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17 Wednesday Dec 2025

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Eric Burlison (r) [2025 file photo].

Yesterday:

Eric Burlison
[December 16, 2025]

“I think our goal should be clear and that we will not tolerate criminal activity happening in the United States, and I think if we can cut off the supply of money, it will cut off the political power that cartels have, and you’ll see reforms happen in Venezuela.”

[MISSOURI CONGRESSMAN BURLISON: U.S. MUST STOP NARCO TERRORISTS, NOT PURSUE REGIME CHANGE]

[….]

Who would have thought?

Some of the responses:

Its a new boogey man so we don’t have to fix out current problems at home.

Its going to be hard to convince even marginally informed voters the whole Venezuela situation isn’t about Oil. If this indeed becomes about Oil, will you resist further efforts in Venezuela Representative Eric Burlison?

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We don’t get our drugs from Venezuela

So where do you get yours?🤔

are you asking me personally, LOL???

or are you asking for this country?? Most of our drugs come over land from Mexico or air. Not in little fishing boats over 1700 miles of ocean from Venezuela!

weed store.

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Our goal should be Americans healthcare.

Sadly I think it’s a lot more about the regime change like normal!

Best way to undermine narco-regimes is legalize their product.

Seems hypocritical……We tolerate it from this administration…..so much so, you’re mad that military have been advised not to follow “illegal” orders….

So you are against the pardons of Russ Ulbricht and Juan Orlando Hernandez right?

Now do Pres “400 Tons” Hernandez. While youre at it, how ‘bout CZ of crypto dark-web fame?

I don’t want Iraq 2.0 and this seems like pointless escalation so he has something else in the headlines. Are you cool with risking the lives of our soldiers so Trump can get different headlines?

Has to be the weakest, least-known, least effective, most bullyable member of Congress. Too lazy to deliver a single thing to the district but also so gross-looking he can’t find his way to a friendly Fox News interview.

“…Man, that’s just mean. That’s mean, man….”

Since the 80’s we have been fighting this. Why don’t you just admit it’s about the oil and stop trying to say it’s about drugs to get political support. If it was about the drugs you leader wouldn’t have pardon the x president of Honduras who said he would shove drugs up Americans Noses.

So we shouldn’t pardon drug traffickers? Better tell the MAGA master before he lets anyone else out of prison.

Killing shipwrecked sailors is a war crime. Period. Ask the veterans on your staff. They will tell you. SO stop this bullhockey and face the facts….. there must be some hot stuff on those epstein tapes. Everything else is a manufactured distraction and you, as congress, aint’ doing squat. Susie Wiles says Trump doesn’t need congressional approval.

I agree. So why are you tolerating criminal activity in the White House? Why are you allowing the executive branch to function as judge and jury with no due process or rule of law, indeed, in direct violation of international law? Why are you supporting violations of the constitution in direct violation of the oath you took to uphold the constitution? Explain yourself, Eric. How are you not a co-conspirator in these crimes?

Btw, this administration campaigned on no new wars, and this administration seems to be pushing that line. We want no new wars. And Congress declares war, but you were sent home by an incompetent Speaker and can’t declare anything. So if 47 declares war to detract from the release of the Epstein files you need to uphold your oath to protect our Constitution. The drama and chaos never end. Congress is sent home but gets paid. Make it make sense.

You’re asking Eric Burlison (r).

Translation: “Venezuela’s government ripped off my rich friends and now I need the middle and lower classes to go retrieve the oligarchys money.”

Meanwhile Americans can’t afford healthcare, housing, insurance, daycare

It’s the oil, isn’t it. Went from “Drill baby drill” to “Kill baby kill.”

Trump just wants to steal Venezuela’s Oil asshole
[….]

And yet, you support a convicted felon.

Don’t think, you clearly suck at it.
These attacks will do nothing to change anything.
A simple road trip through rural Missouri will show you plenty of drugs are already there. And nothing is being done about it.

You must have missed the secret meeting where Trump reprogrammed all of you to support his war in Venezuela.
Now he’s admitting he wants the oil.

The criminal activity is you pretending to be a congressman who cares about the people.

You’ll say whatever Trump tells you to say.

Every fascist needs a scapegoat.

“Crime. Boy, I don’t know.”

14 Sunday Dec 2025

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Senator Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Friday:

Senator Eric Schmitt
December 12 at 9:16 AM

Americans do not have to live in crime-ridden cities. We don’t have to accept that anymore.
Democrats have condoned violence against law enforcement officers for too long, and now President Trump is doing something about it.
[….]

“…Democrats have condoned violence against law enforcement officers for too long…”

Some of the responses:

Weird how pretty much no city is “crime ridden”. Crime exists everywhere at some level. Red states have much higher crime rates than blue. The violent crime rate in your state is 28.7 percent higher than the national aveage, as is the rate for every measurable area of crime caregories. Maybe fix that. Google is free.

You will NEVER end crime in ANY of the world’s big cities; it’s always existed and it always will! BTW, all cities have crime, but to say they are crime-ridden is a gross misstatement. You can easily sell that line in rural red Southern and Midwestern regions where folks never venture very far from home. While on the subject of crime in cities, please remember white collar crime; it is not “victimless…”

Is this a joke?

Not connected with reality

We could make it harder to get guns? 🤷🏼‍♀️

There are officers called police. They take care of criminals and crime. ICE agents are suppose to go after people that are here illegally but instead they’re terrorizing the cities and being unlawful. People see what is going on and are they don’t want criminal agents in their cities.

“Missouri generally has higher crime rates, particularly for violent offenses like murder, aggravated assault, and rape, compared to the national average”.

Make lying wrong again

How Thankful were you on 1/6

Jan 6th…remember everyone

He’s another finger puppet

You’re so tough and strong and alpha.

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I usually dont try to argue with your kind , but just think about what you are saying , if you can .
Most republicans dont get jack from the government, they only pay taxes . Most democrats are living off the government, and their plan is to keep ushering in more and more , unlimited mouths to feed , unlimited people to take care of medically. Unlimited funds are needed for everything , yet no funds coming in .
If you remember the federal government bailed California out on day 1 when Biden took office, yet here they are again , California is bankrupt again .
You are really dumb , or you are a enemy of America. The idealogy of your party can not sustain itself , and it is a mathematical certainty it will collapse.
All the fraud that has been discovered, yet you still are on that path , you’re probably upset about the drug boats getting blown up , I could go on and on , you do know you can vote socialism in , but you cant ever vote it out , remember when the California people wanted to rid themselves of Newsom, didnt work did it .
I am not a very smart person , but I do have common sense . You ever ask a immigrant that escaped socialism about it , and wonder why they wanted out . You know China or any other government controlled population doesn’t have a immigration problem , wonder why .
Do you have any children , do you not care about the condition of their conditions when they grow up .
Ask a immigrant

the only true thing you said in all of that was “I am not a very smart person.”

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You make a claim, burden is on you to prove it.

Get rid of crime by being strict. Time to bring back hangings and the crime will drop. Make criminals pay.

You want me to believe that the guy who threatens judges, court workers, his victims, jurors, witnesses, and political adversaries cares about law & order, law enforcement, our judicial system, and human life?

To all of you mentioning Jan 6th, look up and watch the full unedited videos of what really went down. They are out now and over 90% of the jan 6th people were non violent and were given tours of the capital by the capital police. Look it up…

Oh I get it Senator Eric Schmitt sarcasm, this is sarcasm.

Not giving up my freedom for your fear.

There are no laws in the United States anymore. That all ended on January 6th.

Didn’t you guys just refuse to hang the plaque honoring first responders who protected the Capitol on J6?

No one wants a police state.

Baloney. Doing something is not arresting civilians who have not broken the law. And crime was on its way down in most cities.

We don’t have to be represented by criminals, either.

January 6th ring a bell?

J6? How quickly you whitewash

Sending military into our cities is hardly the solution. We should never be comfortable with that option.

I’ve been to all the big cities in Missouri. I am from a small rural town. Nothing I’ve seen in the cities shows they are as crime ridden as you’re claiming.

Almost as bad as people blocking off congress from certifying the 2020 election and condoning it by pardoning the J6 participants.

We see what you did there.

So…move

Heh.

President Trump is doing something about it, like pardoning people convicted of assaulting cops?

J6 was a democratic sherade. Trump said peaceful

Well, that settles it.

Honduran President??

“[Eric] Schmitt is a Fascist doosh”

There is the small matter of those midterm elections in 2026

11 Thursday Dec 2025

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Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 11, 2025]
🎪 Democrats tried another desperate impeachment circus today. It collapsed on impact. The American people are tired of political games, & so am I.
House Republicans are laser-focused on securing the border, rebuilding our economy, and restoring American strength, not fueling the Left’s obsession with President Donald J. Trump!!
[….]

Some of the responses (out of over 2000):

The king leads the sheep

or perhaps…. the lemmings.

the Emperor will pardon the ones who he thinks will do something for him in return. That’s why King Donald I was so upset with the Democrat he pardoned who then said he was going to run again as a Democrat.

I’m equally confused about which immigrants stay and which are hunted down and arrested?

the white ones stay

They pardon the ones that can pay for it. $$$ For a surcharge, the drug lord’s families get to come to the U.S. as well.

Kinda like the Letitia James fiasco, no?

The circus must go on! 😂

I gotta tell you the number of times I have seen Republicans getting ratioed on their own posts because nearly everyone hates them is bringing me great amounts of joy

“we’re blindly obsequious” isn’t the own you seem to think it is.

Midterms are coming.

Midterms anyone ?

How are you feeling about health care and affordability?

he doesn’t care

Laser focused? I had an Irish Setter once that had a longer attention span.

Did you wake him up to tell him yet?

Oh, no, Mark is practicing to be a “digital creator” or “influencer.”

The word is unaffordablity. Such a beautiful word. So awesome and wonderful. We love unaffordabilty, We love things to cost a lot. Another beautiful word is unaccountability. We love to be unaccountable for unaffordability.

Well there is always the midterms

🤣🤣what is your economic and healthcare plan? I’ll wait

Amen so am I. Indiana republicans respected their constituents today! And the grand jury did the right thing. Midterms are coming.

Midterms are coming!!!!!

Midterms, midterms, midterms…..

And how about your concepts of a plan on healthcare?

Tired of political games? Interesting.

Ironic.

Do you blame the dog whenever you fart? Nobody believes that either.

Circus? The only circus in town is maga

Ah yes the stable genius, most honest man in history stands tall again

Keep saying that to yourself.

Great job Mark. How’s the free lunch and free healthcare?

Doing a great job on the economy. Just ask your constituents. 🤮

the problem for people like Alford is that he’ll never get many Democrats’ votes, he’s too far gone for that, so he does what Kevin Yoder did when he realized that Sharice Davids–a Native American, lesbian, mixed martial arts fighter!–was likely to beat him in Kansas, he (Yoder) leaned harder into the MAGA constituency hoping there were enough of them motivated to come out and vote. He lost.

How are you rebuilding the economy if it is stronger than ever?

Laser focused on making these posts. Lol

See you in 2026 🌊

Midterms

I don’t think republicans are focused on those aspects either. Kinda hard to tell with your heads up Trumps backside.

And the law be damned, right? 🙄

Midterms, Mark.

Midterms are just around the corner

Yep midterms are coming

What is your plan to lower the cost of healthcare?

Where’s your health plan?

Shill.

Congressman Mark Alford 🖕

You were laser focus sitting at home for eight weeks when the government was shut down?

This clown said that he’s “sick of political games.” 😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 😂
Stop, bro, my side hurts! 😆 🤣 😂

Well you got one thing right: we are tired of the political games.

Where’s the health plan Mark?

What planet do you live on?

Have you been to the grocery store $$$$

A Republican says political games. Hilarious

Figured you liked games… it’s all you play.

What you mean to say is that you are “tired of political games” unless they serve your interest.

“Rebuilding our economy” destroying it first then “somewhat picking it back up” is like gambling with $100, loosing $100, buying back in with $300, loosing $300, buing back in with $500, loosing $500, buying back in with a $1000 and loosing $950. That’s not “fixing the economy”

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

“I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing.”

07 Sunday Dec 2025

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Eric Schmitt (r), this morning:

Aaron Rupar ‪@atrupar.com‬

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?

SCHMITT: I’m not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances

S: What do you mean you’re not familiar? It’s been front page news

SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad

[….]

Dec 7, 2025, 8:59 AM

The transcript:

George Stephanopoulos: ….Do you support this pardon of the former Honduran president?

Eric Schmitt (r): I’m not familiar with the facts or circumstances, but I think what’s telling here is to try to imply that somehow President Trump is soft on, on, um, drug smuggling, uh, is just ridiculous. It’s totally ridiculous. He’s the, he’s, uh, provided border security like we’ve never seen before. And the fact is these cartels now because the southern border is closed, they’ve gone to the high seas. So President Trump is acting with his core Article II powers. No serious legal expert would doubt that the president has authority to blow, uh, narco-terrorists out of the water who are poisoning a hundred thousand Americans every year. If you watched the SEC championship game yesterday, the Big 10 championship game, combine those two stadiums with the number of people there, that’s how many people are dying each and every year from the poison that’s coming from these narco-terrorists. So the fact is, George, President Trump has been delegated the authority by Congress to designate terrorist organizations. He’s done that. He sent a letter to Congress saying he was going to initiate these strikes. We’ve had regular briefings about it, including from Secretary of State Rubio, including from high ranking officials in the dep, Department of Defense. He’s executing those.

And so now what we have now are Democrats who have such x-ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of narco-terrorists on boats. Yet were so blind to see that we had a president for four years that was operating as a vegetable in Joe Biden.

So, you know, forgive me if I’m a little skeptical that this isn’t all about politics and trying to, uh, take out, um, Secretary Hegseth. That’s what this whole things been about, George. They didn’t want him confirmed, they didn’t want a realist in place, they didn’t want a shift from their pet projects around the world in trying to build democracies in the sands of the Middle-East by the barrel of a gun.

We have core national interests at stake, the homeland and the western hemisphere and the rise of China. That’s what this administration is focused on. The Democrats are just upset about that and they try to create some controversy each and every week. And it goes nowhere.

George Stephanopoulos:: What do you mean, you’re not familiar with the facts and circumstances of the pardon. It’s been well reported all across the country, the former president of Honduras. He was convicted of con, of conspiring to bring in four hundred tons of cocaine into the United States, also, also guns and other materials. Uh, it’s been front page news across the country. Aren’t you, aren’t you curious about that?

Eric Schmitt (r): Well, I’m curious about your pushback on that particular point. With your previous guest you had zero pushback because he’s, uh, giving the Democrat talking points like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad. But, to make the point, what I’m saying is you’re trying to, you’re trying to divert here the attention from what the American people actually support.

Seventy-five percent of Americans support us blowing narco-terrorists out of the water….

[….]

What a dick. But we already knew that about Eric Schmitt (r).

Answer the question.

“…No serious legal expert would doubt…”

No true Scotsman

“…If you watched the SEC championship game yesterday, the Big 10 championship game, combine those two stadiums with the number of people there…”

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

Wait, it’s the Department of Defense?

“…who have such x-ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of narco-terrorists on boats…”

As opposed to, say, fisherman over a thousand miles from the United States?

“…Joe Biden…”

“Squirrel!”

“…a president for four years that was operating as a vegetable…”

Every republican accusation is a confession.

“…With your previous guest you had zero pushback…”

It’s because you’re such a tool, Eric.

“…like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad…”

And yet you’re there, Eric.

There is much hilarity in the responses on Bluesky:

SCHMITT: I don’t know anything about current events, but I do follow ABC’s ratings closely. I’m a US Senator.

“You’re trying to divert here…”

Yeah, tell us about it Schmitt.

If his ratings are so bad, why are you on his show?

These people are just lying ass, moronic, hypocrites who think everyone else is stupid.

Ever notice, that who ever the Republican is, they start talking fast, deflect the question, and or bring up a distant incident not related to the question. Like they have been caught and are trying to explain why they are innocent. They are all the same, feckless adults.

A true Nathan Thurm response.

Well, that guy is a dick. 🙄

Periodic reminder that Schmitt, like his partner in crime Josh Hawley (and hasn’t *he* been noticeably absent recently?) is a disingenuous hack.

Wow, Schmitt’s attempt to do an end run around the question is almost artistic in its desperation, like a student who has no clue how to answer the essay but is going to throw absolutely everything they have at you in hopes you won’t notice

“…I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn’t my fault! I swear to God!…”

Is there any other job you could keep by consistently stating that you don’t know anything about your work?

Senator Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

What color is the sky in Mark’s (r) world?

03 Wednesday Dec 2025

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Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 3, 2025]

We’re cleaning up the mess Democrats made with Obamacare. It’s time to put YOU back in control of your healthcare — not the insurance companies. [….]

They ain’t buying it – in the responses:

Headed for another shut down.
Pass a budget. Talk and negotiate.
Health Care / health insurance has to be covered.
Reimpose taxes on the 1%.
Cut funding for forever wars. Stop arresting gardners and dishwashers

Uh, no. Insurance companies will still be in control.

So what is the plan for Americans to have medical coverage starting Jan. 1st?

they have none. That’s the problem. All they thought about was destroying everything and not about how to rebuild it. See how well we are winning and making merica great again

there is none he’s just running his mouth

Wrong, ACA was because the free market had gone to Shit. Plus every time a bill to improve the ACA the republicans voted it down. All 70 times.

The plan? Or even a “concept”? Would LOVE to hear it!

As a small business owner I’ve been in charge of my own healthcare before and after the ACA. Please tell me how it was better before. After ACA at least I could get insurance even with pre-existing conditions.

Can I get a plan with coverage and cost equal to yours?

Congressman Mark Alford can we see the GOP replacement plan for Obamacare?
Because it has measurably improved major aspects of the U.S. health-care system. Far more Americans now have insurance, access to care is significantly improved, and many low and moderate income families are financially better off thanks to reduced medical cost burdens. In Medicare expansion states, some health outcomes, including mortality, have improved.
Republicans have had 15 years to improve upon this. What do you have to show us?

they’ve got absolutely NOTHING.

News flash: there isn’t one.

they have 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 of a an excuse

Mark, I could get behind a change if Congress would just let everyone move to traditional Medicare.

“Medicare for All”

Medicare for All!

OR, we could just have universal health care like the rest of the 1st World nations upon this planet.

Where is your plan??

Easy to criticize, tougher to come up with a solution. What is your solution (besides blaming someone else)?

I want universal healthcare like they have in other countries.

it is clear they have no idea what actual work looks like. They think posting a meme or doing an interview full of half-truths or outright lies is working. Guess they didn’t learn what a hard day’s work actually entails or they are incompetent at their jobs. They have decided to shirk responsibilities in place of blame. They offer zero substance on matters that are most important to the people of this country. Furthermore, they care not if they are working for us, they are more concerned about loyalty to one person than behaving in a way that is reflective of the job they were hired to do.

Democrats didn’t make a mess with the ACA. Its flaws are almost entirely attributable to compromises with Republicans and their insurance company donors made in order to get it passed.

I don’t think you have a clue as to how for-profit insurance works.
We need universal healthcare like other civilized countries have. Even Republican studies prove it is more cost-effective and saves more lives.
An insurance ‘death panel’ caused the death of my little sister at age 45. It should never have happened. This is the real experience many American families have, no matter what they pay for insurance.
Without the ACA (better than anything you have initiated), many small businesses would never have been started.

As a small business owner and father of three, Obamacare was a godsend since its inception. I’m scared to death to see how the Republicans are going to “clean up the mess” if they can’t even acknowledge how much Obamacare helps tens of millions of people who don’t work for large employers that can get group rates and help pay for their employees’ health insurance! They keep talking about “putting consumers in charge”, but say NOTHING about lowering overall cost. I already get to pick my providers and pick my insurance plan, it’s the cost that is the issue.

Without insurance reforms…your “plan ” is smoke and mirrors

Putting us in charge instead of insurance companies…so you mean Medicare for all? Guaranteed healthcare for all Americans so people can stop choosing between life saving medications and paying bills? Putting an end to medical debt?
…that’s what you mean, right?

Wait a minute here. The tax cuts for the richest were also scheduled to expire this year, but, the heavens be damned, the Republicons rushed to put through their extension, but somehow tax breaks for working Americans are not of the same concern for Republicons.

Have you learned to distinguish between different brands of boot polish by the taste yet?

I keep hearing the words “mess”, “disaster”, “unaffordable” yet when pressed for examples or alternatives, I hear *crickets*

What is the plan????? Oh. You don’t have one

You realize, in order to put “us, not the health insurance companies” I charge of our healthcare, we would basically have to abolish health insurance/companies. I’m not against that, but I have a feeling you and your donors would think twice on that.

So what’s your plan Mark? Right. You don’t have one.

We can’t claim to be the richest greatest nation on earth and not have our people’s basic human right of healthcare met. Developed nation’s without universal healthcare well there is only 1 and that’s us. I don’t think that’s great at all

Wait. It’s almost 2026 and NOW you’re looking at ways to bring the cost down for Healthcare?

Been hearing that since Dear Leader was campaigning for his first term. He promised a better and more beautiful healthcare plan and we are still waiting…

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

Can I have your healthcare plan? You haven’t present anything to us….

You have no plan to replace it. You just want to destroy what already exists.

Is this just your daily required “loyalty to the administration” post? You never have anything but finger pointing and half baked “concepts”.

Remember the good old days when insurance companies could reject you for a preexisting condition. Or cancel your policy if you got sick. Bury in the fine print a maximum coverage amount so if you got sick and needed the insurance it was not there. Or sell a policy that actually did not cover you when you got sick. Kick your teenage children off your policy. Or not cover preventative care to help you from getting sick.
It was so great.
But they an “idea” of a plan.

Without the ACA, insurance companies could deny insurance coverage for people with preexisting conditions. That was a big impetus for the ACA adoption. How will your plan of abandoning people to their own devices of obtaining insurance, even with the subsidies for those with more limited finances, assure those with cancer, diabetes,etc that they will be sold a plan? It did not happen before the ACA, so will Trump’s distain for all things Obama, throw these people back under the bus?

I’m sure you’ll have a healthcare plan right after infrastructure week.

And on and on…

You say

01 Monday Dec 2025

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Rep. Eric Burlison
November 28 at 8:45 AM

A free-market health care system would let individuals shop for the care that best suits their needs.
Real competition forces real price transparency — and just like that, affordability returns.
[….]

They ain’t buying it:

Republicans need to research the law of large numbers as it relates to insurance. Then tell the people why Medicare for all doesn’t make the most sense.

There’s that.

No, too little too late. Your lot has had TEN years and have never come up with anything. Medicare for ALL, like you moochers get on our dime, or leave the ACA alone.
When did your job become doing whatever the fuck you all please rather than what the people want? Do you think we’re all stupid and don’t know our own minds or what’s best for us? You consistently go against the will and the majority vote of the taxpayers and still expect to keep your positions. Hell naw, all you all have to GO! Vote them ALL out!!

We tried that. People died.

There’s that.

A more honest, respectful Republican Party would give the GOP record majorities to pass any laws you wish.
But it would infringe on your loyalties to the Military Industrial Complex. Something all Republicans lie about but bastardize anyone who thinks for themselves!
Our vote on our terms,
For record majorities everywhere.
Care to wager that I’m alone on this?

You’ve had 15 years and did nothing. You’ll never get another vote from me. You’re a follower not a leader

What’s your plan, big talker??
Will we see it in 2 weeks? Or NEVER??

Sounds like the Republican pitch from the 1980’s & “Trickle Down Economics”. We know how that worked.

Please, call it by its real name; For Profit Medical Services.
Designed to line the pockets of your major donors.
Let’s see the numbers on their contributions to yours, and ALL other (Republican, Democratic, or “Independent”) elected official political fundraisers.

“Medicare for All”

Not to YOUR health

27 Thursday Nov 2025

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Last week:

Rep. Eric Burlison
November 21 at 9:37 AM

Affordable healthcare begins with empowering consumers with choices and forcing market competition.

Supercharged Health Saving Accounts, ones that go beyond the scope of traditional HSAs, could be the off-ramp from Obamacare that Americans need.

[….]

Some of the responses:

Dude just described what a company matched HSA/FSA is already.

Concepts of a plan remain unchanged…lol

Look into what industry Eric worked in before his political career.

Love the idea of better and more widely available HSAs…but that doesn’t help those with low income. And how does that “force market competition”? How does that address the cost of pharmaceuticals, hospitals, DME?
Instead of bashing the great benefits of the ACA, why not work to fix its weaknesses. Nobody claims it’s perfect, but unless you’re prepared to set up Medicare for all or another universal healthcare plan, then let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.

So you have the same concept of an idea , have you had it for 10 years

Ok. The bottom line is there is a huge part of the population who does not have the resources to put into a health savings accounts. The problem is your party has no plan. Medicare for all is the answer. Start there

My son has a small business. His ACA premium went up 110%, making his healthcare twice his home mortgage.

Us “simple people” have reasoned that It begins with AFFORDABILITY.
What say you Congressman?

Psst ~ We the people would like a town hall!!! 🙂

You are clueless. Please resign . That would be the best Christmas present ever!

People need to be accountable for their own health conditions to some degree. No one was born obese. People who never get off the couch are bound to have health problems later on. People who did everything right should pay less regardless of health people who did little or nothing should pay more.

Who among us does not run marathons?

Nonsense.

Burlison offers nothing other than ranting against Dems. He has no plan. He has no accomplishments. His constituents deserve more.

Rep. Eric Burlison, how about you and your colleagues use your plan for a year then let us know how it works out for you.

Like you would know anything about healthcare. If it’s one thing the GOP is allergic to it’s working on decent healthcare for this country.

Please provide examples of where your plan has successfully brought down costs & improved health care for citizens.

The illusion of ‘market competition’ was the reason ACA was created. Your idyllic, utopian, libertarian, trickle-down notions have proven to be seriously flawed.
Institutional greed still corrupts most for-profit service industries. Insurance companies have indeed become bloated because they are for-profit entities. They measure success in $$$$ not healing.
That your party has blocked or sabotaged and even tried to overturn it, multiple times, at EVERY attempt to improve the ACA is the very reason it is on its knees now.
People don’t want to shop for insurance. They don’t really want thousands of ‘plan’ options, they just want to know that if they or a loved one is injured or ill that they have access to actual medical services without fear of bankruptcy.
OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY FIGURED THIS OUT!

“…Other developed countries have already figured this out!” Yeah, but just take a look at their quality of life and the happiness of their citizens. Oh, wait….

Affordable healthcare comes from taking out the profit! #Medicare4All

Eric, This does not help those with low paying jobs and no health care plan.

He and his party have no credibility on health care they fought it tooth and nail before the Aca was passed the heritage foundation and Jim Demint vowed to make it Obamas Waterloo. They still have proposed anything meaningful in 15 years. I agree it never did anything to lower costs. The industry threw campaign money at them so they did nothing. They only care now because it could cost them in the Midterms. We as voters need to remember this at the midterms and make them pay for not caring and not even bothering to do shit for 15 years

So is this the too good to be believed Trump plan he boasted about in 2016 but has kept secret until now? You are right, this plan is so bad it can’t be believed.

Seek professional help

A thinly veiled attempt to price almost everyone out of having health insurance.

If you are a healthy 21 year old, sure, there are a lot of choices. The 50 year old with high blood pressure and bad knees, not so many.

Universal Healthcare for all Americans!

What a joke.

I missed the bit in the Bible where Jesus healed the sick then asked for a bag of denarii as payment. You hate free healthcare because it is Socialist. But praise Jesus for doing Socialist things… 🤔

the only GQP healthcare plans offered… bankruptcy and death
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Did an insurance company draft this post?

“If you’re connected to a charity and they want to donate . . .”
WTF?

So the plan is…..no insurance and deal with the fallout….sounds about right
Or we could just try something that hasn’t been tried and failed in the US….

We hate your plan it doesn’t enrich our donors enough. Unfortunately, we can’t figure out how to make you pay more for less without you figuring it out. I believe this is what you actually meant.

Same tired lies.

Quiet, piggy!!!!

We’ve already done this and it didn’t work. Billionaires want even more tax cuts and by golly, you are working hard to get it for them!

Stupidest thing I ever heard you puke

This has got to be the most poorly thought through proposal for health care reform that I’ve ever heard. You can’t seriously think that this would work in the real world. 😆 Millions of Americans would be bankrupted and/or sent to early graves under this lame-brained plan.

Why fuck up something that was already working and in place?! This is nothing but a shit show for the Republicans, because they screwed their followers and now they are forced to do something! Fuck the republican party!

This is a BS scam!! Nothing but a con game!

You’re a joke. That whole concept is bullshit, and you know it.

Stupidest thing on Facebook today.

You are completely clueless. 60% of your constituents in Missouri can’t afford to try and put money in an HSA. They need comprehensive health insurance that pays for their health care expenses as they are incurred. You rant about health insurance companies then take money from them and keep them in business.

…said the self-dealing guy who enjoys taxpayer-provided healthcare.

This guy doesn’t get it. The ACA works. They need to stop fucking with it.

What a bunch of crap!!! 🤮

Bullshit. Another Burlison lie. Health Savings Accounts are great if you have a high income and can afford to put money into them, but middle class and lower income families, often living paycheck to paycheck, don’t have disposable income to set aside.

Conservatives are the most economically-uneducated people on the fucking planet. Ask any of them how this would work, even just a basic explanation, and they can’t.

Why not look at healthcare every other country provides for its citizens? After 15 years of Republican failure to come up with any plan, you gonna fix it in 6 weeks?

Quiet, Piggy!
We’re way beyond tired of paying for gold-plated healthcare for moochers like yourself while you vote to cut or deny altogether coverage for the rest of us.
Vote out this useless screwball.

How ridiculous. Are you going to give everyone a half a million dollars in case they suffer a catastrophic illness like cancer? Or have a baby born with health problems that has to spend months in the NICU? Or suffer a catastrophic stroke that requires months of rehab? Or a devastating auto accident that requires years of physical therapy? Are you really this stupid or are you counting on your constituents being that stupid?

“…Are you really this stupid or are you counting on your constituents being that stupid?” Yes.

And here we are

25 Tuesday Nov 2025

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Jess Piper (D) {2025 file photo].

This morning:

Jess Piper ‪@piperformissouri.bsky.social‬

Trump never had a fan base.

He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.

It’s as stupid as it sounds.

Nov 25, 2025, 7:01 AM

We always knew that. The demi-trillionaire’s hellsite inadvertently confirmed it.

A few of the responses:

Bald eagle profiles for the people who read below a sixth grade level. Easy words they have memorized. White, Race, women, color, black, Mexican immigrant, jobs, crime, gay bad for 🇺🇸

The same folks who fear immigrants living in our communities are the same ones duped into following foreign invaders who via social media are living in their homes and influencing their thoughts and beliefs.
They invited the evil actors into their homes.

When Trump refused to condemn David Duke, it told me everything I needed to know about his base.

This story truly reveals how easily we can be manipulated; it should be a warning to all of us

Critical thinking skills could help. Oh, wait.

It started the day he came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, with the rent-a-crowd waiting for him

“…drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son…”

24 Monday Nov 2025

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Pete Hegseth (r).

Weaponization of the law.

This morning:

Department of War @DeptofWar

OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality. Further official comments will be limited, to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.

The Department of War reminds all individuals that military retirees remain subject to the UCMJ for applicable offenses, and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. § 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces. Any violations will be addressed through appropriate legal channels.

All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. A servicemember’s personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order.

10:50 AM · Nov 24, 2025

“…otherwise lawful order.”

Responses on social media:

Tell us you don’t know the difference between “unlawful order” and “order” without telling us

This is hilarious. He didn’t do anything illegal by reminding those in active duty service that they have an obligation to follow the constitution and that they have not only the right, but the duty to ignore UNLAWFUL orders.

“Orders are presumed to be lawful…” except when it’s obvious that they are not. Service members have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders.

Sound like everyone is on the same page
Mark Kelly: “You have an obligation to refuse illegal orders”
SECWAR: “You must obey legal orders”
What’s the issue?

He reminded service members that their oath is to the Constitution, not to any individual leader. That is literally what every officer is trained to uphold. There is nothing unlawful about reminding troops of constitutional principles. In fact, it’s encouraged in military ethics training because the military’s loyalty must always be to the Constitution above any person or political figure.

the troops take an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not to the president as an individual. While the oath includes a pledge to “obey the orders of the President,” it is in the context of following LAWFUL orders according to the Constitution and the UMCJ.
Kelly was reminding the troops of their oath and to protect what they’ve earned.

25 years of dedicated service to our military including combat missions during the Gulf war. During his Navy career, Kelly received two Defense Superior Service Medals; one Legion of Merit; two Distinguished Flying Crosses; four Air Medals (two individual/two strike flight) with Combat “V”; two Navy Commendation Medals, (one with combat “V”); one Navy Achievement Medal; two Southwest Asia Service Medals; one Navy Expeditionary Medal; two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons; a NASA Distinguished Service Medal; and an Overseas Service Ribbon. Now he faces political retribution from the appointed civilian figurehead in charge of the “Department of War”. Thanks for your service, though.

“orders are presumed to be lawful”
99.9% of the time, this is correct. But presumption is not legally binding. Orders are lawful unless they’re very clearly not. So, advising to not follow **unlawful** orders has absolutely no conflict. They can try bringing it to UCMJ, but it’ll fall through without merit.

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Department.

What’s the department of war? Because we’ll never hear that name again in three years.

Did you type this with a straight face?

Whiskey Pete has fallen off the wagon.

I’d be surprised if there’s anybody left in the JAG corps competent enough to take something like this on let alone excessively prosecute him.

Time to remember your oath of office, members of the department. You yourselves are gonna be liable for what you do. Captain Kelly is trying to remind you of that.

I think the most laughable part of that release is where they talk about the investigation being “impartial”. There’s nothing impartial about any of this. It’s Whiskey Pete continuing the Orange Donald’s campaign of retaliation. This has nothing to do with right or wrong…it’s good old fashioned revenge.

Ol Pete needs to lay off the whiskey for a few days and sober up. This is pure comedy at this point.

This isn’t an official department. Quit posing as such.

What a load of crap lol. Talk about political retribution just for what the ucmj already states. Any common sense judge would just throw any case out for wasting a court’s time. Oh did you also forget, it’s still the Department of Defense without Congressional action……

If only the top JAG officers weren’t fired, they’d be able to weigh in.

Order is Order, duty is duty.

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On following orders:

Fact Sheet: “Following Orders” Is No Defense to War Crimes: The Duty to Disobey Illegal Military Orders

Service members of the United States Armed Forces are required to disobey orders that violate the law. As retired Marine Corps General John Allen recently said: “When we swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution…one of those is to ensure that we do not obey illegal orders.” While the Uniform Code of Military Justice demands obedience to the lawful orders of a superior commissioned officer, it equally demands disobedience when the order given is illegal. Military leaders such as Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland have spoken out to reaffirm that the U.S. military will not commit war crimes: “We are bound by the laws of armed conflict. And you know at the end of the day, it doesn’t only matter if you win, it matters how you win.” Both international and domestic courts have a robust history of convicting service members who carried out unlawful orders. When former Nazis claimed to have just been following orders, this defense was unequivocally rejected during the Nuremberg trials.

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Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the
Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal
1950

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Principle IV

The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.

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Previously:

It is happening here (October 31, 2025)

On the throne (November 21, 2025)