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Selling anything, Eric (r)?

21 Thursday Aug 2025

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

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Just asking.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Today:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[August 21, 2025]
Clapper, Comey, Brennan, & others probably ought to lawyer up.
The Trump admin is exposing their lies and collusion, so it’s no wonder they did everything within their power to try and keep him from winning back the White House.
[….]

There is much hilarity in the responses:

Oh horsepuckey 🙄It’s just another multi-million dollar WASTE of time and taxpayer funds – you know – like BENGHAZI!!! and HER EMAILS!!! 🤣

Saying you have evidence and actually showing it are two different things

Epstein Files Eric

Yap yap yap where are the files

Lawyering up? LOL. Check your six.

Putin’s orders.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Embarrassing

Release the files do something

Oh Eric.

Ha ha are you also in the Epstein Files? Sure seems like it

“Squirrel!”

But yet the Epstein files are missing……

If you support the gerrymandering of Texas, and Missouri, you have no grounds to criticize anyone else who works to win elections.

You’re so funny.

Why isn’t he EXPOSING the Epstein files?!

You and your party have beat that horse to death and provided no facts only conspiracy theories. Here is what I think is a big deal. The fact you are allowing the president to absorb congressional powers. The fact that he continues to violate the constitution, and you talk about Hillary. You cut millions off of or priced them out of health insurance. The spending of this administration is off the charts. The party of financial responsibility my ass. As if all of that wasn’t enough, you continue to protect a pedophile. Disgusting!

Why? False charges and conspiracy theories from the White House that lies 79% of the time. Trump is a vindictive little man going after anyone he thinks wronged him or disagrees with him.

Just release the Epstein files and you will be able to breath easier…

YOU’RE NOT LOOKING WELL, ERIC! LYING MAKES YOU SICK!

You’re so full of shit

Blah, blah, blah. All you Republicans do is promise indictments and you never produce anything because you need proof which you do not have. Quit trying to distract and release the Epstien files!

WTF are you doing for Missouri, fascist?

Oh bullshit! You people are disgusting!

Release the Epstein files

Hey Eric, why do you support a dictatorship?

Quit trying to distract us from the trump-epstein files. Like trump, you are trying your hardest to change history. Just stop! What we would really like you to do is release the trump-epstein files.

You are getting to be a bigger and bigger trump ass kisser every day.we need to dump your ass next election

fuck off ya nazi rat

How is this helping Missourians? Y’all campaigned on releasing the Epstein files, I sure don’t want wealthy pedophiles running around?..

another right wing MAGgAt repeating orange man’s drivel. Sad that tools like Schmitt get elected to any office. You support a felon and attack patriots. What an utter disgrace.

You are completely full of shit.

Eric never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. 🤦 Have you ever done anything to improve the lives of Missourians???

False prosecution is it in itself a crime, senator.

You are such a tool.

I hope you lawyer up. Because some day you are going to have to answer for these lies. You are protecting a pedophile and encouraging racism. Just sick and evil. I have lived through a lot and the cruelty that I am seeing is beyond belief.

You, Eric, are what is embarrassing the state of Missouri. Stop licking the orange 🤡’s ass

Get a load of this magat moron

Bootlicking fascist

BS…..grievances and hatred. That’s all you guys got.

And, yes, the Trump regime IS exposing their lies and corruption…THEIR OWN lies and corruption, right in the open, for all of us to see.
The lies and corruption are coming from within the house…the White House.

Wingnut Welfare

05 Tuesday Aug 2025

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

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“….There are, of course, many forms of wingnut welfare. Book publishing scams are just one of the oldest….”

Eric Schmitt (r) [2024 file photo]

He’s selling a book. Oh, goodie.

Last month:

Eric Schmitt
[July 11, 2025]
[….]
For too long, the Right played defense while the Left weaponized our legal system.

It’s time to fight to win.

THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE is the inside story of how we beat the Left in court before—and how we can do it again.

Available for preorder now: [….]

Under Biden, the Left used the executive branch to build a powerful lawfare machine.

Trump won. But the Left’s lawfare continues. Activist groups and far-left judges are wielding our courts like a political weapon, twisting the law to undermine the will of the American people.

As Attorney General of Missouri, I went on offense again Biden—and won.

We blocked his vax mandates, forced him to enforce the Remain in Mexico policy (for a while), killed his student loan bailout scheme, exposed his censorship regime, liberated a million people from forced masking and countless more examples.

We didn’t win these fights by playing by the old conservative playbook. We won by throwing it out and starting over.

THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE is all about the new blueprint we wrote—and how it can help us defeat the Left in the fights to come.

Left-wing lawfare remains one of the chief fights of our time. I wrote this book because our side needs a manual to beat it.

On shelves August 19.
[….]

“…We blocked his vax mandates…” “…liberated a million people from forced masking…”

Yeah, we remember:

A simple request (December 9, 2021)

We get a response (December 14, 2021)

We’re still waiting… (December 31, 2021)

There’s much more to follow (January 6, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 1 (January 6, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 2 (January 7, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 3 (January 8, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – clown (January 8, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 4 (January 8, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Get In Good Trouble (January 9, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 5 (January 9, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – One Is The Loneliest Number (January 9, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Photo Evidence (January 10, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 6 (January 10, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 7 (January 11, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Generations (January 12, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 8 (January 13, 2022)

Elect a clown, expect a circus:

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s (r) anti-mask public school complaint email address: illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov

Grifters gotta grift.

Laughter

21 Sunday May 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate

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Fascist pig, Grifter, insurrectionist, Josh Hawley, pearl clutcher, right wingnut, scold, seditionist, social media, Virginia, wingnut welfare

Three stars, maybe less.

This evening:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Manhood keeps going strong – and the libs are having crying fits. Order your copy here
[….]
5:57 PM · May 21, 2023

A few of the reviews:

A seditous conspiratorial chicken

Josh Hawley should be writing about his current life as a seditious conspirator supporting the insurrection against our electoral form of governmentand, making him an enemy of our democracy, not attempting to preach about manhood, a topic that is beyond his scope of understanding. Watch Josh Hawley running through the corridors of our Capital after encouraging the seditious terrorists who violently attacked that building on Jan. 6, 2021, brutally assaulting police officers and causing the death of one, breaking doors and windows, defecating in halls and offices, carrying a Confederate flag through the hallowed chambers, and explicitly threatening and seeking to hang elected politicians including Mike Pence, our Vice President at the time, and setting up a gallows outside the building. Mr. Hawley has no business preaching about manhood, religious ideology or societal values.
47 people found this helpful

Will put hair on your chest hair.

This book is so manly that it’s hard to hold. Strangely, as soon as I opened it up I started craving nuts. Beer nuts, truck nuts, lug nuts, every kind of nut except zagnuts. Almost right away it got easier to suppress my emotions and grunt. I starting eating Manwiches for lunch every day. By chapter 4 my chest hair was growing it’s own hair. Speaking of hair, reading this book made me throw out all my hair care products and start buying aftershave at Rite-Aid. Thanks to Josh Hawley’s ghostwriter I’ve been freed from trying to out-groom my ex-wife’s lawyer. He’s such a Beta. Why is he always at our house?
Anyway by the middle of this amazing book you’ll be so manly you won’t even need to read the rest, you’ll just KNOW what it says. Of course I’m no quitter so I’m still planning on finishing it. In my new larger truck I Flex-taped a small gunrack to my dash bored to hold this book open while I drive. I’m on my way to pick up a George Foreman grill right now. Read this boo
59 people found this helpful

Hubris

Once again Josh Hawley demonstrates his unique brand of narcissism, opportunism, hubris, sexism, misogyny…and the list goes on. He is playing a substantial role in the continuing demise of the Republican Party, and of so-called Christian values.
48 people found this helpful

Life Altering Book!

A tree died for this. Sad.
24 people found this helpful

Ran Good

Josh don’t know much about manhood, but he sure run good.
46 people found this helpful

Come on

I don’t need a manhood lecture from the guy who’s claim to game is running like a girl from a crowd he just tried to act tough for
58 people found this helpful

Oh the Irony!

Next Up: Hawley’s book on quantum mechanics. This book is best compared to the adage “we teach what we need to learn most.”
265 people found this helpful

Bestseller?

Methinks some wealthy fan must have bought a few truckloads to elevate Master Hawley’s book to such a status. Not his Dad, who gets nary a mention.
279 people found this helpful

Awful

Don’t waste your money. Pure drivel.
314 people found this helpful

Masculinity Sponge

Somehow – and I can’t explain it scientifically – this book actually removed testosterone from me, gradually at first, but then at an increased pace until I had to stop reading it. Once I put the book down – all my testosterone seemed to return, though, so all is well, I suppose.

My warning – be careful – the man and his words seem to come from a place where there is an actual masculinity black hole, a vortex, if you will, so lacking in manliness that will remove it from the reader.
339 people found this helpful

Don’t bother

Even for a free copy it is overpriced. Hawley’s sanctimonious instruction of how to beat the most dangerous risk to America—not being manly like him—would be sad if it wasn’t so comical. Arrogance isn’t pretty at the best of times; some times it’s just cringe-worthy.
345 people found this helpful

This book gave me Diphtheria

Can we rate negative stats? Two minutes in not only did I feel like less of a man by being told by a lesser man what being a man is all about. It made want to look up caves on Zillow where I could store my wife-beating clubs and deer carcuses as I return to the neanderthalic hunter-gatherer the Running Man thinks we should be. He should have to pay us for the medical bills we, as males, are going to have to pay when women universally kick our asses for listening to this fake misogynistic coward tell us who we should be.
Zero stars, would burn in the fire pit again.
One person found this helpful

And, some of the responses to Josh Hawley’s (r) post:

No thanks. I only read 5 star books like the bible!

Run away and get a copy right now.
[….]

Sales are that bad eh?

We’re not crying, we’re just rolling our eyes.

Decided to explore a career in fiction, Josh?

I’m not having a crying fit. I’m just not going to buy it.

No one is giving it any thought. We don’t care.

Hard pass, Scooter…

That’s your marketing ploy?..buy my book to make the libs mad?
[….]

Easy marks.

Nobody wants this. Nobody. Not even as a gag gift, although I thought about it.

Oh please. Nobody cares.

Actually, liberals don’t care

Fleecing the Trumpers once again

Lots of laughter and ridicule. No crying that I can see.

It will be in the bargain bin next week.

Why do I care if you are selling books?

Josh Hawley’s primary motivation is to upset liberals.

that’s all he has to offer America.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

HB 39: going after wingnut welfare

05 Sunday Dec 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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HB 39, prefiled by Representative Sara Lampe (D-138), would restrict office holders in Missouri from lobbying for two years after leaving office:

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 39

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE LAMPE.

0326L.02I       D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 105.452, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to elected officials.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 105.452, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 105.452, to read as follows:

105.452. 1. No elected or appointed official or employee of the state or any political subdivision thereof shall:

(1) Act or refrain from acting in any capacity in which he is lawfully empowered to act as such an official or employee by reason of any payment, offer to pay, promise to pay, or receipt of anything of actual pecuniary value paid or payable, or received or receivable, to himself or any third person, including any gift or campaign contribution, made or received in relationship to or as a condition of the performance of an official act, other than compensation to be paid by the state or political subdivision; or

(2) Use confidential information obtained in the course of or by reason of his employment or official capacity in any manner with intent to result in financial gain for himself, his spouse, his dependent child in his custody, or any business with which he is associated;

(3) Disclose confidential information obtained in the course of or by reason of his employment or official capacity in any manner with intent to result in financial gain for himself or any other person;

(4) Favorably act on any matter that is so specifically designed so as to provide a special monetary benefit to such official or his spouse or dependent children, including but not limited to increases in retirement benefits, whether received from the state of Missouri or any third party by reason of such act. For the purposes of this subdivision, “special monetary benefit” means being materially affected in a substantially different manner or degree than the manner or degree in which the public in general will be affected or, if the matter affects only a special class of persons, then affected in a substantially different manner or degree than the manner or degree in which such class will be affected. In all such matters such officials must recuse themselves from acting, except that such official may act on increases in compensation subject to the restrictions of section 13 of article VII of the Missouri Constitution; or

(5) Use his decision-making authority for the purpose of obtaining a financial gain which materially enriches himself, his spouse or dependent children by acting or refraining from acting for the purpose of coercing or extorting from another anything of actual pecuniary value.

2. No elected or appointed official or employee of any political subdivision shall offer, promote, or advocate for a political appointment in exchange for anything of value to any political subdivision.

3. No elected official of the state shall register or act as a lobbyist within the two-year period after leaving office.

•

[emphasis in original]

Interestingly, there’s nothing about owning a plane in the bill.

Yeah, good luck getting this bill through a republican owned General Assembly.

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