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Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood

22 Saturday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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Bigotry, bigots, LGBTQIA+, meta, pearl clutching, self righteousness, troll

This is too easy.

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

We see fit.

An attempted trolling comment to a post about small town bigots in Warrensburg, Missouri wanting to shut down a Pride Festival – Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023):

Love all the name calling, really punctuates how you are the adult in the room.

Because denying the humanity of another human being is always the adult thing to do?

Ignoranimus.

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

Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy

Not a complete list, but you get the picture.

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)

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? Part the infinity… (November 21, 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)

The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us

19 Wednesday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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bigots, drag show, missouri, pearl clutching, Pride Festival, right winguts, Warrensburg

Warrensburg, Missouri.

Some Like it Hot (1959) – Academy Award for Best Costume Design. “…In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’…”

Tootsie (1982) – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. “…In 1998, the Library of Congress deemed the film ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’ and selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry…”

Victor/Victoria (1982) – Academy Award for Best Original score.

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 26, 2021 [file photo].

A group billing themselves as Johnson County Citizens for the Protection of Children [and the Lone Defenders of the One True Faith and Local PTA] is 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.

From their big government, self-righteous manifesto:

[….] The last two years, “Drag Shows for Children” were held right here in Johnson County, and on June 3rd, a group plans to hold another at the Elks Lodge/Meadows Rental Venue in Warrensburg. Our community was caught off guard before, but after seeing 40+ children exposed to this abuse last year, we, as concerned citizens, have organized to demand that this year’s event be restricted to adults 18 and older or canceled. [….]

Says who?

Pearl clutching maroons.

There’s a Warrensburg City Council meeting on Monday, April 24, 2023. They plan on asking the city council to subscribe to their bigotry, or something. There’s even a petition:

For the purposes of the health and safety of our children. NClusionPlus plans on holding a Drag Queen Event hosted by the Elks Lodge/Meadows Rental Venue. We must stop this! We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens urging our elected officials to support the protection of our children. STOP this event!

%%Your Signature%%

Concern Citizen for the protection of our children

They have a countdown clock. Seriously. Drama queens.

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri [2022 file photo].

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, 2023)

You had to come here to read it

05 Sunday Mar 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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meta, pearl clutching, right wingnut, Show Me Progress, troll

Gasp, someone was offended by something on the internets.

From time to time right wingnut concern trolls try to leave comments here. Our system defaults to automatic moderation – that is, comments have to be approved. We don’t allow such comments to be linked to the original post, but on occasion, when we see fit, we’ll mock these attempts.

We see fit.

Who ever put this up for people to read need to find alternative wording other xxxxing libertarian you have a filthy mouth and filter mind.

And yet, here you are.

If you can’t use profanity to describe an obscenity, then when the fuck can you use it? – Blue Girl

“Filter mind”?

You did type “xxxxing libertarian”. You do know it’s the same thing, right? Like saying “gosh darn” when you mean “god damn”. As if bowdlerizing a word or creating a euphemism changes the intent.

You’re welcome.

Previously:

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? (October 8, 2022)

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? Part the infinity… (November 21, 2022)

Because, like, you know, Missouri is a fucking libertarian paradise (March 4, 2023)

Pearls and swine, now and then

17 Friday Feb 2023

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

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balloon, China, Fascist pig, gaslighting, Josh Hawley, officious gasbag, pearl clutching, right wingnut, U.S. Senate, Virginia

Today, from Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Nice job, Joe Biden
[….]
12:51 PM · Feb 17, 2023

Putz.

This you, Josh (r)?:

Josh Hawley@HawleyMO
SHOOT IT DOWN
[….]
11:34 AM · Feb 3, 2023

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

What a maroon.

“…Pay cash when you go to the strip club.”

13 Tuesday Sep 2022

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

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Fascist pig, Josh Hawley, pearl clutching, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, Virginia

Today from Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
The big three credit card companies say they will start tracking gun purchases, making it easier to track gun owners – and to stop sales. Big threat to Second Amendment rights. I want to know from the corporations why they capitulated to the anti-2A lobby
[….]
9:47 AM · Sep 13, 2022

There was much hilarity in the responses:

They track what I buy in when , where.

No one makes me use it , not government so not an issue.

Pay cash when you go to the strip club.

Has NOTHING to do with 2nd amendment.
Everything to do with catching criminals.

Why does tracking weapon ownership make you nervous?

How many kids need to be liquified in their classrooms?

Then don’t buy a gun with a credit card [….]

Why do ” good guys with guns” always worry about who knows they have guns? If you have them legally, what’s the problem? If they can track people buying guns illegally, what’s the problem?

There is nothing in the Constitution that gives you the right to have your gun ownership be secret.

That’s not how any of this works. They are not tracking gun purchases. They are categorizing retailers that sell guns for risk assessment purposes. They have been doing this for decades with various types of businesses.

I’m sorry, but as a gun owner, why do I care if they track my purchase? Its not like I’m trying to shoot up a school and then offering thoughts and prayers. [….]

Please tell me what in the world is wrong with making sure guns don’t get into the wrong hands?

Because it’s bad business to passively encourage mass murder? Meh, you’re a traitor, so you wouldn’t get it

Sure the second amendment stipulate ownership should remain secret? I thought it said you had the right to bear. Why would anybody want to keep it a secret?

But its perfectly OK for anti-abortion states to track women’s period and ovulation private app data. Hypocrite!

You went to law school? Please explain how this is a “big threat to 2nd amendment rights?

How does the constitution force credit card companies to do business a certain way?

I dont understand how this has anything to do with the second amendment

How do these policies oppose the 2A support of militias?

They don’t.

You troll with lies. That’s all you can do.

#ResignHawley

Josh, you may have a right to bear arms but

1. Credit card company owns it until you pay the item off, and if they don’t track it, they can’ t repo it.

2 your right to own it was never a ‘ secret’ right.

Tracking is not prohibiting. So no affect on 2nd Amendment rights.

Would you really characterize the purchase of a firearm as exactly the same as the purchase of any “other retail products,” such as top shelf wine or a gym membership or Federalist Society dues, or might it be in some hard-to-figure way kind of different?

We see what you did there.

They track all your purchases. Always have [….]

there is this super archaic way of buying stuff without anyone being able to track you. you may have heard of it. it’s called cash

I believe credit card companies have the right to decide what can and can’t be bought on their credit. Stop interfering with business – just run away.

When you buy mdse using a credit card, some include damage/loss protection. They need to know what you purchased if they decide not to offer this protection on specific items. Think. It’s enlightening.

But it’s ok to want to track women’s menstrual cycles right? Not at all an invasive of privacy. RUN along sir

“The sound of children screaming has been removed.”

They do this for gas, groceries, and restaurants too. Are my rights to those threatened? Knowing that you purchased a gun with a credit card in no way restricts you from buying one. There is always cash.

You think he spent it all at the strip club?

Just asking.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

When a political hack starts to believe his own hype

15 Wednesday Jun 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Roy Blunt, social media, US Senate

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hypocrite, missouri, pearl clutching, right wingnut, Roy Blunt, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

“…The fairness doctrine took effect shortly after the creation of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) in 1927 and was continued by its successor, the FCC, until the late 1980s. In its 1929 Great Lakes Broadcasting Co. decision, the FRC asserted that the “public interest requires ample play for the free and fair competition of opposing views, and the Commission believes that the principle applies to all discussions of issues of importance to the public….”

The Fairness Doctrine died in 1987 when Ronald Reagan (r) was in office.

“…On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overruling an earlier decision, Austin v. Michigan State Chamber of Commerce (Austin), that allowed prohibitions on independent expenditures by corporations. The Court also overruled the part of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission that held that corporations could be banned from making electioneering communications….”

Where Roy Blunt (r) tries to pretend he’s never heard of Citizens United or the Fairness Doctrine:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
It’s hard to have truly fair elections when large email platforms are deciding which messages can easily reach voters and which get buried in a spam folder.
3:40 PM · Jun 15, 2022

What’s the matter Roy, you can’t buy any stamps or newspapers?

Some of the responses:

It’s hard to have truly fair elections when $20 Billion is being spent just on political campaigns ensuring divisive & emotionally charged messaging can easily reach voters. Time to revoke Citizens United & shine a blinding light on Dark Money contributions.

It’s hard to have truly fair elections when large mobs are deciding to usurp voters by seeking to bury the vice president.

Trust me when I say that the contents of my SPAM folder were never the reason that I didn’t vote for you.

Perhaps my emails to you to get your thoughts on common sense gun control in Missouri HAVE gotten stuck in your SPAM box, though, since I sure haven’t heard back from you.

You going to complain about dial-up speeds next? Gas prices, milk prices, and spam emails. So glad I have a senator who’s focused on solving the biggest problems of 1998

Try a decade before that.

It’s hard to have truly fair elections when you put obstacles in the way of voting, and put people in positions of power whose stated purpose is to only verify results where Republicans win.

How about when one side storms the capitol to overthrow the results of the election?

Distract and deflect…. What does the 1/6 committee have on you? Might your name be coming up?

Restore the Fairness Doctrine and help cure the evils of Fox News

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Maybe if your messages are going to spam your messages are spammy bullshit.

So you don’t understand how it works

Also when the nra buys the allegiance of a Senator like you. #ComplicitCorruptGOP

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Is that how it is in Virginia?

18 Friday Feb 2022

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

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Asshole, bigot, Fascist asshole, Josh Hawley, pearl clutching, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, Virginia

Yesterday, from Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
MO farmer sent me Biden Admin’s latest farm producer survey. It asks such important questions for farming as whether farmers identify as transgender, the gender they were at birth, their sexual orientation. For Joe Biden, even farming is about advancing his woke agenda
[….]
10:24 AM · Feb 17, 2022

So, what’s your point?

Some of the responses:

Wouldn’t it be good to know that farming is as diverse as other kinds of jobs in the US?

Josh @HawleyMO shows his ignorance and must not have ever taken a Research Methods course.
Demographic questions on questionnaires for race, gender, education, income group, etc is the gold standard practice for survey research. #Surveys101

@HawleyMO Can you explain how this promotes a ‘woke agenda.’

The USDA provides a wide variety of services to producers that transcend farming ops. They are specifically chartered to provide equity in access to those services and equal opportunity regardless of YOUR bigotry.

It actually is important to know how the dynamics of any profession have changed/are changing over time. Those types of surveys collect an abundance of information. And how else would we know if we didn’t ask questions?

Bingo! Josh doesn’t want anyone to know.

Don’t know how to tell you this Mr Manly, some people have different sexual orientations and are open and comfortable with their situation. You may have hang ups but don’t push them on others.

Gaining information, so as to be informed, is not the same as advancing an agenda. Do you believe that asking questions is the same thing as trying to push opinions or beliefs onto someone?

@HawleyMO do you personally know a #Missouri farmer? I’m asking since you live in Virginia

Did he send it to your Senate office or your home address in Virginia?

Being unable to fill out simple demographic questions without contacting your senator seems pretty fragile to me, but what do I know?

This survey was announced in December 2021 and was sent to you then (and was also published online). As a representative of a state where agriculture is such a huge part of the economy, why haven’t you read it before now? (I know you don’t actually live in Missouri, but still.)

And this what keeps @HawleyMO awake at night?

Recognizing and protecting underrepresented groups is important in all industries. And there are much bigger issues in ag than worrying about a survey. Spend your energy on fair pricing and protecting America’s food producers.

And this is relevant to your ability to do your job in what way??

Yes, because these are standard demographic questions. Why do you think this is unusual? You went to Stanford and Yale, I’m sure you saw demographic questionnaires asking about these variables all the time.

Why “even” farming? Is it somehow exempt from the rest of the world?

But, does the letter incite sedition? Asking for a friend…

We see what you did there.

I didn’t know collecting demographic percentages was so offensive to you, Josh Heehaw.

It says personal characteristic, and than asks questions about personal characteristics. What am I missing here?

A Missouri farmer “sent” you something? Thanks for reading. If you ever visited Missouri you could actually speak with some.

So? Tell him to fill out the damn form & you find something better to do.

Why does it bother you?

But you live in Virginia.

It’s a survey. What did he think you were going to do about it since you haven’t done anything at all.

So what.

You couldn’t find anything else to be but hurt about today?

I’m more surprised that MO farmer was able to find you in Virginia…[….]

it’s a survey, you idiot.

And so much more.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

You in Missouri?

24 Monday Jan 2022

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

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hypocrite, Josh Hawley, pearl clutching, right wingnut, social media, sychophant, Twitter, Virginia

Today:

Josh Hawley@HawleyMO
Very presidential
[….]
4:47 PM · Jan 24, 2022

Much hilarity transpires:

Didn’t you vote for the “grab them by the pussy” guy or did I get that wrong?

It’s not like he made a clenched fist/solidarity sign to Capitol rioters.
[….]

He’s not wrong. And your guy did this daily for four years.

Can you please direct me to your tweets criticizing Trump for the language he used in office or how he treated reporters?

I don’t remember you having a problem when Trump described the press as being the enemy of the people and called rivals scum.

Josh misses the president that bragged about sexual assault and planned a violent coup

Havent seen you round these parts much lately. How is Virginia?

Give me a break. Remember the former guy and the things he said? Don’t be so hypocritical.

Dear Mr. Hawley. You should be very familiar with the phrase you are referring to. I’m sure you have heard it many many times. I often describe you with the exact same phrase. When using the phrase to describe anyone from @FoxNews, it is totally appropriate.

I mean…. He isn’t wrong. He could say the same of you.

It’s a lot more presidential than inciting an insurrection.[….]

I think he should call another press conference just to repeat himself!

He was absolutely correct in that assessment, after all.

I’m surprised you’ve still got pearls left to clutch, figured they’d all have disintegrated from overuse

Heh.

Don’t worry Joshy you’ll never have to worry about being Presidential

Heh.

Honesty is the best policy. Try it sometime.

Clutch those pearls, Josh. [….]

Sometimes you just have to state the obvious.

And yet again this isn’t going the way you thought it would.

Previously:

“Because that’s where the money is” (January 24, 2022)

The most dangerous place…

06 Wednesday Oct 2021

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

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asshat, Chris Hayes, Department of Justice, DoJ, Fascist pig, Josh Hawley, missouri, pearl clutching, right wingnut, School Boards, Threats, Twitter, Virginia

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Yesterday evening:

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris
Hey @HawleyMO, just circling back to see if you saw the threats to school officials across the country. We made a montage for you in case you didn’t.
[….]
8:04 PM · Oct 5, 2021

Watch the video.

Some of the comments:

He’s taking this position when an out of stater charged with 260 counts of fraud, threatened Walmart pharmacists with execution & came to Hawley’s home turf to rant at the local school board meeting. [….]

It used to be that when someone’s perception of reality was this far off base he would get a trip in a special jacket so that he could not hurt himself. Now they just lie about where they live and get elected to office. [….]

Nurses in his state have to carry panic buttons. He doesn’t care.

Dude’s a traitor.

Help with with this. Is his the same Josh Hawley who called police and said he was being attacked when peaceful protestors walked in front of his house carrying signs earlier this year?

If you are expecting Hawley, or any member of the GOP, to suddenly start being intellectually honest, you will he waiting a loooong time.

@HawleyMO, we need your clarification in light of these threats. Do you support such conduct? For the record please!

If Josh took any interest in his home state, he’d know one of these “concerned parents” threatened a black admin with “something worse than lynching” this week. But he only cares about what his handlers say & his political ambitions.

Virginia!

Except the “MY” state should have been Virginia. Ain’t nobody in Missouri every seen him.

So embarrassing. I voted for Claire McCaskill.

so when a few people demonstrating with posters stood outside his house it was “harrassment”,but says the parents threatening the school board is ok?

Please find out how many days Josh Hawley has actually BEEN in Missouri since he was elected. Maybe he’s unaware of the real threats to individuals in Missouri since he lives in Virginia.

Good to know that Josh stands for law, order and tourism. The videos just show tourists at school board meetings.

I’m old enough to remember when Hawley was part of an insurrection.

Josh Hawley thinks this will get him elected President.

Well, there is a really low bar for his party’s nomination.

I can’t believe Hawley thinks he’s senatorial.

He does pompous ass really well.

He’s a jackass

That, too.

Josh Hawley isn’t being sincere about threats at school board meetings. The American people have SEEN the verifiable threats made to educators, in the parking lots & in their cars.
Josh, when someone says to them: “We know where you live & we’re coming for you!”
It’s a threat.

If only everyone in the world knew what a lying, disingenuous, piece of shit he was before he was elected.
Oh wait, we did. Yet there’s enough partisan idiots in Missouri to put him in a position of power. Good work dumbasses

If Josh Hawley clutched those pearls any harder, he’d turn them into diamonds

Hawley knows exactly what he is doing, get these right wingers amped up so that they get themselves arrested. Keep playing that dog whistle.

So out of line. He knows, he is just an opportunist.

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)

A shooting star elbow drop from the ropes (January 28, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): you got your wish (January 31, 2021)

If Josh Hawley (r) steps in front of a microphone today we get six more weeks of sedition. (February 2, 2021)

On the wrong side of everything (February 3, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Crybaby Tour (February 6, 2021)

You got that one right (February 8, 2021)

Senator “Raise My Fist in Sedition” (r) has an opinion (February 10, 2021)

Working on the galley proofs for that right wingnut welfare vanity press book? (February 10, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Indifference (February 13, 2021)

Eric Greitens (r) is on line one… (February 13, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Mail (February 20, 2021)

What is Josh Hawley’s (r) favorite whine? (February 23, 2021)

Again, we already knew that (February 26, 2021)

Offered without comment (March 2, 2021)

The people you pay $174,000.00 a year believe that all billionaires are in desperate need of their help and that you haven’t suffered enough (March 6, 2021)

Home every night (March 7, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Huckster Hawley (March 13, 2021)

“They could never do more damage than you have already done.” (March 17, 2021)

Anybody see Josh Hawley (r)? (March 17, 2021)

SB 528: Wolverines! (March 24, 2021)

Long term memory loss (March 30, 2021)

A voice in the wilderness (March 31, 2021)

Secretly wants to join the “minutemen of the state” so he can wear a brown shirt (April 8, 2021)

Calling out ALEC? (April 12, 2021)

Slam dunk (April 13, 2021)

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

Offered without comment (April 15, 2021)

Uh… (April 20, 2021)

A low Bar (April 22, 2021)

Just because (April 22, 2021)

One of those fancy prosecutors (April 23, 2021)

The Gallagher of American politics, only without any of the humor, intelligence, or sophistication (April 26, 2021)

A grifter is only interested in taking your money, not at all in making any sense (May 1, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “As seen on TV!” (May 6, 2021)

Participation trophy (May 7, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): an attempt at performance art (May 9, 2021)

“It read better in the original German.” (May 14, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): This you? (May 22, 2021)

Doha? Never heard of it…. (August 15, 2021)

This you, Josh? (August 16, 2021)

That was then (August 26, 2021)

Why the faux outrage? MCI isn’t in Virginia. (September 22, 2021)

Struggling to be relevant (September 27, 2021)

Flop sweat (September 30, 2021)

Because contemplating the stupidest possible move in the entirety of human history is a thing

30 Thursday Sep 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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China, Congress, gaslighting, General Milley, missouri, pearl clutching

Does any serious person see any reasonable scenario where the Unites States of America initiates a first strike against the People’s Republic of China? Whatever anyone says to any other person about the possibility, it’s not going to happen. Ever. It would be the stupidest possible move in the entirety of human history. If I have to explain it to you, you’re an idiot.

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

Yesterday. from Vicky Hartzler (r):

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
General Milley telling China — our top adversary — that he would warn them if America was planning to attack is worthy of his resignation.
[…]
11:19 AM · Sep 29, 2021

The people who should resign are the ones who think the implied scope here of an attack on China by the United States would result in anything other than a disaster for everyone. Everyone.

Maroon.

Some of the responses, with plenty of hilarity:

Not really.

Representatives Hartzler, Jordan & Gaetz 2019 breaking into a classified level secure facility at the Capitol compromised national security, tested Cap Police & is worthy of their resignations. [….]

Not a hypothetical.

Way to misrepresent what he said.

#GOPLiesAboutEverything

I don’t agree with your assessment

Wildly out of context.

Stop ypur gaslighting

Right now we are peaceful w/China on many levels, not perfect, but amicable. Gen. Milley worked within the latitude of his responsibilities during a time of crisis to ensure that the uneasy peace we have was maintained and communicated so. Now just where were you on the 6th eh?

You’re an embarrassment. A sedationist who sought to help overturn a free and fair election asking a 4 star General to resign
You should resign

So, you think the US should be surprise attacking one of the other nuclear capable countries on the planet without Congressional approval?

Really Vicky? Do you ever do your, you know, job?

His words were spoken in the presence of numerous administration officials. None of them called for his resignation. Trump didn’t even call for his resignation. Clearly, averting a war is something you think is a bad thing.

Oh Vicki you’re such a disingenuous shrew.

Why are you such a big fan of nuclear war? And how on earth can you still call yourself “pro-life”?

Get a grip and quit playing stupid political games about issues so serious.

You embarrassed yourself today

This is outrageously out of context and you know it. You should resign

Your statement is totally out of context. Thanks for including the clip though. We can see for ourselves that you’re lying.

Why tell your constituents a lie? He said specifically that he would not tell any enemy operational details or inform them in advance of an action. Do MO a favor and resign yourself. Ike Skelton must be rolling in his grave having been followed by such incompetence.

You’re a republican crisis actor, a problem looking for a solution, a bandwagoneer. Just another GQP looking for moment to get your talking point out. If he had said, “Coyote caught the Roadrunner.” You would have still said to resign. You were nervous saying it [….]

So, you’re clueless. Another pathetic “leader” doing all she can to misinform her constituents. Trash.

You are an ignorant partisan hack who should resign. Going after those who take their oaths of office seriously, tell the truth, & believe in the Constitution is not acceptable to you. You & many of your colleagues couldn’t pass a high school civics exam.

Hey look! Another prime example of my home state electing a completely ignorant person, with no credible knowledge or experience on anything political, to a major office. What a fucking moron

God you’re a fuckin moron

Are you insane? Do you really not understand how national security works? The American people need to be demanding your resignation on the basis of gross incompetency.

Your mock indignation seems pretty resignation worthy itself, actually. You’re just as pathetic as the rest of the republicans. Do your job, or shut up. Careful you don’t hurt yourself clutching your pearls… I’m sure Ms. Collins can give you some lessons…

Actually, you being a moron is worthy of your resignation.

No it is not you fool…you are just another intellectually challenged @GOP obstructionist

Do us all a favor and you should resign.

You should be embarrassed, you have no grasp on what he actually said otherwise you would not be tweeting this out for the entire world to see what an imbecile you truly are. You should resign.

You’re a dangerous partisan hack

You’re an embarrassment.#idiot

That’s not what General Milley said at all. It’s very disturbing that after 2 days of testimony you either are too braindamage to get this or are trying to lie and gaslight us. You’re a sick sad pathetic embarrassment to Congress and our country and a grandstanding loser.

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

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