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Fascist pig

27 Sunday Feb 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in US Senate

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Attorney General, CPAC, Eric Schmitt, Fascist pig, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Twitter

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Today:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
We’re in a fight to Save America.
If the Left wants to remake America, they’re going to have to take it from our cold, dead hands…

Let’s go fight. Let’s go win. Let’s go Brandon!” #CPAC2022 @CPAC #CPACFlorida #LetsGoBrandon
[….]
1:48 PM · Feb 27, 2022

Asshat.

Some of the responses:

What America are you trying to “save”: controlling women’s healthcare, not teaching the real history about America, returning LGBT Americans to the closet, making sure people of color know their place, doing whatever Putin wants?

You know openly calling for a Civil War is sedition right? And the last time seditionists called for a Civil War, it didn’t work out so well for them. Just saying.

They already have a flag.

Missouri’s Attorney General openly and shamelessly advocating for deadly violence against other Americans who disagree with him.

Fascism has indeed arrived in America. It’s dressed in a suit and tie and speaks of patriotism while flanked in the colors of the American flag.

Dude, just say, “Fuck Joe Biden!” and quit being such weirdos about it.

Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck you. Fuck your joke of a party. See how easy that was?

This is deeply embarrassing for you, and our state.

He doesn’t care.

Seldom have I seen such stomach-churning pandering. And the ‘let’s go Brandon’ is something you’d hear on an elementary school playground.

And you’re still going to lose to the pervert.

What is wrong with you? Has this type of verbiage and tactics ever created solutions for anyone? Look at Putin.

What’s with the Let’s go Brandon BS? It’s such a bore and none of you are as clever as you like to think you are when you say it. You’re just sounding like little children having a tantrum.

Why are you Republicans all so creepy? It’s like dealing with a H.S. Bully. You fools are losing your hair and you’re still name- calling your opponents. Probably cause you’re too stupid to inspire your base with ideas.

Got it. You renounce your oath to uphold the Constitution and the representative gov’t it defines, and instead, citizens who disagree with you politically will have to kill you if you don’t get your way.

RESIGN!

(“F-ck Joe Biden!”? Really? Are you an AG, or in high school?)

You sound like everyone else on your side. Just another rightwing Trumpster bending a knee to kiss his ring.

Idle threat from a Christian radical terrorist. That’s all you have. No policy, no solutions, nothing but fear propaganda and that people like me, constitutionally protected Americans, are the enemy. As the Ukrainians say to people just like you Go Fuck Yourself

A guy that proudly claims he is a patriot and a Christian threatens violence against other Americans and cheers fvck the President of the United States on a Sunday morning.

You are such an embarrassment for Missouri! Such an awful, awful man!

Create a false narrative and pretend to be the savior. What a discusting piece of shit. Missourians should be totally ashamed that this man is our AG.

You are an absolute embarrassment to this state. Your craven pandering to the lunatic fringe is so disgusting it defies description. That an elected official would actually put the crap in a tweet that you just did shows a complete lack of fitness for office. Oh and Fuck You

You’re insane. Calm the fuck down.

Holy shit! You’re a massive fucking embarrassment

Eryc Schmitt (r) is the current Attorney General of Missouri.

Again, we already knew that

26 Friday Feb 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Capitol breach, CPAC, insurrectionist, Josh Hawley, missouri, right wingnut, seditionist, U.S. Senate

This afternoon:

Alexander Nazaryan @alexnazaryan
Hawley: “I’m not going anywhere.”
[….]
2:36 PM · Feb 26, 2021

Every time we ask, “He can’t be that stupid, can he?” he opens his mouth and we end our conversation with, “Yes, he can.”

The comments are beyond perfection

Hawley gives off extreme vibes of a preacher who won’t let teens dance in his town.

“Can’t act, can’t sing, can’t dance. Can grandstand.”

Democrats everywhere thank you! You’re the gift that keeps on giving @HawleyMO

Psychopaths never just go away.

Correct, .@HawleyMO – you’re not going anywhere. After your term is up, your political career is not going anywhere.

Hawley’s career certainly should not go anywhere after he participated in an insurrection.

A lot of people would like to tell him where to go

And what to do when he gets there

Shucks. OK. Guess we’ll just have to let you know how much we don’t give a crap about you and your book deals or Twitter numbers Daily.

I guess hell is no longer considered a destination?

Well, if there’s a hell, HawleyMO, you already have a reservation.

This Ed Sullivan impression is passable.

Not sure why this person is speaking or what relevance he thinks he has.

I have frequently told him where to go, and also what to do when he gets there. But then I’m a constitutent. Perhaps if I were a tech CEO or perhaps an insurrectionist, he might pay attention.

It’s hard to hear Missourians when you live in Virginia.

Wish I believed in hell. Then I could at least suggest

Well, in a way he’s very correct

Sociopaths and narcissists always double down. Always.

That ain’t up to you, son…

You’re damn right, Josh. You are “No where”.

“…if I only had a brain….”

He must have been teased as a kid, right?

May I suggest the ash heap of history?

He’s the son Trump never had

Strong Doug Neidermeyer energy here.

Maybe he should run in VA.
Since he doesn’t live here in Mo.

I’m here for the battle between him and Ted Cruz to see who’s the crazier sociopath honestly.

Republicans don’t resign. They don’t step down. They *double* down. They lie. They defy. They gaslight. They grift. They cheat. They incite. And, by and large, they face zero consequences for any of it. In America, clearly, “If you’re a Republican, they let you do it.”

Considering you don’t live in MO any more, but pretend to represent us, please stay in VA.

#Parents stop raising spoiled brats like these.

Sad little man who’s desperate pleas for a hug go unfulfilled

That’s what it should say on your resume pal….your political career is not going anywhere you seditionist piece of crap @HawleyMO

Treasonous, opportunistic piece of shit.

What an ugly little seditionist.

What a little tool

You know, the usual…

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024 (January 23, 2021)

After 17 days of silence (January 24, 2021)

Yeah, but those seven Senators didn’t pump their fists at insurrectionists immediately before the breach of the Capitol (January 25, 2021)

A shooting star elbow drop from the ropes (January 28, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): you got your wish (January 31, 2021)

If Josh Hawley (r) steps in front of a microphone today we get six more weeks of sedition. (February 2, 2021)

On the wrong side of everything (February 3, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Crybaby Tour (February 6, 2021)

You got that one right (February 8, 2021)

Senator “Raise My Fist in Sedition” (r) has an opinion (February 10, 2021)

Working on the galley proofs for that right wingnut welfare vanity press book? (February 10, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Indifference (February 13, 2021)

Eric Greitens (r) is on line one… (February 13, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Mail (February 20, 2021)

What is Josh Hawley’s (r) favorite whine? (February 23, 2021)

Sen. Josh Hawley (r): still never going to hold an open public town hall in Missouri

01 Friday Mar 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, Town Hall, US Senate

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CPAC, Elad Gross, Josh Hawley, Maryland, missouri, subpoena

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Elad Gross @BigElad
We got him.

After more than two weeks of evading service, Senator Josh Hawley was personally served with the subpoena at CPAC.
1:15 PM – 1 Mar 2019

In Maryland. Not Missouri.

Conservative morality

24 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by willykay in Uncategorized

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conservatives, corruption, CPAC, Ethics, Milo Yiannopoulos, missouri, morality, Vicky Hartzler, Women's March

Nancy LeTourneau of the Political Animal Blog recently wrote a provocative article on the issue of morality in a pluralistic society. The gist of her argument is that conservative Christians, by making their deal with the devil, i.e. Donald Trump, have not only abrogated their claim to superior morality, but opened the door to a discussion of morality that is more in harmony with liberal pluralistic values. LeTourneau implicitly suggests the existence of a gap between the moral universe inhabited by liberals and that of conservatives. It strikes me that this gap is both more substantive and coarser than LeTourneau in her effort to be fair, suggests.

The difference between the two points of view was clear when the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) revoked an invitation for Breitbart provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulos, to speak at their annual meeting after tapes surfaced in which he seemed to speak approvingly of pedophilia. Just a few weeks earlier conservatives professed to be horrified when he was similarly disinvited to speak by UC Berkeley. The difference? The Berkeley protestors whose actions precipitated the cancellation of Yiannopoulos talk were disturbed by his “free” exercise of “hate speech, racism, misogyny and transphobia.” CPAC couldn’t handle Yiannopoulos speaking “freely” about sexual practices that they consider especially taboo.

Time and again, it seems that the only behavior that can get conservative morality roiling is sexual. Here in Missouri we have a legislature that is all but openly selling influence when they’re not busy slurping the swill ladled out by lobbyists. But it took a sex scandal – legislators hustling interns – to provoke a backlash and, temporarily at least, lend some force to discussions about the need for ethical oversight. The results were rules governing interns (including a widely ridiculed proposal to keep those young sluts from dressing provocatively – our state legislators, it seems, shouldn’t be expected to resist temptation all on their own), and a few limp efforts to address legislative corruption.

Get the picture? If it involves sex, conservatives get worried about morality. Bullying, vicious slurs directed toward groups that conservatives view askance, along with financial and political corruption, not so much.

It’s no accident that conservative and ostentatiously Christian Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO4) objected to the Women’s march as much because of the signs, which she characterized as “very pornographic,”as anything else. I saw lots of signs about the ACA, Social Security and the full range of economic justice issues. To be fair, I also saw signs that would have shocked my very sedate grandmother. Words like “uterus” and Hartzler’s avowed president, Donald Trump’s, favorite, “pussy,” were visible, along with statements that the organs in question were the property of the women holding the signs, and, consequently, not subject to the control of the patriarchs.

Hartzler had much less to say about the issues that brought all those the men, women and children with the “pornographic” signs out. She doesn’t, for example, give a tinker’s you-know-what about healthcare, an issue that motivated many of the marchers – that’s why she’s voted some fifty or sixty times to repeal the ACA – but she’s worried that people who do care about it showed their concern with what she believes to be pornographic signs. It’s all about sex with these folks.

Even the issue that represents one of the most persistent areas of moral disagreement between conservatives and progressives/liberals, abortion, hinges on differences between the way the two camps respond to female sexual behavior. Despite the hysterical evocation of “baby-killilng” and silly labels like “pre-born,” the relationship between abortion and the fear of unfettered female sexuality is, as Sara Erdreich, argues obvious when one considers the prevalence of arguments about whether or not victims of rape or incest “deserve” to get an abortion, but women whose sexual behavior is voluntary don’t. And don’t get me started on Catholicism, female sexuality, and abortion.

Progressives are frequently advised to frame issues in moral terms if we want them to have wide resonance. However, if our concept of what is morally most important differs so radically from the “other” guy, it leaves us with one simple question: How do we talk about the full spectrum of moral issues – which are often life and death issues – with people whose concept of what can be considered moral or immoral seems to be so limited?

CPAC: Ahistorical conservatives get it wrong

29 Sunday Sep 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Al Cardenas, conservative ideology, CPAC, missouri, New Deal, Progressivism

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) regional convention was held yesterday (Sept. 28) in St. Charles, Missouri, just outside of St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, the main activity at this conference was not a measured consideration of conservative policy ideas, but rather railing at the dreaded liberals and plotting the rightwing battle strategy. The invective seems to have run high. One of the organizers of the conference, though, held forth on the liberal decadence of contemporary Americans in a way that points out all too clearly one of the main failures of conservative ideology, which is its lack of an accurate historical compass:

“Conservatives are angry,” Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union, told the gathering. “We’re witnessing the first generation of Americans who, instead of asking what they can do for America, are far too eager to accept liberal platitudes about what America can do for them.”

Liberal platitudes? That’s rich coming from characters who like to beat drums, tootle on fifes and refer to themselves exclusively as “we the people.” Where I come from, folks are pretty sure that government by and of the people means government for the people – we know our Constitution just as well as any conservative and we know what government “for the people” entails. We know that in the first sentence of the Constitution, “we the people” set government the task of securing the “general welfare.”

Nor is the current generation the first to believe that securing the general welfare, making life better for Americans, is one of the most important tasks of government. We know that we are part of a proud tradition that views government as responsible, first of all, for the needs of its citizens.    

My generation, born in the 1940s, was the beneficiary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” which brought us Medicare, The Office of Economic Opportunity, The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, The Wilderness Protection Act, and extensive consumer protection regulations, as well as a “War on Poverty” that was, despite rightwing claims to the contrary, measurably successful in improving the lives of many Americans.

My mother’s generation, born in the 1920s, was  saved from the horrors of the Great Depression by the many government programs of the New Deal – in my mother’s case, literally saved from childhood starvation thanks to a government helping hand. And later, Social Security, one of the many products of Franklin Roosevelt’s brain trust, insured her a secure old age – as it does for me.

My father’s generation, born in the first decade of the twentieth century, participated in the Progressive Movement that saw the expansion of public education, government regulation of business to insure fair practices, electoral reform that targeted the corruption of the Gilded Age pols, income taxes to insure that the obscenely wealthy capitalists of the era paid their fair share, along with the expansion of labor unions.  

Liberals and Progressives know that the work of insuring the general welfare is an important part of government. That’s why we elected a President who promised to reform a moribund, “free market” health care system that served fewer and fewer people at greater and greater expense. We know from sad experience that we can’t leave our welfare to the workings of a blind, free market whose ascendency still animates rightwing wet dreams. From the Gilded Age to the Bush recession, our history tells us that the radical conservative prescription does not work.  

Sadly, Mr. Cardenas and his angry conservatives would like to take us back to the bad old days: no taxes, no regulations, massive financial inequality, horrendous working conditions, a government that exists only to serve the needs of a wealthy elite. They claim to be worried about a culture of dependency. Cut food stamps, they say, but hand out agricultural subsidies to rich farmers and Big Oil; cut cancer research, but throw tax “incentives” at corporations. Mr. Cardenas is right; there are Americans who expect government handouts – and you’ll find them writing the checks that support the political aspirations of many of the politicians who attend CPAC.

I would say to Mr. Cardenas that liberals are angry too. We’re more than angry; we are sick-at-heart that in the light of our history there are still people in this country willing to stand with Al Cardenas and his cohorts and say I’ve got mine, the rest of you chumps can go to hell.

Cross-posted to the DailyKos.

 

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