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Schadenfreude is a dish best eaten cold

11 Friday Dec 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Donald Trump, election, Joe Biden, order, republicans, schadenfreude, social media, Twitter, U.S. Supreme Court

Tonight:

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT
At the White House Christmas Party, guests were informed about 10 minutes ago that the president won’t be joining them to make remarks.
7:33 PM · Dec 11, 2020

Claire McCaskill (D) [2012 file photo].

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
On the edge of my seat waiting for Republican elected officials to congratulate President elect Biden. Right now. No excuse left.
6:04 PM · Dec 11, 2020

Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi
The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this unlawful & undemocratic GOP lawsuit have brought dishonor to the House and must once and for all end their election subversion – immediately.
[….]
8:18 PM · Dec 11, 2020

pourmecoffee @pourmecoffee
The grifters will have moved on to civil war prepper supplies by tomorrow morning.
8:37 PM · Dec 11, 2020

With a markup for the brand.

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

Previously:

Uh, the job description says Missouri (December 9, 2020)

A party in disarray (December 10, 2020)

Right wingnuts throw shit against the wall to see if it sticks (December 10, 2020)

Right wingnuts throw shit against the wall to see if it sticks – Washington, D.C. edition (December 10, 2020)

Amicus this (December 11, 2020)

Comparative statistics

04 Friday Dec 2020

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alternate realities, media criticism, republicans, statistics

It all makes sense.

“Concept stolen from somone on the Internets.”

If you’re easily duped, old media, or a true believer.

They’ve already told us what they are, now they’re just haggling over the cost

01 Thursday Oct 2020

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Donald Trump, missouri, republicans, signs

In west Central Missouri:

Everyone is paying.

Campaign Finance: line ’em up

25 Friday Oct 2019

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missouri State Senate, republicans

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, for the republicans in the Missouri Senate:

C071094 10/25/2019 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Cigna 900 Cottage Grove Road Bloomfield CT 06002 10/24/2019 $10,000.00

C071094 10/25/2019 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Cheyenne International LLC 701 South Battleground Ave Grover NC 28073 10/24/2019 $10,000.00

C071094 10/25/2019 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE AGC of MO PAC 6330 Knox Industrial Dr St Louis MO 63139 10/24/2019 $10,000.00

C071094 10/25/2019 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Grow Missouri 308 E High St Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 10/24/2019 $10,000.00

C071094 10/25/2019 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE HCA Missouri Good Government Fund PO Box 305 Jefferson City MO 65102 10/24/2019 $10,000.00

C071094 10/25/2019 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Anheuser Busch Companies One Busch Place St Louis MO 63118 10/24/2019 $25,000.00

C071094 10/25/2019 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE AT&T One AT&T Center St Louis MO 63101 10/24/2019 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

$100,000.00 right there. Isn’t that special?

Campaign Finance: “Do you like subpoena coladas and getting caught in Ukraine?”

10 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, social media

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campaign finance, corruption, Donald Trump, FEC, impeachment, Lev Parnas, missouri, republicans, Russia, social media, Twitter

Well, well, well.

Marshall Cohen @MarshallCohen
BREAKING: The FBI and federal prosecutors in NYC are scrutinizing Rudy Giuliani’s financial dealings with the two men charged today. The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, are charged with pumping Russian money into US political campaigns. (reporting from @evanperez @ShimonPro)
3:40 PM · Oct 10, 2019

Jason Hancock @J_Hancock
Global Energy Producers, which allegedly was used to illegally funnel foreign money to political campaigns, last year gave $325,000 to the Trump super PAC America First Action.

That PAC spent $1.7 million in 2018 opposing @clairecmc in Missouri.
[…]
1:46 PM · Oct 10, 2019

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Missouri republicans!

Via the Federal Election Commission:

PARNAS, LEV GREAT AMERICA COMMITTEE FL LOAN CRIME INVESTIGATIVE GROUP 06/29/2018 $5,000.00

PARNAS, LEV KEVIN MCCARTHY FOR CONGRESS FL LOAN CRIME INVESTIGATIVE GROUP 06/29/2018 $2,700.00

PARNAS, LEV PROTECT THE HOUSE FL LOAN CRIME INVESTIGATIVE GROUP 06/29/2018 $11,000.00

PARNAS, LEV NRCC FL LOAN CRIME INVESTIGATIVE GROUP 06/29/2018 $3,300.00

PARNAS, LEV MR. PETE SESSIONS FOR CONGRESS FL GLOBAL ENERGY PRODUCERS 06/25/2018 $2,700.00

PARNAS, LEV NRCC NY GLOBAL ENERGY PRODUCERS 06/06/2018 $500.00

PARNAS, LEV NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/27/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA – FEDERAL FL CO-FOUNDER AND CEO 10/27/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/27/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/27/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN PARTY FEDERAL ELECTION ACCOUNT FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/27/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV CONNECTICUT REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/27/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV WYOMING REPUBLICAN PARTY, INC. FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV REPUBLICAN FEDERAL COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA FL FRAUD GUARENTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY FEDERAL ACCT FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV MISSOURI REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE-FEDERAL FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC. FL INFORMATION REQUESTED 10/24/2016 $2,700.00

PARNAS, LEV NY REPUBLICAN FEDERAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA INC FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV WEST VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN PARTY, INC. FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV REPUBLICAN PARTY OF LOUISIANA FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV TRUMP VICTORY FL FRAUD GAURANTEE 10/24/2016 $50,000.00

PARNAS, LEV KANSAS REPUBLICAN PARTY FL FRAUD GUARANTEE 10/24/2016 $661.90

PARNAS, LEV REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE FL INFORMATION REQUESTED PER BEST EFFORTS 10/24/2016 $33,400.00

Contributor information
Name PARNAS, LEV
City and state BOCA RATON, FL, 334334889
Occupation CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
Employer FRAUD GUARANTEE
Year to date $661.90
Contribution information
Amount $661.90
Receipt date October 24, 2016
Report year 2016
Memo JFC TRANSFER – TRUMP VICTORY
Reported on Form 3X on line 12
Election type PRIMARY
Recipient information
Committee MISSOURI REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE-FEDERAL
Political party REPUBLICAN PARTY
Type Party – Qualified
State Missouri

You think they’ll give the money back? Just asking.

Tick-tock, tick-tock.

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

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (September 24, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) – “Tell your people to obey the law.” (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: the smell of fear (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: It became self aware at 6:24 a.m., September 26, 2019… (September 26, 2019)

Impeachment: NPR/PBS NewsHour Marist Poll – September 25, 2019 (September 26, 2019)

Flop sweat (September 27, 2019)

Impeachment: this morning’s “Executive Time” (September 28, 2019)

Impeachment: unhinged (September 29, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is living rent free inside of Donald Trump’s (r) head (September 29, 2019)

Going 0-2 (September 30, 2019)

Impeachment: almost too stupid to remember to breathe (October 1, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is having fun these days (October 1, 2019)

Impeachment: in a panic (October 2, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): clap louder (October 3, 2019)

Impeachment: why we can’t have nice things (October 4, 2019)

Impeachment: “…and getting caught in Ukraine…” (October 5, 2019)

Sen. Roy Blunt (r): see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing (October 6, 2019)

Impeachment: Putin’s Puppet (October 7, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): well, that was a turkey (October 7, 2019)

Impeachment: Not very bright, is he? (October 9, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Benghazi! (October 9, 2019)

“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag. – Kansas City, Missouri – November 8, 2018.

Campaign Finance: why nothing will change

04 Sunday Aug 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, HRCC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, republicans

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C091068 08/04/2019 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc HCA Missouri Good Government Fund 101 E. High St. P.O. Box 305 Jefferson City MO 65102 8/3/2019 $10,000.00

C091068 08/04/2019 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc CFM Insurance, Inc. P.O. Box 968 Concordia MO 64020
8/3/2019 $15,000.00

C091068 08/04/2019 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Dealers Interested in Government P.O. Box 245 Jefferson City MO 65102 8/3/2019 $15,000.00

C091068 08/04/2019 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc AGC of MO PAC 6330 Knox Industrial Dr. Saint Louis MO 63139 8/3/2019 $10,000.00

C091068 08/04/2019 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc MOSFA PAC INC 121 Madison St. Jefferson City MO 65101 8/3/2019 $10,000.00

C091068 08/04/2019 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc FEAPAC of Missouri 7340 W. Memorial Oklahoma City OK 73142 8/3/2019 $10,000.00

Stoopit is as stoopit does

10 Wednesday Apr 2019

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assholes, Georgia, harassment, Lucy McBath, NRCC, republicans, social media, Twitter

This morning from the NRCC:

NRCC @NRCC
.@lucymcbath says she lives in #GA06, so why did she sign for a package at 10:30AM on a workday at her home in Tennessee?
[….]
9:02 AM – 10 Apr 2019

Ladies and gentlemen, your republican party in the 21st Century.

Some of the responses:

It says “M. McBath,” you freaking morons.

Maybe it’s L. LcBath.

It says M. McBath you illiterate fascists.

Obvious to anyone except the single-digit IQ mouth breathers who take anything the NRCC says at face value.

This is so embarrassing for the NRCC lmao

Nothing ever embarrasses Fascists.

Omg that’s Lucy LcBath’s sig right there. Swish, baby!

She just said her elderly mother-in-law signed for it and you sent it to her mother-in-law’s address. That’s just low of you

As if the NRCC cares?

Man taking down those Delocrats is gonna be so hard for you.

This is just pathetic.

Reading is fundamental. It was signed by M. McBath.

Your attempt at a gotcha backfired. Someone should lose their jobs over this hatchet job, but it’s the GOP doing GOP thinks. #IOKIYAR

It’s a little bit fun to see how much these freshman House Members bother you, but mostly just disgusting.

Hello idiots. That signature says “M McBath”, ie Lucy’s mom. You jackasses mailed a package to Lucy’s mom’s house and are lying about it.

Derp.

Why don’t you leave her mother-in-law alone?

Displaying your fundamental dishonesty once again, I see.

That signature is M. McBath.

What ARE you talking about?

What the hell is wrong with you people?

For starters they voted for Donald Trump (r)? Just spitballing here.

assholes

Well, yeah.

Why are you dumb-asses so fucking aggressively stupid?

God must love them because he made so many of them.

Y’all are idiots

Campaign Finance: as usual

28 Monday Jan 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, republicans

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000953 01/27/2019 MO Republican Party Friends of Robert Cornejo PO Box 346 Saint Peters MO 63376 1/26/2019 $15,000.00

C000953 01/27/2019 MO Republican Party Friends of Caleb Jones 5402 Largo Drive Columbia MO 65203 1/26/2019 $10,000.00

C000953 01/27/2019 MO Republican Party Friends of Diehl 2404 White Stable Road Town and Country MO 63131 1/26/2019 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

They will always have all the money they’ll ever need.

Campaign Finance: they Gerrymandered fair and square

17 Thursday Jan 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, CLEAN Misouri, gerrymandering, initiative, Missouri Ethics Commission, redistricting reform, republicans

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a republican funded initiative to reverse the redistricting reform of CLEAN Missouri overwhelmingly approved by the voters in November:

C180700 01/17/2019 Fair Missouri Republican State Committee PO Box 73 Jefferson City MO 65102 1/17/2019 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Of course, right after the November 2018 general election:

C180700 11/21/2018 Fair Missouri Republican State Committee PO Box 73 Jefferson City MO 65102 11/21/2018 $150,000.00

That is so, you know, grassrootsie. We can’t wait to see the astroturf (fake grassroots) ad campaign.

Previously:

Gerrymander (November 16, 2018)

Gerrymander – illustrated (November 17, 2018)

Campaign Finance: the smell of fear (November 21, 2018)

Campaign Finance: a dream

03 Thursday Jan 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a republican PAC:

C180684 01/02/2019 American Dream PAC Health Systems Inc. PO Box 1559 Sikeston MO 63801 1/2/2019 $25,000.00

C180684 01/02/2019 American Dream PAC Missourians for Responsible & Better Government PO Box 695 Jefferson City MO 65102 1/2/2019 $11,342.13

C180684 01/02/2019 American Dream PAC Missouri Republican Leadership PAC PO Box 144 Jefferson City MO 65102 1/2/2019 $12,631.78

C180684 01/02/2019 American Dream PAC Six PAC PO Box 144 Jefferson City MO 65102 1/2/2019 $16,105.68

[emphasis added]

It’s a new PAC, albeit with old money:

C180684: American Dream Pac
Committee Type: Political Action
Po Box 144
Jefferson City Mo 65102
Established Date: 11/02/2018
[….]
Treasurer
Ron Richard
Po Box 144
Jefferson City Mo 65102
[….]

Ron Richard? Ah, Ron Richard. Term limits.

Dream, nightmare, it depends on perspective…and money.

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