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.
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
No mask mandates. No lockdowns. No vaccine passports. 8:25 PM · Aug 19, 2021
We can all then live in Eric Schmitt’s anti-science libertarian paradise. Wouldn’t that be so much fun?
Some of the responses:
You forgot the conclusion: No end to the pandemic.
Well said return to true freedom besides I can’t breath hear when I’m.forced to wear a dam mask it’s a struggle for me. And I’m forced to ask people to repeat themselves because I can’t hear!! please put yourself in my shoes before you comment.
When you are dead you don’t have to worry about hearing anything.
Eric! Stop it! You’re purging your own voter rolls!
No thinking.
You are wrong. You threaten my life. You threaten the lives of children.
I will support establishments with mask mandates & passports.
No sense.
No Schmitt in the Senate.
No brain cells.
No Brains. Do you see what’s happening in Florida and Texas?
No brains.
You forgot one. No care for other human lives.
There’s more. Some from those who aren’t particularly concerned with humanity.
Late last night, from Missouri’s Attorney General:
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Fight tyranny. Crush Marxism. Love America 10:04 PM · Aug 3, 2021
Some of the responses:
Fight demagoguery. Crush Fascism. Love the Earth.
he is crushing the fascists and demagogues, you are one and the same with the commies.
Obviously slept through junior high school.
Yes!! Fight tyrants from Jeff City who come to your town & say the know better than the locals & your community can’t decide for themselves!
Sarcasm? It’s hard to tell these days.
This is only a strong arm play to set him up for political office. Dont be fooled!
Derp
This is appalling.
Have you been vaccinated? Do you urge all Missourians to be vaccinated?
Oh you’re the AG. Disgusting.
Is it worth it, Eric? All those people who are going to get infected & die so you can rake in the right wing extremists money? Do your kids wear masks?
No one asked you to storm the beaches at Normandy, @Eric_Schmitt. Be a decent human being and leader and quit contributing to the harm of Missouri’s constituents.
Unpossible.
Remember the good ol’ days, when fascist politicians didn’t rile up their base by accusing anyone who doesn’t support their candidate of being an enemy of the state? I mean, sure. It worked for Hitler, but is that really the country you want to live in?
Fascist in lawyer clothes
Forgive him, father, for his tiny monkey brain does not know what it has done. You are destroying the integrity of the Republic. We are at war with a foreign enemy. The Republic must not fall. This divisiveness will ruin us. What we do now decides the next 30 yrs. No going back.
You’re not “fighting tyranny”. You’re killing people.
You couldn’t explain Marxism if your life depended on it. You’re just an ignorant parrot pandering to other irresponsible idiots.
You’re a truly evil piece of shit, and I truly hope you get your come-uppance.
Geez sounds like something a guy from the 40’s would say. thanks for suing to give us no choice on masks. sounds like tyranny to me. You piece of shit you.
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Today my Office delivered a huge win for the people of St. Louis County & obtained an order halting the mask mandate.
I’ll never stop fighting against unreasonable & unconstitutional government overreach & I’ll never stop fighting for the cause of freedom. #NoMaskMandates 2:15 PM · Aug 3, 2021
Sociopath.
Some of the comments:
What effect do you think that this “win” will have for the people of St. Louis County? #HonestQuestion [….]
Thank you AG Eric Schmitt! So grateful you are using your office to fight for our freedoms! May God bless you and your family!
Well, that’s one way of killing off your base
Basically, you sentenced more people to suffer and die so that you can get the GOP nomination in the Senate race. Monstrous.
I hate you.
Why is it such a big issue to wear a mask and get vaccinated? What are people afraid of? Why do you spend so much time and effort in this?
You obtained a temporary restraining order
Idiot.
Thank you @Eric_Schmitt for working hard to protect our rights and freedoms as Missourians!! #LikeABoss
This is great news – but please let us know when they actually put this into action. As of this morning every place is still requiring masks for the vaccinated and unvaccinated
Guess what? Private companies can still require you to wear a mask…
Thank you!! I’m terrified at what’s going on in our country but you are a hero to all of us [….]
Thanks for nothing. You don’t care about our health or welfare at all. Just catering to the MAGAs. Yet you call yourself pro-life. You have blood on your hands.
[….] Gonna make sure I’m a true Missourian for now on and do jack shit for other people.
“There’s a slight chance I can protect my fellow man by doing something simple? We’ll fuck them. Me, me, me. God bless and fuck off.” – MAGAts
Thank you for protecting our freedom!
Please fight against vaccine passports, even in the private sector. We cannot have this medical apartheid here.
The only thing for which you fight is your political career.
You’re a shameful person, and a horrible example for your children.
Good, now do Kansas City please. End all mask mandates.
Shut up Eric, what you are tweeting is another of your many lies from the lawyer! The Judge ordered a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER! You have not stopped anything can happen when it’s issued as TEMPORARY! Tell SLC that truth!
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
The citizens of St. Louis and St. Louis County are not subjects — they are free people. As their Attorney General I’ll be filing suit Monday to stop this insanity. #covid
[….] 6:50 PM · Jul 23, 2021
Some of the responses:
You’ve gone a couple of days without losing in court, do you need a fix?
My kids can’t get vaccinated. We need to either get more people vaccinated, or do what is necessary to protect everyone from the spread among the unvaccinated. Do not take legal action against St. Louis City and County doing what needs to be done.
Setting yourself up for another loss in court?
I’m one of those people and I’d like to know how many times you’ve promoted vaccination. Looking back through July tweets….that would be a big ZERO times. As a doctor who works inpatient, I suggest you drop the politics and do something useful.
You are completely out of touch with the seriousness of COVID-19 and the Delta variant. Individuals choosing not to be vaccinated are a problem as yourself, and Missouri Republicans who are against mask mandates or other issues for the greater good of our communities and state.
Are you going to sign the lawsuit this time or find a totally different embarrassing way to lose?
We’re not your grandstanding springboard either. Leave us alone. #STL
Read the room, dude.
Ohohoh… Scary Eric is gonna sue!!! It will end like the rest of them
Is it not the most important role of government to protect its citizens from harm? Why would you choose to take a political and legal position that ignores the health and welfare of your fellow citizens?
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r), in yet another flailing attempt at some type of political relevance:
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
[Why are you so obsessed with me?]
[Tony Messenger @tonymess
Your daily reminder that @Eric_Schmitt fake-sued St. Louis County because it took #COVID19 seriously….] 8:55 PM · Jul 8, 2021
Uh.
Tony Messenger @tonymess
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
[Good Government Matters.] 9:02 PM · Jul 8, 2021
For the Internets win! In seven minutes.
But wait, there’s more:
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Interesting @tonymess that @AGEricSchmitt is surprised we are trying to figure out what his job is.
Support Trump?
Protect Missourians?
Work on @Eric_Schmitt political career?
All of the above?
@tonymess how much did that lawsuit cost us?
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Yes. Why would he be concerned with an Attorney General misusing state funds to further his political career?
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Why are you so obsessed with: fake lawsuits that cost tax payers money? Overturning votes from other states? Working on a promotion when you aren’t doing your current job adequately? Twitter disputes like the orange oaf?
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
If you hankered for amicus briefs (or else BBQ sent from the Chiefs), then this AG’s your guy, although folks wonder why a high office is used for pet beefs that the majority doesn’t share; seems that democracy’s ain’t Schmitt’s care.
[….]
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Because you’re suppose to work for the people of this state… but you continue to waste our tax dollars with frivolous laws suits
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Stopped developing at 15 yo
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Because you are a damn public servant – we are supposed to pay attention to you. You are screwing the people of Missouri. Do your damn job and stop grandstanding for higher office.
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
If you are paying someone to write these tweets you should sue them to get that money back. Would be way more productive than most of your other dumbass lawsuits.
Heh. We see what you did there.
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Obsessed? Why are you a public servant?
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Doesn’t get much more pathetic than Eric here
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Hilarious! You’re just the Attorney General of Missouri wasting tax payer money and time with frivolous, political lawsuits that you LOSE every time. But, keep up with the jokes.
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
You kidding me man? You are a joke.
“If your brains were condensed into gasoline it wouldn’t be enough to run a minibike around the inside of a [national name brand circular oat based breakfast cereal]” – a junior high school insult from way back in the day.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r):
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
President Trump will never get enough credit for #OperationWarpSpeed. His leadership saved untold millions of lives! #COVID19 4:50 PM · Jun 3, 2021
Some of the responses:
This, of course, is bullshit. In February, he told Woodward how dangerous covid-19 and did not support the wearing of masks. He NEVER talked about getting the vaccine. He did not leave a plan to distributing the vaccine nor ramping up its manufacture.
His leadership on #COVID19 is why he lost the election.
ok
His leadership lost almost 600,000 Americans by claiming covid was a hoax. His leadership consisted of having MAGA rallies in the midst of the pandemic. His leadership made mask political. His leadership was to lead America with lies that killed Americans. His leadership 1-6-21!
Perhaps it’s because he is too busy getting credit for hundreds of thousands of lives lost due to his constant dismissal and down playing of the virus. And let’s not forget his potentially lethal suggestion of injecting bleach over getting a vaccine.
“It’s amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving.”
Yes please tell me more about how he did a great job with Covid, Eric.
Eric, please stop.
Yet he claimed COVID would “disappear.” It’s a fact Eric Schmitt won’t make clear. Donald’s vast negligence makes just as little sense as the unfounded claims people hear the AG lob against 46; just a few of his usual tricks.
400,000 people couldn’t be reached for comment. Because they died from COVID on Trump’s watch. You should stick to feckless lawsuits. Health metrics ain’t your jam.
Give us one concrete example of how he didn’t ignore or dissuade or put up road blocks to reduce the massive unnecessary deaths caused. He admitted he lied to calm people down when he knew it was bad. How you are in office amazes me.
You sound so ridiculous
False.
How are you so delusional?
Tweeting for an audience of one, now? How many people have died now because of his incompetence and stupidity?
Speaking of incompetence and stupidity, have you won a case yet as AG?
His “leadership” cost us half a million lives, bub. Go sue somebody for some ridiculous reason.
Wait. What…?? You’re such a pathetic, ignorant moron. Just stop.
Guess you’re trying to distract us from pulling back your latest political stunt in STL County?
By the way, after you stop this nonsense, are you going to say ANYTHING about Trump’s claim he will be reinstated in August?
Will you file a lawsuit with the Supreme Court calling for that reinstatement?
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Mark Pedroli, Esq @MarkPedroli
Police cars revolving lightFormer Missouri Senator John Danforth filed a brief describing current Attorney General @Eric_Schmitt’s case to overturn the election as “jiggery-pokery,” which means deceitful or dishonest.
Jack Danforth (r) and his republican friends think the Texas suit against the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin is a really bad idea. From the Amicusbrief:
…the Constitution does not make this Court the multidistrict litigation panel for trials of presidential election disputes…
…Plaintiff’s Motions make a mockery of federalism and separation of powers. It would violate the most fundamental constitutional principles for this Court to serve as the trial court for presidential election disputes…
…Plaintiff raises the unprecedented assertion, contrary to 230 years of history, that a presidential election dispute is, under 28 U.S.C. §1251(a), a “controvers[y] between two or more States.” Brief in Support of Mot. For Leave to File Bill of Complaint, at 7-8. This jiggery-pokery is contradicted by the Electors Clause and 3 U.S.C. § 5…
Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia [2008 file photo].
One former AG who can’t comprehend constitutional law patting another AG who can’t comprehend constitutional law on the back. Party first, right Josh? Missouri continues to be embarrassed.
Ladder buddies!
And there goes all that good will out the window w one stupid tweet undermining democracy by supporting these frivolous lawsuits. If the Dems were doing this Josh would be up in arms!
In summary, Republicans want to make it as hard and time consuming as possible to vote. If you do vote and they don’t like the result, they want to throw your vote out. And they are against judicial activism and federal control except when it benefits their political interests.
Why not go over all the states with a fine toothed comb? Perhaps some of the states that Trump won weren’t won with integrity. Let’s start with KY and then FL. Let’s go over some of these Senate elections. I’m all for it.
This would be a farce if it weren’t so damaging to our country. I’m disgusted but not surprised by you being on board. This is against everything our country is supposed to stand for
No, it’s not good work. He’s wasting Missouri tax dollars on a frivolous and symbolic effort. Everyone knows this is about the GOP not liking the outcome and has nothing to do with voter fraud. You’d be apoplectic if, for example, California sued over Missouri’s votes.
Is this the only way Republicans can stay in power? Making it harder for people to vote? How treasonous.
There is no quiet part. Trump is openly and proudly fighting to OVERTURN the will of the voters and democracy itself.
And the vast majority, aka GOP dinosaurs, of his party stand by him. Also include @RepHartzler @RoyBlunt, but you already knew this.
Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].
Who the fuck is Roy blunt? Has he ever been to Missouri?
He’s wasting our taxpayers’ $$$!!!! That’s not good work, Senator.
You’re so thirsty, bro.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Remember when Schmitt sued China? @HawleyMO was right behind him on that one too.
BREAKING: states’ rights champion Senator HeeHaw now says “f-ck states’ rights!”
Your footnote in history books will be short and ridiculous.
Narrator, in the future: “Who?”
What footnotes? No one will know his name in Missouri..
His next door neighbors in Virginia will.
This is pandering at best.
Here’s hoping for another one sentence rejection by SCOTUS
What a waste of taxpayer money.
One grifter congratulates another.
Spoken like a true Fascist.
The only credible evidence of fraud in the election is the vote of the junior Missouri senator who actually lives in Virginia and hasn’t actually maintained a residence in Missouri.
We see what you did there.
all theater. nothing will change. the republic is over.
Senator, you’re embarrassing yourself, hurting Missouri and our country with this, uh, manure.
No, rejecting the results of an election based on being a sore loser and calling for unconstitutional interference between states is the exact opposite of “Good work”.
You really do hate your country, don’t you?
Why don’t you believe in democracy? You’re not a conservative with this behavior, you’re an authoritarian wanting one party rule voters be damned.
Mr. Harvard Law Man, have you not learned anything?
![Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].](https://i1.wp.com/showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210819-606A2414.jpg?ssl=1)
