09 Wednesday Aug 2023
Posted in campaign finance, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C180536 08/09/2023 Old Drum Conservative PAC MO Coalition for Video Lottery PAC PO Box 161 Wright City MO 63390 8/9/2023 $22,175.00
[emphasis added]
The statue of Old Drum in front of the Johnson County Courthouse in Warrensburg, Missouri.
And video lottery.
Denny Hoskins (r) [2022 file photo].
04 Sunday Jun 2023
Posted in social media
Tags
21st Senate District, 31st Senate District, Denny Hoskins, LGBTQIA+, missouri, Pride Festival, Rick Brattin, right wingnut, social media, Warrensburg
Denny Hoskins (r).
Last night on social media:
Denny Hoskins
Despite the 90+ degree temperatures, these God loving patriots are standing up to protect kids from “family friendly” drag shows in Warrensburg. I stopped by to hand-deliver some water/Gatorade and personally thank each one of them for staying true to their conservative beliefs and fighting the good fight. Drag shows are not for innocent kids and I am glad to stand alongside these good folks who are trying to protect our children.
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They didn’t have enough sense to bring their own water? Just asking.
By the way, where was your fellow letter writer Rick Brattin (r)?:
…Not only will I have your back, but I am willing to stand alongside you as you protect our community…
Just not in 90° temperatures and high humidity, apparently.
A people loving patriot across the street:
“Those who abide in Love abide in God”
…Running for something?
Interestingly, Denny Hoskins (r) worked the folks with the intolerant signs, walked across the street and shook the Warrensburg Police officers’ hands, but he didn’t bother to go into the venue to greet his constituents attending the Pride Festival.
Why, yes!:
Citizens For Hoskins – Active
MECID: C081024
PO Box 118
Warrensburg, MO 64093
[….]
Committee Type: Candidate
[….]
Election History
Election Outcome Political Office
8/6/2024 Primary Election Statewide Office
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Some of the responses:
Standing up ??? They are protesting other citizens rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Imposing their judgment for the judgment of the actual parents of the under 18 attending.
BTW no laws broken. Besides parents, mandatory child abuse and Law Enforcement present to observe. So again no laws were broken.
Your constituents were also inside the venue. Why didn’t you speak to us inside?
What is wrong with drag shows? They are not sexual. People are wearing costumes and acting for entertainment.
A big thank you to Denny Hoskins for showing your support and big thanks to everyone that braved the heat to try and keep the children of our community from being exposed to these highly inappropriate performances.
What is inappropriate about it?
I can’t believe there is anyone left that you need to convince of your Homophobia with a Facebook post. You are a disgrace to the office. Hate is nothing to be proud of. The majority of your constituents don’t agree with this and you know it. Your constituents were inside as well but you hate them. It’s disgusting how you flaunt and show off your hate. Zealots aren’t supposed to hold office.
Just enough expedient bluster to repeat unfounded accusations, but not enough moral compass and courage to walk a hundred feet further and through a door to see for himself.
Some (former) constituents are more equal than others, eh?
Previously:
Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)
Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)
Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)
The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)
Always the other (April 21, 2023)
Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023)
Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood (April 22, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 (April 25, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 – part 2 (April 26, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 2 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 3 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 4 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 5 (May 10, 2023)
Living in a self-imposed cultural vacuum (May 10, 2023)
A downward spiral…of pearl clutching (May 25, 2023)
Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 3, 2023 – Returning to Family Friendly Format (May 26, 2023)
Thoughts and… (May 27, 2023)
Everyone is here for the ratio (May 28, 2023)
All means all (May 29, 2023)
Warrenburg, Missouri Pride Festival – before the crowd – June 3, 2023 (June 3, 2023)
Warrensburg, Missouri Pride Festival – hand wringing, pearl clutching, and sign waving in the noonday sun – June 3, 2023 (June 3, 2023)
Warrensburg, Missouri Pride Festival – June 3, 2023 (June 4, 2023)
09 Tuesday May 2023
Posted in Missouri Senate
Tags
Bigotry, bigots, Denny Hoskins, drag show, Fascist pigs, Missouri Senate, pearl clutchers, Rick Brattin, right wingnuts, Warrensburg, WTF?
Rick Brattin (r) and Denny Hoskins (r) are the pre-eminent legal scholars and final arbiters of the law in the State of Missouri, said no one ever.
Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].
Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].
A group billing themselves as Johnson County Citizens for the Protection of Children is still up in arms about the Warrensburg Pride Festival scheduled for June 3, 2023. There will be drag shows on the program. You know, fancy costumes, theatrical makeup, show tunes. This is nothing new. There were Pride Festivals in Warrensburg in 2021 and 2022.
These right wingnut busybodies had organized on-line to present a petition to the Warrensburg City Council during the public comment portion of the City Council’s evening meeting on April 24th to limit or cancel the Pride Festival. A loosely organized group of LGBTQIA+ allies organized on-line to speak in support of the Pride Festival.
The pearl clutching busybodies returned to last night’s City Council to demand an ordinance banning drag shows in Warrensburg, this time with photos on posterboard. In the period between the two council meetings the producers of the Pride Festival had already changed the festival format to 18 years of age and older due to reported threats against the festival and the venue. A similar group of LGBTQIA+ allies attended and signed in to speak in support of the Pride Festival and against a city ordinance.
At last night’s meeting several of the busybodies made reference to a letter from Rick Brattin (r) addressed to the Warrensburg Police Department dated April 21, 2023. At the end of the meeting we requested a copy of the letter from the city. Denny Hoskins (r) also signed the letter.
…It has recently come to my attention that the “Warrensburg Pride Festival” program is scheduled for Saturday, June 3…in Warrensburg, Missouri. This is troubling for several reasons. First, the show is advertised as “family-friendly” and for guests “of all ages.” The event promotion includes no warning for “adult content” whatsoever for these drag shows that event organizers deem “family friendly.” A simple internet [sic] of similar shows reveals the content of such events is, at best, inappropriate for all ages and, at worst, highly sexualized and wholly unsuitable for children.
In fact, reports of these shows are so obscene and indecent that listing them in this letter would be unsuitable as it may be read minors. There can be no reasonable doubt that the good people of Warrensburg would be appalled by the behavior on display at these types of events, especially considering this behavior is being actively marketed to their children in apparent hopes they would become desensitized to such tasteless activities, and as a result, become sexualized at a young age. Not only are these shows immoral, but they are also illegal under Missouri State statute…
…It is abundantly clear that drag shows violate the existing Missouri State Statute, and it is time for them to be dealt accordingly. When I became a Marine, I swore an oath to the Constitution, and that oath never expires. Our Federal and State Constitutions share a common thread: all of us, whether elected officials or law enforcement officers, have a duty to protect the most vulnerable in our community. Our most precious resource, our children, is under attack, and it is time that we engage with those who harm them by destroying their hearts and minds.
I call on my fellow patriots with the Warrensburg Police Department to put a stop to this behavior and enforce Missouri’s existing laws. These types of events must be stopped, and the businesses that facilitate these events must be punished. We must also deal with these “drag queens” who are just men with perverted intentions, in accordance with exiting state law. I know these battles are not easy, but I want Chief Munsterman, and every member of the Warrensburg Police Department to know that I will…
…have your back. Not only will I have your back, but I am willing to stand alongside you as you protect our community.
I want to close out this letter by thanking the Warrensburg Police Department for all that you do. You deal with the madness of society so the rest of us can go home each night and enjoy our families in peace. Thank you, and God bless you.
Respectfully,
s/
Rick Brattin
[….]s/
Denny Hoskins
[….]
Letter from Rick Brattin (r) and Denny Hoskins (r) to the Warrensburg Police
The only thing that’s actually obscene in this entire episode is this letter.
Previously:
Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)
Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)
Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)
The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)
Always the other (April 21, 2023)
Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023)
Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood (April 22, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 (April 25, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 – part 2 (April 26, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 2 (May 9, 2023)
11 Sunday Dec 2022
Posted in Uncategorized
* Connecting the Dots: “Women’s Work” and the Wage Gap
Denny Hoskins (r) [2022 file photo].
The first day of the legislative session of the Missouri General Assembly starts on January 4, 2023. Bill prefiling has commenced in Jefferson City.
A prefiled bill:
SB 2 Establishes the “Save Women’s Sports Act” relating to female-only athletics in middles schools, high schools, and collegesSponsor:
Hoskins
LR Number:0358S.01I
Last Action:12/1/2022 – Prefiled
Effective Date:August 28, 2023Current Bill Summary
SB 2 – This act establishes the “Save Women’s Sports Act.”
No athletic team or sport designated for biological females, as defined in the act, shall be open to students that are biological males, as defined in the act.
No governmental entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association or organization shall take any adverse action, as described in the act, against a school for maintaining
separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for students that are biological females.
No public or private middle school or high school or a public or private institution of postsecondary education that has biological males playing biological female’s sports shall be eligible for money appropriated by the General Assembly.
This act is identical to SB 20 (1st Extra Session, 2022), SS/SCS/SB 781 (2022) and is similar to SB 503 (2021).
[….]
The bill text:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 2 [pdf]
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLYINTRODUCED BY SENATOR HOSKINS.
0358S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, SecretaryAN ACT
To amend chapter 167, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to middle school, high
school, and college athletics.Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 167, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 167.780, to read as follows:
167.780. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Save Women’s Sports Act”.
2. No athletic team or sport designated for biological females shall be open to students that are biological males.
3. No governmental entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association or organization shall entertain a complaint, open an investigation, or take any other adverse action against a school or institution for maintaining separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for students that are biological females.
4. No public school or a private middle school or high school, or a public or private institution of postsecondary education, that has biological males playing biological females’ sports shall be eligible for any moneys appropriated by the general assembly.
5. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1) “Biological females”, persons with the biological indicators of a female in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, such as the absence of a Y chromosome, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual’s psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender;
(2) “Biological males”, persons with the biological indicators of a male in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, such as the presence of a Y chromosome, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual’s psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender.
“…No athletic team or sport designated for biological females shall be open to students that are biological males…”
Uh, what sports would that be? Just asking.
Right wingnut republican priorities…
25 Wednesday May 2022
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate, social media
Tags
Denny Hoskins, guns, massacre, right wingnut, social media, Texas, thoughts and prayers, Twitter, Uvalde
Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].
This morning:
Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
Please pray for the victims and their families.
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8:44 AM · May 25, 2022
Some of the responses:
Faith without works is dead.
Praying doesn’t seem to work, maybe we should try something else.
Please do something to prevent this from happening again. You weren’t elected for your ability to pray, you were elected to pass laws.
Your prayers mean absolutely NOTHING!!! You are a disgrace!
Prayers do not stop bullets common sense gun laws would be a fresh approach. Your pro birth but post birth children are collateral damage it’s GUNS no matter how many children die
[….]
This is what Dennys answer is to school shootings. 212 mass shootings in our country so far this yr, when will it happen in Mo.? Blame the elected officials who get rich off the NRA to pass laws that favor GUNS over your child’s life.
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No outrage only prayers that don’t stop bullets
[….]
You passed #SAPA which was opposed by law enforcement and would prevent federal authorities from helping when (not if) there’s a school shooting in Missouri. You’ve made it easier to buy guns.
You don’t care about any of these people. Spare is your false prayers.
Log off, Denny.
#moleg
Obviously we’ve been praying for over 20 years. It doesn’t seem to be working because it keeps happening and you all are complicit and choose unfettered access to guns over living, breathing human beings. So you too can STFU.
23 Monday May 2022
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate, social media
Denny Hoskins (r) [2016 file photo].
This morning:
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
When you’re brave enough to put your hot takes on the web, but not brave enough to let folks comment […] One of Denny’s constituents tagged him in one of my FB posts just to lure him into a response since he won’t speak to his constituents. Very typical of MO GOP politicians.
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7:32 AM · May 23, 2022
An open public town hall? What’s that?
Previously:
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): post session victory dance over any individal woman’s personal medical decisions (March 17, 2019)
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): regulated land use is evil, until it isn’t (August 12, 2019)
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): uninformed and selective outrage (September 18, 2019)
Denny Hoskins (r): sleeping through school as an aspirational model for life (June 23, 2021)
Consistently stepping on any available rake as a lifestyle choice (April 30, 2022)
30 Saturday Apr 2022
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate, social media
Tags
21st Senate District, Denny Hoskins, General Assembly, missouri, right wingnut, SB 798, social media
Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].
This past week:
Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
Unfortunately SB798, the #BigMacWelfare #LobsterFoodStamp bill, was perfected 16-14 last night in the MO Senate. I don’t believe your tax dollars should pay for restaurant food from Red Lobster, McDonald’s, etc. for food stamp recipients. @GOP @MoSenateGOP
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9:51 AM · Apr 26, 2022
There is much hilarity in the responses:
Please provide the list of restaurants that have already signed contracts with the state since this bill just passed last night there are NONE, so your making most of this up. MISINFORMATION
Denny Hoskins (r) answers today, sort of:
Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
[….]
Sorry, not misinformation, you just weren’t listening very well. I said these were some of the restaurants approved in California for #WelfareWhoppers and #DelTacoFoodStamps. CA is 1 of 6 states to approve this program. [….]
3:17 PM · Apr 30, 2022
I listened to what you said, and you did not bring up CA in your video ONCE. provide the list of approved restaurants that have contracted with the state of Mo. for this?
He’s caught in gaslighting. Let’s watch him backpedal.
Well his original post has no CA narrative, then he added the link for CA in the response to me, so yes your exactly right. I can find NO agreement with the state of Mo with any Bus., so if he has that provide it
of course you do, punish the poor, make them cook!
Jesus helped the poor.
Disingenuous. This bill allows only elderly, disabled & homeless to use FS at just a small # of approved restaurants that have been approved by HHS to provide a nutritious approved meal. This fills a def need for this small community.
I’m okay with people getting food.
Great job the MoGOP is going with their supermajority! I don’t see ‘brass knuckles’ on your board, figured it was important since it was debated during the pandemic? You should also add ‘defund local public schools’ as GOP wants the money for private schools.
The homeless must cook their food?
What is wrong with you?
Jesus wants you to cook!
Jesus doesn’t want you eating prepared food!
Did you vote to raise the minimum wage to a living wage?
Did you vote for affordable housing?
People live in food deserts & the only food available is often fast food. Not a good choice but better than starvation.
How did you vote on Medicaid?
Stingy Republican.
#moleg
I’d rather my tax dollars not pay you.
You should resign.
#moleg
Via the National Conference of State Legislatures:
2020 Legislator Compensation
Missouri $35,915/year. 43/mile. $121/day. Tied to federal rate. Unvouchered.
$121.00 per day. You think prepared food is off the table for Denny Hoskins (r)?
You’re seriously worried that someone may spend $1 for a burger? That’s a pathetic waste of legislative time & a bigger scandal than $1 meal on food stamps. It’s disgusting that these are the people you pick on. Too chicken to take on serious corruption or HELP your constituents?
I am a psychologist who works with low-income clients. Most of those who receive SNAP benefits don’t get enough to get them through the month. They certainly aren’t going to blow it all at Red Lobster. You should educate yourself instead of relying on Republican hyperbole.
I don’t believe my tax dollars should pay for shitheads like you.
Billions to farmers in subsidies. You don’t have a problem with free money to big Ag. Just don’t want the little people to be able to eat. Hypocrite jerk.
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What an embarrassment to the profession. Penny-wise, pound foolish. Ever heard that one? What a fool.
Not to mention a lack of empathy and understanding for the circumstances of those who are less fortunate.
16 Wednesday Feb 2022
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate
Tags
21st Senate District, congressional reapportionment, Denny Hoskins, General Assembly, right wingnut
it’s in their nature.
Yesterday in Jefferson City:
‘Won’t pass any bills this session’: MO Senate slams back into gridlock after map fight
BY JEANNE KUANG FEBRUARY 16, 2022 5:00 AM[….]
“I can talk for a long time,” shouted Sen. Denny Hoskins, a Warrensburg Republican and Conservative Caucus member. “If that’s the game we’re going to play, we won’t pass any bills this session.”
[….]
Denny Hoskins (r) [2016 file photo].
Expecting anything else?
No.
This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.
Previously:
Math is hard, proportional representation is evil, Missouri voters are stupid (February 4, 2020)
Math is hard – “…yup I’m from Missouri yup…” (February 5, 2022)
You never have to answer your phone when it’s off the hook (February 7, 2022)
Mom, apple pie, the convertibility of silver… (February 11, 2022)
07 Monday Feb 2022
Posted in social media
Tags
21st Senate District, clueless, congressional reapportionment, Denny Hoskins, math challenged, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Twitter
Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].
What we’ve all come to expect from Denny Hoskins (r):
Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
THANK YOU to everyone who has contacted me in support of a 7R-1D congressional map! Time to stand up and fight for liberty!
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5:10 PM · Feb 7, 2022 from Missouri State Capitol
The irony always escapes Denny Hoskins (r):
Who can reply?
People @DLHoskins follows or mentioned can reply
Problem solved, eh?
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We already did some of the math:
…The total Congressional vote for either Democrats or Republicans in Missouri in 2020 was 2,896,117. The total Congressional vote for Republican candidates in 2020 was 1,723,982 (59.53%). The total Congressional vote for Democratic candidates was 1,172,135 (40.47%)…
[….]More like 5 [Republican districts] (62.5%) – 3 [Democratic districts] (37.5%)….
We’ll finish:
40.47% > 37.5%.
6 is 75.0% of 8. 2 is 25.0% of 8.
37.5% > 25.0%.
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7 is 87.5% of 8. 1 is 12.5% of 8.
40.47% > 12.5%.
Math is hard. Apparently more so for a CPA.
Previously:
Math is hard, proportional representation is evil, Missouri voters are stupid (February 4, 2020)
Math is hard – “…yup I’m from Missouri yup…” (February 5, 2022)
23 Saturday Oct 2021
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate, social media
You can count on it.
Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].
Last night:
Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
Hold on a second…I thought walls don’t work??? DHS $455K for ‘security fencing’ around Biden’s beach home. #moleg
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7:46 PM · Oct 22, 2021
A few responses:
I guess it is too difficult for a CPA to understand protecting a house with a wall is very different from walling off an entire country.
To think this person is a state senator, too.
No one ever said walls don’t work. Notice they arent spending billions for a few miles of wall.
Well, the one with guard towers and mine fields in central Europe sort of worked.
You’re such an obtuse nitwit.
In 2019:
White House Fence Construction
The National Park Service and United States Secret Service began construction on a new White House fence in July 2019. Construction around the 18-acre White House complex will be completed in eight phases using over 3,500 feet of steel fencing. [….]
What will the new White House fence look like?
The current 6 feet 6 inch tall fence will be replaced by an approximately 13 feet tall fence with wider and stronger fence posts. The new fence incorporates anti-climb and intrusion detection technology and is designed to mitigate current and future security threats.
[….]
June 2020:
Donald Trump Put a Fence Around the White House to Keep Demonstrators Away. It Is Now Completely Covered in Protest Art
The fence is designed to keep people at least 600 feet away from the president’s residence.The fence erected outside the White House by President Donald Trump to keep demonstrators at least 600 feet away has been transformed into a memorial wall for George Floyd and a protest site demanding racial and social justice.[….]
Trump, who campaigned on the promise of building a wall on the Mexican border, had 1.7 miles of fencing put around the White House, preventing anyone from entering Lafayette Park and other open spaces around the White House, where demonstrators have protested for more than 100 years. [….]
November 2020:
On the Eve of the Election, the White House Puts Up Extra Fencing in the Dark
Crews began erecting extra security fencing around the White House Monday evening. The fencing appears to be similar to the type installed around the White House complex this past August in advance of President Trump’s RNC speech. These barriers are in addition to fencing that went up downtown following protests earlier this summer [….]
November 2020:
Secret Service planning for Trump spending lots of his post-presidency in Palm Beach
[….] ABC said renovations to the president’s and first lady’s living quarters are underway with the expectation they’d start spending more time there when Biden becomes president and that the Secret Service has “begun looking at physical reinforcements” to Mar-a-Lago. The agency declined to comment on “the means, methods or resources we utilize to carry out our protective mission,” ABC said. [….}
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
So, anyone want to start adding up the cost of golfing trips?
