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Someone should tell him…

17 Wednesday Sep 2025

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Congressman Mark Alford
[September 17, 2024]
238 years ago, our Founding Fathers signed the Constitution and set in motion the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known.
On Constitution Day, we remain committed to defending those rights and liberties that keep America strong. [….]

Some of the responses:

Yet you support a president that does not follow the constitution.
He issues ED’S and changes tariffs 4 times a day. Laws and regulations are at best suggestions.

Hypocrite.

Are you, though? Because…. *gestures widely* this ain’t it.

Glad to hear you support the Constitution. It doesn’t really align with your position on many things and you often apply it to folks you like but not those you don’t. I’ll believe you though if you’re changing your position. So I’ll be expecting you to condemn Pam Bondi’s recent statements on prosecuting folks for their speech. I also assume you’ll withdraw your post yesterday about firing teachers for posting their thoughts on Carlie Kirk! Thanks so much for pivoting from your previously communicated views that the Constitution is only for white, Christian conservatives. It gives me hope for the future!

Hey Mark, to commemorate the occasion would you mind taking a moment to actually read the Constitution?

You should celebrate by reading it

Then follow the Constitution…as previous leaders have.

Except the 1st Amendment, right? We can’t be out there letting people express opinions that disagree with the king.

“No King”
(2025)
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(Thank you, Tom Tomorrow)

Right. Like you follow the constitution.

Have you read it yet? 🤔

So do that…

You should read it some day.

My favorite is freedom of speech

Have you read it ? More importantly do you understand it ?

Defend the rights and liberties of Free Speech!

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.
– Zechariah 7:10 (ESV)

Except free speech, Due process, probably other things.

birthright citizenship, Emoluments clause, separation of powers, civil rights, voting rights.
The only part of the Constitution the GOP cares about is the 2nd amendment

Now that’s some.funny shit coming from you

Could you commit to actually upholding the Constitution? Because that would be great.

LOLOLOL defending rights and liberties where?

Well, except trump. And you. Trump has been very transparent that he wants the constitution to go away. And you and your colleagues facilitate that every day.

The document YOU ARE NO LONGER defending.

You sir mark know nothing of the constitution and what it even stands for you rather break the constitution Laws!

LIAR

Please read it…and actually do your job!

Better start defending it Mark.
The founding fathers would be kicking some ass if they were alive

You’re a joke

What a joke. The current administration has torn our Constitution to shreds. We no longer have freedom of speech. Our rights, as spelled out in the Constitution, are being stolen from us.

And you’re killing it. Fuck you mark

Be honest… You’d stop after the second amendment.

he would skip the first amendment too. They are already trying to criminalize free speech.

Congressman Mark Alford trashed and annihilated the 1st Amendment yesterday with his post about teachers.

Yes, he did.

They are rolling over in their graves because of the way Trump and Republicans are stomping all over the constitution.

Remember the maga response when Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer at his own house? Don Jr put out a meme of a “Paul Pelosi Halloween kit, complete with hammer and underwear”. Oh, how the magats thought that was so funny. And they laughed, and they laughed…Or how about Alex Jones, who mocked the murdered children from the Sandy Hook school shooting? The dead children’s parents had to sue him just to get him to stop. That is who is telling you how to be civil.

And now your party is destroying it

Thanks to you and your fellow ass kissers Mark, the experiment is dying.

Congressman Mark Alford. You lie. You trashed your oath of office in your undeniable and constant fealty to the Orange Russian, and you wiped your ass with the Constitution long ago. You’re a joke. You’re uneducated, and completely unqualified to serve in any office, particularly the position of House Rep. You’re a cheat. You’re a grifter, in this for what you can gain for your personal self and nothing else. You’re a murderer, putting in place legislation that has killed people and will continue to kill. If you had an ounce of self-worth, you would resign. #UnfitToServe

Your boy Trump is peeing on the Constitution, and you butt kissers aren’t doing anything to stop him. You’re a coward. Do your job!

A document that you and your fellow quislings ignore daily.

I’m not sure you know the constitution. You should be following it and upholding it, not being Trump’s boy.

I guess today is a great day to mark the death of our rights by having divisions of the federal government publicly pressure a private company into firing someone because he’s critical of them and their allies.
Pretty sad way to watch the last hopes of our once proud country descend into full on fascism.

“Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars”
(2025)
Posterboard. Permanent marker, acrylic. 22 x 28.

Seriously? What’s going on now in America goes against everything our constitution stands for and you know it!!

Well, they did.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

And exactly how does this help, Mark (r)?

15 Monday Sep 2025

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[September 15, 2025]
We are in a spiritual battle for the soul of our nation.
Praying that we can all put on the full armor of God and come together to create something good following the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk.
[….]

Wait, what was MAGA all about?

Just asking.

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

You want an army. I want universal healthcare and a living wage for all. We are not the same.

those are democrats socialist ideas. Government will take all of your paychecks and take care of your needs and desires

Well, that settles it. Corporations do that now. Oh, wait…

where do you want your tax dollars spent?
On healthcare in your community or on corporate subsidies and endless wars?
You already know where there being spent now and you’ll argue against helping your own community. Ludicrous.

I thought you were taking a break from social media to cool the temperature?

narcissists need the attention

the nation founded with no state religion?
read your American history Alford

How about you read your Bible.

How about you read your Bill of Rights.

Read your Constitution.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion….”

What is so shocking about this shooting? Is it because people thought this can’t happen to him? Or because he wasn’t a kid in a school?
Let’s be honest here: we aren’t about to do anything about guns, and we will only see more shootings. We all lose, but in the end, God wins. So I guess there’s that.
But MAN do I wonder what might happen if we has less guns, instead of more.
Don’t yell at me, I know that will never happen. 😪

It’s ridiculous that some of you think taking away gun rights will stop EVIL PEOPLE! It’s won’t, no law ever has!

Uh…

but guns are so much more efficient than other weapons. It happens so fast. I have two kids in school, and one who isn’t even in school yet, and I worry about this every day.
But again, don’t come at me, because I know nothing will change. It’s just the price we pay, for your “freedoms”.
I hate guns, and if I could, I would take them all away from everyone.

if there were only some evidence that a reasonable amount of gun control would curb mass shootings… oh wait, there is! The entire rest of the world!
Keep your head buried in the sand.

Same planet, different world:

oh bullshit look at Canada now they took away their guns and now the illegals are there with illegal guns shooting up the place cut me a break

“…The U.S. has the 28th-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 4.31 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021. That was more than seven times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.57 deaths per 100,000 people — and about 340 times higher than in the United Kingdom, which had 0.013 deaths per 100,000….” How the U.S. gun violence death rate compares with the rest of the world

Let’s look at UK girls and women are getting raped and abused and they can’t even protect himself not allowed to protect himself and if you dare you’re the one that goes to jail somewhere Common Sense went out the door will you people I have 14 grandchildren all of them but two in school so I care about the schools too there needs to be armed guard at schools just like Banks and a lot of other places

oh honey. Turn off FOX, please.

Turning point was Charlie Kirk’s personal ministry.

you mean where he made millions of dollars for himself that kind of ministry?

Grifters gotta grift.

God Bless you Congressman Mark Alford I’ve never seen such an awakening in my life 🕯️God is truly winning✝️Rest in Paradise Charlie Kirk👣

So … over 20 million stripped of health care which means 55,000 people will die every year that don’t have to; $1.3 trillion in SNAP stripped from the mouths of seniors, children, and the poor; 80,000 medical professionals elminated from the VA, which will kill and maim how many vets – all of this Mark Alford voted for and cheerleads on. How “Christian” of you to consider all of these things that will kill people as “God is truly winning”.

JDVance just recited Ephesians 6 and putting on the full armor of God 🙏🏻

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion….”

The Twilight Zone was so prophetic.

Idiocracy (2006) was not supposed to be a documentary.

If you have to keep telling everyone someone was a good man, here is something to ponder.
We know that he wasn’t.

Drop the religion. Religion divides more than it unifies. Even Christians can’t totally agree on one interpretation. No deity required.
Pray all you like, but yes, unity. Harmony.

Mark just doesn’t seem to get it.

Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation…What age should you start to see public executions?
– Charlie Kirk
Ask yourself how you feel about televised public executions. Would you show them to your children?

Why aren’t you THIS frustrated and sad when school children are gunned down?
Your adoration for this person is just really mental. Really, this is sickening.

You sure attract all the godless demonic trolls on your page Congressman Mark Alford

Does your Bible not contain the verses about loving thy neighbor?

Hey, Mark, as Trump says about murdered school children…”we have to get over it, we have to move forward.”
Don’t you always listen to and do what he says?

Maybe condemn Trump’s constant vile rhetoric?

Interesting to claim battle for the soul of the nation when your god in the White House has broken every single one of the Ten Commandments, from adultery, to lying, to coveting, to intentionally killing people needlessly. The idea that Charlie Kirk was a saint could only be believed by someone who holds open racist and sexist views. He literally said Black women like Ketanji Brown Jackson, the SCOTUS Justice with more credentials than any other Justice in history, “lack brain power” and that white men should have had those jobs. He said some gun deaths are “necessary” or “acceptable” in order to keep the 2nd Amendment. You are preying on religious fears and raising someone with MANY flaws to undeserved martyr status. This is unacceptable. Go ahead and mourn him, since you share his views, but he is NOT an example of acting like Christ would have wanted.

Mark maybe you should be spending your time working for your constituents instead of glorifying someone who spread hate. I believe you promised Republicans would lower prices but everything is higher than ever and you’re crickets on that subject. You claim you want to unite but post constantly about a divisive topic several times a day.

The message is definitely not getting through, that’s for sure.

You are acting like he was some sort of prophet. He was just a man who spouted opinions, usually hateful and bigoted. But, you’re ready to canonize him.
WHERE IS THE GRIEF WHEN LITTLE SCHOOLCHILDREN ARE MURDERED????
And, by the way…the HATRED AND VIOLENCE IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE….YOUR HOUSE. MAGAs.

Kirk was filled with hate and divisiveness. Start with those that also hated others.

You nazis celebrating a hater that spews division and white supremacy isn’t getting any of you reelected.

The trick is to hide the armbands and modify the salutes. Usually.

Trumps job as President is to unite this country. He even said so after he won.
But he’s doing the opposite.
Trump is trying to do. january 6 against the left. He’s riling up the nut jobs to attack anyone he doesn’t like.
Trump wants a civil war and the cult will oblige

Alford’s last 6 posts have been regarding Charlie Kirk. Congressman, maybe you should spend a little time working for MO-4.

Alford will milk this all week. Wait and see.

And Kirks view that empathy is a made up woke word.
He never really read the Bible did he?

Read what Kirk the “Christian” said about people he did not agree with. The names he called. The implication that black women didn’t have the mental capacity to do the same job as a white man. The things he said about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
“Christians” do not call other people names or put them down.
“Christians” love thy neighbor and do not seek revenge.

yes they do then afterwards they pray……for forgiveness.

Sir, if I want a sermon I will go to my own pastor for guidance. You were not elected to be a spiritual leader, you were elected to uphold the constitution. Please stay in your lane.

Previously:

thoughts & prayers (September 10, 2025)

gaslighting & hagiography (September 12, 2025)

Keeping a civil tongue (September 13, 2025)

Rally Against Truth Decay – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – September 13, 2025 (September 13, 2025)

Rally Against Truth Decay – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – September 13, 2025 – part 2 (September 14, 2025)

Fiddling While The Constitution Burns

07 Sunday Sep 2025

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Is he trying to tell us something?

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Friday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[September 5, 2025]

Hey Missouri, need a passport?
Check out this opportunity to get one at the passport fair!
[….]

There was much hilarity in the responses:

Most Missourians only need a passport or passport card to show to ICE while at work. Of course that only applies to those working while brown. Old white guys like me never get asked for ID.

Yet.

I mean, we’d really just like our sick leave back, since, y’know…WE VOTED FOR IT.

Awesome, now leave!!💯🤡

What is proof of citizenship? I would think your birth certificate is such.

is is, unless you have changed your name, like women who marry and change their last name.

but your current ID should have your correct name on it and would have had to show documents when name change was made. It’s all to put burden on women.

It almost gives women incentive NOT to marry and go through the hassle. I thought Republicans wanted marriages. Women are not going to jump through hoops. It’s easier not to marry…..

I tell young women when they marry to keep their names

How about holding one in every county you represent?

Why not everywhere you represent?

because he doesn’t care

Will they be at reduced cost or free?

No. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

ICE agents will be at the door

“Fuck Ice”

Is this only in St Louis

Apparently, we ALL need passports.

Your papers, please.

my son in law carries his at all times now because he is Latino, speaks fluent Spanish at his job and is scared to death ICE will arrest him for the crime of being Latino

Why not one in your district ? St. Louis is 4 hours away

This seems like a trap…

“ICE is the new Gestapo”

Yea all women in Mo will probably need one to vote because of GOP.

Can we renew our existing at this “fair”? Will there be canapès and cocktails while you wait? Whom is the entertainment? Valet parking?

Why? You can go to the Post Office and apply for a passport. This seems like a trap somehow.

Every woman is going to need one, if you guys get your way. They need to be free!

“Nasty Women Vote!”

if they were free the people they don’t want to vote will get passports

Yeah. Let’s get a far away from fuckawful Alford as possible.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Um, not sure how this will help any of the constituents in YOUR DISTRICT. You really are a daft human. #VoteAlfordOut

Sure, ill drive torn up old I-70 to get to St Louis….how’s that road improvements going? About as well as the exposing the Felons crimes?

Just St. Louis? You might get more self deportations by offering US citizens free if other countries would accept them.

Uh.

Everyone will need a passport to leave the shambles Trump will leave this great country in!!

Do you need a passport while your head is up trumps ass?

The best president of Alford’s lifetime. And it has to be true, because Cult media is stating it [….]

BEWARE: Mark is selling fake passports.

If you had ANY morals you would speak out against Senator’s Schmitt’s racism.

This.

Yes, so we can leave this fascist dictatorship.

Fuck you. This is basically forcing transgender people to out themselves so they’ll be on a government no fly-list. Whos next? Jewish people? Black people? Muslims? People who were born in blue states? People who were born to same sex parents? Why isnt a social security card and a photo ID good enough?

Do you feel we all need to leave from your horrible policy positions?

At least you’re giving people, especially women, a chance to get the fuck out of the country.

We are the granddaughters of the witches you were never able to burn” [2020 file photo]

Mark Alford (r): franked campaign propaganda on our dimes

05 Friday Sep 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

In today’s U.S. Mail, a franked mailing from from Mark Alford (r):

This particular piece doesn’t show up in the House Clerk’s database – yet.

The actual damage:

House Republicans’ tax and budget bill would rip away health care, food, and jobs in every congressional district
Estimated number of losses in health care coverage, people put at risk for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit cuts, and jobs at risk by 119th congressional district

District MO-04
Representative Mark Alford
Party affiliation Republican
Estimated health insurance coverage losses, 2034 23K
Number of people at risk of losing some or all SNAP benefits 19K
Number of jobs put at risk by elimination of clean energy tax credits 170

Despite ‘No Tax on Tips,’ Trump’s Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill Is Bad for Tipped Workers
“No tax on tips” is a symbolic tax break that is very limited and poorly targets the workers who need tax relief the most. Many among the small number of workers who will benefit will also face the bill’s cuts to basic needs programs.
[….]
One of the most–discussed policies in the Republican-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is the “no tax on tips” provision, which eliminates federal income taxes on the first $25,000 of tips earned by workers making less than $150,000 per year ($300,000 for married filers). Despite appearances, this provision will benefit only a small number of workers, and many of those workers will disproportionately suffer financial losses due to the OBBBA’s severe program cuts. The net result is that tipped workers are unlikely to experience significant gains from the OBBBA overall.
[….]
Because most workers who earn tips are relatively low income, “no tax on tips” has raised hopes that the OBBBA will benefit low-income Americans. For instance, analysts at The Budget Lab at Yale find that low-wage workers are several times more likely to receive tips than are high earners. However, tipped workers are vulnerable to other policy changes in the OBBBA that will offset the benefit of the tips deduction.
[….]

The One “Big Beautiful Bill” Provision That Says It All
How the OBBBA Cuts a Tax that Truly Benefits Only the Mega Rich.
[….]
The estate tax is paid for by heirs not by the deceased who are, you know, dead. Those heirs are decidedly not being double taxed as they didn’t earn the money in the first place. On the small business side, there’s perhaps a bit more merit. But, the typical small business is nowhere near large enough to be affected by an estate tax, even with the smaller $5 million exemption. In my own calculations using the Survey of Consumer Finances, the median self-employed person has a household net worth of about $460,000. One has to look above the 88th percentile to find self-employed people with household net worths above the $5 million exemption. Plus, the individual exemption is doubled for couples to $10 million, moving the number to the 93rd percentilefor affected businesses with a married couple involved, as many are. The OBBBA pushes those numbers to the 96th percentile for an individual and the 99th percentile for a couple. Most small businesses wouldn’t be affected by the estate tax with or without the OBBBA.
[….]
Indeed, the OBBBA is part of a long-term trend of weakening the estate tax so that even most very, very rich people in the U.S. are not affected by the tax at all.
[….]

I Wish Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Was the Solution to America’s Child Care Crisis. It’s Not.
Beware the ‘momwashing’ provisions.
[….]
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. This expanded tax credit ups the percentage that working parents can get back on child care expenses. Good on its face, sure, but it’s a superficial bone to throw. Parents have always been able to claim a certain percentage of child care expenses up to a certain amount. Now they can claim a slightly higher percentage of child care expenses up to a certain amount. That certain amount is $3,000 for one child and $6,000 for two or more. The percentage that could be claimed prior to the OBBB expansion ranged from 34% for families right on the poverty line ($30,000-$34,000 household income) to 20% for families bringing in over $206,000 per year. With the new bill, parents in the former bracket (right on the poverty line) can claim up to 49% of that allowed amount, with families making more than $34,000, but still below $206,000, getting a little boost on a sliding scale based on income bracket.

But let’s be clear, here: These are tax credits. Tax credits still require parents to pay up front for child care and then wait to recoup that break when they file their tax return. Not a single state can claim an average cost of accredited child care anywhere near the price tag of $3,000 per child annually so there’s a good chance most families are still paying beyond what they could claim. What’s more, both parents need to be working (or actively looking for work) in order to get the benefit.

Best case scenario: A family with a combined working income of $34,000, paying $6,000 for their two kids for the entire year (10% of their income) and filing everything perfectly when tax season rolls around, could now expect to get back $2,940 instead of $2040. $900 more. It is simply not realistic, in practice, and will barely dent the growing financial pressure on families that need the break the most.
[….]

Mark Alford (r) sent his constituents a pile of bullshit. We paid for it…and we’ll continue to do so.

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Mark Alford (r) – another own goal

29 Friday Aug 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[August 29, 2025]
May not always agree, but I’ll always listen.
[….]

Is somebody going to tell him?

As always, there is much hilarity in some of the comments:

You dont agree we are a nation of no kings? You shouldn’t be elected if you dont understand the constitution

the first founding principle: NO KINGS

saying may not always agree while posting a picture of a sign that says no kings in america is kinda wild.

“May not always agree”… On No Kings?!
Are you seriously telling us you are a traitor to our Constitutional republic and want a king!?
Yikes.

What part of “No Kings in America” do you not agree with?

“No King”

You don’t agree with No Kings? That’s weird. At least you’re honest about it… I guess. 🙄

From the photo, it looks like you’re talking, not listening.

You may listen yet you do not hear. Your constituents are demanding that you represent them not the agenda of your demigod. I agree with the gentleman the other day. You need to read the Constitution then follow the oath you took.

You listen, but do you hear – only as long as it follows the 🍊🎪🤡 agenda!!!

You may listen, but you always do as you are TOLD. That makes you pathetic.

That’s an odd picture to post insinuating you disagree with it.

Only thing you listen to is the orders your orange god gives

Listening is worthless if you ignore what people say!

But you can’t hear the words when your ears are covered by butt cheeks.

Congressman Mark Alford, You don’t have any solutions. Listening to us feels like we are talking to a brick wall. You act like you’ve never heard of the biggest issues facing your constituents, you have no answers or even a timeframe to provide answers. What a joke.

Seriously, this is what we don’t agree on. No Kings!! You have missed some history and civics classes.

“No Kings…”

Yeah and do you believe we should have a King in the USA?
HELL NO!!!

Really who are you listening to. Yeah your leader not the people who gave you the job Wake up America these people are not working for your best interest only taking orders from the man who wants to be your dictator

You say you will listen. But you don’t hear and act on what the poor people that voted for you, all the people you represent are saying. Amazing how you actually believe the BS you and your PAL spew.

You’ll always agree with your fascist daddy.

For the Epsteinth time, No Pedos, No Dictator

Trump is a wanna be dictator. You are enabling him.
Disagree all you want but that’s a fact.

You may “listen” but you don’t HEAR us. Where are the Epstein Files? How can you support a dictator? How can you stand idly by while military forces are being deployed on American soil – to combat false claims? I agree with others, if all you are going to do is say what this administration tells you to, you need to go back to reading the news. Less people are hurt that way.

That is bull. You won’t listen or respond. All you do is grab photo ops and bend a knee to your leader 🙄 stop trying to convince people you care when you won’t actually listen to us, your constituents.

Read the review in the Missouri Independent of your Harrisburg Town Hall. Over one hundred constituents and only two spoke in favor? Mark, Are you reading the Town Hall rooms? Trump’s endorsement might hurt more than help! You heard the boos when you stated,(Trump) has “the best interest at heart!” Your constituents aren’t coming to your Town Halls to hear your lies, but to tell you they aren’t believing them!

It’s hilarious that your are standing in front of a “No Kings” sign and say “we may not always agree”. I get it, you want to rub it in your contituents faces that you don’t really care about them you just serve your orange master because that’s what serves your interests. You may thing you are superior to other Reps who refuse to have town halls but it’s probably because you think you have better skills (ego) than they to handle your peeps. They’re turning on your support of failed policies. Time to reflect Markkk.

you don’t agree with the fact trump is trying to act like a dictator? I doubt you disagree, you’re just playing politics. that’s why we are disappointed in you.

But will you CONSIDER the ISSUES that your constituents who are being adversely affected by Trump policies are presenting? Will you work for a reasonable solution or compromise??

Too late for that, eh Mark?

LOL, this man isn’t going to consider anything. Alford has made it very clear what he thinks, and it’s nothing good for Missouri or the 4th. His votes in Congress prove that. He is 100% trump and the GOP white nationalist agenda.

Compromise is a dirty word in the Republican Party. What trump wants, the Republicans give. They are afraid of being primaried by trump. They should be more afraid of their constituents if they want to keep their jobs!

Hard to listen to people when you got your head up trumps ass.

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

You can’t even sign off on “No Kings” as a sentiment….You are a MAGAt weakling and you wouldn’t even listen at your own town hall, everyone is sick of your lies. [….]

Bullshit!
You just screamed at one of your constituents in your last town hall!!!
“ Do you have something to yell at me about?”
5’4” of pure shit 💩
You don’t represent anyone but the big orange turd in the White House!!
Asshat

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

It does absolutely NO GOOD to contact you. I’ve e-mailed, left voice mails and comments on your FB posts. All go unanswered. Your staff is as worthless as you are. Do we pay them? They all need to be fired, just like you do.

Take a look at Alford’s required government filings. Some of his staff are pulling down multiple six figures in salary.

I have. It’s ridiculous. They don’t even answer the phone. I’ve gone by the local office too. No one was there. What do they do? So frustrating.

Our tax dollars are paying for a new Alford office in Columbia – yet people claim no one is ever there, and he did not hold a “town hall” in Columbia, people had to drive 30 min from Columbia to get to the nearest “town hall”. Why are tax dollars being wasted like this when Medicaid and SNAP are being drastically cut?

You don’t listen, you wait for your chance to lie.
Maga is a cancer on America.

“Why did you come here if you don’t want to hear my lies”. I’ll take things a magat traitor would say for $200 Alex.

“Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars”
(2025)
Posterboard. Permanent marker, acrylic. 22 x 28.

“No Kings”

Our time, in one short sentence

26 Tuesday Aug 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [February 2025 file photo]

“….You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass and start doing your, your representation of us….” – 4th Congressional District constituent to Mark Alford (r) in Bolivar, Missouri, August 25, 2025.

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

Low expectations

23 Saturday Aug 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Congressman Mark Alford
[August 22, 2025]
See you SOON! Join us at one of our 15 stops next week as we hit the road in MO-04.
[….]

They’re skeptical in the responses:

Will you be wearing your knee pads that you use for Donnie two dolls?

And a whopping 40 minutes in Camdenton? Just long enough that you can yammer on about how great we’re doing, then cut and run cuz there’s no time for questions.

That appears to be his plan for every one of these so-called “town halls”

I noticed that.

then we need to stand up tell him we are here to have our questions answered and for him to shut up and answer our questions. We do not want to hear his speach

Can we go to just boo him.

absolutely!!

yess!!! Let’s do it

So, who’s going to Bolivar to boo Alford?

No Webster county specifically Marshfield

Don’t blink or you will miss Mark at his 20 minutes stop and go restaurant/truck stop tours. But he will reap the $$ for his government paid mileage.

Only two in the evenings. All others during the day when working folks who NEED to question you…ARE AT WORK.

Get ready to answer to the tariffs that congress never voted on (and why not?).

40% of births, in Missouri, are paid for by Medicaid….
[….]

What happened to the Nevada stop on Monday 8/25 at noon? Was it cancelled?

I have no answer but noticed too. Congressman Mark Alford will you be in Nevada? Like anyone would answer. 😂 Come to Rich Hill.

Friday Aug. 29- Back in DC licking wounds and getting resume in order!

Wish you’d come to Sedalia.

“Nope”

Why did you cancel Nevada since your first posted schedule? And can you not count to 14?

No Jackson County stops. Shame on you. Alford out in 26

to chicken shit to come here Just another fux news talking head

he’s not your representative. Lol.

The Bates City location is not very far from Blue Springs. I-70 mile marker 30. And he hasn’t posted another event right after that one. He should have the whole afternoon to listen to his constituents’ thoughts on his job performance.

He represents a large part of Jackson County and I am a Jackson County residence so he in fact does.

Part of Jackson County is in the 4th Congressional District.

Someone please ask Alford where his concern for teens overdosing on fentanyl went. He voted to end the free narcan programs.

I will go to loudly associate Mark with the fascist takeover of America.

Gag🤮🤡

Why did you cancel Nevada on Monday?

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Belton, Missouri

20 Wednesday Aug 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Yesterday afternoon:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Congressman Mark Alford is an America First Patriot, who is doing a fantastic job representing Missouri’s 4th Congressional District!

Mark worked for 35 years as a local News Anchor, and his coverage was Honest and Fair, unlike the Corrupt Fake News, which continues to divide and destroy our Great Country. In Congress, Mark is working hard to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Advance American Energy DOMINANCE by helping to keep the price of Gasoline, Oil, and all forms of Energy VERY LOW, Continue to Secure our now Secure Border, Support our Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.

Mark Alford has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!

2.46k ReTruths 11.3k Likes Aug 19, 2025, 3:06 PM

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

Probably should have asked the folks in Belton, Missouri about that.

Previously:

Mark Alford (r) – coffee with constituents – Belton, Missouri – February 24, 2025 – hot water (February 24, 2025)

Mark Alford (r) – coffee with constituents – Belton, Missouri – February 24, 2025 – hot water – part 2 (February 24, 2025)

Self-important snowflake is apparently afraid of listening to his constituents. (February 25, 2025)

Mark Alford (r) – “Oh, the humanity!” (February 25, 2025)

About January 6th….

12 Tuesday Aug 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[August 11, 2025]

🚨 @POTUS IS SECURING THE SAFETY AND PEACEFUL FUNCTIONING OF OUR NATION’S CAPITAL:
[….]

There was much hilarity in the responses:

Starting to look a lot like CHINA – turning the troops on the CITIZENS. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Washington DC, District of Corruption with DjT is in office. Supporters of pedophiles are not right

Remember Jan 6? We do.

One must really wonder what’s in those files…
[….]

Is this why the White House removed the Habeas Corpus section of the Constitution on their website site last week?

How did he suddenly discover he can call out the national guard? Because he said he couldn’t on Jan 6. When there were actual terrorists trashing the capital and assaulting capital police. Curious.

One of the very first things he did was pardon the J6 rioters who assaulted police. Now he has one of them working in the Justice Dept. He himself has 34 felony convictions. I think I see a way to make a dramatic difference in reducing the influence of the criminal element in DC.

sounds like something Hitler would have done

Really, Mark. When are we gonna see the Epstein Files?

I wouldn’t believe any fact sheet issued out of this Whitehouse

Dictator move.

But it runs rampant in the white house.

Why didn’t he do that on Jan 6?

Fact: Violent crime in DC has fallen by 52% in the last 2 years and is currently at a 30 year low.
[….]

Did you visit Epstein’s island?
We can not be sure who was involved until it is public.
Any officials who want to prove their innocence ought to push for the release of these files, otherwise, we shall always be suspicious that they might also be rapists.

The irony of a 34x felon claiming to restore law and order. This administration is a joke.

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

Following dear leader felon all the way.
The distractor-in-chief.

The amount of people giddy about the guard taking over our streets is alarming. Ever been to DC? Likely not. Ever been to a 3rd world country or communist country where their military walks the streets, airports, etc? Likely not either. Know history? Def not. My God.

DC’s crime rate is lower than it’s been in decades. What’s the real reason he’s calling out the National Guard?

To put this in real life isn’t this just like taking homeless people off the streets of KC and putting them in blue springs in tents and bragging how much this makes KC look better. Does nothing to handle our veterans with PTSD that are on the streets or kids thrown out when they turn 18 or the mental health problems,plus it pissed off magats in blue springs cuz you moved them there. A righteous man once said that that you do for the least of your brothers so you do for me,please sir dont pat yourself on the back to hard are you might knock yourself over.

This is about punishing political opponents, there is no world in which this is about law & order (January 6th, we will never forget, never forgive)

He’s militarizing against US citizens. He is creating a dictator state. This is not about “restoring” anything; this is about power and narcissism.

Crime in DC is down 26 percent from last year, but OK.

DICTATOR WANNABE POWER GRAB😡

What about all of the sex traffickers and pedophiles in the Epstein files? When is the safety of our underage girls and women going to be secured by locking up all those rich pedos that Trump is friends with??

Bullshit. You are are dumbass….or worse.

Law and order from a 34 time criminal FELON and sexual abuser???

MAGA are the criminals in DC. It’s abundantly clear.

This is AUTHORITARIANISM! Crime in Washington DC is at a 30 year low and You are supporting this illegal takeover of our nation’s capitol! What happened to supporting freedom, supporting the Constitution, and supporting the rule of law??? We did not vote you into office to do this!!

Mark, you’re on the wrong side of history. Fascist and pedophile protector.

GOP = guardians of pedophiles

Anything to take the Epstein stink off of Trump.

Release the Epstein files

So why not spend the $200,000,000 that is going towards a tacky White House ballroom and create housing for the homeless instead?

Do you ever get tired of lying? Or have you done it so long in your Fox years that you have just sold your soul to it?

Did Not-See this coming.
Those Epstein files must really implicate Trump as a pedophile.

Amazing that crime is down over 23% in DC. This is just Trump try to test dictatorial rule.

Fun fact: crime is down 24% in DC. Trump is just looking for an excuse to disperse armed military on every street like third world countries do. He wants to stop protesting and first amendment rights.

From car jackings?????
Isn’t that what cops are for?????
You’re a goddamned moron!

So, no national guard on January 6th, but definitely on August 11th. Makes total sense.
[….]

It’s more nazi bullshit

How do you spin this one Alford? The felon says he is going to federalize the police and then the FBI comes in and says it is already on pace to be the lowest ever. Do you really think people are this stupid?
[….]

Yes. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

Do you have any real work to do besides posting lies about how great your cult leader is?
What have YOU done for Missouri??
And BTW, how about those Epstein files???

All-caps doesn’t make the rolling out of military personnel without, say, an insurrection any more valid.

Hmmm. This makes me curious. January 6th Trump supporters in the Capitol. 5 law enforcement officers DEAD and many more injured. And then Trump PARDONED the people who took part that day. 34 guilty verdicts, etc. And he’s the one who is going to end crime? Makes me wonder whose side you are really on. Back the blue and the law, Congressman Mark Alford.

Militarizing our nation’s capital is the behavior of dictators, not leaders in a democracy. Using armed force against your own people is an admission of failure, a betrayal of our values, and a threat to every American’s freedom.

Will US troops be ordered to shoot Americans? What city will be next?
This should scare the shit out of every American

Another distraction
[….]

Gaslighting, because he can

04 Monday Aug 2025

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Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[August 4, 2025]
OBBB = making sure YOUR money stays YOURS!
[….]

Some of the responses:

I love these comments for you lmao
The tides are turning, friend. Jump ship!

Wow,everyone will be able to afford a billion dollar plane and a new golf course in Scotland, let them eat cake

We like pie.

Mark is empty. Just another bobblehead.

…but the fine print says….

Shhhh. You’ll upset the Fascist cult.

No thanks. I’ll take democracy

Of course they’re breaking rules. If they played fairly, they would NEVER win at anything and Trump would be in prison, where he should be.

A sham.

Show us the FINE PRINT, Mark.

None of that is true. Apparently you didn’t actually read it before you voted.

Oops. You forgot to subtract the tariff tax from more money . Net LESS money for us regular folks.

Publish the entire truth!

I don’t get tips or overtime but I still get to pay more for most things I purchase from food to my daughter’s dance uniforms thanks to the ever changing tariffs. Can you do something about those, Congressman Mark Alford ?

If more money is going into our so called pockets, why do we have to go through the IRS for it?

because he doesn’t know the difference between truths and lies

You literally made tax cuts for billionaires permanent and the other provisions only for a couple years.

We’re not stupid Alford. Publish the truth.

So what you’re saying is that you didn’t read the bill you voted for.

Read the fine print baby trump, it’s not like you’re pretending it is.

Mark you should have stuck to being a tv personality.

All of WHICH ARE Bullshit! No Taxes on tips gets capped after a certain amount AND they expire in 2028. Tax breaks for the rich are permanent.
No tax on overtime. ALSO CAPPED! ALSO Expires in 2028. Again, the tax breaks for rich folks….permanent!

Oh great, you’ll keep more money to help pay for the increased costs due to Trump’s tariffs and the subsequent inflation that follows. So much winning!

Save a few hundred on tax on tips and overtime but no healthcare….. But a new gaudy plane and ballroom… What an idiot

So folks number one read the fine print. Number two who works so much overtime that they need to worry about that. If you have to work more than forty hours your not getting paid enough. But by all means read the fine print.. and shall we talk about the tariff taxes. That will hit all of you. It hurts the worker bees the hardest. Do your own research don’t take my word on it.. if you think the the importer pays for it. No they don’t. If you think the corporations will take the hit think again . Just get you facts.

Not for me Mark Alford. Lies, lies, lies. You and this administration are an embarrassment. Because of what the Republican has done I losing more money from paycheck and it is going to the pockets of Billionaires. Thanks a lot. You need to be recalled and voted out. Shame on you Mark Alford. You and the Republicans just don’t care

More money to pay those pesky tariffs!

Tariffs will be the largest tax increase in American history.

Tax cuts for billionaires and take away Medicaid for children and the elderly. How can you be proud of that Mark?

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Do you really think we are this stupid? Don’t insult our intelligence. You are a real ass for posting this nonsense.

That’s bullshit.

More money for the rich and more expenses on us paying extra for the tariffs! $2,400 – $3,400 per year. Such winning! US going to 💩
Republicans are gerrymanding this country into an authoritarian banana republic!

Tips up to $2500 ?
You misleading fuksticks

I honestly don’t know how you and your supporters live with yourselves with all of the hateful things you think are ‘so wonderful’ for us…sad

More money funneled to the billionaire class to protect the child molester in Chief. Shame on the GOP!

When are we getting our $100 plus per prescription rebate checks?

1500%.

We are still taxed on it! Stop gaslighting

Liar. Liar. May your pants catch on fire.

Why are people OK with getting less for their tax dollars now? Do people consider themselves waste, fraud or abuse? And now, you are on your own after devastating storms as well. 6 months ago you would have been covered by FEMA. Now, your taxes are the same, but you get no assistance. They claim they are cutting fraud, where’s the proof? And all 17 million Americans who will lose their healthcare are all frauds? It doesn’t sound right, because it isn’t right.

And yet, billionaires cannot lose one penny of income. Ever.

Mark thinks we’re all stupid. Your claims are bogus.

You are lying again

Has anyone had the misfortune of going grocery shopping recently? Prices are higher now than ever before. And experts are saying it’s only going to get worse. But be at ease, the billionaires are going to be alright thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill (that screws over the rest of us.)

I have and had to leave stuff on the shelf that I used to buy because it no longer fits in the budget. No tax on tips and overtime? It’s a deduction! IF a person can’t itemize then the deduction doesn’t apply to them. Congressman Mark Alford doesn’t want his constituents to know the real truth, but they’ll find out when they file their taxes. The $6,000 deduction on SS benefits will not be a deduction we can claim because we can’t itemize.

Not really. They would have to itemize deductions to get those, and anyone with half a brain knows they dont make enough money to itemize. You’re good at passing on the lies like trump, though

The “no tax on tips” will expire in 2 years. The huge tax cuts for billionaires does not end in 2 years.
Trump’s tax cuts on billionaires will cost 4 trillion dollars added to the deficit.

Thank you for filling in the blanks, [….]. Mark loves to leave out the details.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

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