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We’re just here for the ratio

15 Wednesday Sep 2021

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Last night:

Kasie Hunt @kasie
CA GOV BIG PICTURE: One of the top Democrats in the country got caught living like an elite while everyone else suffered. Elites vs. the rest is the driving force in our politics right now and Democrats have a tough needle to thread both in California & nationwide … (1/)
10:08 PM · Sep 14, 2021

Kasie Hunt @kasie
Democrats need to prove they can govern for EVERYBODY, and if you look at California — it’s not necessarily the best test case for national Democrats (see: concern about homelessness, crime, etc) (2/)
10:10 PM · Sep 14, 2021

Kasie Hunt @kasie
Obviously California is a Special Place — but the fact that a Democratic national star in waiting *faced* a recall and then had to fight hard for it midway through the campaign does say a lot about the potential challenges Democrats face across the map (4/)
10:12 PM · Sep 14, 2021

All that’s missing is an all-caps “DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY”.

Some of the responses:

The person copying and pasting Republican Party press releases into tweets here is literally @CNN’s “Chief National Affairs Analyst.”

Ah yes, because when Republicans win, Democrats lose, and when Democrats win, Democrats still lose.

Shorter version of this thread: I left MSNBC because CNN is the transition road to fox.

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Heh.

Gov Newsom is “living like an elite” because he went to the French Laundry for dinner?

He is Gov of the largest state in the country and will be earning $218,000 come December

You reportedly earn between $1 million and $1.5 million.

Who’s the “elite”?

Democrats are literally the ONLY ones governing; Republicans stopped governing years ago, and that fact has just been accepted as OK by the beltway media for some strange reason.

And Republicans prove they can govern for EVERYBODY? Please describe how they are doing this today?

Such a national media take.

Dems must govern for everybody.

GOP can govern for its base

You sound like NYT Pitchbot, but you mean it

Meta! Well played, well played.

It was a landslide victory Kasie.

Did you hit your head or something?

Ummm…OC even said “no” to the recall…ORANGE COUNTY. Lady, this diatribe is just outlandishly wrong.

This. Is. Absurd.

Is EVERYBODY only the Republicans and Trump?

Now do Florida and Texas.

We see what you did there.

Wut?

So I guess the problem is that Newsome didn’t get 100%, yes?

Seriously?

The ratio, it BURNS!

And on and on…

Meta: we deserve a better class of trolls – part 2

07 Saturday Aug 2021

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Previously: Meta: we deserve a better class of trolls (August 6, 2021)

As always, we’re not allowing ignorant comments like these out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

We get more comments (both from the same person):

Did you receive permission from any of the people in these pics to post them in a public forum? I know you sure as hell didn’t get mine.

You published photos without the permission of the people in them…..
I know you didn’t get my permission to take or use any pictures of me.
The previous article that this one refers to most definitely contained your biased opinion.
“at risk for exposure to Covid-19 or that my IQ probably dropped forty points after listening to their tiresome luddite anti-science drivel.” Your words… biased opinion not fact.

Read this slowly, so you may understand it. Sound out the words if that helps.

Is this your first rodeo?

You, and everyone else in the room, attended a public meeting concerning public business. You chose to be there. There is no reasonable presumption that your presence, by image, and, if you spoke, your words wouldn’t appear in a public account or news report of the public meeting. No permission is required. The meeting was publicly streamed live by the public entity. As a public record I’m assuming that the livestream was archived and, if so, would be available to anyone by request from the entity conducting the public meeting under RSMo § 610.

Do some real research. We’ll wait.

The images in the article are about as objective as anything can get. The audio in the article is about as objective as anything can get. Is it your assertion that the individuals in the images and/or who are in the audio didn’t participate in the public meeting?

The final paragraph is biased? That’s your opinion.

You keep posting comments here. No one is forcing you to do so. If you don’t want them to appear here, at our discretion, don’t post them here.

Previously:

Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – This is why we can’t have nice things (August 2, 2021)

Same planet, different worlds (August 3, 2021)

Meta: we deserve a better class of trolls (August 6, 2021)

Meta: we deserve a better class of trolls

06 Friday Aug 2021

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Really. This is too easy.

As always, we’re not allowing ignorant comments like these out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

We get another comment:

This article is completely laughable and highly biased. The author is obviously incapable of accepting proven research that differs from his opinion.

The post is a first hand source. That is, we were there. We took photos. We published the photos. We recorded audio. We posted the audio. There is no bias in those elements. There is no opinion in those elements. We agree that the public comments were completely laughable. We stated:

…“they” showed up to complain about masks and vaccines, spouting misinformation which would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous to others…

What “proven” research? Cite it. Explain how that works. We’ll wait.

In a later post:

[….]It was definitely not a virtuoso display of critical thinking skills. Thirty or so people in a county with a population of approximately 54,000.

Whining about a local school district “making” school children wear masks, while being lax in their enforcement, while being too strict in their enforcement, and possibly making students follow established policy.

Masks designated for biological use don’t work for paint (uh, wrong type), therefore they won’t work for their intended purpose.

Wearing a mask will cause you to breathe excessive amounts of carbon dioxide, never mind that highly skilled surgeons and medical personnel wear masks for hours. Seriously, would anyone want their medical team to do otherwise?

How many individuals in Johnson County have been fully vaccinated? Definitely more than thirty anti-science luddites. [….]

Maroon. Ignoranimus.

Previously:

Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – This is why we can’t have nice things (August 2, 2021)

Same planet, different worlds (August 3, 2021)

You keep using that word

05 Thursday Aug 2021

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Experimental.

We get another comment:

How can any business or entity threaten its employees with firings to take an experimental vaccine? All while the Biden Administration is letting tens of thousands of illegals into the country that are testing positive for Covid and not requiring them to be vaccinated. There will be many lawsuits to come in the future.

Ask again in a few weeks.

Ignorant sociopath.

From the CDC:

People Vaccinated – Total – % of Total Population
At Least One Dose – 193,199,353 – 58.2%
Fully Vaccinated – 165,637,566 – 49.9%

At this point the only “experiment” taking place is the Delta variant one using self-selected unvaccinated individuals as subjects.

Uh, if anyone tests positive for Corona virus, from the CDC:

People with a current infection: Defer vaccination of people with known current SARS-CoV-2 infection until the person has recovered from acute illness (if the person has symptoms) and until criteria have been met for them to discontinue isolation. This recommendation applies to any vaccine, including the first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

Yeah, good luck with those lawsuits in Missouri:

GOVERNOR PARSON SIGNS SB 51: PROVIDING HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS, OTHERS PROTECTIONS AGAINST COVID-19 RELATED CIVIL ACTION
Press Release
JULY 7, 2021

JEFFERSON CITY Today, Governor Mike Parson signed SB 51 into law, which protects health care providers, businesses, religious organizations, and others from being held liable in COVID-19 exposure civil actions.

“When COVID-19 first struck Missouri, health care providers, manufacturers, businesses, churches, schools, and other entities quickly altered their operations to protect public health and accommodate the needs of Missourians, and they should not be penalized for their efforts,” Governor Parson said. “SB 51 will protect those who helped protect us during some of the hardest days of the pandemic, and I thank Senator Luetkemeyer, Senator White, and Representative Wiemann for getting this legislation passed to prevent these unnecessary and frivolous lawsuits.”

SB 51 limits liability for COVID-19 exposure claims unless the defendant engaged in reckless or willful misconduct that caused an actual exposure and resulted in personal injury. These protections are extended to health care providers, manufacturers, and others who may have altered their practices to accommodate the changing needs of patients and customers during the COVID-19 crisis.[….]

Heh, that may be a reach, but it might be worth a try just for laughs.

As always, we’re not allowing ignorant comments like these out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

Previously:

The party of death. (August 4, 2021)

Same planet, different worlds

03 Tuesday Aug 2021

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We get a comment. In response to:
Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – This is why we can’t have nice things (August 2, 2021)

Glad some citizens showed up to stand up for our rights. Donna Stewart seems rude and scared. Maybe she just needs to lock herself up at home. We don’t want any restrictions or lockdown. Saint Louis county just lost their mask mandate lawsuit. I expect Kansas City to lose theirs in court as well. We are free and have rights

Selfish sociopath.

Uh, “they” showed up to complain about masks and vaccines, spouting misinformation which would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous to others. It was definitely not a virtuoso display of critical thinking skills. Thirty or so people in a county with a population of approximately 54,000.

Whining about a local school district “making” school children wear masks, while being lax in their enforcement, while being too strict in their enforcement, and possibly making students follow established policy.

Masks designated for biological use don’t work for paint (uh, wrong type), therefore they won’t work for their intended purpose.

Wearing a mask will cause you to breathe excessive amounts of carbon dioxide, never mind that highly skilled surgeons and medical personnel wear masks for hours. Seriously, would anyone want their medical team to do otherwise?

How many individuals in Johnson County have been fully vaccinated? Definitely more than thirty anti-science luddites.

Listen to the audio. Donna Stewart was definitely polite.

Who is “we”?

Uh, a temporary restraining order does not equate to “just lost their mask mandate lawsuit”. You expect?

With freedom and rights comes responsibility. Maybe even empathy. But, here we are.

As always, we’re not allowing ignorant comments like these out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

What does that have to do with the price of beer in Germany?

12 Monday Jul 2021

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We’re getting a massive traffic spike from this, posted yesterday morning:

This morning in Springfield, Missouri (July 11, 2021)

A hospital administrator [for Cox Health] in Springfield, Missouri enumerated, via social media, the severity of the increase of admissions due to the COVID-19 surge. The math isn’t good.

Another comment appeared with that post. Trolling. We’re not allowing these out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but are reproducing them on meta posts here, as we see fit:

What percentage of Cox employees are vaccinated against COVID?

And?

More relevant questions:

How many Cox employees continued to show up to care for SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 patients before there were available vaccines?

How many Cox employees contracted SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 while caring for any un-vaccinated patients?

How many Cox employees died from SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 after caring for SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 patients?

Show some empathy and respect. But, this, of course, is Missouri.

This is what we face as a state and nation, and why we can’t have nice things.

Here we are.

Get vaccinated.

Wear a damn mask.

Previously:

Meanwhile, this is Missouri (July 5, 2021)

We get a comment (July 11, 2021)

We get more comments (July 11, 2021)

We get more comments

11 Sunday Jul 2021

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We’re getting a massive traffic spike from this, posted this morning:

This morning in Springfield, Missouri (July 11, 2021)

A hospital administrator in Springfield, Missouri enumerated, via social media, the severity of the increase of admissions due to the COVID-19 surge. The math isn’t good.

Meta: I honed some of my social media chops over eighteen years ago as a volunteer “troll hunter” on a campaign forum for an eventually unsuccessful national presidential campaign. One of my innovations was a “troll museum”, a section where I moved trolling posts and comments to where they would be preserved for observation and public derision – without distracting from the purposes of the original campaign posts. This ain’t my first rodeo.

We’ve received a couple of additional comments. Again, we’re not allowing them out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but are reproducing them here for the purpose of public derision and mockery.

The first, less obnoxious, but not particularly well thought out comment:

[….] Just to play devil’s advocate, please don’t lump all non-Vac folks together. Some are old and have so many underlying problems, even their doctors advise them to pass on the jabs and just not go out at all.

Well, you certainly are doing the Devil’s work, if you believe in such things. A question: What percentage of the population in Greene County, Missouri is elderly (say, over 65) and has refrained from getting vaccinated because of their doctor’s concern for the possible impact(s) due to their preexisting medical conditions? We’ll wait.

Also, read this.

The next comment:

Would love to see all the information on what is the long term effect on all those getting the shot ( it’s not a vaccine) is especially our young ones. Seems like a shot that has never been approved thru normal channels should at the very least be a concern as all indications show that a extremely high percentage of people either will not get sick or will come through the ordeal just fine with the correct treatment. Amazing how many other sicknesses have diminished with covid-19 always in the forefront. We really need to see fact’s on this disease and those cure’s that are actually working.

Uh, it’s a vaccine. Read more, watch less television.

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Also, possessive is not plural. It appears that science and critical thinking weren’t the only school subjects you slept through.

Reports on SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, disease transmission, treatments, and vaccine development, testing, and efficacy are easily accessible via the CDC. Go read those readily understandable reports and studies. Science. Hint: the veterinary version of an anti-parasitic drug available from your local agricultural supply center doesn’t work, but it could make things worse.

This is what we face as a state and nation, and why we can’t have nice things.

So, here we are.

Get vaccinated.

Wear a damn mask.

Previously:

Meanwhile, this is Missouri (July 5, 2021)

We get a comment (July 11, 2021)

We get a comment

11 Sunday Jul 2021

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We’re getting a massive traffic spike from this, posted this morning:

This morning in Springfield, Missouri (July 11, 2021)

A hospital administrator in Springfield, Missouri enumerated, via social media, the severity of the increase of admissions due to the COVID-19 surge. The math isn’t good.

Invariably when a traffic spike like this occurs we get comments, some from right wingnut trolls. If you’ve ever been around here before you’d notice we don’t get a lot of comments. That’s mostly because we’re normally only read by dozens of people. So many that even international spammers don’t bother us with investment solicitations or prescription advice anymore. Sadly, when we get a massive traffic spike it predicts the return of those spammers. Not to worry too much. Our system filters those out for the most part.

We also had the foresight to set our comment default to “moderation” when we moved to this platform. This means that a comment doesn’t get posted unless we approve it. Generally, we approve relevant comments. We save all the violence and death threats, but don’t publish them (really, there haven’t been that many). By the way, when you post a comment we also get your email and IP addresses.

This afternoon we received a trolling comment, held in moderation. We’re not going to allow it go up with the post, but it is such a perfect example of right wingnut talking points and willful ignorance that we’re presenting it here. This is what we face as a state and nation, and why we can’t have nice things:

[….]
Your people are in denial to be honest with you they don’t have a testing process that is full proof we have more false positives than anything besides let’s talk about what incentive the medical community has to follow the push of the government they get paid extra if they flag it person as covid positive. This is gotten out of control and to be honest with you the taxpayers are tired of the medical community only being concerned with money in their pocket this is all bullshit

So, here we are.

Get vaccinated.

Wear a damn mask.

Don’t pick a fight with people who buy electrons by the petabyte – part the infinity

09 Friday Jul 2021

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Pass the popcorn.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r), in yet another flailing attempt at some type of political relevance:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
[Why are you so obsessed with me?]
[Tony Messenger @tonymess
Your daily reminder that @Eric_Schmitt fake-sued St. Louis County because it took #COVID19 seriously….]
8:55 PM · Jul 8, 2021

Uh.

Tony Messenger @tonymess
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
[Good Government Matters.]
9:02 PM · Jul 8, 2021

For the Internets win! In seven minutes.

But wait, there’s more:

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Interesting @tonymess that @AGEricSchmitt is surprised we are trying to figure out what his job is.

Support Trump?
Protect Missourians?
Work on @Eric_Schmitt political career?
All of the above?

@tonymess how much did that lawsuit cost us?

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Yes. Why would he be concerned with an Attorney General misusing state funds to further his political career?

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Why are you so obsessed with: fake lawsuits that cost tax payers money? Overturning votes from other states? Working on a promotion when you aren’t doing your current job adequately? Twitter disputes like the orange oaf?

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
If you hankered for amicus briefs (or else BBQ sent from the Chiefs), then this AG’s your guy, although folks wonder why a high office is used for pet beefs that the majority doesn’t share; seems that democracy’s ain’t Schmitt’s care.
[….]

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Because you’re suppose to work for the people of this state… but you continue to waste our tax dollars with frivolous laws suits

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Stopped developing at 15 yo

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Because you are a damn public servant – we are supposed to pay attention to you. You are screwing the people of Missouri. Do your damn job and stop grandstanding for higher office.

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
If you are paying someone to write these tweets you should sue them to get that money back. Would be way more productive than most of your other dumbass lawsuits.

Heh. We see what you did there.

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Obsessed? Why are you a public servant?

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Doesn’t get much more pathetic than Eric here

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Hilarious! You’re just the Attorney General of Missouri wasting tax payer money and time with frivolous, political lawsuits that you LOSE every time. But, keep up with the jokes.

Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
You kidding me man? You are a joke.

Apparently so.

The more you know…

03 Saturday Jul 2021

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

From the Pew Research Center:

PEW RESEARCH CENTERNOVEMBER 20, 2020
WHAT THE DATA SAYS (AND DOESN’T SAY) ABOUT CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES
U.S. violent and property crime rate have plunged since 1990s, regardless of data source

Garbage in, garbage out – from morons:

ABC News @ABC
JUST IN: The number of Americans seeing crime as an extremely serious problem in the United States is at a more than 20-year high, President Joe Biden is underwater in trust to handle it, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
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5:13 AM · Jul 2, 2021

Someone should look for any correlation between the ABC News results and geographic vaccinations rates. You know, just for laughs.