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Post-election Schadenfreude

13 Sunday Nov 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in US Senate

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election, Eric Schmitt, Josh Hawley, missouri, Nevada, schadenfreude, U.S. Senate, Virginia

Josh Hawley (r) has a sad. Eric Schmitt (r) has a new job where he can phone it in.

Nevada Secretary of State:

Catherine Cortez Masto (D).

At this moment the election results include at least 50 seats and Democratic Party control of the United States Senate.

What’s up?

12 Monday Sep 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Donald Trump, Fascist pig, schadenfreude, sedition, subpeonas, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Treason

Do you smell fear?

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

Who goes golfing in the rain without golf clubs?

Heh.

What are we going to do now with all those file photos?

02 Tuesday Aug 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in US Senate

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4th Congressional District, Primary, right wingnut, schadenfreude, U.S. Senate, Vicky Hartzler

Nope.

rachel @rachel_schnelle
I am currently at the watch party for Vicky Hartzler, as results come trickling in.
@kcur
[….]
10:46 PM · Aug 2, 2022

In the republican party U.S. Senate primary:

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 02, 2022
Unofficial Results
as of 8/2/2022 11:12:04 PM

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 02, 2022

Office/Candidate Name Party Votes % of Votes
U.S. Senator 3439 of 3592 Precincts Reported

Patrick A Lewis Republican 5,483 0.931%
Eric Schmitt Republican 268,326 45.575%
Billy Long Republican 27,207 4.621%
Eric Greitens Republican 112,891 19.174%
Bernie Mowinski Republican 1,417 0.241%
C.W. Gardner Republican 1,746 0.297%
Deshon Porter Republican 1,387 0.236%
Vicky Hartzler Republican 131,750 22.378%
Dave Sims Republican 1,743 0.296%
Mark McCloskey Republican 17,483 2.969%
Eric McElroy Republican 2,493 0.423%
Dennis Lee Chilton Republican 642 0.109%
Robert Allen Republican 1,822 0.309%
Dave Schatz Republican 6,741 1.145%
Hartford Tunnell Republican 553 0.094%
Kevin C. Schepers Republican 602 0.102%
Rickey Joiner Republican 962 0.163%
Robert Olson Republican 959 0.163%
Russel Pealer Breyfogle Jr Republican 589 0.100%
Darrell Leon McClanahan III Republican 992 0.168%
Curtis D. Vaughn Republican 2,971 0.505%
Party Total: 588,759

[emphasis added]

Probably should have stayed with the 4th Congressional District.

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

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)

The final arbiter speaks

11 Sunday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Roy Blunt, social media

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Liz Mair, own it, schadenfreude, social media, Twitter, you built this

The panic is setting in.

Liz Mair @LizMair
I’m really done with hearing from the left about court packing. First of all, no, it’s not OK, and I don’t care whether the Constitution bars it or not. We don’t need more erosion or dissolution of norms. Second of all, keeping Merrick Garland off the court isn’t court packing.
9:10 AM · Oct 11, 2020

You built this. Roy Blunt. Rand Paul. Rick Perry. Scott Walker. I could rest my case at this point.

To someone else earlier in conversation:

Liz Mair @LizMair
First of all, no one did more than me to stop Trump in 2016, the king if norm-erosion. So please don’t tag me with what the GOP as a whole is doing— that’s pretty disingenuous. Second, as I said, two wrongs don’t make a right. We don’t need to hasten the race to the bottom.
9:25 AM · Oct 11, 2020

Working the phone banks, knocking the doors, dropping the literature just like the rest of us proles, eh?

Four years ago:

Liz Mair @LizMair
Morning, all. I’m headed to vote for @GovGaryJohnson. If you hate Hillary and Trump, you should, too. Send the major parties a message!
5:45 AM · Nov 8, 2016

Now, I rest my case.

Hillary Clinton [2016 file photo].

They built this

11 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, Uncategorized

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Donald Trump.president, GOP, schadenfreude, social media, Twitter

Donald Trump (r), via Twitter:

trump101016

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump
Paul Ryan should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting Republican nominee
12:22 PM – 10 Oct 2016

And this morning:

trump101116

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump
Desite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!
6:38 AM – 11 Oct 2016

He did that out of site, eh?

Schadenfreude: a sign of the times

07 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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missouri, schadenfreude, signs

Someone took offense at the sign in my yard:

Our yard sign was torn in half, its remains deposited next to our garage. The wire was still up in the yard.

Here’s the thing. I was ready to take down the sign. Now, it’s going to stay up a while longer. And I do have replacements.

Clear packing tape and useful information.

The useful information:

Missouri Revised Statutes

Section 569.150

Trespass in the second degree.

569.150. 1. A person commits the offense of trespass in the second degree if he enters unlawfully upon real property of another. This is an offense of absolute liability.

2. Trespass in the second degree is an infraction.

Missouri Revised Statutes

Section 569.120

Property damage in the second degree.

569.120. 1. A person commits the crime of property damage in the second degree if:

(1) He knowingly damages property of another; or

(2) He damages property for the purpose of defrauding an insurer.

2. Property damage in the second degree is a class B misdemeanor.

And there’s this, too:

Missouri Revised Statutes

Section 115.637

Class four election offenses.

[….]

(19) Stealing or willfully defacing, mutilating, or destroying any campaign yard sign on private property, except that this subdivision shall not be construed to interfere with the right of any private property owner to take any action with regard to campaign yard signs on the owner’s property and this subdivision shall not be construed to interfere with the right of any candidate, or the candidate’s designee, to remove the candidate’s campaign yard sign from the owner’s private property after the election day.  

Maybe I’ll take the sign down tomorrow. Maybe.

Previously:

“Liberal” schadenfreude is a dish best relinquished cold, very cold (November 11, 2012)

Morning in America (November 8, 2012)

And then there were two… (October 25, 2012)

What’s missing? (October 25, 2012)

Counting the vote, schadenfreude edition

26 Monday Nov 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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2012, missouri, president, schadenfreude

Previously:

Morning in America (November 7, 2011)

“Liberal” schadenfreude is a dish best relinquished cold, very cold (November 11, 2012)

It’s still out there, on a cold and rainy day. It’s gonna stay out there until it gets much colder.

It’s colder. Yep, it’s still up.

And the votes are still being counted. The latest totals, as of this afternoon:

2012 National Popular Vote Tracker

Overall Obama/Romney Vote Shares, 2012 (Includes Third Party Votes)

Maintained by: David Wasserman @Redistrict

U.S. Total

Obama ’12 – 64,558,738 – 50.81%

Romney ’12 – 60,331,728 – 47.48%

Other ’12 – 2,164,118 – 1.70%

California

Obama ’12 – 7,465,913 – 59.77%

Romney ’12 – 4,697,734 – 37.61%

Other ’12 – 326,590 – 2.61%

New York

Obama ’12 – 3,873,650 – 62.65%

Romney ’12 – 2,224,963 – 35.99%

Other ’12 – 84,401 – 1.37%

Missouri

Obama ’12 – 1,223,080 – 44.37%

Romney ’12 – 1,482,387 – 53.78%

Other ’12 – 51,085 – 1.85%

[emphasis added]

A 4,227,010 vote margin – more than a mandate as defined in republican terms. Heh. Fancy that, 47 percent. That was downright prophetic.

Interesting. There’s a slight difference in the Missouri numbers at the Missouri Secretary of State (election night numbers):

President, Vice President (3394 of 3394 Precincts Reported)

Barack Obama, Joe Biden Democrat 1,223,092 44.4%

Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan Republican 1,482,397 53.8%

Gary Johnson, James P. Gray Libertarian 43,150 1.6%

Virgil Goode, Jim Clymer Constitution 7,935 0.3

[emphasis added]

Nothing secedes like secession

12 Monday Nov 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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2012, election, missouri, president, right wingnuts, schadenfreude

Previously: Schadenfreude, schoener Goetterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium… (November 11, 2012)

Success! Already getting over three thousand paranoid temper tantrum signatures, at the White House “We the People” petition site:

We petition the Obama Administration to:

Peacefully grant the State of Missouri to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.

As the founding fathers of the United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

“…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government…”

Created: Nov 10, 2012

Signatures from other states:

Troy G

Corinth, TX

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,632

CAROL i

Painesville, OH

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,631

Michael B

Trinity, AL

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,630

Michael M

Roseville, CA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,628

Dallas T

Mesa, AZ

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,625

[….]

Roxanne L

Quitman, AR

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,484

Ryan J

Kent, WA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,483

Kevin A

Brewton, AL

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,481

Tiffiney C

Cottonwood, AL

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,480

Michael I

Ocala, FL

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,479

A N

Lansing, KS

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,478

Lee C

Halifax, NC

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,477

robert s

Reading, PA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,476

Jim W

Hardesty, OK

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,474

Jessica L

Little Rock, AR

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,475

Tyler D

Poland, ME

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,472

Roy R

Oak Grove, LA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,467

Eric F

Stafford, VA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,466

Jon S

Pittsburgh, PA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,465

Rachel H

Christiansburg, VA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,464

Michele B

Allentown, PA

November 12, 2012

Signature # 3,463

[emphasis added]

And on and on…

Quitman? Really? Heh.

So, do the out of state signers get to vote in Missouri if this gets on the ballot here? Think about that for a minute.

“Liberal” schadenfreude is a dish best relinquished cold, very cold

11 Sunday Nov 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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2012, election, missouri, Obama, schadenfreude, yard sign

Previously:

Schadenfreude, schoener Goetterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium… (November 11, 2012)

Morning in America (November 8, 2012)

It’s still out there, on a cold and rainy day. It’s gonna stay out there until it gets much colder.

Yeah, right:

Liberal Schadenfreude Is Out of Control

Why gloating after the election is nastier than ever.

By Katherine Goldstein|Posted Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at 8:04 PM ET

….I had just turned 21. My vote for Kerry was the first I’d ever cast, and boy did losing hurt.  But there was no one to around to rub my face in my own misery. In order to do that, someone would have had to call or email me or come up to my red-rimmed eyes and laugh in my face. Given that my immediate family is liberal, modern social media was in its infancy, and I went to a strongly left-leaning college, nothing like this happened. My friends and I consoled each other and moved on, and I never had the experience of anyone reveling in my despair….

Seriously? Obviously a viewpoint stemming from a wealth of experience. 2004 was the writer’s first election. I remember 1968, and 1972, and 1980, and 1984, and 1988, and 2000, and 2002, and 2004, and 2010.

Especially 2000.

Concern trolling coming from the sort of establishment. Please, Flying Spaghetti Monster, make the stoopid stop.

Now I think the yard sign stays up quite a while longer. And I have plenty of replacements.

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