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I, for one, welcome our new oligarch overlords

08 Wednesday Jan 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[January 8, 2025]
2025 will be historic.
This year, House Republicans will work with President Trump to reauthorize the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and deliver tax relief for American families, farmers, and small businesses! [….]

Yeah, bullshit.

The responses:

Why not work with the other side for the benefit of all people?
(And everyone else, spare us the empty claims of Democrats hate America, Democrats don’t care, etc.)

Bless your heart.

Republicans Don’t Care About The Working Class , The Elderly , or The Poor People ! [….] Republicans Just Care About The Wealthy ! [….] It’s a Very Sad Situation ! [….]

Alford already telling you the goal
Ensure tax cuts then claim we’re too broke to help the poor and sick or do anything for the middle class
Didn’t take him long to lay out the gameplan

Congressman Mark Alford Tax Cuts For The Wealthy ! ! ! Don’t You Even Ever Consider Cutting Social Security and Medicare , To Pay For Wreckless Tax Cuts For The Wealthy = Skyrocketing The Debt. ! We Paid For Social Security and Medicare and Earned Our Benefits ! That Trust Fund is Our Money/Benefits ! ! ! Not The Governments Slush Fund ! ! !

They have a plan. Those cuts are in it.

They are trying to do it again.
[….]

Tax cuts do not create jobs. Demand for products create jobs. No employer is going to hire extra people, unless he needs them.
Give those tax breaks to the middle class and they will spend that money buying widgets, so employers will need to expand. Otherwise, that extra money just goes into the pockets of those at the top.

Tax cuts for billionaires you mean.

100% correct. The poor feeding the rich

How do you plan to accomplish those goals without significantly increasing the annual federal deficit?

He doesn’t.

All that we really want is tax cuts for billionaires.

Heh. We’re assuming that’s sarcasm.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that simply extending the 2017 tax cuts would cost more than $4 trillion over a decade — a price tag that would grow if other tax cuts, like Mr. Trump’s proposal to not tax overtime pay, are included. (I have never understood how cutting the source of government income helps pay the debt.)

Magic beans!

So, when can we expect our groceries to go down?

That would be “never”.

And you will have nobody to blame when you fail.

You mean tax cuts for the rich!!! Fixed it for ya Marky Mark

Yep.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Simply disappeared

09 Friday Aug 2024

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“…People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten…” – 1984

Today in a rural area of a battleground state:

Because, you know, duct tape will do in a pinch.

This time, vote like your whole world depended on it. It will.

26 Friday Apr 2024

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Peter Merideth (D) [2021 file photo].

Yesterday, from Representative Peter Merideth (D):

Peter Merideth
April 25, 2024]
Friendly reminder: Trump and his lawyers openly argue in court that as president he could order the murder of his political rivals and be immune from prosecution. That as president he is entirely above the law.
This is the man that Republican politicians across Missouri continue to swear loyalty to and want to be president again. And that is why when we call them fascists, it is not hyperbole.
[….]

Some of the responses:

What do we need to do to break the fever?

This time, vote like your whole world depended on it. It will.

And our AG thinks he should be immune. [….] he used to be a fucking prosecutor.
Commer doesn’t believe in presidential immunity. He said he was going to send Biden’s investigation as a criminal referral. The right needs to make up their damn minds. Is the border a crisis or not? Do presidents have immunity or not?

Sounds like a Nixon

We noticed that, too.

I mean… “sovereign immunity” is not a power granted to the government…. and it is nowhere in the constitution. Ive been having that argument for as long as I have been a lawyer.

We have been warned (as a country)…our fate is in our own hands…

I realize his argument is a joke, but this court is as well, and I’m just waiting for them to twist the truth so they can rule in his favor. I have a hard time believing they’ll ever rule against him. It’s his court

There are other comments from apparent Trump supporter(s) defending Sauer’s (Trump’s attorney) arguments before the Supreme Court. Some of the responses to those:

Far too much of this discussion seems focused on things that don’t happen. No President has engaged in the behavior of the self-serving Trump and we need to avoid normalizing it.
I have people whom I used to respect that voted for Donald Trump; I even know some who would likely vote for him again and I’m aghast at the thought

I see people here attempting to draw a through line between the things Donald Trump did out of self-preservation, or to harm perceived enemies,or to personally
enrich himself and what other presidents did as part of their jobs I can’t believe what some of you people are saying…

There is not a lot here that is altering my perception of Republicans taking a simple or shat approach to reasoning.
Clear examples of how Donald Trump was elected in the first place…

Also with that 18th Century vestige of slavery, the Electoral College.

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

Through the right wingnut looking glass

03 Wednesday Apr 2024

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“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

In January:

Trump’s Bizarre Immunity Claims Should Serve as a Warning
What might be the most disturbing aspect of the oral arguments is how unsettled the law actually is in the area of Presidential powers and accountability.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin

January 10, 2024

“Could a President order seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?” Judge Florence Pan, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, asked D. John Sauer, a lawyer for Donald Trump, in oral arguments on Tuesday. It was a remarkable question for a remarkable political moment, and one that has been a long time coming. Pan was one of three judges on an appeals panel hearing Trump’s argument—which seemed, in varying degrees, to appall them—that the case brought against him by the special counsel, Jack Smith, related to Trump’s actions in the run-up to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, should be thrown out. Trump contends that, in the absence of an impeachment conviction, he is absolutely immune from prosecution for acts related to his official duties as President. Hence Pan’s question about an assassination. “That’s an official act, an order to seal Team 6,” she pointed out.

Sauer stalled and tried to qualify his answer by saying that such a President would need to be, and indeed “would speedily be,” impeached. Pan interrupted to say that that was more easily said than done. “I asked you a yes-or-no question,” she tried again. “Could a President who ordered seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached—would he be subject to criminal prosecution?”

“If he were impeached and convicted first,” Sauer said.

“So your answer is no,” Pan said.

[….]

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000628 04/03/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE John Sauer 331 Bryn Wyck Place St Louis MO 63141 James Otis Law Group Attorney 4/1/2024 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

As long as Seal Team Six is not involved, apparently.

First, the Fascist generation in politics – next, the Fascist dumbass generation

07 Sunday Jan 2024

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Hoover: Kent is a legacy, Otter. His brother was a ’59, Fred Dorfman.
Flounder: He said legacies usually get asked to pledge automatically.
Otter: Oh, well, usually. Unless the pledge in question turns out to be a real closet-case.
Otter, Boon: Like Fred.

Jay Ashcroft (r) [2021 file photo]

On Friday:

Jay Ashcroft @JayAshcroftMO
What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic. While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!
[….]
4:13 PM · Jan 5, 2024

Dumbass.

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

Gaslighting as a way of life

05 Friday Jan 2024

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Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Last month:

Eric Burlison
December 7, 2023
I am excited and honored to give Donald J. Trump my total endorsement and support in his 2024 presidential campaign.
No president has been more impactful in my lifetime than President Trump. For decades, presidents talked about objectives that never materialized. Under the leadership of President Trump, we became an energy independent nation. Under President Trump’s leadership, peace had been brought to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords. Under President Trump’s vision, we were able to grow the economy at an unprecedented rate. And under his direction, the southern border was actually closed.
President Trump is a patriot who risked his fortune and his reputation for love of his country and in return, he was falsely investigated on bogus charges and experienced an insurrection from the deep state to remove him from office. The prosecutions against him today are obvious shams and unAmerican. If we are to save our country from devolving into a tyrannical nation like we see in third world countries, we must correct these wrongs and re-elect President Trump. If we don’t, history will record that we allowed our country to extinguish the rule of law.
[….]

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

Some of the responses:

I prefer to maintain our current form of democracy – a constitutional republic. The majority of REPUBLICANS that worked for Trump keep telling us how dangerous he is – I believe them. I will never vote for someone that planned a coup against our government or who will not accept the peaceful transition of power. It has been proven time and time again that he LIED about a stolen election.

How in your mind can you think it’s okay to vote for someone who let so many die of COVID? Someone with over 90 indictments? Someone who started in insurrection? Denied election results? It’s not a witch hunt. Trump (and Burlison) unfit to lead.

[….] Gawww a million people passed away and folks still rally around the anti mask, anti vax, election deniers. They just won’t read, they just keep listening to Tucker and Sean.. even the new speaker thinks SEDITIONISTS who stormed the capital should be protected from our justice dept. what the heck?
It’s so frikkin sad to see. So much misinformation. [….]

I think if you are still pro trump today 12/13/2023, something is terribly wrong with your values.

Does it bother you that he attempted to overturn the last presidential election?

Wow. Trump sold us all out to the highest foreign bidder while in office, is demented and talks about being a Dictator on day one. We see you have no courage or sense of what’s right for Democracy. We will vote you all out.

You should be ashamed, Eric. You are the one who clearly has no regard for the rule of law.

Traitor supporting a traitor

We moved from Billy Long to Eric Burlison. I fail to see that any improvement has been made.

So you sold your soul!

91 criminal indictments

Trump just needs 11780 votes [….]

We see what you did there.

I’m sorry that you are feeling so threatened by the orange menace that you have to throw morality away. Is that why you ran for office in the first place, to end Democracy in the USA? Why support 91-felonies candidate? Why also did you vote to NOT expel George Santos? Again, some morality makes that decision much easier, and the resulting answer is different than your calculation. Do better.

Maga=nazi

Of course you endorse him. He is the ideal candidate for all fake Christians.

I don’t have time to refute each lie you spread in this piece of crap. Trump is a criminal, twice impeached and 4 times indicted on 91 felonies. He lost a fair, legitimate election and attempted to spur an insurrection to stay in power and overturn the constitution. Your endorsement shows you are no better than him. Have you no shame?

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

you’re just another MAGA nazi who should never be allowed to hold any political office. You support a dictator wannabe and a traitor, and that’s about as un-American as it comes. [….]

Disgusting! Read the indictments. He’s a lying draft dodger. Resign you complicit pandering lying hack.

You are delusional and morally bankrupt just like the guy you’re supporting. Traitor.

You’re pathetic

What a complete load of crap. This post rids you of any credibility you may have had.

If you haven’t committed treason yet, I’m sure you will soon

Covering that ridiculous hat in foil

17 Wednesday May 2023

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Today:

Mark Alford @RepMarkAlford
For years, we have watched CNN, MSNBC, and every other mainstream media outlet cover the Mueller Report.

Where are they now that John Durham has completed debunked it?
11:43 AM · May 17, 2023

Clown.

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

You need to read that report as it does not say what you evidently think it means.

It didn’t Debunk anything and was out together by a hack from Trumps DOJ. lol

The Durham Report did not debunk the Muller Report. What are you smoking, Mark?

Still no teleprompter to help you read the report?

Thanks, Mark, for showin’ us you’ve not read either of the reports.

Amazing how you don’t mention fox Why don’t you just go back to rolling on the floor crying about your AM radio. It works better for you

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

A Sinister Flop
Special Counsel John Durham served up not an investigation, but an excuse for future partisan abuses.
[….]

The failure of the Durham report
Durham tried to prove a Democratic plot to frame Trump. He couldn’t.
[….]

“A big fat nothing”: Legal experts say “bogus” John Durham report proves “he’s failed miserably”
“Combined with his lack of success in the courtroom, this investigation was a flop,” ex-prosecutor says
[….]