Again, doing nothing

28 Tuesday Mar 2023

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America, Andy Ogles, children, Eric Burlison, guns, Mark Alford, massacre, Nashville, Tennessee

Thoughts and prayers? Prayers and thoughts? Good enough, apparently.

Yesterday:

Erin Hahn @erinhahn_author
Please stop acting like arming teachers is the answer. You don’t even trust us to pick out books for your children.
1:17 PM · Mar 27, 2023

A response:

Not to mention that anyone who has ever worked in a school knows FOR SURE that the teachers who would happily volunteer are that last people we’d want to have a gun in the school.

Yesterday:

David Hogg @davidhogg111
Senator Blackburn took $1.25 million from the NRA.
[….]
12:53 PM · Mar 27, 2023

Responses:

I’m sending her a check today.

America is a gun.

Where does it say that he like to see kids die??

Yesterday:

Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Out to lunch… and ice cream. Sad.
[….]
7:37 PM · Mar 27, 2023

Some responses:

Did I miss your statement about today’s tragedy in Nashville and what your plan is to stop school shootings?

Mark has done exactly zero things to help Americans, zero

What’s your plan to prevent more school shootings then?

What have you done to stop the murder of our children?

Is it getting a little warm in here, or is it just me?

[….] from the party of “thoughts and prayers” that’s pretty rich.

What are you doing for American children Mark?

So, Mark, please elaborate – what are your proposals to end senseless gun violence?
I’ll wait for your response.

You are really solving problems out there chief

You’re just gonna have to forgive me for not buyin’ your bullshit feigned outrage.

Do you have any solutions, congressman, or are you just flapping your gums?

You’re nuts. This wasn’t a press conference about the shooting. This was initially for a women’s small business function.

Yes you and you’re partisan bullshit is sad.

You were a hack on the news & preyed upon rural folks for votes. Gfy. Everyone in KC knows you’re a mook & an embarrassment.

Go on puppet, rattle off some more dumb shit.

What do you plan to do to make it better Mark? Alwsys wondered what plans you have to help or you just another Twitter dipshit?

Two weeks ago:

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Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
BREAKING: I’m excited to announce Fresh Freedom, a podcast cohosted by myself, @RepBrecheen, @RepEliCrane, @RepLuna, & @RepOgles.

Join 5 freshmen representatives as we give you a behind the scenes look inside the People’s House!

Links to Fresh Freedom available below.
5:03 PM · Mar 13, 2023

Andy Ogles (r) represents the 5th Congressional District in Tennessee.

What will they all talk about next?

Yesterday:

Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles
UPDATE: In light of the tragic losses at Covenant School today, this telephone town hall is being postponed until April 11th. More details to follow.

For now, please join me in continuing to pray for all those involved and impacted by this senseless violence.
5:08 PM · Mar 27, 2023

Some of the responses:

Cooooooowwwwwwwwaaaaarrrrrrrddddddddd

It’s time for you to take responsibility for your actions and rethink your choices.

This would’ve been the perfect day to hear from your constituents. Ogly.

Wouldn’t today be one of those days you’d WANT to hear your constituents? [….]

be a grown up and talk to your constituents.

Save your thoughts and prayers. Do something about the guns.

I’m assuming you’re not interested in what we have to say.

That Christmas card photo you took to own the Libs was pretty hilarious wasn’t it?

You’re part of the problem. You. Personally. Are part of the reason this happened.

You glorify guns on your Christmas card. Please visit with the victims’ families tonight and explain why you do so – why you celebrate a Christian holiday with weapons meant for murder.

Are you afraid about what people are going to say to you?

Topics for your next town hall – 1) Lying about educational credentials, 2) Where did the $25K go supposedly for a burial garden, 3) Why did you cosplay with weapons on a Christmas card?

Coward.

Will prayers bring back the dead? Or will they just make you feel better about doing nothing that actually helps anybody?

Understandable postponement. But it won’t get any better for you on April 11th.
[….]

Prayers are meaningless.
But I bet you’re happy you found this year’s Christmas card.

Send in the clown (r)

07 Tuesday Mar 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, social media

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7th Congressional District, clown, Eric Burlison, guns, HB 85, Missouri General Assembly, SAPA, supremacy clause

Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON SAPA DECISION:

As the sponsor of the Second Amendment Preservation Act, I am disappointed but not surprised by the decision from an Obama-appointed, district court judge to unilaterally strike down a pro-Second Amendment law. (1/3)

The State of Missouri, not a federal judge, should determine how it spends its resources. That’s what SAPA does. I fully support Attorney General Bailey’s announcement to appeal this decision. (2/3)

I will continue to fight to protect Americans’ constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, just like I did in the Missouri State Legislature. (3/3)

Clown.

Clown hardware.

What’s up? From 2021:

SS SCS HCS HBs 85 & 310 — THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
The bill establishes the “Second Amendment Preservation Act”,
which:

[….]

(1) Declares that laws, rules, orders, or other actions that collect data, restrict or prohibit the manufacture, ownership, and use of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition exclusively within this state exceed the powers granted to the federal government except to the extent they are necessary and proper for governing and regulating land and naval forces of the United States or for organizing, arming, and discipling militia forces actively employed in the service of the United States Armed Forces. Infringing actions would include any registration or tracking of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition or any registration or tracking of the ownership of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition;

(2) Declares that all federal acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, court orders, rules, and regulations, whether past, present, or future, that infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution must be invalid in this state, including those that impose a tax, levy, fee, or stamp on these items as specified in the bill; require the registration or tracking of these items or their owners; prohibit the possession, ownership, use, or transfer of a firearm; or order the confiscation of these items;

[….]

What else could anyone think would happen?:

March 7, 20233:34 PM CST
U.S. judge rules Missouri state gun law is unconstitutional
By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – A Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws “invalid” is unconstitutional, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday, handing the U.S. Justice Department a victory in its bid to get the law tossed out.

At issue was a measure Republican Governor Mike Parson signed into law in 2021 that declared that certain federal gun laws infringed on the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.

U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes in Jefferson City, Missouri, said the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) violates the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which holds that federal laws take priority over conflicting state laws.
[….]

Previously:

HB 162: Tenthers and guns, what could go wrong? (January 16, 2013)

HB 2174: Guns, check. Sort of nullification, check. (March 25, 2014)

HB 2196: blah, blah, guns, tenther drivel, blah, recycle, blah, stir… (January 13, 2016)

SS SCS HCS HBs 85 & 310 – wasting time (March 15, 2021)

Useless platitude (May 25, 2022)

The Supremacy Clause don’t mean shit (June 20, 2021)

“Constitutional” Conservative

02 Thursday Mar 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, social media

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7th Congressional District, Eric Burlison, missouri, right to get paid less, right wingnut, social media, Union, working people

Missouri Constitution, Article I, Bill of Rights

I Section 29. Organized labor and collective bargaining. — That employees shall have the right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.

Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
People should have the right to work a job without being forced to line the pockets of a union that doesn’t represent their views.

@RepJoeWilson ‘s bill will protect the right-to-work and empower employees – NOT union bosses.
3:51 PM · Feb 28, 2023

Because employers and corporations always have the best intentions for the interests of their workers, right?

“Unionize!” – September 4, 2017

So, when’s the next open public town hall in the district?

19 Sunday Feb 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, social media, Town Hall

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7th Congressional District, Eric Burlison, missouri, not a town hall, right wingnut, social media

Just asking.

Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

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Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
Busy week back in the district meeting with local leaders and discussing priorities for Southwest Missouri!
[….]
2:36 PM · Feb 18, 2023

What about some regular folks? Just asking.

The responses:

Hey Eric, is there anyway we can talk? I sent you a message and I think it would benefit Missourians very well.

Okay.

Do you support @RepThomasMassie bill to abolish the department of education?

Okay.

Maybe. Just maybe, you would investigate requirements being made by youth club coaches that their athletes be mRNA shot in order to participate. Just maybe.

Okay.

Currently, Ukraine serves as a shield for NATO and holds the frontlines.

By including Ukraine in NATO, the US could help to promote military interoperability and strengthen defense cooperation between NATO members and Ukraine.

Слава Україні!

An open public town hall in the district would definitely be epic. Heh.

Anxiously trying to elbow his way to the front row

05 Sunday Feb 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, social media

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7th Congressional District, balloon, China, Eric Burlison, missouri, right wingnut, social media

Me, too! Just slower than everyone else…

Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
The Chinese spy balloon should’ve never flown over our country!!

We need to immediately find out what information was sent to the CCP and why the Biden administration kept this espionage hidden from the public.
5:49 PM · Feb 4, 2023

Counterintelligence, you think?

Some of the responses:

Sorry, you are trying to figure out why the Biden administration doesn’t give out counterintelligence information publicly?

Heh.

This didn’t age well.

Wouldn’t be surprised if any communications between the ‘weather balloon’ and it’s controllers are already in the hands of one or more of our intelligence agencies (NSA, CIA, etc.). Seriously doubt that you guys or the general public will ever know what it was though.

Check with Trump. It happened three times when he was in the White House. [….]

Yes and while you are at it, investigate the 3 Trump didn’t shoot down that the American people never heard about until today.

[….] WOW. Pentagon just confirmed that THREE Chinese balloons flew over the US during the Trump Admin & not only didn’t shoot them down,but he also didn’t say anything about it. Shows you how ridiculous Republicans are right now by only talking about the balloon.

Chinese have done this before . At least once when trump was in office. Soo?

OMG, shut your idiot trap for once.

The blimp [2014 file photo].

No, not that one. It’s a blimp. It was in Missouri for nefarious purposes, but in 2014.

Previously:

Are you certain it wasn’t Rick Brattin (r)? (February 3, 2023)

Maybe they’re just checking on all of their Missouri farm landholdings (February 3, 2023)

Apparently Jason Smith (r) believes China is unaware of any easily accessible map applications (February 3, 2023)

Marked “Safe” in Virginia from the Balloon (February 4, 2023)

They were searching in vain for any of the locations of your open public town halls in the district (February 4, 2023)

The adult in the room (February 4, 2023)

This is you, Eric.

13 Friday Jan 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, social media

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7th Congressional District, Donald Trump, dumbass, Eric Burlison, gaslighting, ignoranimus, maroon, missouri, right wingnut, social media, sycophant

Selective memory. Selective outrage.

Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
The mental gymnastics the media and the left are going through to ignore the Biden classified docs while simultaneously crucifying Trump is just one more example of the absurd double standards that exist today.
5:20 PM · Jan 12, 2023

Ignoranimus.

Two responses so far:

You haven’t been watching/listening to the news. BTW, do YOU condemn Trump’s handling of classified documents as you have Biden’s? Be fair, Congressman.

With an I.Q. as high as yours, The mental gymnastics you must go through just to tie you shoes…
-Wait, what… They’re Velcro!?
>The mental gymnastics you must go through just to put on your shoes must be tiring

Heh.

This was then. Eric Burlison (r), August 2022:

Eric Burlison @EricBurlison
It’s disgusting how the Obama and now Biden administration have weaponized our judicial system against Trump. They investigated him and put him through hell over the bogus Steele Dossier, and now they do THIS. This swamp must be drained. These are the actions of a banana republic
5:27 AM · Aug 9, 2022

Some of the response back then:

What’s disgusting is a lawless President who escapes accountability again and again because of his money, power, and propaganda, and folks like you defending him.

You still a Trump Republican now Eric? Tik tok.

Still is, evidently.

Local man running for Congress can’t think of anything to say.

Huh? The bits of your tweet that I can make any sense of are, in fact, untrue. Obama & Biden had nothing to do w the TON of evidence of Russian collusion in 2016 that had nothing to do w the preliminary notes that made up the “Steele Dossier.” Couldn’t you squeeze Hunter in here?

Yeah. I agree. It’s really weird how the legal system is so hard on criming criminals who commit crimes. And as far as the Steele dossier goes, you do know Manafort is telling everyone and the bartender that he was giving info to a Russian agent to “settle his debts”, right?

Someone who doesn’t know what “banana republic” means shouldn’t be running for office.

Please open a history book sometime.

WHAT? Trump? The person that planned an insurrection because he LOST an election!
No problem if mob HUNG his VP! Incited violence & trashing Capitol!
Took & kept top secret documents illegally!
Wow. You are off course. Trump is a CRIMINAL.

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

Previously:

This you? (January 13, 2023)

Garbo coughs up a hairball

11 Wednesday Jan 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, social media

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Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Eric Burlison @EricBurlison
Biden TOOK CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS from the White House and they were found at a BIDEN think tank.
What were in those documents? Will the FBI raid his home?
10:52 AM · Jan 10, 2023

Individuals in the responses get it:

It’s so depressing that you represent me in congress……

You’re smarter and better than this, Eric. I know you are. I’m sure this won’t be the only time I will have to say this.

Assumes a fact not in evidence.

Cool to see you suddenly caring about classified documents, though. Does being this big of a hypocrite bring you any shame or embarrassment? Serious question.

wow! I knew you went full dishonesty shill mode but this is a new low. You know who turned in the documents? Biden’s people! You know who was looking for it? No one.

No need to raid his home — he quickly and willingly returned them, much unlike the former president

Now, let’s play “Spot the Difference” and I bet you could apply critical thinking to this situation instead of intentionally misleading your followers for “political points.” You’re responsible for removing nuance from conversations and I am not impressed. Leaders should lead.

There was a song on a children’s television show…

Why would they road his home? He already turned the documents in.

OMG – let me tell ya about Trump

Listen, we here in Missouri already know you’re not that bright, but can you not embarrass us in front of the rest of the country?

Just pretend to pass bills, cash your lobbyist checks, etc. Your re-election is pretty well guaranteed without having to further disgrace Missouri.

Sadly…

It’s being investigated dim wit (by a Trump appointee). If Trump had returned the docs he took when asked, he might not be in the mess he’s in.

Oh look. Eric with the talking points for the intellectually dishonest. What a shocker.
[….]

I hate how fuckin’ stupid you are.

So.

Much.

God, you’re a moron.

SB 715: they’ll always have their tenther drivel

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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clean air, Clean water, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Eric Burlison, General Assembly, SB 715, tenther drivel

Eric Burlison (r) [2016 file photo].

A bill, introduced in the Missouri Senate:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 715 [pdf]
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BURLISON.

Pre-filed December 1, 2019, and ordered printed.

ADRIANE D. CROUSE, Secretary. 3039S.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 536.037, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to state enforcement of federal regulations.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 536.037, RSMo, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 1.360 and 536.037, to read as follows:

1.360. 1. To ensure that the powers reserved to this state under Amendment X of the Constitution of the United States are protected and to ensure that the federal government does not encroach on this state’s status as an independent sovereign in a federal system of governance, all federal rules and regulations promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shall be subject to approval by the general assembly as set forth in subsection 5 of this section.

2. No department or agency of this state shall enforce any rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency within the borders of this state unless the enforcement of such regulation is approved by the general assembly as set forth in subsection 5 of this section.

3. No rule or regulation promulgated on or after August 28, 2020, by any department or agency of this state in conjunction with the enforcement of any rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shall be enforceable unless such rule or regulation is approved by the general assembly as set forth in subsection 5 of this section.

4. Any existing rule or regulation promulgated before August 28, 2020, by any department or agency of this state in conjunction with the enforcement of any rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency that is in force and effect after August 28, 2020, shall be subject to review by the committee on administrative rules, established under section 536.037. The committee shall determine whether such rule or regulation shall continue to be enforced and shall make a recommendation thereof to the general assembly. The general assembly shall review all such rules and regulations referred to it by the committee and shall approve or disapprove of the continued enforcement of such rules or regulations. No such rule or regulation that the general assembly disapproves shall be enforceable unless and until the rule or regulation is again referred to the general assembly by the committee of administrative rules and then approved by the general assembly. Any such rule or regulation that the general assembly approves shall continue to be enforced unless such rule or regulation is repealed by the agency or department.

5. No rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or any rule or regulation promulgated by any department or agency of this state in conjunction with the enforcement of any rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, shall be effective in the state until the general assembly, within the first sixty calendar days of the regular session immediately following the promulgation of such rule or regulation, by concurrent resolution, approves such rule or regulation.

[….]

4. The committee shall review all rules and regulations promulgated before August 28, 2020, by any federal agency or by any state agency in conjunction with the enforcement of any rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency that are in force and effect on August 28, 2020, and determine whether such rules and regulations should continue to be enforced under section 1.360. In its review the committee may take such action as it deems necessary, which may include holding hearings. The committee shall refer all reviewed rules and regulations to the general assembly with a recommendation of whether such rule or regulation should be enforceable. Any citizen of this state may request the review of any specific rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the committee shall review such rule or regulation.

[….]

So, you like clean air and water, eh?

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SB 715: they’ll always have their tenther drivel