and training more professionals. 🏥
I’ll keep fighting so rural communities’ needs stay front and center! 🇺🇸
#ShowMeResults #WorkingForYou

Some of the responses:

Cut 100 million put back 10 and expect to be thanked.

When is he going to start doing anything?

After January third when he packs his backs and whack-a-moles over to pop up in a different grift.

Didn’t you vote for the Big Beautiful Bill Mark?

Yep.

Unfortunately ,more than 200 rural hospitals have closed or converted to models that exclude inpatient care (such as Rural Emergency
The program notes that 50% of the funds will be distributed equally across all 50
states, and the remaining 50% of funds will be distributed in a manner to be
determined by the CMS Administrator based on the concentration of rural healthThe law cuts federal Medicaid and CHIP spending by roughly $800 billion to over $1 trillion. Because roughly one in four rural residents relies on Medicaid—a higher rate than in urban areas—these cuts disproportionately strip coverage and funding from rural communities
Anyone with a calculator on their smartphones understands that this program has no longevity and was designed as a Midterm election fluff
Smoke and Mirrors
Today’s current event that is making national news is Children Mercy Hospital.
The desperation in the parents of young patients was heartbreaking to hear.
Currently its affecting about 400 Children getting cut off from Healthcare through the ACA cuts in the big beautiful bill.
The news reporting states the actual number could be closer to 55,000 Children being denied future Healthcare services.
Many ACA insurance plans are being utilized by are small buisnesses and entrepreneurs who don’t have the benefits of an employee group plan.
Alford likes to talk about what he’s done for rural hospitals, but its all talk ,since many of these cuts are happening in January 2027
Alford has turned his back on Children’s Healthcare.
Mark Alford you can create a new meme with you saying ” I Did This ”
Well actually you accomplished this debacle by your involvement in the Big Beautiful Bill

he will never reply . He will tell you it’s all Bidens fault

SHOW-ME A NEW CONGRESSMAN

don’t to forget gas prices so they can aford to get care and Med.

Alford voted to weaken rural health

It’s going to get worse too, right Mark?

Mark Awful voted to eliminate more healthcare in MO beginning Jan 1, 2027. Republicans timed it so it hit post the elections. That tell you all you need to know about Mark Awful and Republicans

You voted to cut Medicaid and Medicare while also supporting limitations to maternal medicine. 🤦🏼‍♀️

After he voted to take it away. We NEED better!

Did he read the “big beautiful bill”?!

He voted for it.

Midterms Approaching Propaganda and significant self-promotion.

So nice of you to take away rural healthcare and then scrape together crumbs to “strengthen” rural healthcare. The farmers who lose access to healthcare will send you packing.

You’re la[t]e or fake to the rural hospital issue. Cuts in Medicaid by the big beautiful bill you signed have rural hospitals in a bind as now they have people without Medicaid who can’t pay, but still need services. [….]

We cannot forget that this is the same man that voted for A Bill that just kicked thousands of people off insurance at Children’s Mercy Hospital. VOTE MARK ALFORD OUT.

You supported the cuts and was making comments about why. Have a townhall.

What about Children’s Mercy in KC and the devastating cuts you’re responsible for?
Vote Jordan J Herrera and get someone in who has a brain and who cares, and isn’t just doing sound bites.

Alford is and always has been all about himself! Please don’t believe anything he says!

Hey Mark, you already screwed up the Affordable Care Act. I bet you’ll have something in 2 weeks, right?

Too late to hope you do better

Look fool . We know exactly how you voted. Quit your bull shit. You would be much better off just shutting the F up

Where’s Trump’s best Healthcare plan ever you know the one he said he was going to replace ObamaCare with. Another thing that is the problem is Healthcare is one of the highest to be monopolized in the US same as about 99% everything else and the Republicans support the corporate American that does it

It’s too late idiot. You voted for the big ugly bill. Rural healthcare fate is sealed thanks to you! Nothing you can do will bring it back. Quit posting this crap. You should have never voted for the big ugly bill!

Cocky Congressman Mark Alford thinks he’s going to win Missouri District 4. He sent emails asking for money sending ideas for FY 2028.
Yet he never shows his face around the District to hear Constituents concerns and learn from them directly how money can be appropriated.
VoteBlue

You know what would help rural health systems? Not cutting Medicaid and Medicare.

Congressman Mark Alford protects pedophiles and hates you.
He voted for these cuts to rural hospitals and BRAGGED about his vote on the Big Beautiful Fuckup bill.
The arsonist being remorseful does not absolve guilt.
Vote the lying, pedophile sycophant out.

A little late aren’t you

Congressman Mark Alford didn’t i just read a couple weeks ago where two more missouri hospitals shut down OB units?

Yes we did. The new owners of the hospital in Marshall will NOT be offering OB services. Fact!

Have you even addressed the Childrens Mercy hospital issue of being not authorized by several insurers on the ACA?

High Gas Prices, High Groceries, Federal Workers are being Attacked! What Good are you doing?

You voted to cut Medicaid and Medicare while also supporting limitations to maternal medicine. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Just like Trump, create the problem from Big Beautiful Bill, then claim you are doing everything to solve it!

I think we are gonna see results but I don’t think you will like them…better tighten up that resume Mark….unless of course you know that election interference is looming and you are safe.

You voted to cut Medicaid….. stop pretending to care when it’s election time

His platform promoting health is to push hungry kids off SNAP, the working poor off of Medicaid, let the program collapse precipitate the closure of rural healthcare facilities, and remind the poor that they are that way because of bad decisions.
May Alford be consumed by the twenty-first century hellscape he and his like-minded theives architected for the poor.

Hi, Mark—Have you seen how well your president’s oil and gas stocks are doing? Have you seen that he’s enriched himself by $2.4b while in office?
I’m sure the farmers don’t mind taking that $8b bailout when they can rest assured that your president is doing so well for himself.

Honestly, they think we’re stupid. It’s insulting. Doesn’t matter the state, they claim they are fixing something they made worse or they’re taking credit for something they voted against.

So you spend your time in congress destroying basic healthcare access then you don your cape and proclaim yourself the savior of healthcare. My hero!

You are embarrassing

THIS IS A STATE OF EMERGENCY yet nothing!!!! Mosaic doesn’t even have a Pediatric wing. Almost every child in NW & SW children go to Mercy. Yet they’re worried about abortion and transgender. 1% of the population is transgender.

Now do 1 trillion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next ten years that will crush rural hospitals all over the country. Blatantly lying is what the Trump cult does.

By voting to cut healthcare for millions of people? Raising the cost of health care by voting against ACA subsidies? Voting to strip funding from hospital by Medicaid cuts? That’s Alford fighting for rural healthcare?

After your party DECIMATED it.

You have to be literally one of the absolute clueless and outright dumb individuals to ever come from Missouri politics. Just a complete dolt. I’m a conservative and I think you’re just terrible for this state.

You strengthen rural health care by voting for the big bullshit bill so the rural hospitals close…. Way to go sleepy mark!

You touted for and voted for the big bullshit bill.
Shut up and sit down.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Mark Alford (r): “I coalesce the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension.”

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“Oh, a bullshit artist.”

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 19, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
I’ve been fighting to lower fuel costs and make life more affordable for Missouri families. That’s why I voted YES for year-round E-15. It means more American-made fuel options, lower prices at the pump, and a stronger market for our farmers.
Real savings for drivers. Real support for rural Missouri. ⛽🌽🇺🇸
[….]

Some of the responses:

Trumps WAR the one he started all on his own saying it would take a week and was not really a war. Is responsible for the gas prices.

Is the affordability in the room with us now?

Where is this fuel available? All stations?

Being from rural Missouri, I know a whole lot of farmers. But I don’t know a single one who is as excited about diesel being almost $6 a gallon (and more in some places) as Mark Alford. The illegal Iran War is disproportionately harming our rural communities, but Alford supports it anyway. Vote Herrera for Congress!

Is this the Onion?

Sadly, no.

Talk to your leader tell him to turn Starlink back on for Ukraine🤬

Слава Україн

There’s literally no way the increase in taxes per paycheck equates what I pay for insurance every payday. I don’t understand people being so against universal healthcare.
I just finished open enrollment for 2027, and I’m paying over $10,000 next year for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for a family of 5. And that’s not including deductible and copay. Estimates suggest a 4% tax increase on the average household to fund a single payer healthcare system. Medicare for All would save me about $7,000 as well as prevent over 100,000 deaths.

Ethanol as gasoline is a terrible energy policy. It takes 1.17 units of energy to create 1 unit of energy as ethanol. While it reduces demand for crude it increases the demand for natural gas.

Science! Facts!

1 acre of solar panels can propel an EV 80-120x farther than an acre of corn grown for ethanol. With no annual inputs. For 25-30 years…

What about truckers, Mike? Will there be socialism for them too?

most cars can’t use this fuel. So for most no help

Congressman Mark Alford Judging by the prices, I am concerned about your ability as a fighter for farmers and American Families.

Today:

Exactly the same as shrinkflation. Not fooling anyone. Let’s Math out the “fuel efficiency” on your proposal. It won’t pass scrutiny.

No new wars

Congress held 6 voting sessions to end the Iran war. Congressman Mark Alford and the majority of Republicans voted no all 6 times. The war is causing a huge increase in gasoline and diesel prices . Now Mark wants to boast about offering a drop of help that does nothing to lower high prices he caused. It’s time to elect someone who will vote to end the war.
[….]

This, right here!!!

Midterms Approaching Propaganda and significant self-promotion.

Where can we find these prices?
No worries, I’m not expecting you to answer since we all know they don’t exist.

The photo shows regular gas at $2.94 a gallon – which was in February, 2024 when BIDEN WAS PRESIDENT.

By affordable you mean literally double from last year…

I just put $20 in my tank this morning. Barely gave me a quarter tank. When Biden was president, that $20 would last me a whole week. Now, I’ll be lucky to get two days.

And it lowers your mpg by about 5%. So have to buy more gas.

Fuel Prices by Grade Oct 19 2026
• Regular Unleaded: $3.93 – $3.95 / gallon
• Mid-Grade: $4.29 / gallon
• Premium: $4.65 / gallon
• Diesel: $6.01 – $6.30 / gallon
Feb 2025 Missouri avg gas price was $2.84 for regular unleaded.
I use 2 tanks a week to commute to work.
So every month, I pay $133 more thanks to Trump’s war.
[….]

How about get us out this war?

Until the illegal war against Iran has ended (which you have it in your power to do if you vote against it), fuel prices will remain higher. Increasing E-15 usage will increase repair frequency, as well as increase food costs: every acre harvested costs more using expensive diesel.

$6.19 per gallon 10-19-26

Rubber Stamp Alford 😂

You’re a joke

Maybe you should try voting to end the war that actually caused the fuel prices to rise.. dumb ass.

These kinds of posts alone should tell you that Alford isn’t fit for office.

Confirming your incompetence again? 🤡

You forget to mention, when using E85 gasoline, your vehicles fuel economy goes down 15% to 27%. A great accomplishment for republican maggat CULT representatives would be getting fuel costs down to where they were the day JOE BIDEN LEFT OFFICE. Those price levels are a DISTANT DREAM for republicans that could take years under their leadership.

This post shows you that Mark Alford just parrots what his corporate campaign donors tell him and doesn’t take 5 minutes to research what he’s talking about.

Alford must be taking advantage of Missouri’s recreational weed availability again. He’s not making any sense.

I’m guessing you learned arithmetic from one of the public schools you voted to defund.

So once again you prove you lack basic math skills you pathetic sycophant

Grow up FFS.

Vehicles that run on sunshine are superior for almost every application. Enjoy your $6 diesel, maga.
[….]

You’re a joke…. You got Hegseth spending $90 billion dollars to DOUBLE fuel prices…. And no end in sight…. Corrupt…and… like the recently sacked press secretary….. UTTERLY incompetent.

Is this satire?
Seriously?
I wish I could see if you were posting this with a straight face.
You think we are all LYING about high prices?
You think every single one of us can’t see with our own eyes and wallets what we are paying for when we go get gas?

Are you that fucking stupid. Fuck you Mark!

So you want us to be using RUSSIAN oil?
BTW my nephew just got sent back to the Middle East (Air Force). He wont be home until next July at the earliest. Wasn’t this supposed to be a war that only lasted a week or so?? His poor baby girl has seen him 2 out of her 6 months on this Earth.
[….]

If only your party’s leader hadn’t have started a war against Iran…

Who is this ad for? Good Lord Alford is a putz. If you vote for him you get what you deserve. He obviously has driven around his district or MO in general.

Maybe if Mark Alford paid for his own food, gas and healthcare then he would have a clue about what people are dealing with today.

WTF have Republicans done to lower fuel costs???

This guy clueless and always has been. Look at how he has voted on health care

Congressman Mark Alford supports attacking a proven US ally, destroying Ukraine’s infrastructure and killing citizens. Mark Alford is on the side of PUTIN. Mark Alford is a traitor to the US Constitution and the people of this land. #UNFITtoSERVE #TakeOutTheAlfordTrash

“Fighting for affordability” while writing off his gas bill to his constituents. He is really feeling the pinch of driving that suburban around rural MO every day.

Yes on 6, the rest are tricks – just like Mark!

F*** you mark.This meme presents a false choice as if capitalism equals freedom. Scripture warns that you cannot serve both God and Mammon, yet capitalism relies entirely on usury, corporate greed, and debt bondage that destroy organic communities. Here in Missouri, we see corporate capitalism and state authority working hand-in-hand, with politicians literally walking around posing with baseball bats to intimidate citizens. Real faith and sound political order reject both state socialism and corporate finance capital they are two sides of the same tyrannical coin, both relying on fear and greed to enforce control.
[….]

High gas prices are 100% the result of Republicans and the Iran War.
And Mar-a-Lago Mark supported all of Trump’s policies, even though he doesn’t have a single constituent in the top 1%. Vote him out.

Dear god, Mark…just stop while you’re way behind.

You definitely put more into the photos you’re posting several times a day than actually accomplishing real results.
Fyi…gas prices have not gone down in Missouri.

You are soooo emotionally abusive, gaslighting your constituents over gas prices.

It’s only unaffordable because you guys sold us out for more endless wars.

Phony Marka typical Trumper spreading more lies

You’re such a failure. 🤣

Show me a bunch of BS messaging; affordable my a**.

Mark’s words are empty, and his actions don’t help Missouri. Vote this liar out.

Not much of a fighter maybe you should try something else.

This Republican Congress has failed to fulfill its constitutional duty to provide meaningful oversight and hold the president accountable.
At a time when the senile president’s words and actions raise serious concerns about judgment, stability, and leadership, Congress has a responsibility to act –
not to stand by in silence, put party loyalty above country, or shirk its obligations.

Or you could have just voted No for the iran war right?? RIGHT????

You didn’t do shit about diesel. That’s where the real cost comes from since all shipping relies on it. The US produces enough diesel to supply ourselves, but you Republicans won’t pass bills to restrict their price gouging.
Also yay, more ethanol to screw up my engine! Thanks, Marky Mark!

Growing an acre of corn produces less energy than an acre of solar.
Look for a new job.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Mark Alford (r): it’s all about the photo-op….and the hat

14 Wednesday Oct 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 14, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
This Congress, I’m fighting to make beef more affordable by giving Missouri ranchers more places to sell and clearer incentives to rebuild the herd.
When the national herd is at a 75-year low, more imports won’t solve the problem—more American cattle and more processing competition will.
I’ll always stand with our ranchers. 🚜🥩
[….]

Some of the responses:

You supported the trump tarrifs that lost grain markets for the rest of my lifetime.

Diesel fuel prices hit farmers and ranchers harder than anyone else 😂😂😂
This pip squeak is all talk.

Alford did trump tell you to say that

Rep. Alford will always stand with Trump. I fixed it for you.

He will stand with trump and radical right.

Not even close.

That’s a joke!!!

Standby & watch them fail

Except when you support policies that hurt them because Trump told you to. Oh, Mar-a-Lago Mark…

You stood with Trump and his beef imports and prices didn’t go down

This is a total lie. He supports and backs an agenda of a convicted felon. Missouri deserves better then this. VOTE MARK ALFORD AND REPUBLICANS OUT

We have seen the results of your party’s failures. Let’s hope the people of Missouri never let you forget your betrayal of the people for as long as you exist.

Not a chance, you are a mouth piece for trump!

Because you support trump tariffs that hurt farmers, so now you want the taxpayers to bail, aka, welfare, them out.

Clearly he hasn’t with diesel fuel at an all time high for farmers!! (Not to mention during the busiest time of the year for too) 🤬

Are you really that out of touch with reality?

How can you do it and Support Trumps policies

Sure 🤥

WTF EVER!! He won’t even debate [Jordan] Herrera! He knows he will be asked the hard questions that he won’t want to answer!!

The only thing Alford stands with is a radical MAGA monster

Missouri farm bankruptcies were up over 70% this year remind me again what party controls all three branches of the federal government and all of Missouri

You aren’t doing anything. You are on vacation AGAIN! For, at least, another 3 weeks. You need to be working on your resume right now. You’re going to need it.

Mark Alford (r): happy talk, sad reality

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 6, 2024]

President Donald J. Trump just signed an order letting truckers and farmers run tax-free dyed diesel on the highway through year’s end — no interest, no penalties.
That puts real money back in the pockets of the folks who haul our freight and grow our food.
[….]

Is it a fix? Sadly, no.

Some of the responses:

If I start a fire would I get credit if I put it out?

The Commander-In-Stupid’s War caused this/ Since diesel has jumped $2.00 now he wants to give you crumbs in return with no relief in sight. Who could have reasoned if a country in the Middle East was bombed gas and diesel would increase 50%? Right-why would someone who has never bought an ounce of diesel in his life care for those who have to and need it to survive!

the fire is not put out. We are in for tough economic times.

only if you tell us how the fire is good for us

We see what you did there.

This is only a temporary measure to try to get truckers to keep being suckers and keep voting Republican. Watch, the new supply will run out the day after the election.

what will happen is that everyone will scream blue murder at the end of the year when the relief stops, thinking that by then they are entitled to it. If the Democrats prevail in the midterms, I have no doubt it will be spun as a Democrat failure when the relief terminates. If they don’t prevail, it will simply be removed anyway, because it is time limited.

Lucy. Football. Charlie Brown.

Does it include taking out L.A. and San Diego?

And, not much of a solution; more of a tourniquet.

Is that called socialism?

Red dye.

But it doesn’t help us farmers in running our tractors and combines. The tax break doesn’t work on the fuel we use for harvest. We run off road in these machines to start with. One day during harvest I can put over 1000 gal in one setting. Yes I can save running it in my trucks hauling to the elevator but my farthest distance is 10 miles. Give us some kinda break on the off road fuel that’s not taxed to start with. I am one of the small farmers in my area some guys are burning 3x what I burn a day. So don’t say he is helping the farmers.

Did he tell the oil companies? 🤣🤣🤣

Farmers already use red dye diesel. How is thus helping farmers?

Truckers save 24.4 cents per gallon buy red die diesel avoid federal road tax. Farmers are already able to buy red die diesel for off road use no savings there.

Come on Anchor Man. Really reaching there.

Wait….so everyone can have the option of buying clear expensive diesel or red cheaper diesel in the US now?
And no one thinks this will be a problem?
Gonna suck for people who rely on dyed diesel like farmers when its in short supply everywhere in a week. Lol

Why were they high in the first place??? Oh wait! I remember!

It doesn’t lower diesel prices for farmers. It allows truckers to use lower priced diesel that farmers have always had access to. If it has any impact for farmers, it’ll be that they now can’t get fuel because truckers already used up the farmer’s supplies.

Not really, but cool story bro!

Why is diesel so expensive? What event this year made it skyrocket? Has that event ceased or is there an exit strategy for nullifying it? Who is responsible for this event unfolding the way it has and why would any sane person vote for the person responsible or any of that person’s enablers?

’30 to 50 cents a gallon cheaper’ according to something I read. So,, it goes from around 6 bucks a gallon to 5 and half… Less than 10% cheaper–and that’s just the fuel…not to mention the cost of maintenance, drivers, insurance, vehicle itself…. Yep, that’s better than nothing, but still ain’t cheap enough to really reduce costs for the transportation companies, and therefore, for the rest of us–or the drivers and farmers…

it isn’t. Farmers already used dyed diesel in their equipment. This saves them nothing.
This only saves over the road diesel vehicle $$.
Another scam… by the master conman.

It’s deck chairs on the Titanic time…don’t forget the fact that the $1+ billion “saved” by truckers, which actually goes to highways, bridges, and other critical infratructure maintenance and construction, will need to be paid for from somewhere else…like yer DOGE, tariff, and vote purchase checks…which would be from taxes you paid (note: those checks aint coming, so it’s more tax all around)

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And where will the money come from to fix the roads?

Wouldn’t need to do this if he hadn’t started the war

It’s like putting a sticker over a crack in a window. If anything, lowering the price at the pump may decrease stockpiles faster causing a bigger problem down the road. Short term relief for long term pain unless a fundamental solution comes soon.

Didn’t he start the war that made diesel expensive?

Congratulations we can now fill our trucks with fuel that is only $2.50 higher than last year instead of $2.90 higher.

Do you think there’s that much dyed diesel just waiting in barrels somewhere? Isn’t this just going to raise costs for the people who use dyed diesel who are *checks notes* farmers?

Maybe he shouldn’t have started an unnecessary war with Iran 🤔

Red dye diesel is cheaper than on road diesel because the red dye is exempt from highway tax. Who’s going to make up the lost tax dollars?
The tanks will be dyed red after the exemption has passed. How will the dept of transportation know if the trucker is using the correct fuel if the tank is red?
Once again the government is going off half cocked with no real plan in place.

You have to find Off road diesel. And many farmers will be harvesting very soon so when all these city folks with their big diesel pickups that have never seen dirt full up with dyed diesel, suddenly the farmers that already got screwed by tarriffs not have to buy higher priced fuel to harvest.

thinking this is still the FAFO for voting this clown into office again.

pretty much. He cuts open the main artery and hands a band-aid and wants praised!

Wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t started a war.

Adding dye doesn’t increase supply.

The demand just went up for dyed diesel
The supply of dyed diesel did not go up
Are the farmers and ranchers going to have to pay more now that there’s more demand than supply?

Just until the election is over.

Let them eat cake🖕🤡

Or maybe he can end the war in Iran that we will never win?

The vast majority of diesel used in farming is already untaxed ie tillage, planting,and harvesting. Of course you already know that.so therefore you are trying to give yourself a pat on the back for leaving crumbs under the table. If you had exhibited a spine, all this grandstanding would be unnecessary?

Ah, rulings by executive order, the fiat of a dictator wanna be.

He created the problem, DA.
Don’t play the save the day hero.

Congressman Mark Alford yay, a temporary solution that won’t do much to answer for having no spine to fight for your constituents. Pat yourself on the back.

So he mangles a dumbass war and it raises the price of diesel and then he signs an EO to remove the taxes from diesel 8 months later to lower the prices for 2 months. That means the truckers will still have lost thousands of dollars due to this orange turnip. You Republican representatives that still lick his boots are just embarrassing.

How dumb do you think people are……

Temporary relief for a problem HE caused

This post does little than to just show how fucking stupid you are and how dumb you must think your constituents are. 🤡

Maybe the corrupt piece of shit could stop doing everything he can to destroy the economy and then relief wouldnt be needed.
Have we tried that yet?

Oh yes, only he can fix it not our Congress because they are impotent being led by the Republicans. All these problems were created by Republicans and suddenly they’re saving America by fixing the problems they created or supposedly fixing them.

So now there is less money to fix the roads? You’re robbing peter to pay paul.
How about if you don’t start a bullshit war creating the problem to begin with. Why are we even over there?

He signed an executive order to try to put a band aid on the problem he’s causing? Wow, what a hero.

Sorry, but you don’t get to crow about trying to solve a problem you stupidly created.

So he screws up but then takes credit while our roads go to crap? Sounds right.

Right. After taking multiple actions that resulted in the cost going up. Where’s my doge check?

And how does this resolve the underlying problem that Trump created when starting the Iran war or supporting his buddy Putin and not telling him to stop attacking Ukraine so they will stop blowing up Russian refineries?
This is a band aid that kicks the can down the road and will short change us in the future.
Money in pocket huh?
What about all the other cost of goods that have increased? How about that? What about soft cost like insurance and interest rates?
What a joke. Stop kissing the ring grow a pair and hold Trump accountable for his based choices for a change.

Why don’t we just end the mess in Iran — you know, root cause it — instead of putting bandaids on symptoms that actually are worse for the environment?
You know, the mess Donald Trump created and your inaction enabled.
Shameful.

Mark, you really don’t think things through do you?

Are we suppose to applaud this feeble attempt to fix what he’s broke?

Mark Alford you are an idiot?

My god, not again? Taking credit for only partially fixing the problem he alone caused! Do you think we are stupid?

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