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“Some of my best friends are Jewish”

23 Monday Jun 2025

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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4th Congressional District, Eschatology, former newsreader, Israel, Jews, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media, that ridiculous hat

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

On Saturday:

Mark Alford
June 21 at 10:46 PM

Just got this text from Jewish friend in New York City whom we just visited in his home two days ago:

“Dear Mark- THANK YOU and thank God Almighty for leading President Trump to overcome the far right isolationist and far left Iran Apologists in the cracks of our government and order the final nails to be put in the coffin of Iran’s nuclear program. Shabbat ended at about 9:30pm tonight and we don’t use tv or phones of internet in the sabbath, so we turned on the news tonight to learn that this great achievement has happened. I literally feel like tens of millions of American and Israeli lives have just been saved from a nuclear holocaust that would have happened in a few years to come if Iran was not stopped. I am overwhelmed with relief and gratitude.”

New York? Uh, Mark, don’t you know any Jews in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District you can quote anonymously? Just asking.

Performative eschatological bullshit :

We’re not a prop for your apocalyptic right wingnut fever dream (October 21, 2023)

“…that would have happened in a few years to come if Iran was not stopped…”

So, then, why wasn’t Congress asked for approval as required by law if the threat was “…in a few years to come…”? Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but “…in a few years to come…”

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

Praise God! Great stuff Mark! Prayers my friend for you and your decisions for Christians worldwide. 👍🔥🙏👊

Yeah, those Jews are just props.

Didn’t he run on “we need to focus on the people here”?

I can make up quotes too!

Anonymous quotes.

All except he needed congressional approval to do what he did!

There’s that.

We have friends in Israel… They are grateful, too.

Didn’t ask their friends in Iran. Oh, wait…

Being Jewish doesn’t mean endorsing endless war or blind loyalty to Israel’s government. Quoting one Zionist friend isn’t justification for reckless escalation—it’s propaganda dressed as policy.

right?! His own people told him that 2 weeks ago. They do not have nuclear capability or weapons presently. Trump and his tech “brologarchs” are the only clear and present danger to this country.

History repeating itself. We lost too many lives in Iraq because of a lie.

Don’t forget that the same political leaders who are condemning the strike on Iran are the same ones that have been wanting the US to get involved in the Ukraine-Russia war and continually voting to fund that war. I am not for war at all but if taking out nuclear development facilities and bio labs keeps the world safer then perhaps those targeted attacks need to occur. Hopefully the message got delivered. Our biggest threat is the sleeper cells that have imbedded in our country due to the open borders. Again, the same political leaders who are condemning the strike on Iran are the same ones protecting those terrorist sleeper cells.

Who said anything about bio labs? That’s so last Iraq War. Try to keep up.

you are exactly right we still have enemies within that are being protected by some people in our own government!

Dolchstoßlegende. If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done had you lived in Germany in the 1930s, you’re doing it now.

There’s a reason there’s a right way to do things. An illegal war mongerer creating a war without Congress is not what we as a country need. He has put our troops and American in harms way.
He obviously planned this, building up troops, ships, and arsenal in that region specific, for months.
Stop justifying an illegal act, again.

What a disgusting American! You just said on TV that President Biden left American Servicemen in Afghanistan to die. Disgraceful comment.

T did not have the authority to do this on his own. He has gone so far rogue that if he isn’t reigned in by people like you, Mark, America is going to pay a price higher than anyone wants. Even most Republicans.
There is a reason people were protesting against kings/dictators. He has become a one-man band and has bypassed the power YOU are supposed to have. Even if you were going to support this move, he should have consulted Congress but did not. How does it feel to be basically powerless and ineffective?

Congress is supposed to be the ones to approve war not the president but Congress doesn’t want to do anything anymore so why do we have them?

They like the health insurance.

unfortunately, this is what flailing fascists do. If you can’t lead, launch missiles. That should keep everyone busy for awhile.

Now we need to lock and load. How many sleeper cells came into the U.S through our unsecured borders?

Do you mean those people wearing masks who are kidnapping people of the streets? Just asking.

Previously:

No War with Iran Rally – Kansas City – January 4, 2020 (January 4, 2020)

No War With Iran – Kansas City – January 9, 2020 (January 9, 2020)

Fringe Lunatic (June 17, 2025)

“…That was somewhat pre-nuclear. It was the nuclear age but nothing like it is today…” (June 20, 2025)

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (June 21, 2025)

“We’ll all go together when we go…” (June 22, 2025)

Mark Alford (r): banging the drum of war (June 22, 2025)

Eschatology

12 Tuesday Nov 2024

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ambassador, Arkansas, Donald Trump, Eschatology, Israel, Mike Huckabee, parole, right wingnut, Wayne Dumond

“…Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!…” How, exactly? Just asking.

Sixteen years ago:

Mike Huckabee (r) [2008 file photo].

A news item today:

Trump picks Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel

President-elect Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) to serve as ambassador to Israel, a major diplomatic role that will take on added importance amid heightened tensions in the Middle East.

“Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader in Faith for many years,” Trump said in a statement. “He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!”

[….]

It was the worst of times; it was the end of times.

Previously:

We’re not a prop for your apocalyptic right wingnut fever dream (October 21, 2024)

The Senators from Екатеринбург vote “No”

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, Josh Hawley, US Senate

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aid, Donald Trump, Eric Schmitt, Fascist pigs, Israel, Josh Hawley, missouri, Putin, Taiwan, U.S. Senate, Ukraine, useful idiots, Virginia

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

The vote early this morning in the U.S. Senate to provide $95.34 billion in supplementary aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan:

Roll Call Vote 118th Congress – 2nd Session
Vote Summary

Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 815, as Amended)
Vote Number: 48
Vote Date: February 13, 2024, 05:14 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Bill Passed

Measure Number: H.R. 815 (A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes.)

Measure Title: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes.

Vote Counts:
YEAs 70
NAYs 29
Not Voting 1
[….]
Hawley (R-MO), Nay
Schmitt (R-MO), Nay

[….]

[emphasis added]

Following Vladimir Putin’s wishes.

“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

Useful idiots.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Same difference.

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

Jumping on the band wagon

06 Wednesday Dec 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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4th Congressional District, anti-semitism, former newsreader, Israel, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media

Today from Mark Alford (r):

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 6, 2023]
Elise Stefanik: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?”
Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn: It’s ok to call for the genocide of Jews, depending on the context.
The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.
This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”
They should resign in disgrace.
[….]

There was hilarity in the responses:

Y’all are just hiding the fact that y’all NEED Jewish folks to convert in the Apocolypse… it was NEVER about actual anti-semitism.

Nailed it.*

And, not making any sense:

Can a Jewish person truly trust a Harvard educated doctor? The same colleges that allow this rhetoric have not allowed Conservative speakers on campus because they could incite violence. SMH

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

* Go ahead, laugh. You got it.

Previously:

We’re not a prop for your apocalyptic right wingnut fever dream (October 21, 2023)

Mark Alford (r): regurgitating right wingnut dogma

05 Sunday Nov 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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4th Congressional District, border, former newsreader, Israel, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 4, 2023]
While the world is watching the situation in Israel play out, our own southern border is wide open.
Since Joe Biden took office, hundreds of individuals on the terror watchlist have been encountered at our border.
That leads me to ask:
1. How many made it through?
2. Where are they now?
3. How many have ties to Hamas or Hezbollah?
We aren’t the only ones with these questions. Last week, Senator Schmitt and I led 22 of our House and Senate colleagues in a letter demanding to know how the conflict in the Middle East would affect our homeland.
For the entirety of this Administration’s tenure, we have operated with our guard down. We cannot allow that to continue.
We need answers before it is too late.

Because someone will take hostages somewhere in the Southwest and take them where?

Some of the responses:

According to the Representative, our southern border is wide open. His solution, sponsoring legislation “Combatting the Persecution of Religious Groups in China Act.” Another Alford bill with no cosponsors. Maybe spending more time on solving issues in the United States, and less time on tv and the internet, would be in order.

The border is not wide open, despite your repeated claim that it is.
Congress can can enact immigration reform. You should do your job and get on that.

Then do something. Put forth a bill, fund for additional border patrol, simplify immigration. Add immigration attorneys. Or keep doing what you always do, whine and blame others.

I guess you didn’t notice Israel’s wall didn’t work, oh and Trump’s buddy is in charge there. Also indicted on corruption funny enough.

” Blaming Biden” is not a constructive solution! How about you introducing legislation to resolve issues ? Missouri deserves better!

Fear mongering last week. Fear mongering this week. How does this help our country?

You are an absolute LIAR and should be expelled immediately. You are an elected official and you are telling the world our border is officially open. You are a reckless traitor. You talk about your big bad letters when you are not on TV, radio, or YouTube spewing your pandering line of party BS. You and your staffs salaries would be better used to assist the CBP agents you trash consistently. What is even more pathetic is the fact that you try and use religion to make yourself look like a righteous person. The stupid may believe you, but anyone with half a brain knows you are no better than Boebert, Gaetz, and Greene. You are a radical in hiding.

Congressman Mark Alford why not post your ridiculous letter that you sent with Senator Eric Schmitt? You both blither about China and of course don’t mention Russia! Do you seriously believe that the Federal Government is doing nothing to safeguard the US from terrorism? Also, why wasn’t that wall built that Mexico was going to pay for? You do nothing, but grandstand! [….]

That’s the way it is, isn’t it?

Flop sweat

01 Wednesday Nov 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today, from Mark Alford (r):

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 1, 2023]
For far too long, the Washington swamp has tried to tie critical and controversial legislation together, dealing lawmakers an impossible hand by forcing them to vote on bundled legislation.
That stops here. The House is set to vote on an aid package to Israel, separate from the aid to Ukraine.
As lawmakers, we need to individually evaluate and systematically review aid packages and track where the money is going.
American taxpayers are footing the bill for these wars: they are funding Ukraine, Israel, and potentially Taiwan down the road. Congress should not be forced to send billions to multiple countries for different wars simultaneously.
America’s financial health is deteriorating; the dollar is weakening, and the endless printing of money has no end in sight.
We need individual review, accountability, and oversight for aid packages, not a bundle.
This is American taxpayers’ money, and allowing members to vote on this separately should be the standard.

We know Vladimir Putin thinks helping Ukraine is controversial. Go figure.

“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

Who else? We’ll wait.

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r)

Tell us , Alford, who do you want America to be in the World?
A Leader of Democracy that believes every single person has rights and say in their Government?
OR a Putin “kiss the hand” country who believes in Autocracy, Oligarchy and Facism.
History is repeating itself…..

The republican party needs to stop catering to Putin! Do your job and vote for aid to Ukraine and Isreal and stop playing games!

yes I remember that the United States and Europe sanctioned Russia heavily over that and General Flynn promised the Russians that Trump would ease those sanctions once he got in office.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

if they were not enforced why was Russia wanting their Puppet Trump to release them so badly ?

So the majority party is trying to separate Isreal aid, while keeping it tied to IRS de-funding, and then take the separated Ukraine aide and tie it to border funding. So much for your premise of un-bundleing

That’s pretty disingenuous considering it includes cutting IRS funding.

AMEN, SO TRUE. STOP THOWING OUR MONEY AWAY TO OTHER COUNTRIES WHO DO NOT PAY BACK. YOU WANT TO CUT MY SOCIAL SECURITY, THAT IS NOT FAIR, WE WORKED FOR IT & WE DO NOT NEED IT GOING OVERSEAS WHERE THEY DO NOT APPRECIATE IT OR PAY BACK.
GOD BLESS AMERICA [….]

Is somebody going to tell her?

I don’t want aid to foreign countries

Isolationist.

I’d rather throw American tax dollars at foreign countries now to help them fight aggressors than not help them and later have to throw American service members directly into the fray.

Previously:

We’re not a prop for your apocalyptic right wingnut fever dream (October 21, 2023)

We’re not a prop for your apocalyptic right wingnut fever dream

21 Saturday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Eschatology, flag, Israel, missouri, parade, Rick Brattin, right wingnut

Today at a parade in west central Missouri:

When you have a grown up in the White House

16 Monday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Israel, Joe Biden, White House

This evening:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 16, 2023

Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on President Biden’s Travel to Israel and Jordan

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will travel to Israel on Wednesday, October 18, to demonstrate his steadfast support for Israel in the face of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack and to consult on next steps.

President Biden will then travel to Amman, Jordan, where he will meet with his Majesty King Abdullah, Egyptian President Sisi, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. He will reiterate that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination and discuss the humanitarian needs of civilians in Gaza.

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Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].

Curse the darkness

11 Wednesday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Israel, Terrorism

Light candles.

Virginia dumbass

10 Tuesday Oct 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Fascist pig, Hamas, insurrectionist, Israel, Josh Hawley, Putin stooge, right wingnut, Russia, seditionist, U.S. Senate, Ukraine, Virginia

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Christian, constitutional lawyer, [….] U.S. Senator for Missouri Virginia.

Josh Hawley (r) left out “Putin stooge” and “Useful idiot”.

Yesterday:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Israel is facing existential threat. Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately
2:35 PM · Oct 9, 2023

As if Ukraine hasn’t been facing an existential threat?

Dumbass.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

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