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There is the small matter of those midterm elections in 2026

11 Thursday Dec 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

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].

Yes, somebody is a fool here, Josh…

01 Friday Mar 2024

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Look in the mirror.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Senator Josh Hawley
[March 1, 2024]
Hunter has a litany of excuses for why he sold access to Joe. He was either drunk, high, or had amnesia.
The bottom line is the Biden family is playing Americans for fools.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Hawley working his main job for Fox News…….wonder why he is on there so much? Would it have anything to do with the lies that Fox News tells and endorses?

For every bill, particularly the recent one that addressed the border, you have had an excuse to vote no if it was not a Republican led bill. For every issue you have chosen to highlight and make worse your excuse has been to blame someone else for the problem and to ignore the work that you SHOULD have been doing to solve it. Criticizing confessions or explanations for being ‘excuses’ is not just projection and gas-lighting. It is dishonest and dishonorable.

Fine, impeach if you must. However he didn’t take the fifth once in seven hours. What ya got?

As usual Hawley vomiting more lies and propaganda.

Unbelievable nonsense. What is all this wasted time, effort and money instead of doing the actual work. So stupid. Vote this do-nothing coward out.

You know you got to be a pretty horrible Senator if the only network that you can get on is Fox News with this crazy woman he’s just a bad seed can never be trusted vote him out

From the testimony:
SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel?
BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel.
SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office?
BIDEN: No, he has not.
SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office?
BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge.
SWALWELL: While your father was President, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China?
BIDEN: No.
SWALWELL: As President and the leader of the party, has your father ever tried to install as the chairperson of the party a daughter-in-law or anyone else in the family?
BIDEN: No. And I don’t think that anyone in my family would be crazy enough to want to be the chairperson of the DNC.
SWALWELL: Has your father ever in his time as an adult been fined $355 million by any State that he worked in?
BIDEN: No, he has not, thank God.
SWALWELL: Anyone in your family ever strike a multibillion dollar deal with the Saudi Government while your father was in office?
BIDEN: No.
SWALWELL: That’s all I’ve got.
So the question is, why is Manhood Man NOT demanding answers to any of that?

Proof and not from the GOP Russian asset. You are embarrassing to the state of Missouri

At least hunter didn’t start a insurrection, what a joke

Senator Hawley, I must now enter a code before I can send a Facebook message. The reason is because the FBI are documenting all my Facebook messages.? Possible Chinese hackers are playing dirty tricks and spreading fake Facebook messages under my Facebook account? I am 77 years old and a Trump voter. I am a model citizen. I ask hard questions on the Facebook format. For example, HAS MITCH MCCONNELL EVER TURNED DOWN A BRIBE? How much damage can MCCONNELL do, until he retires? Colonel MacGregor tells the truth about the Ukraine! The Ukraine War is lost! Why throw good money after bad money? MCCONNELL always crawls at President Bidens feet and begs? Another question is……….Did the FBI turn 9 tons of Abe Lincoln gold over to President Biden and George Soros, for the purpose of spreading bribes to get Biden elected again? Soros is not very popular in El Salvador! Has Soros financed El Salvador criminals to immigrate into the USA? My opinion.

Do you ever do any real work?

No. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

Run josh run.

Missouri needs to replace Senator Josh Hawley with someone who works for the U.S. and not for Russia.
[….]

Why are you silent about trump’s son-in-law receiving $2 BILLION from the Saudis?

The GOP and you propaganda pushers are playing Americans for fools

Going to beat this baseless propaganda to death even when we know it’s all deflection and lies. Going to visit Putin like Tucker did Josh? [….]

We can always tell who wakes up with the ” hint of Trump” on his breath every morning Sen Josh Hawley

This Liar has done nothing for MO or America, he’s a total waste … horrible AG and worthless as a Senator … simply lining his pockets

you’re the fool.

Now what, Mark (r)?

22 Thursday Feb 2024

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

DAMAGE CONTROL
Republicans Are Scrambling to Salvage Their Doomed Biden Impeachment Push
The party’s star witness was charged last week with making everything up. The DOJ added on Tuesday that he admitted Russia was feeding him info
BY JEREMY CHILDS
FEBRUARY 21, 2024

[….]

THE DEPARTMENT OF Justice has charged a former FBI informant — whose claims Republicans used to bolster allegations of a corrupt bribery scheme involving Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma — with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities.

The indictment, announced Thursday by Special Counsel David Weiss, alleges that Alexander Smirnov “falsely claimed” that during two business meetings in 2015 and/or 2016 “executives associated with Burisma, admitted to him that they hired [Hunter Biden] to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.’”

Smirnov added that the Burisma officials also said they had paid “$5 million each” to Joe and Hunter Biden, so that the then vice president’s son would “‘take care of all those issues through his dad’ referring to a criminal investigation being conducted by the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General into Burisma.”

The indictment alleges that “the events that Smirnov first reported to the FBI Agent in June 2020 were fabrications. In truth and fact, the defendant had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the administration when [Joe Biden] had no ability to influence U.S. policy and after the Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016.” The DOJ claims that Smirnov “transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations,” after expressing bias against Joe Biden’s candidacy for the presidency in 2020.

[….]

And:

A now-indicted FBI informant was at the ‘heart’ of the GOP’s case against Joe Biden
After the indictment of the source of false allegations against the president and Hunter Biden, Republicans are downplaying the extent to which they relied upon the claims.
[….]
House Republicans even threatened to hold the director of the FBI in contempt last year to force the bureau to show them the underlying documents, which were eventually released, sparking breathless headlines in conservative media outlets about the false allegations that Biden and his son Hunter were paid $5 million in bribes.

Just weeks ago, one of the leaders of the impeachment inquiry even pointed to Smirnov’s alleged lies to the FBI as their strongest evidence.

“That to me is really the heart of this matter,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio — a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and one of the architects of the impeachment push — said in a Jan. 11 appearance on Fox News, referring to the FBI FD-1023 confidential human source form containing false allegations from the now-indicted former FBI informant. “The most corroborating evidence we have is the 1023 form from this highly credible confidential human source.”

Now, after the source of those allegations has been federally charged, House Republicans say that it wasn’t the “heart” of their inquiry after all.
[….]

Useful idiots.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Last August:

[….]
Mark Alford (r): “Well, let me tell you what’s going on and, and a little about how this works. Um, so as soon as we took power in Congress, uh, in early January, and even before that, early, the formation of these committees started. So, Judiciary, which is run by Jim Jordan, you know him, and then our Oversight committee run by James Comer, uh, both men of integrity, both Christians, and both trying to find the truth in all this. They have been digging, and digging, and digging. This is why you see these bank records that have come out now that have linked directly twenty million dollars at a minimum in illegal payments that have come from, uh, oligarchs in Russia, Ukraine, and some from China, an adversarial nation, that have gone to the Biden crime family. And so, as this is coming up, as they are interviewing more people it does take time. I know the American people, on you and I, are frustrated. And that’s why I pushed [House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy last week when I talked to him. I said, we’ve got to have an impeachment inquiry when we get back.”

Question: “And please make it where we can watch it.” [voice: “Um, hm.”]

Mark Alford (r): “It will be where you can watch it. I guarantee you that. Um, here, here’s the difference though, all right, I, let’s go back a couple years when the Democrats were, had their knives out for Trump and impeached him twice, right, on, on, stupid things that he should never have been impeached on. And yet the Democrats because they were in power and they controlled the House and the Senate, uh, they were able to do that. Um, they didn’t get a conviction in the Senate, so it was really control in the House. But my point is, is that, um, they made a mockery [“They did.”] out of the jud…, out of the impeachment process. We cannot, you know, I know that Republicans are always like the nice guys. But we’ve got to protect our republic. [voice: “Yes.”] And part of that protecting our republic is defending the Constitution. [voice: “Yes.”] And part of defending the Constitution is doing it the right way. [“it is.”] Congress has two big powers, to declare war, and to impeach. And if we don’t do it in the right way we’re not gonna get Democrats on board with us to see the truth and admit the truth. And to convict in the Senate. And we’re going to do, do a disservice to our future generations by continuing to make a mockery out of impeachment [inaudible]. Now we’re, we’re gonna have an impeachment inquiry. I’m ninety-nine percent sure of that. um, it, but it may take a while to get it done. There’s still new evidence that’s coming out. Uh, every day they’re interviewing someone new. They subpoenaed the IRS agents, the investigators who’ve looked into this. And they’re going to make them talk on Capitol hill.”
[….]

It’s a clown show.

Previously:

Mark Alford (r) – Town Hall – Warrensburg, Missouri – August 31, 2023 – a self-sustaining information feedback loop (September 3, 2023)

Fiddling while the world burns

13 Wednesday Dec 2023

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Today in the right wingnut controlled U.S. House of Representatives:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 720
H RES 918 RECORDED VOTE 13-Dec-2023 5:46 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Joseph Biden, President of the United States of America

—- AYES 221 —

Alford
Burlison
Graves (MO)
Luetkemeyer
Smith (MO)
Wagner

—- NOES 212 —

Bush
Cleaver

—- NOT VOTING 1 —

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican.

Previously:

Dancing like a child desperately searching for a restroom after chugging a 2 liter bottle of caffeinated soda (December 13, 2023)

Dancing like a child desperately searching for a restroom after chugging a 2 liter bottle of caffeinated soda

13 Wednesday Dec 2023

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

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Congressman Mark Alford
[December 13, 2023]
Today, the House is set to vote on an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
I’ve long called for this impeachment inquiry and for us to follow the facts wherever they may lead.
House Republicans will uncover the truth.
[….]

There is much hilarity in the responses:

Wishes in one hand and BULLSH*T in the other. The GQP has been desperately searching for SOME thing for over 5 years and hasn’t come up with a single thing – AGAIN. BENGHAZI!! HER EMAILS!! [….]

Trump pulling your Partys’ puppet strings much?
Jack Smith’s Supreme Court move is really eating at the Orange one.
He will be on trial before elections and is throwing a tantrum.
So let’s distract from important matters of budget and money to Ukraine and Israel by spewing this nonsense.
You and your ilk do not deserve the salary and benefits we the taxpayers are supporting you with!

“Republicans will uncover the truth.” After years of investigating Biden Republicans have found nothing illegal. But go ahead and do this then go back to complaining about the border. Do something!

“House Republicans will uncover the truth.”
I spit out my coffee I laughed so hard.
The GOP knows the truth like an Orange Defendant weighs 215 pounds.

they won’t even let Hunter Biden testify publicly. That says it all.

Man, there are House Republicans who still can’t accept the truth that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Your own supporters are posting that there isn’t a real war between Ukraine and Russia while your caucus is preparing to deliver a giant merry Christmas present to Vladimir Putin. The justice department is prosecuting Hunter Biden and, unlike the felons who were close to Donald Trump, Hunter isn’t getting a pardon. So far there has been no evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors” as required for impeachment in the Constitution but I guess that distracts from House Republicans inability to pass anything that would actually help people. Very disappointed in you. I expected better than a MAGA echo.

Jason Woodson – And Trump never cheated on a pregnant Melania with a porn star.
And Trump is going to build a great big beautiful wall. And Mexico will pay for it.
And Trump is going to repeal and replace ObamaCare. In fact, the replacement plan is on the shelf and ready for release anytime.
And Trump never sexually assaulted anyone.
Alford should tell us again about House Republicans and truth.
Hey, I wonder if in addition to the truck payments, the House Republicans will find Hunter also reimbursed his dad for an oil change on the truck. OMG!!!!

[….]
I’m laughing at the gullible fools in the GOP – including you and Alford – to believe anything the Serial Orange Liar says.
Graduated top of his class, right?

The most-compromised President in history?
Hardly, Mark, but you never miss a chance at hyperbole.
There’s nothing there, Mark. Waste the time and money on this frivolous pursuit, then profess fiscal responsibility.

“We don’t have the evidence now, but we may find it later.”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas)

“We don’t have the evidence now, but we may find it later.”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas)

Oh goodie the clown shows continues

Jason Smith (r) once again shows the nation what Missouri is all about

30 Saturday Sep 2023

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Sadly.

Jason Smith (r) [2022 file photo].

On the republican impeachment farce:

The impeachment clown show begins
Published by digby on September 29, 2023

[….]

The House Republicans have been promising that the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden was going to be filled with fireworks from the word go. We would see evidence of bribery and extortion and payoffs from foreign companies in the tens of millions of dollars, the “Biden Crime Family” would finally be exposed as the international gangsters they are Donald Trump would be exonerated. Or something. They held their first hearing yesterday and all those fireworks blew up in their faces.

[….]

It would be one thing if they had even bothered to prepare for this silly hearing. But clearly they did not. The day before the hearing we caught a glimpse of just how bad it was going to be when Jason Smith, R-Mo., the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, one of the committees tasked with pursuing the “inquiry,” was asked a question by NBC reporter Ryan Nobles during a press conference.

[….]

Go. Read the whole thing.

Joe Biden lives rent free inside Jason Smith’s (r) head.

Joe Biden (D) [2020 file photo].

Don’t think of $2,000,000,000.00

13 Wednesday Sep 2023

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Jarded Kushner. Saudi Public Investment Fund.

…In addition to Kushner’s financial ties to the Saudi government, Trump’s LIV golf tournament is being funded for an undisclosed amount by the Saudi Arabian government…

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[September 12, 2023]
Today, Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct—a culture of corruption.
With the Speaker’s announcement, the House of Representatives now has the full weight of the Constitution behind it’s investigation.
Joe Biden’s pattern of behavior is deeply disturbing and concerning for our national security.
Biden has repeatedly been caught lying about critically important information from millions in foreign payments and 10% cut for the “Big Guy” to his business interactions with Hunter and his associations with 20 shell companies.
We need the bank records. We will soon get the answers that the American people are owed.

“its”

“…now has the full weight of the Constitution behind it’s investigation…”

WTF does that mean? Isn’t the Constitution in effect at all times?

“…Joe Biden’s Donald Trump’s pattern of behavior is deeply disturbing and concerning for our national security…”

Fixed it for you.

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

Some of the responses:

Talk about political moves. The evidence on trump is overwhelming. Not these lies about Biden. Biden is managing our relationships around the world so well and moving our economy from the bottom up.

Biden is winning the proxy war with Russia while holding the NATO Allies together. He is also effectively managing the asymmetrical war with the global fascists, while holding off the corporatists and anti-Democracy MAGA fascists here at home (like Alford).

the evidence on Trump has been overwhelming since 2016, yet nothing

Well, from Mark Alford (r), that is.

The only goal of a Biden impeachment inquiry is to distract from the twice impeached Florida man who is charged with 91 federal crimes.

No the republicans have Not uncovered anything. Except a Dad that Loves his son. You are just spitting in the wind.
How about asking HOW AND WHY Jared, son in law of trump, got TWO BILLION DOLLARS FRIM SAUDI? What did the trumps give them?

Well don’t you think you should first come up with some evidence? [….]

The only goal of a Biden impeachment inquiry is to distract from the twice impeached Florida man who is charged with 91 federal crimes.

Baseless. And still supporting previous for his subversive actions. Shame on you all for wasting Taxpayer time and $$.

You have coffee shops and radio shows to do. That’s your specialty.

Heh.

Mark, don’t you think you need evidence? #Fascism #TrumpCrimeFamily #useless

Trump:
I need you (GA) to find me 11,780 votes.
I need you (Ukraine) to produce dirt on Joe Biden.
I need you (Congress) to open an inquiry out of thin air.
The way he does one thing is the way he does everything. He’s a mobster, through and through.
This traitor can’t go to prison fast enough.

Covering fire from the Hairspray Brigade to try to lay down cover for the Orange Traitor in Chief.

But won’t SHE take his place..the other puppet

Kamala Harris (D) [2019 file photo].

Vice-President Kamala Harris lives rent free inside their heads.

Previously:

You spelled “Trump” wrong (August 30, 2023)

Mark Alford (r) – Town Hall – Warrensburg, Missouri – August 31, 2023 (September 1, 2023)

Mark Alford (r) – Town Hall – Warrensburg, Missouri – August 31, 2023 – Remarks (September 1, 2023)

The voice of God (September 1, 2023)

Mark Alford (r) – Town Hall – Warrensburg, Missouri – August 31, 2023 – Q and A (September 2, 2023)

Mark Alford (r) – Town Hall – Warrensburg, Missouri – August 31, 2023 – a self-sustaining information feedback loop (September 3, 2023)

It’s not mass murder, it’s single intentional deaths, one after another, really fast (September 5, 2023)

You spelled “Trump” wrong…again (September 12, 2023)

Chutzpah

26 Thursday Aug 2021

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אַ שאַנדע פֿאַר די גוים

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday afternoon:

Dylan Johnson @RealDylanMO
[….] BREAKING: Missouri US Senate frontrunner @EricGreitens tells Steve Bannon he WOULD vote to impeach @JoeBiden for dereliction of duty in #Afghanistan crisis.

#WarRoomPandemic #MOSEN
[….]
2:11 PM · Aug 25, 2021

“Frontrunner”.

Some of the responses:

Former Governor Greitens, just so you know, only the House votes on impeachment. You’re running for the Senate.

Just thought I’d clarify that for you.

Yes, @EricGreitens. Please share with us your well considered judgments from the unassailable moral high ground on which you stand. [….]

Ugh. Please, no more Greitans. His sense of right & wrong is missing. He is wrong for Missouri.

Just going with the flow.

This is weird…

It always has been.

Maybe prep your guy on the constitution next time, Dylan.

This reads like an Onion article title

“…political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize.” – Tom Lehrer

Greatest should just get a regular 9-5 and leave Missouri politics alone. He’s done enough damage to our state.

And a few more.

In closing:

sean @ssnich
strongly support @EricGreitens’ call for robust public dialogue on impeachable conduct
7:09 PM · Aug 26, 2021

Campaign supplies.

Previously:

Oh, my. (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 2 (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 3 (January 11, 2018)

אַ שאַנדע פֿאַר די גוים and *IOKIYAR (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 4 (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 5 (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 6 (January 12, 2018)

Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): not exactly a ringing endorsement (January 12, 2018)

Gov. Eric Greitens (r): piping (January 16, 2018)

Oh, my – part 7 (January 16, 2018)

Waiting… (January 19, 2018)

Oh, my – part 8 (January 29, 2018)

The unanswered question (February 8, 2018)

RSMo § 565.252 (February 22, 2018)

Well, you were the one who used a blindfold and tape. (February 22, 2018)

Well, he was the one who used a blindfold and tape. (February 23, 2018)

A few words of advice (February 26, 2018)

Eric Greitens (r) and the House – pass the popcorn (March 6, 2018)

Oh, my – part 9 (March 6, 2018)

“That’s not how you spell bare.” (March 7, 2018)

It’s their world, the rest of us only get to live in it (April 8, 2018)

The popcorn is ready (April 10, 2018)

The Report (April 11, 2018)

Call it what it is (April 11, 2018)

Go away, asshole. (April 12, 2018)

Sen. Denny Hoskins (r-21): impeach Greitens (April 13, 2018)

Getting ironical about Greitens (April 13, 2018)

Standing ovation (April 14, 2018)

Quid pro quo (April 16, 2018)

It’s a fine mess he’s gotten himself into… (April 17, 2018)

Really, just go away… (April 17, 2018)

HR 6783: Impeachment (April 18, 2018)

Unhinged (April 19, 2018)

Really unhinged (April 19, 2019)

Seriously, just go away already… (April 20, 2018)

He doth protest too much, methinks… (April 20, 2018)

No, Chuck Raasch, nobody’s giving Eric Greitens’ scandals short shrift (April 22, 2018)

Does somebody want to tell them? (April 25, 2018)

Our life on the “D List” (April 30, 2018)

The Report – supplement (May 1, 2018)

HR 7432: Impeachment (May 1, 2018)

The second report (May 2, 2018)

Rep. Gina Mitten (D): shining a light in the dark money campaign finance neighborhood (May 2, 2018)

The process begins (May 4, 2018)

The Petition for a Special Session of the General Assembly to consider “disciplinary actions against Governor Eric R. Greitens” (May 4, 2018)

Campaign Finance: in the news (May 6, 2018)

Oxford coma (May 7, 2018)

A definition (May 13, 2018)

Felony invasion of privacy case against Eric Greitens (r) dropped (May 14, 2018)

“So far, so good…” (May 14, 2018)

Jean Peters Baker appointed as special prosecutor in Greitens (r) case (May 21, 2018)

Missouri House Special Investigative Committee on Oversight – transcript of witness deposition – cross examination (May 23, 2018)

Missouri House Special Investigative Committee on Oversight – transcript of witness deposition – on Koster and Greitens (May 22, 2018)

HR 2: Special Investigative Committee on Oversight – the process for impeachment (May 22, 2018)

Missouri House Special Investigative Committee on Oversight – Scott Faughn (May 23, 2018)

Missouri House Special Investigative Committee on Oversight – not going to allow “cherry picking” (May 25, 2018)

Missouri House Special Investigative Committee on Oversight – Michael Hafner (May 29, 2018)

Eric Greitens (r) resigns as Governor of Missouri (May 29, 2018)

State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D) on the resignation of Eric Greitens (r) as Governor of Missouri (May 29, 2018)

Senator Jill Schupp (D) on the resignation of Eric Greitens (r) as Governor of Missouri (May 29, 2018)

Statement by Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker on the resignation of Eric Greitens (r) as Governor of Missouri (May 29, 2018)

Representative Stacey Newman (D) on the resignation of Eric Greitens (r) as Governor of Missouri (May 29, 2018)

State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D): about those legal bills for Eric Greitens (r) submitted to the state… (June 9, 2018)

Eric Greitens (r) – quarterly campaign finance report – July 2018 (July 16, 2018)

Final Report of the Special Investigative Committee on Oversight in the matter of Governor Eric R. Greitens (January 2, 2019)

Eric Greitens (r): Were they stored in the basement? (March 31, 2020)

Eric Greitens (r): there’s always 2024 (June 10, 2020)

Bad timing (March 20, 2021)

Stock up on those campaign supplies (March 22, 2021)

That’s not how this works… (March 23, 2021)

Gaslighter (May 15, 2021)

Desperation (June 24, 2021)

The campaign continues (July 11, 2021)

A real president

13 Saturday Feb 2021

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Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].

Statement by President Joe Biden on the Senate Vote in the Trial of Donald Trump
FEBRUARY 13, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous, violent mob on January 6, 2021.

Today, 57 Senators – including a record 7 Republicans – voted to find former President Trump guilty for inciting that deadly insurrection on our very democracy. The Senate vote followed the bipartisan vote to impeach him by the House of Representatives. While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute. Even those opposed to the conviction, like Senate Minority Leader McConnell, believe Donald Trump was guilty of a “disgraceful dereliction of duty” and “practically and morally responsible for provoking” the violence unleashed on the Capitol.

Tonight, I am thinking about those who bravely stood guard that January day. I’m thinking about all those who lost their lives, all those whose lives were threatened, and all those who are still today living with terror they lived through that day. And I’m thinking of those who demonstrated the courage to protect the integrity of our democracy – Democrats and Republicans, election officials and judges, elected representatives and poll workers – before and after the election.

This sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile. That it must always be defended. That we must be ever vigilant. That violence and extremism has no place in America. And that each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.

That is how we end this uncivil war and heal the very soul of our nation. That is the task ahead. And it’s a task we must undertake together. As the United States of America.

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13 Saturday Feb 2021

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

This afternoon:

Roll Call Vote 117th Congress – 1st Session
Vote Summary
Question: Guilty or Not Guilty (Article of Impeachment Against Former President Donald John Trump)
Vote Number: 59
Vote Date: February 13, 2021, 03:39 PM
Required For Majority: 2/3 Vote
Result: Not Guilty

Measure Number: H.Res. 24 (A resolution impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.)
Measure Title: A resolution impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Vote Counts
Guilty 57
Not Guilty 43
[….]

GUILTY —57

Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Romney (R-UT)
Rosen (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sasse (R-NE)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Toomey (R-PA)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NOT GUILTY —43

Blunt (R-MO)
Hawley (R-MO)
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[emphasis added]

No statement from Josh Hawley (r):

From Roy Blunt (r)

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

BLUNT STATEMENT ON VOTE TO ACQUIT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP
February 13, 2021

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement today after voting against the conviction of former President Donald Trump:

“I said before this trial started that I believe the constitutional purpose for presidential impeachment is to remove a president from office, not to punish a person after they have left office. None of the arguments presented changed my view that this was an unconstitutional proceeding. Impeachment is not a tool that should be used to settle political scores against a private citizen.”

Bullshit.