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Maturity forged in the crucible of a junior high school lunch table

20 Saturday May 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, social media, US Senate

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Eric Schmitt, Fascist pig, junior high school, missouri, right wingnut, Russia, social media, U.S. Senate

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Yesterday:

[Image cropped]

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Turns out Putin banned me from Russia today.

Time to change my work out routine.
[….]
3:52 PM · May 19, 2023

Now do Missouri.

Some of the responses:

Trump will get his Helsinki knee pads out and take care of it for you!
LOLOLOL

Wow.. Must suck to be ostracized by your handlers huh? Anyways, you’re no “Rocky” so please sit down and stop embarrassing Missouri.

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

Keep trying.
[….]

Trying to show Senator @HawleyMO you’re a manly man sir? All I know neither of my Senate representatives have done a single thing today to improve their constituents lives.

Pro trump = pro Russia = you

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): May the Fourth be with you

04 Tuesday May 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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4th Congressional District, junior high school, Kamala Harris, missouri, social media, space, town hall, Twitter

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

The Vice President is living rent free inside Vicky Hartzler’s (r) head. Today:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Is Vice President Kamala Harris now more likely to go to the border or space first?
#BidenBorderCrisis
[….]
12:49 PM · May 4, 2021

Someone never got out of junior high school, either. It’s the mean lunch table.

As usual, the responses are hilarious:

I imagine both will happen before you admit lying about the VP and her book.

True that.

We should explore the space between your ears.

Pass.

#Seditionist sez, “What?”

Is @RepHartzler more likely to defend the Constitution or a father who objectifies his own daughter?

#GOPDemocracyCrisis

I’d say both are more likely than you holding a open town hall meeting

Heh.

Seems to be living in that head of yours

We noticed that, too.

What are the gop primary policy goals right now? Your last several tweets are about the border. Even if you perceive it as a problem, you have to admit you failed to offer any solutions when your party held power. Do you have nothing to offer for Missourians?

You’re like a brain damaged parrot.

Are you an idiot?

Kamala Harris (D) [2019 file photo].

Evita Mooselini visited Kansas City and didn't tell The Stenographer

21 Sunday Aug 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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junior high school, Kansas City, media criticism.the stenographer, missouri, Sarah Palin, Steve Kraske

We never get out of junior high school:

A silent sojourn by Palin puzzles KC

By STEVE KRASKE

The Kansas City Star

News flash: Sarah Palin was in town Monday.

You didn’t know that? I didn’t know it until the next day. Turns out, nobody knew it….

We’re not puzzled by the former half term governor, she’s just a grifter pulling a long con.

@RobertaSaidThat Deborah

Redneck-goatee-sporting-whats-his-name-Palin-husband admits his wife quit governorship to make more money, saying she had “bills to pay.” 16 hours ago

From Rachel Maddow – Todd Palin and a self-identified Alaska resident at the Iowa State Fair:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640

Representative Mark Parkinson (r): I know you are, but what am I?

12 Monday Apr 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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General Assembly, junior high school, Mark Parkinson, meta, missouri

Previously: Rep. Mark Parkinson (r): great moments in projection

Ah, some members of the Missouri House of Representatives seem to want to go out of their way to try and prove that we never get out of junior high school. A case in point – Representative Mark Parkinson (r), via Twitter:

@MBersin (d-noun, cellist/tracker-verbs) it just occurred to me why you have an infatuation with trackers, as you are one.     26 minutes ago  via Tweetie  from Spencer Creek, MO  

Did he just say, “I know you are, but what am I?”

The meta, for those who aren’t clueless:

….At Show Me Progress we cover campaign, public, and government events. We sometimes cover fundraisers when we get an invitation to do so. We either wear ID in the form of a photo credential or we present a business card with our contact information, clearly identifying our affiliation with this blog. Our identification informs those at the events that we cover that what they say to us is on the record. We utilize the public record, the Missouri Sunshine Law, as well as other public resources to access public information. Further, there’s nothing keeping Representative Hoskins from signing up on this blog and participating consistent with our user guidelines.  

A tracker, on the other hand, is a paid political operative who may or may not identify his or her associations/affiliations.

Show Me Progress: How are you doing?

Tracker: Hello. How are you?

SMP: Good, good. So, are you a tracker or something?

Tracker: Uh, you could say that I guess.

SMP: Yeah. I’m with Show Me Progress. [I handed him my business card. He took it.]

Tracker: Oh!

SMP: Yeah. So, so, where are you from?

Tracker: Uh, I’d rather not say.

SMP: Oh, okay, that’s cool. [sound of camera shutter]

Tracker: You like the license plate? [In response to me photographing the back of the car.]

SMP: Actually? Interesting.

Tracker: Um, hm.

SMP: Yeah, so, uh, so have you been doing this for long or working in, in politics and stuff like that? [crosstalk]

Tracker: Uh, yeah, I’ve been working in politics for a while. [crosstalk]

SMP: Yeah. Good, good. Uh, where are you from, just in, are you from Missouri or just?

Tracker: I’d rather not say.

SMP: Okay, that’s cool. Well, listen, have a good evening, all right?

Clear enough for you now? Or is that irony definition thing still a little fuzzy for you?….

More junior high school, from the current session:

…the new Mark Parkinson idea is far weirder and angrier than the antique slot machines idea which was narrowly defeated in 2009. His new idea: deducting from Jay Nixon’s salary to buy Powerball tickets. An idea so absurd, asinine, and petty that it’s one of the better Republican revenue ideas ever (by default)…

I rest my case.

High Society

11 Friday Dec 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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access, cocktail weenies, junior high school, Salahi, state dinner, villagers, White House

Villagers clutching their pearls. Nothing changes.

That was then:

the (not so) mighty Quinn

…And then we have Sally Quinn, the self-appointed arbiter of Washington’s social scene. Since the White House scandal story broke in mid-January, Quinn has gabbed on the networks and cable channels, passing judgment on the president and hissing at first lady Hillary Rodman Clinton.

“If you consider the life of Bill Clinton,” she said on “60 Minutes,” “whenever he leaves the White House, he’s going to get on a plane, and where is he going to go?”

“What do you mean?” a baffled Mike Wallace asked.

“Well, he — he doesn’t even have a home,” she sniffed. “I mean, when you think about it, he’s homeless. I mean, they’ve lived in sort of government properties all their lives…”

“…and when we die we’ll be buried in a Pullman grave and go to a Pullman hell.”

This is now:

Dinner Crashers Walked All Over Social Code

“…Washington has its own version of a celebrity-driven culture, but these people are unattractive and lack charisma so what makes them celebrities is their substance,” says Eli Attie, a former White House speech writer in the Clinton administration and now a writer and producer for “House,” the Fox television show. “If you drain that from the interaction, it doesn’t have a point any more. You just have a photo of you and the vice president, and anyone willing to give $500 to the Democratic party and wait three hours on a tarmac in Kansas City can have that…”

Hey, it was the President, I didn’t give $500 to the Democratic Party, I was taking the pictures, and it was in St. Louis. And yes, it was fun, so I’ll take it.

As for the inside the beltway cocktail weenie circuit, feh, I’d rather have a brew and barbecue at Gates with friends.

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