State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D) [2019 file photo].
Today:
Auditor Galloway @AuditorGalloway
Latest monthly report on Missouri’s use of federal stimulus dollars received through CARES Act funding shows through end of August 2021, state has received $4.77 billion.
[….] 2:00 PM · Oct 14, 2021
With typical bad timing and a typically bad take, Missouri’s right wingnut Attorney General:
Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
The Biden, Pelosi and Schumer agenda: Open borders and amnesty, taxpayer funded abortion, attacks on our religious liberties, job crushing regulations, billion dollar bailouts for blue states and higher taxes for you and me. 12:34 PM · Oct 12, 2021
Missouri is a “blue state”. Fancy that.
You think he’ll sue to give it all back? Just asking.
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
In 1492 the “consensus” among scientists was that the earth was flat. Christopher Columbus challenged that notion and changed the world forever. #HappyColumbusDay 10:03 AM · Oct 11, 2021
What a dumbass.
Some of the responses:
OMG.
This tweet must never be forgotten.
This demonstrates such profound ignorance that everyone should be appalled you hold statewide office.
Where did you go to college? You need to demand your money back for keeping you so stupid.
Ummm…NOT according to historical experts.
“no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat.”
Get your facts straight, @Eric_Schmitt.
[…]
Next time, crack open a history book before you make a complete ass of yourself
This is what happens when you limit what can be taught in history classes.
Curvature of the earth has been known by sailors for 2000 plus years.
Critical Sailing Theories!! Lol
The scientific consensus that the world was round was agreed on in Ancient Greece, and understood before then.
What Columbus did was ignore the scientists who, within ~0.1%, accurately estimated how big the world is and declared the Caribbean to be India.
Just to clarify for anyone else reading (as I’m sure @trianglman knows) the Ancient Greek Eratosthenes of Cyrene had figured out the circumference of the earth very nearly correctly using records from the library of Alexandria (where he was head librarian.)
This was roughly 2000 years before Columbus.
Eratosthenes was off because his math assumes that the earth was a sphere, when it’s actually somewhat squished at the poles.
(Columbus’s math was off because he was bad at math and too arrogant to listen to everyone else.)
Also: Columbus thought the earth was smaller than it is. Imagine how long of a boat voyage sailing from Spain to China would be if North America was just water? Yeah, you wouldn’t want to sail that. But he thought that the known circumference was wrong and went for it.
Actually scientists long before 1492 knew the world was not flat. Ships disappeared over the horizon. Where did you go to school again?
You could research things before you tweet.
come on. if he won’t do research before filing law suits why would he do it for a tweet?
Dude, Europeans knew the Earth was round since the time of the ancient Greeks. Not only that, but Columbus underestimated the distance between Spain and East Asia, and his voyage would have starved had they not discovered the Americas as their supplies ran out
In 1492 Eric would taking Columbus to court to maintain it was flat. Can’t have someone getting a shorter spice route to India
You know why Columbus got mocked? Because scholars of his day new for a fact that the world was much larger than he thought, and he risked starvation over his error.
Just stop it. Wherever you were educated has a lot of explaining to do.
Tell me you don’t know history without telling me you don’t know history.
Omg, read a book. The Egyptians knew the earth was round over 6,000 years ago. Columbus did not “discover” Earth’s shape, scientists did.
“And then Columbus said, ‘I cannot tell a lie, father, it was I who chopped down the cherry tree, to show thst the world was round!’ Whereupon the father wept and welcomed the prodigal son back to his family, and they lived happily ever after.”
The dinoosaurs made him do it.
Oooh It’s history myth story time. Let’s all gather on the story carpet. Now do Thanksgiving. How ’bout the story where a state AG sues a country over a virus?
You should support creating a “Neil Armstrong Day”, the guy discovered the moon, after all.
This is why teachers, not politicians, need to be in charge of curriculum
Seems there was a child left behind, Bush.
This man passed the bar? Real question. Surely, someone checked, right?
Have you ever met a culture warrior stance you don’t want to peddle?
No. This has been another edition of short answers to simple questions.
Do you get your history facts from Buggs Bunny cartoons?
Did you take the bar exam with one of those really big pencils or a crayon?
Stay in school, kids
When you tweet these things, do you know they are wrong and rely on followers to not be smart enough to know, too? Or do you really not know? Either is bad. Do better.
How in the remedial coursework is this tweet still live?!
We all have the receipts.
Wow. Just wow with the inaccuracy.
This is honestly fucking embarrassing bro.
What’s truly offensive about this tweet is how stupid you think your supporters are. You pander so hard to folks you’ll never ever respect. You’re trash, bro.
Seriously? If Trump said the world was flat, you’d delete this tweet and sue all the school districts in MO for having globes in their classrooms. Have a shred of self respect.
Do you ever do any actual work??
This is hilarious. The tweet has been out there for 3.5 hours and still not deleted. Ignorance is strong with this one.
Man you really haven’t read any history have you… There was never a scientific majority that believed the earth was flat. It has only ever been the folksy imaginings of ignorant people.
Is this a parody account?
I will never understand why you think spouting off about things you clearly are ignorant about is a good look
Are you really this ignorant, or are you just assuming your followers are?
The level of ignorance expressed in this tweet has me question your sentience as a life form. Clearly your critical thinking skills are under developed for your current role. Could we substitute a potted plant for you so that we could have a productive AG?
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
“Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ― Winston Churchill 9:29 AM · Oct 7, 2021
Is someone going to tell him?
There is much hilarity in the responses:
Thank you for explaining why you tried to overturn a fair election and why you are trying to prevent us from ending the pandemic.
Never, never give in to the worst among us for they are “full of passionate intensity.” If we do, “mere anarchy will be loosed upon the world.”
To whom are you referring is the enemy?
Q. Who is the enemy?
A. Any American that doesn’t support Eric’s viewpoint.
Churchill fought actual Nazis. Your enemies, as far as I can tell, are things like reason, dignity, kindness, cooperation. It’s misguided and exhausting…but I guess it pays well.
I’m thinking of how eloquently Winston Churchill would have rallied his nation to fight COVID through collective sacrifice, large and small. I’m thinking how unlike @Eric_Schmitt Winston Churchill was. I’m thinking of the COVID quitters who shrug off 700,000 deaths.
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
Insurrectionist says what, Eric?
Churchill was a leader. He sometimes had to promote unpopular things in order to fight the common enemy. We have a common enemy in COVID-19. In the 40’s, you would’ve sued London because of their night time blackout policy. You’re not a leader.
Why you spell honour like that? If you’re gonna be in this country then learn to speak American
Heh.
Just take Winston Churchill out of your mouth.
#WWII
We already won that war.
#AddictedToHate
I really hope Churchill’s ghost comes back to haunt you. The sheer irony of using a man’s quote that fought the Nazi to push a Nazi 2.0 version agenda is something.
Churchill didn’t view citizens as the enemy. That’s the biggest difference between repugs like you and real leaders.
Churchill fought fascists like you, chief.
Yet, you gladly tossed yours aside for your political aspirations.
“Except to convictions of honour and good sense” See that is the key phrase this quote is built around by all sides Eric. Perhaps the most important point made and the one that you are lacking the most. You have neither honor nor good sense, as evident by your recent lawsuits.
Liberty and equality. Learn to balance those you moron
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
The Left is obsessed with obedience. They won’t allow people to disagree with their orthodoxy. Forced masking. Forced vaccination. Criminalizing dissent. It’s all happening. We have to fight back on all fronts.[….] 5:17 PM · Oct 6, 2021
Some of the responses:
Speaking for me- No one forces me to mask or vaccinate. Many people trust professionals. Some of us can even critically evaluate sources and info. If evidence-based science feels so oppressive, congratulations on your life of privilege [….] The cloth on your face isn’t hurting you.
Go volunteer in an ICU
I can always count on my state’s attorney general to speak out against citizenship, civility, and civilization. His message is brutal selfishness, cloaked by the buzzword of “freedom.” His tactic is demonization, masquerading as righteousness.
Impressive resume you got there, champ.
We’re you born a piece of shit, or did you work hard to do it?
Well?
Baby brain tantrum here
Who are you talking to? Who are you talking about? “The Right” is the faction of groups right now obsessed with obedience and against any conversation or dialogue. You’re banning books, flags, and theories; banning forms of health care; insinuating violence. Look at yourself!
You’ll make a good senator, Eric. You’ve already perfected the art of lying without shame.
I think you’re politicizing public health. You should be ashamed of taking advantage of peoples trust in you for personal gain.
The only thing you geniuses need to fight is willful stupidity… [….]
“Fight back on all fronts” – is code for commuting acts of violence and murder. This tweet WILL be used as evidence in the court of law.
Translation: “I’m politicizing scientifically backed ways to decrease death and disease, capitalizing on years of miseducation and fear! Elect me! Validate me! Love me! I’m so terribly insecure…”
Let’s just stay sick! That’s so American!
Could have just said “No to Science. No to Medicine. No to Public Safety.”
RT and FOLLOW if you agree!
Why do you hate America?
Yeah, we get it Eric. Missourians in the ICU gives you a hard-on.
I believe in science, not political hacks.
Jesus get a fuckin grip dude. You’re not gonna out Greitens Greitens so have some self respect
Just say #RepublicansStandWithCovid saves us the time of trying to figure out what planet you are living on ..[….]
Killing your constituents to own the libs
No saving lives.
No understanding of science.
No end to the pandemic.
No being a good citizen or politician.
No being a good leader.
No being re-elected.
Masks and the vaccine are our best tools to win the war against Covid either help or get out of the way!
No logic, no regard for science, no respect for life
Your lack of common sense is tiresome.
More sickness. More death. More stupidity in high places. Republicans – Ask yourself: Why does this man want more of us to die?
Are you out of your freaking mind? OMG are you really that clueless?
Martha Stevens @Martha4MO
Last week our new director of DHSS said, “With the increase in positivity rates among adolescents, it only makes sense to wear a mask.”
Yet our AG who is DESPERATE to win a primary continues to ignore our health experts & cause additional anxiety for parents & educators #MoLeg
[….] 1:43 PM · Sep 21, 2021
Missouri Attorney General and amateur medical expert Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
If you’ve been vaccinated and want to put on 6 masks outside by yourself or want your kids to wear a mask all day long — go for it — this is America, but stop using government to force other people to wear masks. #NoMaskMandates 1:29 PM · Aug 24, 2021
Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Some of the responses:
Here is a third version: If you don’t smoke and don’t want your children to smoke — go for it — this is America, but stop using government to force other people where they can and can’t smoke.
Here is another version: If you’re sober and want to drive — go for it — this is America, but stop using government to force other people to drive sober.
Spend an hour in my sister’s shoes as an ICU nurse right now. See how much “freedom” Missourians have when they’re intubated. See how much “freedom” a heart attack or car accident patient has when they can’t get treatment because the ICU is full. Their blood is on your hands.
Anyone who doesn’t want their kids to wear a mask in school can home school then. The immaturity around simply wearing a mask is baffling and the ones who refuse to wear one are the reason the mandates are even necessary to begin with but they just don’t get it.
Why don’t you try to help?
Yeah government – stop forcing me to wear a seatbelt or have a license to drive a car! Stop forcing me to pay taxes! Stop forcing me to obey any rules I don’t like! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA I’m a special snowflake and I shouldn’t have to do anything I don’t want to!
Government has a role in ensuring the health and welfare of its citizens. (Speed limits, helmet laws, shirt and shoes in restaurants.) A mask should be a simple gesture but our society has become too selfish and local communities can and should step in for the greater good.
personal responsibility doesn’t work in public health emergencies. When your choices affect other people, especially when your choices can take someone else’s lives, it is not just the right, but the duty of government to take action.
Ok. My drivers license says I need to wear corrective lenses while I drive (for the safety of others), but fuck that. It violates my freedom!
Seat belts? Red lights? Childhood vaccinations? Where does this triumph of the selfish individual end? This is just cheap political pandering.
This is the price for living in a society. Living in a community. If you have no interest in humans don’t live in a society Eric.
Looking forward to your battle to free Cheesecake Factory grill cooks from the big government tyranny that requires them to wear ahoes and pants while preparing your dinner. Get big government out of our restaurants! Cooks have a right to fly their sweaty balls free
We wouldn’t have to if the GOP’s theory of personal responsibility actually resulted in people exercising their personal responsibility to protect my child. But they won’t. And neither will you apparently.
Freedom without responsibility is adolescence. It’s time to grow up.
This is political theater and you know it.
Just wait for the headline in Variety.
You have that personal freedoms until they infringe on others, when you go out unvaccinated and unmask you are a risk to others. We as a society mandate many things, from childhood vaccinations to seatbelts in the car. Join society and stop being selfish.
This is just political theatre. One last ditch attempt to save your career.
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