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SB 509 (May 6, 2014): Now what, assholes?

01 Wednesday Apr 2020

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SB 509: the moment when all hope for the future of Missouri died (May 6, 2014)

The final vote to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of SB 509. Representative Jeremy LaFaver (D) (left) – bearing witness, Representative Keith English (center) – casting the 109th vote necessary for the override, and Representative Ron Hicks (r) (right) – his escort on and off the House floor. May 6, 2014.

For a nicer office location.

This won’t be the last story on SB 509 (May 9, 2014)

….Moreover, the revenue triggers in the legislation only apply until the tax cuts are fully phased-in. After that time, under the legislature’s own estimates, there would be at least $620 million less in general revenue available each and every year, regardless of whether revenue collections are going up or down. In addition, the legislation’s annual cost would continue to grow above the legislature’s $620 million annual estimate because the income bracket adjustments in the bill for increases in the consumer price index would continue indefinitely. See Section 143.011.3. This provision alone would result in an additional $128 million in annual revenue reductions ten years after the legislation is fully phased-in, increasing each year in perpetuity….

That was then, this is now:

Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
Between now and June 31st, we are estimating an over $500 million shortfall.

We have had to take a hard look at our budget and make some very difficult decisions.
3:11 PM · Apr 1, 2020

Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
*June 30th
4:18 PM · Apr 1, 2020

Yep. Really rich people got a big windfall in 2014. Now what?

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

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? – meta

01 Wednesday Apr 2020

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“…Come on, do the right thing. Delay just means more death and suffering. Flatten the goddamned curve…”

Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) still has not issued a “stay at home” order for the state. Because, we don’t know, “rural, something, something.”

Meta.

Yesterday morning on Show Me Progress I put up a post titled “Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor?,” highlighting the Lafayette County Commission’s “stay at home” ordinance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – as opposed to the refusal of Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) to do the same. There has been a precipitous rise in cases in Lafayette County.

The post caused a significant traffic spike. Significant as in the largest number of daily “hits” in almost five years of operating on this platform.

With a traffic spike comes comments and trolling. Show Me Progress is set so that I must personally approve all comments before they’re posted. I see the IP address and the e-mail of the commenter, along with their typed remarks.

I try not to engage right wingnuts directly. By any definition of their thought processes and ideology, it’ a colossal waste of time. I generally delete their comments as they’re in moderation. There’s an old music adage: “You can’t teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.” So, I tend to delete trolling comments and ignore them.

Unless it amuses me.

Yesterday morning I received the following, unedited (it went into the trash):

All the armchair warriors .. Your not in charge!
Till you are in control if your (R) or (D) sit back and be quiet.
Your time to comment comes at the polling station.
Since we don’t have all the information we must assume the decisions are best for the majority
Even if it’s not good for you..

A champion of the First Amendment, eh? And don’t start with, “wait, aren’t you censoring this person?” Don’t be an idiot. The First Amendment applies to government action. If trolls want to spew stupidity on the Internets they are perfectly free and able to start their own blog. A place where people can freely choose to read their drivel, or not.

You think they kept their opinion and counsel, not speaking out, from January 2009 to January 2017? Right…

“Even if it’s not good for you..” Seriously, someone believes that. “The needs of the 1%, outweigh the needs of the many” is quite a moral perversion.

That deference to authority figure(s) “…[s]ince we don’t have all the information…” is the ultimate laziness in the Information Age. Such laziness as a foundation for all other social behavior is so 21st century.

Grammar and incoherence aside, somebody should inform this poor person that the current governor of Missouri was not elected to that office.

This (unedited) also went into the trash:

Your article is a hit piece not news. Governor Parsons is doing a great job. In case you are not aware of this we live in a federal style of government. Therefore the local towns can issue a stay at home order when necessary. The whole state does not need to shut down. Show some respect.

Show some respect, learn to spell your governor’s name.

Something, something, Federalism backwards. Ignore actual expertise (science! math!). Ignore the problems in a pandemic (science! math!) generated by a patchwork of responses from county to county, and town to town, because, you know, people don’t ever travel from one place to the other. [That’s how a fucking pandemic works.] Ergo, tautology. Deference to authority, no matter how incompetent. Obvious ignorance of the concept of exponential growth. And willfully ignoring that rural Missouri doesn’t have the health care capacity to deal with the exponential growth of cases of COVID-19 to come.

If I’d bothered to answer this one directly it would have been: “Fuck off, you Neolithic self-righteous sociopathic prig. How’s that for the respect you deserve?”

There are hotspots across Missouri. Urban, suburban, and rural. The whole state does need to shut down. Lives are at stake.

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

Well, Governor Parson (r)?

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

Previously:

Gov. Mike Parson (r): Do the right thing (March 23, 2020)

Gov. Mike Parson (r): “What, me worry?” (March 26, 2020

Gov. Mike Parson (r): Still wringing your hands, eh? (March 28, 2020)

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? (March 31, 2020)

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? – part 2 (March 31, 2020)

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? – part 2

31 Tuesday Mar 2020

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Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) has not issued a “stay at home” order for the state. Because, we don’t know, “rural, something, something.”

The Johnson County, Missouri Commission and Johnson County Community Health Services, on the other hand:

Johnson County, Missouri “Stay at Home” Order – March 31, 2020 [pdf]

Statistics from Johnson County released today indicate 24 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the county.

Tests administered: 618
Negative: 472
Positive: 24
Recovered: 1
Deaths: 0

From Pioneer Trails Regional Planning Commission:

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

Well, Governor Parson (r)?

Previously:

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? (March 31, 2020)

WTF? Where are the masks?

27 Friday Mar 2020

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This arrived in yesterday’s mail (we let the mail sit, decontaminate it, and, in this case, microwaved it):


This, friends, is a misuse of public funds for partisan political campaign purposes. That asshole doesn’t even believe the stuff on the “b” side of the card, let alone understand the science and math of a pandemic.

When this is over, there better be a whole shitload of accountability and investigative hearings. No more fake “we need to look forward” comity for these sociopaths.

Donald Trump (r): too stupid to remember to breathe

27 Friday Mar 2020

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And that, as we say in the business, is the ultimate irony.

Last night:

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins
Trump: “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes and they’ll have two ventilators. Now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'”
8:55 PM · Mar 26, 2020

They need the ventilators because the very large and exponentially increasing number of patients with the most severe cases of COVID-19 need them to stay alive.

Fucking idiot.

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

Gov. Mike Parson (r): “What, me worry?”

26 Thursday Mar 2020

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The Alfred E. Neuman of governors.

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

Today:

Charles Jaco @charlesjaco1
Gov. AWOL emerges from his bubble, announces more COVID-19 cases, refuses to close businesses, does the thoughts & prayers soft-shoe, scuttles back inside. A daily briefing from Punxsutawney Phil would be more useful.
[….]
4:01 PM · Mar 26, 2020

Yep.

Josh Hawley (r): forgetting that you shouldn’t pick a fight with people who buy electrons by the petabyte

24 Tuesday Mar 2020

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday afternoon:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Took time off? Excuse me? I never left DC. I remained at my duty station, on call, waiting for Nancy Pelosi to send us a bill to act on. And now the country is again waiting for your party to stop playing pathetic partisan games & PASS RELIEF for Missouri & the nation

Alex Witt @alexandriajwitt
Listen, I agree. I just wish Josh Hawley had felt this way last weekend when he took three days off to grill while a pandemic was spreading like wild fire: [….]

3:19 PM · Mar 23, 2020

High dudgeon, that’s always a good look for a right wingnut politician.

Ten days ago: Sen. Josh Hawley (r): things to joke about on vacation while wearing a white button down shirt during a pandemic and national emergency (March 14, 2020)

Some of the comments:

Josh Hawley: So why don’t Dems cut the BS and do something to help real people, like the thousands of Missourians awaiting direct cash relief who can’t get it because your party won’t answer the call

#NotDying4WallStreet #NotDyingForWallStreet

Partisan games? Which party is trying to give handouts to big corporations? Which party isn’t pushing for the Defense Protection Act to be enacted?
Your tweet itself is part of partisan game you’ve been playing since you took office.

No one said you left DC. We know you don’t have a house in Missouri.

Bruh, YOU PUT IT ON TWITTER!

Why, yes he did.

How about you making sure this bill doesn’t make your private donors pockets thicker while we can’t feed our children!

The GOP and fake populist @HawleyMO are trying to pass a massive bank bailout and corporate slush fund for their billionaire donors — stop noticing peasants!

We’re waiting for y’all to get serious about helping *small* business people and not your wealthy donors like the one I spoke to on Sunday.

Maybe if there wasn’t a $500B fund that Steve Munchin directly decides which corporations get the money and he won’t have to disclose who they are is why the pesky Dems aren’t letting you all railroad us again like in the bank bailout fiasco

Explain the Mnuchin money please. This constituent wants to know.

It’s time for Republicans like you and #MoscowMitch to put American families first.

A $500 billion slush fund for corporations with no oversight is ridiculous. We have to ensure our tax dollars these companies receive goes to their workers — not their CEOs.

Cut the faux military talk “duty station” crap. You were grilling thick steaks on your deck. At your residence in the DC area. I’m not shaming you for cooking your dinner, just don’t make it sound like you are a soldier on sentry duty.

The Senate was off. You weren’t waiting for a call to go back so cut the shit

Why you need a secret half a trillion dollar slush fund?

Do you ever come back to Mo? McConnell dismissed the Senate for a three day weekend while the House was working.

YOU and the GOP are the ones playing games putting big business ahead of the workers.

Send who a bill? Your fearless leader was in Kentucky celebrating with the known perpetrator of sexual assault you all forced onto the Supreme Court.

There’s that, too.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

We could have had a Pandemic Preparedness Office in the White House National Security Council

19 Thursday Mar 2020

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But, no. Instead we got this:

In space no one can hear you scream.

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

Previously:

Gene Roddenberry just called, he wants his Star Trek logo back (January 24, 2020)

Gov. Mike Parson (r): couldn’t recognize the right thing to do even if it walked up and smacked him up side the head with written and numbered step by step instructions

18 Wednesday Mar 2020

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

It’s a fucking campaign ad from his campaign account for his 2020 election campaign:

Mike Parson @mikeparson
We’re working hard to protect our first line of defense. That’s why we have 370,000 sets of personal protection equipment on its’s way to those who need it. They will be receiving these shipments in the coming days.
[….]
1:34 PM · Mar 18, 2020

Sociopath.

Some of the comments:

If you need more information about the COVID-19 pandemic, not Gov. Parson’s campaign, call DHSS’ information hotline at 877-435-8411. Now isn’t the time to use a crisis for one’s own political gain; it’s a time to take concrete steps to save Missourians’ lives.

.@MOEthics is this a campaign ethics violation?

Is that a campaign ad on your supplies update?

Man, that is some really crass behavior on the part of @mikeparson/@GovParsonMO

Start shutting down non essential business now. My people are on a job site with a hundred people using three porta potty’s to build a 30 million dollar house for some pricks who already have three homes. Employers and contractors are too greedy or stupid to stop on their own.

Using people’s fear to collect their information for campaign use. Wow.

They’ll need it with your lack of action.

Wow. How low can you go?

NO NO NO DO NOT use this situation to solicit donations. That is awful and shameful. #VoteBlueNoMatterWho

Can’t wait to vote for @nicolergalloway. She will actually respond appropriately to a crisis.

Crass

Governor Mike seems to be as useless as good old Governor Eric

Well gee whiz, mikey

What!!!!!!

You are a disgrace. You are not taking this pandemic seriously and you are not leading; you are hiding. We need statewide directives. School districts and local municipalities need guidance to avoid confusion. After all that you post this, with a number to your campaign.

How about you close schools, eliminate their standardized testing, close bars and restaurants except to delivery or drive through traffic and get us some damn testing and PPE for our healthcare workers including mental health professionals!! What’s wrong with you??

Will someBODY please explain to me why you haven’t closed the schools or restaurants of Missouri yet?

Can I text asshole to that number?

Wow! You are such an asshat!

You jackass! Placing people’s lives in danger.. You are a moron!

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

Update:

The Tweet has been deleted (3/18/20 < 5:00 p.m.). We have the receipts above.

Previously:

A complete lack of leadership (March 16, 2020)

Gov. Mike Parson (r): Uh… (March 17, 2020)