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11 Monday May 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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In Missouri:

In northwest Missouri.

How it’s going…

Today in Missouri:

This weekend in Iowa:

Who’s in charge?:

Somebody should probably tell him

08 Friday May 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[May 8, 2026]

Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Period.
We will not leave until the Strait of Hormuz is open and that threat is eliminated. That’s how you protect American energy, lower gas prices, and stand up for America’s farmers and small businesses.
The pressure is building, & the American people expect results…⏰
[….]

In case anyone is keeping score, the Strait of Hormuz was open before Donald Trump started his splendid little war, Iran did not have nuclear weapons (they signed an agreement which Donald Trump ditched), and gas and diesel prices are still going up.

Stating “…We will not leave until the Strait of Hormuz is open and that threat is eliminated…” is a special kind of stupid.

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

Mark, after Donnie is gone, who will be your pick for the next cult leader?

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

It was open before the war and Iran did not have a nuke. It’s a war of choice. Republican choice.

Maybe if we hadn’t illegally gone into IRAN..wouldn’t be an issue.

Mark Alford loves Trump brand koolade and thinks we all should.

The stupid love trump

If Iran is a no-longer a threat…why is the straight not opened? If it was all about Nukes and we blew everything up…why not get out?

We will not get a better deal than the JCPOA. There is no exit strategy and Iran can take the economic pain far longer than poor rural American can. Enjoy your high gas prices. I’ll enjoy my EVs charged from solar panels.

Let’s talk about who tore up the previous agreement 8 years ago.

wrong. They were compliant until trump got jealous of the black man .

The mic drop at the White House Press Association dinner was priceless…

Ah, the Strait was open and the threat was non-existent until Trump fucked everything up. Are you with Trump?

That’s telling him.

How about making Trump get congressional approval like he is required to by law?

Iran holds all the cards, dumbass!

We obliterated their nuclear program a year ago?

Why did Trump unilaterally withdraw from the JCPOA 8 years ago today? All he ever stated publicly was it “was a bad deal” and he fixated on us sending them some cash… That’s it.

He never understood the deal we had, and his loyalists and donors wanted it torn up. Look how much profit the oil companies are making now!

Wait! Back in June 2025 Trump bombed Iran’s Nuclear Reactors. After the bombing, Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio held a press conference.Trump stated that the bombing were a complete success! That the bombing completely obliterated the Nuclear Reactors and that It would take many years before Iran would have the ability to build nuclear weapons! Hegseth also used the term obliterated, claiming that that the Iran capability to produce nuclear weapons was completely destroyed!
So, if Iran’s nuclear weapons capability was completely destroyed last June, then how could Iran possibly have the ability to develop nuclear weapons now?

Because Trump lied???

What I’m Shocked! “The Greatest President of Mark Alford’s lifetime “ lied ?! That just can’t be! I know that Mark has a reasonable explanation for this! As Mark always says “God has a plan “ ! Of course if God’s plan is different from Trump’s plan then God just like the Pope is going to get a lecture from Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio what it means to be a
Christian!

Just another distraction.
Hormuz was open.
There was an agreement about nuclear development.
Time, money, and lives later, we’re now trying to get back to where we were.
Even Saudi Arabia isn’t in the Ballroom Republicans’ corner on this one.

Well Republicans aren’t doing a very good job of it if that’s the goal.

So before the felon started an unnecessary war and ripped up the JCPOA, we had all that.
Brilliant.

[….] the Strait is still not fully open, US forces struck Iranian facilities just yesterday, and the administration is now negotiating a deal that lifts sanctions and releases frozen Iranian funds in exchange for a nuclear moratorium. That’s not eliminating the threat. That’s the Iran deal Dozing Donnie tore up in 2018. Thousands died to get back to where we started. [….]

Hurting due to tariffs and poor foreign relations policies as well.

Thank you Mark Alford for the HIGH Gas Prices

Why do you want to be on the wrong side of history?

No, but Trump can get a $1BB ballroom.

Iran doesn’t need to develop a nuclear weapon to enact economic harm.
Nitwit.

He mean like how tariffs are sending a record number of farmers into bankruptcy?

Our president is senile and controls 5000 nuclear weapons. Who are we to judge anyone?

The Obama negotiated agreement pretty much kept them from getting nuclear weapons. The strait was open gas was reasonable.trumps war hurt consumers, gave a windfall of 20 billion to the oil companies, and mysterious people keep making stock market profits buying or shorting stocks after trump announcements. And we are paying a BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY for war when it could go to Universal health care, childcare, schools, feeding people housing the homeless. Please RESIGN NOW YOU REPRESENT TRUMP NOT MISSOURIANS.

Wasn’t the strait already open and Iran didn’t have a nuclear weapon before this all started? And wasn’t there an agreement in place already for all of this in 2016 that was torn up by the president?

Are these lower gas prices in the room with you???

Heh. Someone won the internets today.

I thought y’all claimed we wiped out their capabilities??

These guys are so stupid it’s pitiful

The Straight your dear leader got closed? The one that WAS open and Rump closed? THAT straight? Man, I thought we were talking about a different straight. My bad.

You sawed off liar, I laugh at the way Republicans are trying to sell oil and gas price gouging as a righteous thing while being a lil coward unwilling to follow your Article I powers to declare a legitimate war. The people who swallow your bullshit are figuring out you’re nothing but a lying hypocrite. 🤥

Even on your own page, people don’t take you seriously. More than twice the number of laugh responses than likes.

Boy! – You are drunk with MAGA kool-aid.

Alford you’re a dumbass.

Oh and Trump and Hegseth killed school aged kids due to their incompetence and frail egos. Again, kick rocks.

It was cool when we had a deal in place and every intelligence organization agreed it was working.
But you stupid chucklefukks thought it would be fun to cancel it.

That’s how you get America into a huge mess with no reasonable conclusion.

Only fools believe this.

Lol, in otherwords, the same deal that trump tore up. What a fucking dumbass idiot

The Obama agreement that dumpy tore up dealt with all of that. Dumbshit!

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

We could have had taco trucks on every corner

04 Monday May 2026

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Instead, today in west central Missouri:

How’s that Trump (r) economy working out for you?

How’s that Iran War working out for you?

01 Friday May 2026

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Donald Trump, gas, Iran War, missouri, oil, War, warmonger

Today in west central Missouri:

Yeah, no.

“Fuck Trump and Fuck You for Voting for Him”

Anything else going on?

27 Monday Apr 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, meta

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gas, Iran, media criticism, meta, missouri, no blood for oil, oil, Trump's War, War

Today in west central Missouri:

“No war with Iran”

Cymbal clapper

20 Monday Apr 2026

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

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4th Congressional District, former newsreader, gas, Iran, Mark Alford, missouri, oil, right wingnut, social media, Squirrel!, sycophant, Trump sycophant, War

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

This past weekend:

Congressman Mark Alford
[April 18, 2026]

Cutting red tape & lowering costs 🇺🇸
House Republicans passed the RED Tape Act this week—ending duplicative reviews that delay projects, raise prices, and hold back American energy & manufacturing.
More efficiency, less bureaucracy.

Anything else going on in the world? Just asking.

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

In short.
The profits of the few should not outweigh the health, safety, and wellbeing of the many.
A Democratic Socialist is not a Marxist Socialist or a Communist. A Democratic Socialist is one who seeks to restrain the self-destructive excesses of capitalism and channel the Government’s use of our tax money into creating opportunities for everyone.
Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically–to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few.
A Democratic Socialist does not want to destroy private corporations, but does want to bring them under greater democratic control. The government could use regulations and tax incentives to encourage companies to act in the public interest and outlaw destructive activities such as exporting jobs to low-wage countries and polluting our environment.

and here’s the Trump administration taking a 10% stake in Intel Corp, with plans to get a stake of Lockheed Martin and who knows what else. Sounds Communist to me. 👍

Sounds like a mafia shakedown to me – no one seems to know where that ‘stake’ is or who’s getting the $$$…

mr. nut job: communism= Marxism= socialism= democrat= lying, killing to take away their money, insurrectionist, on American, not welcome

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is open. No closed. It’s open again, but only partially. I think it’s open, but they fired on a ship trying to cross. Oh no, it’s closed again. I mean totally open without restrictions. Oh wait, never mind. It’s closed again.

sounds just like the whole 🍊🎪 so that the billionaires can play games with the stock market to make more $$$$

You mean when you check to see what possible unintended consequences could happen and then double check to make sure that rash and uninformed decisions don’t create complete chaos and trickle down to economic hardships for the rest of us? Oh, say like since January 2025?

How’s that strait opening you were boasting about yesterday working?

Trumps war of aggression costing a BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY doesn’t that need to stop? It’s a waste of lives, resources and that’s American Universal health care blowing up the middle east. We have the money to improve everyone life,but instead our tax dollars are lining trumps pockets. Trump must be impeached removed and jailed. You should RESIGN NOW IF YOU CANT VOTE TO IMPEACH TRUMP.

Sure, it is much easier to get no-bid contracts for your sons with less oversight and bureaucracy.

So jerkford when will healthcare be affordable

Efficiency needed for expenditures for photo ops.

UNless you are a married woman who wants to vote?

Keep on gaslighting, my friend. The say it always works with maggots.

Something is wrong when Hegseth uses a line from Pulp Fiction as if it were from the Bible. Must have been the drink talking.

#lies
#liar

What about the reviews that prevent this administration from insider trading?

Where’s my Doge check?

Mark doesn’t even have a concept of a plan or a clue.

Is the red tape in the room now 😂 😂 what a freak Mark is.

Gonna be great in December when 10-15 million lose their health insurance. Right after the midterms! 😎

Why not look into who is benefiting from the markets being manipulated on a weekly basis? It’s super easy to track who is buying, selling right before Hormuz is opened, shut. Also, what about those identified in Epstein files? And why isn’t Congress protecting US Constitution and democracy???

“More efficiency, less bureaucracy” is a fine claim, but tell us exactly what is being cut or removed.

Know what else raises prices? The tariffs you cymbal-clapped for.

Heh.

Republicans cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid, $500 billion out of Medicare and took food out of the mouths of babies to give tax cuts to the richest people in our country.
On Tax Day, working families are feeling the impact of their Robin Hood in reverse agenda.

How could you do that with all the photo ops here? Went past your Raymore office today….gave it the 1 finger salute 😁🤡

In other words, unregulated capitalism at its worse. Zero safeguards and no oversight for the health and safety of the consumers. No obligation to produce safe and effective products. Ford Pinto. Thalidomide. DDT. Diazinon. Chlorpyrifos. Lead paint. Leaded Gasoline. Any of those ring a bell in that empty head of yours?
While you are at, just gut the FDIC too. Protect shoddy bank practice.

Translation: more pollution, more product issues, more money for companies.

Speaking of red tape and costs look at all the red tape and costs associated with the Save America Act, primarily for married women who took their spouses last name? Please explain how that’s not creating more red tape and costs?

Also making everyone less safe due to little to no regulation on what kind of toxins are making this country more toxic than it already is. Mark: do you ever read the comments on your posts? I doubt it because there are more laugh reactions than likes on every one of your posts!! I’d sit down and shut up if I were you. 🙄

More like set democracy on fire act. You’re an imbecile and I cannot wait to vote you out.

Mark congratulating himself on removing protections for consumers. Making sure big polluters can rush to their higher pollution levels. He’s making sure environmental dangers aren’t studied. Making sure that drugs go on the market without actually checking to see if they’re safe. Making sure that OSHA laws aren’t fully followed, claiming safety rules are unconstitutional. Making sure that big polluters and big oil projects get shoved through without proper vetting. That’s what the Republicans are all about, because that’s who they get their big donations from. Manufacturing is WAY down under Trump. GDP was negative some months last year, and only half a percent in December. Unemployment is up. 2025 saw negative job numbers. Gas prices are through the roof, heating bills next winter are going to break families, right as the Republicans also cut heating subsidies for poor people. Electricity is up, and it’s going to skyrocket with all of the AI companies that paid off Trump and people like Mark to deregulate and try to ban any regulation. The very dire situation the working people are in right now is only going to get worse. And Mark is now ensuring that Safety is in the toilet. Trump is destroying the country from the inside out, and Mark is complicit.

How much of this is to remove oversight so they can get away with more blatant crimes and corruption?

The Pope is even shaking his head at you clowns. Embarrassing.

Lower cost where? Lies lies lies..vote this clown out!

You’re a fucking liar and everyone knows it. The only ones supporting you are fellow grifters or future convicts.

There is no way this isn’t satire? Do you believe the bologna that you spew?!?!

Sadly, no.

Gawd damn you post some stupid shit….

Mark Alford! Dumb as a stump and less usefull!

Cut defense, so wackos don’t waste our tax money bombing some faraway place.

Looks like you are following Satan.

Bruh, read the room. It would be in your best interests to just quit posting on here. You get called out for your bullshit every time you do.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

What were they thinking?

11 Saturday Apr 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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blood for oil, Donald Trump, Iran, JD Vance, oil, social media, Trump's War, War, warmongers

The weren’t.

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

It didn’t go well.

Shipwreck ‪@shipwreck75.bsky.social‬

VP JD Vance says the Iranian regime refused to reach a deal during negotiations in Pakistan.

At the end of the press conference, the Vice President was asked what this means and if we are going back to war, he did not respond. Vice president’s press conference lasted under 4 min.

8:45 PM · Apr 11, 2026

Ron Filipkowski ‪@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social‬

So killing their spiritual leader, bombing an elementary school, threatening to wipe out their civilization, referring to it as a Christian holy war, and sending Mr. Personality Vance to negotiate didn’t get things resolved?

9:07 PM · Apr 11, 2026

Judd Legum ‪@juddlegum.bsky.social‬

There is absolutely no justification for calling Vance anti-interventionalist. He supports the war in Iran. (And he supported all of Trump’s other foreign interventions.) As the chief negotiator, he has decided the best course is for the war in Iran to continue.

9:30 PM · Apr 11, 2026

our Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow ‪@tomtomorrow.bsky.social‬

probably the most common folk wisdom I knew growing up was “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. clearly history’s most special boy donald j trump never heard about that one.

9:33 PM · Apr 11, 2026

TACO or Mushrooms?

07 Tuesday Apr 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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25th Amendment, deranged, Donald Trump, Fascist pig, impeachment, Iran, social media, TACO, War, warmonger

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…”

This morning:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

12.8k ReTruths 53.5k Likes Apr 07, 2026, 7:06 AM

Call your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators NOW.

So much winning

06 Monday Apr 2026

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Donald Trump, gas, Iran, missouri, oil, Trump's War, War, warmonger

This afternoon in west central Missouri:

Previously:

Passing the gas – Donald Trump (r) does his thing (March 20, 2026)

Meanwhile, in west central Missouri (April 1, 2026)

What good is the 25th Amendment if it’s never used when we need it?

05 Sunday Apr 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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25th Amendment
[….]
Section 4.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
[….]

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

This morning:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

11.2k ReTruths 47.7k Likes Apr 05, 2026, 7:03 AM

“Fuck Trump and Fuck You for Voting for Him”

Previously:

We are the only people on the planet stupid enough to elect this individual…twice (April 1, 2026)

Wholly War (April 4, 2026)

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