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Mark Alford (r): it’s all about the photo-op….and the hat

14 Wednesday Oct 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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4th Congressional District, agriculture, former newsreader, Mark Alford, right wingnut, social media, that ridiculous hat

Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 14, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
This Congress, I’m fighting to make beef more affordable by giving Missouri ranchers more places to sell and clearer incentives to rebuild the herd.
When the national herd is at a 75-year low, more imports won’t solve the problem—more American cattle and more processing competition will.
I’ll always stand with our ranchers. 🚜🥩
[….]

Some of the responses:

You supported the trump tarrifs that lost grain markets for the rest of my lifetime.

Diesel fuel prices hit farmers and ranchers harder than anyone else 😂😂😂
This pip squeak is all talk.

Alford did trump tell you to say that

Rep. Alford will always stand with Trump. I fixed it for you.

He will stand with trump and radical right.

Not even close.

That’s a joke!!!

Standby & watch them fail

Except when you support policies that hurt them because Trump told you to. Oh, Mar-a-Lago Mark…

You stood with Trump and his beef imports and prices didn’t go down

This is a total lie. He supports and backs an agenda of a convicted felon. Missouri deserves better then this. VOTE MARK ALFORD AND REPUBLICANS OUT

We have seen the results of your party’s failures. Let’s hope the people of Missouri never let you forget your betrayal of the people for as long as you exist.

Not a chance, you are a mouth piece for trump!

Because you support trump tariffs that hurt farmers, so now you want the taxpayers to bail, aka, welfare, them out.

Clearly he hasn’t with diesel fuel at an all time high for farmers!! (Not to mention during the busiest time of the year for too) 🤬

Are you really that out of touch with reality?

How can you do it and Support Trumps policies

Sure 🤥

WTF EVER!! He won’t even debate [Jordan] Herrera! He knows he will be asked the hard questions that he won’t want to answer!!

The only thing Alford stands with is a radical MAGA monster

Missouri farm bankruptcies were up over 70% this year remind me again what party controls all three branches of the federal government and all of Missouri

You aren’t doing anything. You are on vacation AGAIN! For, at least, another 3 weeks. You need to be working on your resume right now. You’re going to need it.

How it started…

11 Monday May 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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agriculture, diesel, Donald Trump, Fascist pig, gas, Iowa, Iran, maroon, missouri, oil, War, warmonger

In Missouri:

In northwest Missouri.

How it’s going…

Today in Missouri:

This weekend in Iowa:

Who’s in charge?:

Scenes from flyover country

17 Saturday May 2025

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agriculture, flyover country, rural

On the front porch:

“2024 Harris Walz”

About those egg prices. Direct, from the source:

Fresh Eggs, $7 a dozen.

Compared to two months ago, not a Trump sign in sight. Very interesting.

On Wisconsin!

11 Tuesday Mar 2025

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agriculture, Harris-Walz, hay, sign, Wisconsin

It’s still there. Early this morning in south central Wisconsin:

“Farmers for Harris-Walz 2024”

What could have been.

Previously:

Local aspirational billionaire still pining for their windfall tax break (March 8, 2025)

Straw man (March 9, 2025)

That’s what everyone says, but they never really mean it

21 Tuesday Nov 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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agriculture, barn sign, Farmers

Today:

Thank You Farmers.

August in Missouri

01 Tuesday Aug 2023

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agriculture, missouri

This morning in west central Missouri:

Which nation?

12 Wednesday Oct 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in US Senate

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agriculture, China, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Slow and over the plate.

We were talkin’ about the tweet:

Attorney General Eric Schmitt @AGEricSchmitt
Agriculture is one of Missouri’s top industries and is crucial to our economy. So today, on #NationalFarmersDay, be sure to thank a farmer!
[….]
2:33 PM · Oct 12, 2022

Some of the responses:

Wouldn’t you rather sue them, Eric?

Out-of-touch, wealthy Glendale lawyer suggests Missourians who can’t afford to buy food should travel to China to thank wealthy landowners.

“They’re using our own campaign blather against us…”

I would but you allowed all the farm ground to be sold to the Chinese government and I don’t speak the language

Do pile on.

Are you fluent in Mandarin or are you a Cantonese guy? [….]

No, I insist, after you.

Who? Smithfield? Big AG isn’t farming Eric. Maybe if you were actually in touch with Missourians you would know that.

Get lost sell out, do-nothing political climber.

And be sure to pray for all the small family farms that have been plowed under by 20 years of Republican leadership, and then covered over with a layer of CAFO run off and sprinkled with a handful of change whenever an election is looming.

Shame you sold our farm land to China. My folks are pretty a-political, but my Dad can name off every bit of farmland back home that’s been sold to foreign owned cooperate farms, and he knows you voted to make that happen

Previously:

Definitely left a mark (September 22, 2022)

Eric Schmitt (r) gets pwned…again (September 22, 2022)

Schmitt’s Twitter Cry (October 9, 2022)

Tool! (October 10, 2022)

The internets is forever, Eric (r) (October 11, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Soybean dreams

29 Thursday Sep 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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agriculture, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180684 09/29/2022 American Dream PAC Missouri Soybean Association 734 S Country Club Dr. Jefferson City MO 65109 9/28/2022 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

What’s next?

Campaign Finance: There you go

22 Monday Aug 2022

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agriculture, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC, pork, Smithfield Foods

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000697 08/22/2022 MO PORK-PAC Smithfield Foods 200 Commerce Street Smithfiled VA 23430 8/22/2022 $75,000.00

[emphasis added]

…The company was founded in Smithfield, Virginia, in 1936 and was acquired in 2013 by Hong Kong-based WH Group, a publicly traded company with shareholders around the world…

Fancy that.

[August 2022 file photo]

In the right light

28 Tuesday Dec 2021

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agriculture, barn, missouri, photography

This afternoon in west central Missouri:

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