17 Wednesday Mar 2021
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From Lucas Kunce‘s (D) ad released today:
“…The community I love had been hollowed out, jobs shipped away for Wall Street profits. The wealth of our state sucked dry by guys like Josh Hawley and Roy Blunt, and their top donors who got rich stripping our communities for parts…”
Dayam. This campaign came to play.
Previously:
Dayam (March 17, 2021)
08 Friday Jan 2021
Posted in meta, social media
Here it is:
Company
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
By Twitter Inc.
Friday, 8 January 2021After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.
However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules entirely and cannot use Twitter to incite violence, among other things. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.
The below is a comprehensive analysis of our policy enforcement approach in this case.
Overview
On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump tweeted:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
Shortly thereafter, the President tweeted:
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States, and an uptick in the global conversation in regards to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks. After assessing the language in these Tweets against our Glorification of Violence policy, we have determined that these Tweets are in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be immediately permanently suspended from the service.
Assessment
We assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy, which aims to prevent the glorification of violence that could inspire others to replicate violent acts and determined that they were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
This determination is based on a number of factors, including:
President Trump’s statement that he will not be attending the Inauguration is being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the election was not legitimate and is seen as him disavowing his previous claim made via two Tweets (1, 2) by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Dan Scavino, that there would be an “orderly transition” on January 20th.
The second Tweet may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a “safe” target, as he will not be attending.
The use of the words “American Patriots” to describe some of his supporters is also being interpreted as support for those committing violent acts at the US Capitol.
The mention of his supporters having a “GIANT VOICE long into the future” and that “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” is being interpreted as further indication that President Trump does not plan to facilitate an “orderly transition” and instead that he plans to continue to support, empower, and shield those who believe he won the election.
Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.
As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
03 Sunday Jan 2021
Posted in Josh Hawley, meta, US Senate
Today, at Crooks and Liars:
It’s really easy, he’s one of Missouri’s right wingnut senators.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
31 Thursday Dec 2020
Posted in meta, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, social media
Tags
149th Legislative District, Don Rone, Jason Kander, meta, missouri, ratio, right wingnut, social media, trolling, Twitter
Jason Kander (D) [2016 file photo]
It starts:
Jason Kander @JasonKander
True: Don’t worry dad we always come back.This generation of #ChiefsKingdom so spoiled!
12:57 PM · Dec 27, 2020
That seemed to irritate Mr. Potter.
Don Rone @rone_don
Replying to @JasonKanderWho cares
Bah, humbug, it is.
Some of the responses:
Hey Don,
Your profile says you’re a proud grandpa. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt (though it’s not mine to give) and say you didn’t know he was quoting his son.
Be a human and apologize. Show your grandkids how a stand up guy behaves.
Happy New Year.
Mr. Rone, if your grandkids are handling your tweets, you ought to inform them this type of response (“Who cares”) is petty and rude. At a minimum, whoever is tweeting these zingers should at least use punctuation. I’m left wondering who is “Who” or is it WHO?
He must have been a terrific teacher
You do, Don
Howdy, Don. I care. And apparently over 700 people who liked Jason’s tweet care. For context: That’s equivalent to more than half of the followers you have accumulated since Joining Twitter over six years ago. Take a page from the wife of your party’s leader… Be Best.
You seem nice, especially for a former teacher and pround grandpa.
Don,
I don’t know you but judging by your Twitter account, you seem like the kind of scum who needs to be voted out.
Apparently you do…cranky old bastard
Nice response to a kid. What’s your next act? Kicking a puppy?
Good grief crusty ol guy.
You sound like a great state rep…rude and pointless.
You’re an ass.
Are you 10 years old? Good hell dude, you’re ancient…. grow up.
Republicans are spiraling past the point of no return. They’re all throwing temper tantrums like little children because they’re cult leader lost.
Representative Rone’s (r) biography at the Missouri House of Representatives web site:
Rep. Donald Rone Jr., a Republican, represents New Madrid County and parts of Scott, Mississippi, and Pemiscot Counties (District 149) in the Missouri House of Representatives. He was elected to his first two-year term in November 2014.
Prior to his legislative duties, Rep. Rone was an accounts manager for FMC Corporation, Agriculture Solutions. He also spent time as a farmer and as a teacher for Matthews and Portageville High Schools. Rep. Rone has served as Mayor of Portageville Missouri and New Madrid County Public Administrator. Rep. Rone served in the Missouri National Guard.
Rep. Rone is a 1963 graduate from Portageville High School. He received his BS degree from Southeast Missouri State University in 1968.
Rep. Rone is a member of the First Church of God in Portageville. He is a lifetime member of the NRA, member of Delta Wildlife and National Wild Turkey Federation, a 32nd degree Mason, and served on the University of Missouri Delta Center Advisory Board for 30 years. Rep. Rone also currently serves on the board of the St. Francis Levee District of Missouri.
Born December 21, 1944 in Cape Girardeau, Rep. Rone currently resides in Portageville…
Heh. Be best.
This morning:
Jason Kander @JasonKander
A Republican elected official clumsily trolling my 7 year old son on twitter seems like the appropriate way to wrap 2020.
[….]
8:29 AM · Dec 31, 2020
01 Saturday Aug 2020
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#resist, concern trolling, Jefferson City, meta, missouri, protest
“…Apparently a few people staged a die in on the street next to the Governor’s Mansion. In the afternoon in July in Jefferson City. Really? It’s not like they were blocking rush hour traffic…”
We continue to get comments:
Are you trying to justify that no law was broken because there was not “rush hour traffic”? That is pitiful. Protesters have the right to assemble, but they have no need to block the streets and expect nothing to happen. Also, please work on your grammar and sentence structure. I got a headache from reading this.
A hand wringing concern troll. Heh.
You’re here, aren’t you?
“…I got a headache from reading this.”
Then don’t read us. Or, I dunno, start your own blog and do better?
On July 4, 2020 in Warrensburg:
Interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
Previously:
So, today in Jefferson City (July 30, 2020)
How not to escalate (July 31, 2020)
31 Friday Jul 2020
Posted in meta
“…Apparently [yesterday] a few people staged a die in on the street next to the Governor’s Mansion. In the afternoon in July in Jefferson City. Really? It’s not like they were blocking rush hour traffic…”
Jefferson City Police overreacted.
Michael Bersin @MBersin
Replying to @MO_HouseDems and @SharkFu
The nerve. Blocking a street and hindering traffic in Jefferson City during the busiest time of day. In July. I feel sorry for the tour groups waiting to get into the Governor’s Mansion who had to see this. Oh, wait…
5:18 AM · Jul 31, 2020
We get comments, directed at Show Me Progress:
They have no right to be in the street and they were told so. Look what they did in Columbia. You give you protesters an inch and you take a mile. Peaceful is not blocking streets and other taxpayers rights to drive down the streets. The protesters need to learn the definition of peaceful
This crap of protests needs to be squashed before it turns in Seattle. Protesting on the sidewalks, bullhorns, signs are fine, but when you move into the public thruway, stop it.
Hand wringing concern trolls. They try to post comments here. We usually let them languish in comment moderation for eternity (or until we stop paying the hosting bill).
There was no street traffic. And if there was, knowing that area of Jefferson City, approaching from the Capitol, all a driver would have to do is turn right to detour, drive up a block, and then turn left and then right to return to the same street. How inconvenient. A freakin’ block. Maybe our concern trolls consider this a slippery slope of some sort.
How do other towns in Missouri handle such outrageous behavior?
In Warrensburg, at the end of May:
Interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
George Floyd – Protest – Warrensburg, Missouri – Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2020 (May 31, 2020)
George Floyd – Protest – Warrensburg, Missouri – Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2020 – part 2 (June 1, 2020)
In Warrensburg, in June:
Interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
March for George Floyd and Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 8, 2020 (June 8, 2020)
March for George Floyd and Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 8, 2020 – part 2 (June 9, 2020)
And in July:
Silent March for Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 4, 2020 (July 4, 2020)
Again, interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
Previously:
So, today in Jefferson City (July 30, 2020)
16 Thursday Apr 2020
Posted in meta
Tags
COVID-19, elastic cord, masks, meta, pandemic, press credentials
An early afternoon conversation:
“Hey, where is your collection of old press credentials?”
“On the book shelf in the extra room. Why?”
“Don’t they have elastic cords on them?”
“!”
Even the most dedicated prepper doesn’t have everything they really need stored away for the next apocalypse. I mean, who could expect a quilter with a vast stash of cotton fabrics, including Batiks, to keep a supply of elastic cord.
There we are.
Every individual who has ever been issued a press credential to cover a major event (political or otherwise) saves those credentials. Some are fancy, with slick graphics, industrial lamination, and high end lanyards. Some are a scrawled piece of paper hastily thrown into a sleeve. Others still, are somewhere in between. Some of those old credentials were in sleeves with elastic cords to help hold them around the neck.
The credentials get saved. They may be thrown in a pile on a shelf somewhere, or matted and framed (depending on the perceived historical value) and displayed for all visitors to see.
Over the thirteen years of covering political events for this blog I’ve accumulated quite a collection of issued press credentials. I even have a few from rock/popular music concerts.
The surgical masks sewn by our resident quilter fit and work beautifully and happen to look great, too. Cotton Batik is used because it has a tight weave. There are multiple layers, a sleeve for wire or a pipe cleaner for the nose bridge, a sewn in pocket to insert paper towel or additional filtering material, and elastic cords on each side to fit over the ears and hold the mask in place.
But no one anticipates an urgent need for elastic cord for home sewn surgical masks, right?
In a time of plague, when one has a critical need for raw material which exists as part of another whole product, you cannibalize it.
And so, we did.
Press credentials as a source of raw material.
The finished products.
They wear well.
Self portrait [2020].
Ironic on a certain level, don’t you think?
Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face.
#FlattenTheCurve
Previously:
Going out in a time of plague (March 23, 2020)
10 Friday Apr 2020
Posted in Josh Hawley, meta, social media, US Senate
Tags
Josh Hawley, Media, meta, missouri, social media, Twitter, whining
“Fake!”
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
Josh Hawley (r) is such a robot that he can’t even bother to find or use original attack talking points.
This morning:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Nice to see that even now the media still has time for fake personal attacks. I have done 200! local tv interviews in last year. Nobody in Senate does more. KOLR has agreed to an interview precisely 4 times. Four. I am constantly available and you are constantly turning me down
[….]
7:40 AM · Apr 10, 2020
Some of the responses:
Look what Donald Trump taught him.
He’s Trump’s sanctimonious plus one.
Senator @HawleyMO this is not fake, it’s not personal, it’s not an attack. It is a question. You were on premises in front of a rolling camera with a microphone on. Twice. Are you saying reporters need to agree to your interview times? Did you set the time for @TuckerCarlson?
Hawley’s skin is thinner than Trump’s.
I’m going to go with @JoyRobertson version of this story.
How many town halls have you hosted?
No one in Missouri will deny that you are so eager for a microphone and camera you will knock anyone out of the way to get one.
OTOH, we can totally believe you want no questions of substance, and would rather share the Frozen Fish Heir’s glow than deal with us plebes.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
I know some constituents who would love to sit down with you in the Lou. Maybe you should come on by and get to know us.
We have questions and want answers…
He seldom shows up in Kansas City, either. Too busy advancing his career on Fox “News” to speak to the proles.
Such a weak tweet. Too big to talk to Missourians. Come to STL.
This is a terrible look, Senator. You didn’t challenge the substance of the tweet but went on a rambling semi coherent attack. Unfortunately, Tucker Carlson gets more face time with you than home state journalists. You’re the Senator from the Show Me State, so show up!
“Nobody in the Senate does more.”
FFS, you even sound like him now.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Running for higher office already.
Ladders, too.
200 local interviews????? Not in the Missouri media market. Must be somewhere else.
Yeah, I’m calling B.S.
Do you need cheese with that whine?
Heh.
Just because it’s Good Friday doesn’t mean you have to claim you’re being crucified.
Where’s the tests?
She didn’t claim that you never did local interviews, but that you denied them interviews in those two moments. Your response in no way addresses her claims.
If she’s wrong, then respond to her actual claim. Otherwise, your dishonest whining is an embarrassment.
Uh, it’s not fake if it’s true, Joshy.
Why are you whining? Do your job!
Where are the tests and PPE?
You just blocked a critical bill to aid small businesses, all because it also included help for communities on the frontlines, hospitals, and nutrition benefits for those going hungry. Shameful.
Last town hall? You are the swamp bro.
You are not readily available to your constituents. You’re a freaking liar. How about a town hall?
You’re just a pathetic publicity whore.
Sit down you soulless blowhard.
Previously:
Them what pays the fiddler call the tunes (April 10, 2020)
10 Friday Apr 2020
Posted in Josh Hawley, meta
Tags
elitist, Josh Hawley, Media, meta, missouri, right wingnut, U.S. Senate
Online shopping for just the right dinner wine in a time of plague takes a lot of time.
On Wednesday:
JoyRobertson @JoyRobertson
Hey @HawleyMO you’ve been inside our @kolr10kozl #OzarksFox studio twice in less than a week to uplink to @TuckerCarlson yet you’ve denied us an interview both times. Why? The local constituents sure would like to hear from you.
[….]
8:08 PM · Apr 8, 2020
He was in Missouri? Really? Where did he stay? Just asking.
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
01 Wednesday Apr 2020
Posted in meta
Tags
Corona virus, COVID-19, governor, incompetence, meta, Mike Parson, missouri, pandemic, right wingnuts, stay at home order, trolling
“…Come on, do the right thing. Delay just means more death and suffering. Flatten the goddamned curve…”
Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) still has not issued a “stay at home” order for the state. Because, we don’t know, “rural, something, something.”
Meta.
Yesterday morning on Show Me Progress I put up a post titled “Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor?,” highlighting the Lafayette County Commission’s “stay at home” ordinance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – as opposed to the refusal of Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) to do the same. There has been a precipitous rise in cases in Lafayette County.
The post caused a significant traffic spike. Significant as in the largest number of daily “hits” in almost five years of operating on this platform.
With a traffic spike comes comments and trolling. Show Me Progress is set so that I must personally approve all comments before they’re posted. I see the IP address and the e-mail of the commenter, along with their typed remarks.
I try not to engage right wingnuts directly. By any definition of their thought processes and ideology, it’ a colossal waste of time. I generally delete their comments as they’re in moderation. There’s an old music adage: “You can’t teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.” So, I tend to delete trolling comments and ignore them.
Unless it amuses me.
Yesterday morning I received the following, unedited (it went into the trash):
All the armchair warriors .. Your not in charge!
Till you are in control if your (R) or (D) sit back and be quiet.
Your time to comment comes at the polling station.
Since we don’t have all the information we must assume the decisions are best for the majority
Even if it’s not good for you..
A champion of the First Amendment, eh? And don’t start with, “wait, aren’t you censoring this person?” Don’t be an idiot. The First Amendment applies to government action. If trolls want to spew stupidity on the Internets they are perfectly free and able to start their own blog. A place where people can freely choose to read their drivel, or not.
You think they kept their opinion and counsel, not speaking out, from January 2009 to January 2017? Right…
“Even if it’s not good for you..” Seriously, someone believes that. “The needs of the 1%, outweigh the needs of the many” is quite a moral perversion.
That deference to authority figure(s) “…[s]ince we don’t have all the information…” is the ultimate laziness in the Information Age. Such laziness as a foundation for all other social behavior is so 21st century.
Grammar and incoherence aside, somebody should inform this poor person that the current governor of Missouri was not elected to that office.
This (unedited) also went into the trash:
Your article is a hit piece not news. Governor Parsons is doing a great job. In case you are not aware of this we live in a federal style of government. Therefore the local towns can issue a stay at home order when necessary. The whole state does not need to shut down. Show some respect.
Show some respect, learn to spell your governor’s name.
Something, something, Federalism backwards. Ignore actual expertise (science! math!). Ignore the problems in a pandemic (science! math!) generated by a patchwork of responses from county to county, and town to town, because, you know, people don’t ever travel from one place to the other. [That’s how a fucking pandemic works.] Ergo, tautology. Deference to authority, no matter how incompetent. Obvious ignorance of the concept of exponential growth. And willfully ignoring that rural Missouri doesn’t have the health care capacity to deal with the exponential growth of cases of COVID-19 to come.
If I’d bothered to answer this one directly it would have been: “Fuck off, you Neolithic self-righteous sociopathic prig. How’s that for the respect you deserve?”
There are hotspots across Missouri. Urban, suburban, and rural. The whole state does need to shut down. Lives are at stake.
Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].
Well, Governor Parson (r)?
Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve
Previously:
Gov. Mike Parson (r): Do the right thing (March 23, 2020)
Gov. Mike Parson (r): “What, me worry?” (March 26, 2020
Gov. Mike Parson (r): Still wringing your hands, eh? (March 28, 2020)
Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? (March 31, 2020)
Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? – part 2 (March 31, 2020)