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13 Friday Aug 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, social media

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From Missouri DHSS:

Last night:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Anti-vax folks say they don’t trust doctors. Where do they go when they get sick?
11:41 PM · Aug 12, 2021

A few of the responses:

Time for a new rule, all eligible people that chose not to get vaccinated don’t qualify for priority medical care. People who drink don’t qualify for transplants so I believe that the standard has already been set.

The vet. If they have a fever they stamp their foot twice.

What I don’t get is they say they don’t trust the government but they also don’t trust the vaccine because it doesn’t have FDA approval. Do they know what FDA stands for?

They’re immune to logic.

To the ERs where they cry and clog up the system. Then the MIs, CVAs, GSW have to compete for care and a bed. Not fair! No Vax? Back of the line. No Vax? You pay the costs of care. No Vax? No bars, restaurants, movies, concerts.

Well, when they get sick with Delta, they should just stay home and deal.with it. It’s only the flu, right? They don’t trust doctors and science. Why should they go to people they don’t trust? Let the hospitals be free to treat heart attacks & accident victims.

They sure don’t trust a lot of people: doctors, scientists, the government, etc…

They trust Facebook more than doctors.

While also talking about how they hate the media and Big Tech. Oh, and that to stop communism, the government should take over traditional media and social media companies. It is almost like they don’t know what they are talking about or something.

Just like the rest of the R’s, they make the mess, expect someone else to clean it up, then complain because the D’s didn’t do it to their satisfaction. [….]

To work. To school. On airplanes. On buses. They spread their sickness across the community and country cause they drank a little sea moss with molasses and ginger. They are fine. [….]

RN here. They call our office begging for advice & asking for all the crazy shit they’ve heard about. When we tell them that’s not an option/no cure they’re stunned. Advice: stay home and go to the hospital only when you’re sick enough to need admission. That & good luck

They also likely get treatments that are still under emergency authorization for that Covid. So that excuse for not getting vaccinated goes out the window.

They beg for monoclonal antibodies which are only authorized under an emergency use authorization because they don’t like the vaccine because it’s authorized under an emergency use authorization.

Spoiler alert: the Emergency Room. I see them. Often. My favorite is when they still don’t believe you after you diagnose them.

They go to the doctor just like everyone else, except currently they filling up the hospitals, you know the ones full of doctors.

Apparently out in public without a mask

And on and on.

He believes the news is not true and the truth is not news

22 Thursday Jul 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, Missouri Governor, social media

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Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [2017 file photo].

Early this morning:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
This is unbelievable. These newspapers use the numbers provided by his administration. This guy may be the worst Governor in Missouri history. And that is saying something.
[….]
5:15 AM · Jul 22, 2021

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

Don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for Parsons.

A low bar [….]

I don’t trust anything that comes out of his mouth or through his office.

Really the worst.

It is depraved indifference. I think he should be charged with manslaughter. Everything he has done from the beginning left Missourians vulnerable. He truly does not care what happens to the citizens of this state.

He’s so incompetent, and very thin-skinned when someone criticizes his failures.

There’s more.

Previously:

Cynical anti-science right wingnut sociopath attempts to distract everyone else from his gross incompetence (July 8, 2021)

The cruelty is the point

03 Saturday Jul 2021

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This morning:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
This from the “pro life party”. Such hate is hard for me to fathom.
[….]
7:21 AM · Jul 3, 2021

It’s in their nature.

On the mark

22 Tuesday Jun 2021

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Claire McCaskill, Federal Reimbursement Allowance, governor, Medicaid, Mike Parson, missouri, Missouri General Assembly, right wingnuts, social media, Twitter

During the latest regular legislative session the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly failed to continue the legislation enabling the previously non-controversial Federal Reimbursement Allowance [FRA] program for Missouri.

There is a looming deadline for legislation to implement the program before it impacts Medicaid and forces cuts in other general revenue funded areas.

Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

Today:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
I cannot adequately describe the disfunction & chaos that is MO state govt right now. Refusing people’s will on Medicaid expansion,refusing to re-up pro forma law that also leaves billions of Fed $ on the table,passing unconstitutional backwoods bullshit on guns. So embarrassing.
9:13 AM · Jun 22, 2021

Previously:

“The buck stops…somewhere over there” (June 22, 2021)

True that

27 Thursday May 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, social media

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Capitol breach, Claire McCaskill, hearings, Insurrection, missouri, republican obstructionism, sedition

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [2017 file photo].

This afternoon:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
For those in the back that didn’t hear me last time:

There were 33 hearings on Benghazi.
1:14 PM · May 27, 2021

There’s no such thing as a “moderate republican”.

One of those fancy prosecutors

23 Friday Apr 2021

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

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Claire McCaskill, Josh Hawley, missouri, prosecutor, social media, Twitter

“…Now I know he went to Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…”

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
A good reporter really ought to follow up and get the name of ANY case where he stood in a criminal courtroom in front of a jury as a prosecutor. Has he even ever seen a jury in a criminal trial? Spoken to one? Done a voir dire? Made an opening statement? Cross x a witness? Ever?

Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3
.@HawleyMO’s explanation of his no vote will likely elicit a response from @clairecmc: “It’s too broad. As a former prosecutor, my view is it’s dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents.”

[….]
3:19 PM · Apr 23, 2021

A few of the comments:

I found some interesting information on Hawley. Seems he said he argued a Hobby Lobby case, which is not the job of prosecutors, before the Supreme Court, and would have done so in violation of the Supreme Court bar. Admitted to the bar a year after the case was over.

As a retired prosecutor, I take issue with Hawley and his claims. He is an obstructionist with 0 trial experience. How laughable that he argues he represents the middle class!

I did some research and I couldn’t find a case that he prosecuted.

He only appears on Fox

“Stood”? That’s not nice, Claire. 😉

Mock trial at Yale Law, maybe.

One of those fancy ones.

Unfortunately no good reporters. Just saw him on the local news spewing his BS about need for local government offices to open. No one questions his residency. No one questions his sedition. No one questions his votes. There are no investigative reporters left.

Please hammer this point home every chance you get. It’s Hawley’s BIG LIE. (They all have at least one.)

Just another GQP poser… Ugh.

There you go.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

Just because (April 22, 2021)

Offered without comment

15 Thursday Apr 2021

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

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Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

Today:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Here for the ratio.
[….]
11:26 AM · Apr 15, 2021

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

He forgot to raise a fist (April 15, 2021)

A shooting star elbow drop from the ropes

28 Thursday Jan 2021

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

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Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

Today:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Hawley can try to lie his way out of what happened but…
On Monday evening, Jan 4, on national tv (Fox) Hawley response to question as to whether he was “saying as of Jan 20 Trump would be President”?
His reply… “Well, Bret, that depends on what happens on Wednesday.”
10:55 AM · Jan 28, 2021

Yep.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024 (January 23, 2021)

After 17 days of silence (January 24, 2021)

Yeah, but those seven Senators didn’t pump their fists at insurrectionists immediately before the breach of the Capitol (January 25, 2021)

Plain speaking

09 Friday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, Missouri Governor, social media

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Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [2017 file photo].

This morning:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
We have a Governor who was too afraid to do anything but follow the Trump playbook on Covid, including getting the virus. It has caused death and economic destruction in my state. We are at a new hospitalization record today in Missouri. Shameful. Vote.
7:51 AM · Oct 9, 2020

Risky and Reckless.

That’s Trumpism for you.

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

There is a difference, there always has been

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

This evening, from Claire McCaskill (D):

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
The Trump tax story is a national security story.
7:04 PM · Sep 27, 2020

On the same subject, from Josh Hawley (r):

”

“

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

“Hey, I paid more.” – a whole lot of people

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