A Grifter is gonna keep on grifting
13 Friday May 2022
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in25 Monday Apr 2022
Posted Roy Blunt, social media
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apparatchik, Donald Trump, missouri, right wingnut, Roy Blunt, social media, Twitter, useful idiot
No surprise here.
Last night:
Will Saletan @saletan
Follow-up on CNN:Q: “Why is Trump’s push to overturn the election result—and his continued insistence the election was stolen—not an automatic disqualifier?”
@RoyBlunt: “He can have his own opinion. That’s not a disqualifier, because you may have one issue you disagree with.”
8:58 PM · Apr 24, 2022
Just one issue, eh? Evidently insurrection isn’t a deal breaker.
Some of the responses:
It’s not just that he thinks the election was stolen. It’s what he did in the lead-up to January 6th and everything that’s come after. How can Blunt think that’s not disqualifying?
And its such a minor issue: whether to accept the results of a legitimate election.
Embarrassing blunts in Congress:
1. whatever was in Cawthorn’s hands in that video
2. Roy
Jeebus.
The definition of insanity.
“That’s not a disqualifier, because you may have one issue you disagree with.”
WTH?
Faith in US elections isn’t ONE ISSUE
Faith in our electoral process is the basis of consent of the governedBlunt was allowed to skate on both shows
@MeetThePress & @CNN both screwed the pooch
Roy Blunt, you are a coward.
12 Saturday Mar 2022
Posted campaign finance, US Senate
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campaign finance, Donald Trump, Eric Schmitt, Florida, fundraiser, Grifter, missouri, U.S. Senate
Yesterday:
Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Big night at our Mar-a-Lago event. God bless America. [….]
8:03 AM · Mar 11, 2022
поле́зный идио́т.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Some of the responses:
Did he convince how Putin’s War is encouraging building wind generators that are terrible?
By the way, did you donate any money to him for a new plane?
Nice. Did he tell the audience how much he loves Putin?
Hope it was worth it, Eric.
Seems empty since the ban on Russian oligarch travel.
Aren’t you running in MO, why are you campaigning in FL?
What part of Missouri is that in?
Putin is forever grateful that he has Republicans taking his side
Paling around with wannabe dictators that loves other dictators. Please tell me why we should vote for you again?
God save Missouri and the rest of the country from this chucklehead
Looks like he grabbed another pussy.
Embarrassing. America wants nothing to do with Putin’s cranky whipping boy and neither should you. Democracy matters.
You grabbing them like Trump?
DJT attempted to overturn an election and, effectively, end democracy.
Why do you hate democracy, Eric?
Did he grab your pussy, Eric? [….]
You are a spineless, weak, little lap dog.
So you have sworn allegiance to a liar and con man.
There’s more. There’s always more.
03 Thursday Mar 2022
Posted media criticism
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book, Donald Trump, Grifter, Interview, Lester Holt, media criticism, NBC Evening News, right wingnut, William Barr
Anything for a dollar.
Tonight:
Michael Bersin @MBersin
@LesterHoltNBC I missed the point in your interview with William Barr (r) where you asked him why he waited to speak out until he was ready to sell his “tell-all” book.
5:52 PM · Mar 3, 2022
Earlier:
Mr. Newberger @jeremynewberger
I wouldn’t buy Bill Barr’s book, but I wouldn’t rule out paying to see him shove it up his ass.
12:12 PM · Feb 27, 2022
Yep.
28 Monday Feb 2022
Posted Josh Hawley, US Senate
in22 Saturday Jan 2022
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It feels like a lifetime.
At the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City:
At the courthouse square in Warrensburg:
SUV Driver: [honks horn] What’s that say in Spanish?
Show Me Progress: What?
SUV Driver: What’s it say in Spanish? What [inaudible]
Show Me Progress: That sign?
SUV Driver: Yeah.
Show Me Progress: It’s Russian.
SUV Driver: Okay.
Show Me Progress: It says, make America great again, in Russian.
SUV Driver: I agree.
Don’t make the mistake of believing we’re all safe now.
Previously:
Funeral for Democracy – Warrensburg – January 20, 2017 (January 20, 2017)
Anti-Trump march in Kansas City – January 20, 2017 (January 20, 2017)
04 Tuesday Jan 2022
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in03 Monday Jan 2022
Posted media criticism, meta, social media
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Donald Trump, Garrett Haake, Insurrection, Jay Rosen, Joe Biden, media criticism, sedition, social media, Twitter
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Old media never bothers to learn:
Garrett Haake @GarrettHaake
This as the former President also plans to speak from Mar a Lago. A split screen day for a country divided.Mike Memoli @mikememoli
NEW: @POTUS will deliver remarks at the US Capitol on January 6 to mark anniversary of Capitol siege
One of these things is not like the other.
There will be no rabid nutjob crowd literally smearing feces on the walls in Florida. Though, you can bet the former guy will be throwing shit against the wall just to see what sticks.
The responses are priceless:
Re “A Split Screen:”
No Sir, no split screen for me.
I’m focused on President Biden and not on a past president who was impeached twice, never won the popular vote in two general elections, and is under investigation by New York, And Georgia for possible crimes committed.
Garrett, it’s only split screen if the media allows it. It is not necessary to broadcast the former guy live.
No. There shouldn’t be a split screen and any news outlet that treats it as such is doing a disservice to the country.
Don’t cover him
STOP THE MADNESS
Under no circumstances should MSM cover TFG on January 6th.
This is why half the country stop watching the cable news. This is just infuriating. No words for the constant attack and trauma the media is always putting us through for the sake of ratings. Not getting it from me. I’ll be watching an outlet not carrying DT’s water.
Do you understand the person at Mar-a-Lago has no actual power or bearing on the direction of the country and should not be broadcast as if he is equal to the actual president? What’s not clicking here?
Do NOT give him any oxygen. Are you kidding me??
Split screen? NO. No no no no. Do NOT give him any screen. What the heck are you thinking? If you split screen that, you are fanning the flames.
Why the split screen Garrett? Why any screen at all? Why would this be covered as a comparable news event? At the very least why wouldn’t it be taped and aired (if at all) only with the utmost editorial discretion?
Dude, what side of right are you on?
They’ve all shown their hand in helping our democracy hang on by a thread! It’s sickening
Reminds of the Holocaust and how for years American news refuse to cover it the atrocities- till the war. It’s why till this day, millions say the Holocaust never happened. Thank the media
There is NO REASON for the networks to cover anything that TFG has to say, especially on that day. The network’s blanket coverage of him in 2016 is what got us into this mess.
The country isn’t “divided”. There are those that want to overthrow our government and those that don’t.
You don’t need to cover this in real time, and it’s probably best that you don’t.
It is only a split screen if the media covers it that way. He has the right to free speech; he does not have the right to press coverage.
You, the media, has a choice in who to cover. Make the right one
Maybe don’t cover the dude that lost?
Single screen. “The former guy” is about as played out as disco.
Split screen? Won’t watch any media that does this. Why would they? It only adds to the division giving TFG air time he doesn’t deserve.
It better not be a split screen. TFG shouldn’t get any air time…the media is complicit in giving him too much oxygen as it is.
It’s only a split screen if you give it to him like he wants.
No split screen. He isn’t potus and should have to pay for airtime.
The times will not clash. Nothing really happens at Mar-a-Lago, anyway. When you live in a supper club and wedding venue and get photographed with almost every customer, nothing happens.
yeah. no.
No need to cover anyone except for the current president.
“Retiree with pending lawsuits creates word salad with leftovers from 2020.”
Y’all have a choice here, Garrett. Does the media have it in them to do the right thing? Recent history certainly says no. Restore some faith.
News outlets should replay footage of the Jan 6th siege all day.
There is NO reason to cover the former guy. Not on 1/6/22 or any other date. Is he going to unite the country? No. Will he speak of how awful 1/6/21 was? No. Will he say anything new? No. There’s no reason to cover him.
This should no way in hell be any split screen… Please media do better
Only the media can make it a split screen day. Please don’t.
Only if the media chooses to cover it that way.
WHY would the media even consider a split screen?
Good question.
Too many networks will accommodate his second call to arms. There shouldn’t be any live coverage. News networks can report on his words later with guests ready to provide the factual and legal rebuttals.
Why? Why is there any reason to devote any inches of screen to the circus in Florida?
It had better not be a split screen, Garrett Haake. It would be dereliction of duty for the media to “both sides” this.
Split screen? Seriously?
Who is doing the dividing?
And:
Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu
My suggestions.* No build up, no count down, no empty podium awaiting his arrival
* Don’t carry it live; disinformation risk too high
* After it’s over, sift for any genuine news and report it
* Do not amplify familiar lies and distortions; they’ve all been fact checked alreadyLen Sherman @lenshermanCBS
@jayrosen_nyu Any advice on how the press should handle DJT’s presser on Jan. 6th?
There you go.
28 Tuesday Dec 2021
Posted Missouri General Assembly
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Donald Trump, Fascist pig, General Assembly, Grifter, HB 1993, infrastructure week, Mary Elizabeth Coleman, missouri, right wingnut
Wasting time.
A bill, prefiled on December 16th:
HB 1993
Designates the “Donald J Trump Highway” in Jefferson County
Sponsor: Coleman, Mary Elizabeth (097)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2022
LR Number: 3695H.01I
Last Action: 12/16/2021 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 1993
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar
The bill text:
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1993 [pdf]
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLYINTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE COLEMAN (97).
3695H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief ClerkAN ACT
To amend chapter 227, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the designation of a highway.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 227, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 227.487, to read as follows:
227.487. The portion of Interstate 55 from State Highway 141 continuing south to Richardson Road in Jefferson County shall be designated the “Donald J Trump Highway”. The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway, with the costs to be paid by private donations.
It’ll be located in between the Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco segments of the highway.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Once they put in toll booths the former guy’s take from the skim should be fairly lucrative.