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Nikki (r) is running for President, Josh (r) lives in Virginia

14 Tuesday Mar 2023

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Trump tin foil hat – from somewhere on the Internets

From time to time right wingnut concern trolls try to leave comments here. Our system defaults to automatic moderation – that is, comments have to be approved. We don’t allow such comments to be linked to the original post, but on occasion, when we see fit, we’ll mock these attempts.

We see fit.

An attempted comment to Spitting into the wind (March 14, 2023):

Do any of you left wingers know that all of the SVB executives got big bonuses before they closed? Also this is all planned. Biden sold us out to the WEF so that they could further their One World digital currency to give them complete control of all of us. Josh Haley is looking out for the American People but the Democrats would rather stick behind a President that can’t even finish a sentence without shuddering or talking complete nonsense. Tell me exactly what has he done that is good for this country?

A libertarian is just a republican who wants to blow dope.

For starters – Joe Biden (D) doesn’t pay porn stars $130,000.00.

By the way, the IP address and email address of all comments are attached to the original comment in our blog operating system.

Previously:

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? (October 8, 2022)

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? Part the infinity… (November 21, 2022)

Because, like, you know, Missouri is a fucking libertarian paradise (March 4, 2023)

You had to come here to read it (March 5, 2023)

And ye shall know them by their misspellings, bad grammar, and malapropisms (March 13, 2023)

You had to come here to read it

05 Sunday Mar 2023

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Gasp, someone was offended by something on the internets.

From time to time right wingnut concern trolls try to leave comments here. Our system defaults to automatic moderation – that is, comments have to be approved. We don’t allow such comments to be linked to the original post, but on occasion, when we see fit, we’ll mock these attempts.

We see fit.

Who ever put this up for people to read need to find alternative wording other xxxxing libertarian you have a filthy mouth and filter mind.

And yet, here you are.

If you can’t use profanity to describe an obscenity, then when the fuck can you use it? – Blue Girl

“Filter mind”?

You did type “xxxxing libertarian”. You do know it’s the same thing, right? Like saying “gosh darn” when you mean “god damn”. As if bowdlerizing a word or creating a euphemism changes the intent.

You’re welcome.

Previously:

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? (October 8, 2022)

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? Part the infinity… (November 21, 2022)

Because, like, you know, Missouri is a fucking libertarian paradise (March 4, 2023)

The year in pictures – 2022 – part 4

23 Friday Dec 2022

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2022. That’s it.

We thought we’d provide a retrospective of what we tried to cover this past year.

October

There was an election. There was an open seat Senate race. We covered it.

Trudy Busch Valentine (D) campaigned everywhere in Missouri.

Post Oak, Johnson County, Missouri (October 2, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D).

Trudy Busch Valentine (D): Warrensburg, Missouri – October 7, 2022 (October 7, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D).

Trudy Busch Valentine (D): Raytown, Missouri – October 7, 2022 (October 8, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Raymore, Missouri – October 14, 2022 (October 14, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Butler, Missouri – October 15, 2022 (October 15, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Nevada, Missouri – October 15, 2022 (October 16, 2022)

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And then, it’s all gone… (October 18, 2022)

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Campaign Finance: Roman sword (October 23, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Kansas City, Missouri – Southwest Boulevard – October 27, 2022 (October 28, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Kansas City – Door-to-Door – October 29, 2022 (October 29, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D).

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) and Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Kansas City – GOTV Rally – Morning Star Community Center – October 29, 2022 (October 29, 2022)

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November

There was an election.

Ruth Roes Her Boat (November 2, 2022)

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What’s really on the ballot (November 2, 2022)

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Book banning. The latest republican wedge.

Ashcroft’s Book Ban (November 18, 2022)

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December

“A Witch & her little monsters on board”

Whatever chaps Josh Hawley’s (r) ass (December 21, 2022)

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More Power (December 22, 2022)

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Sunset (December 22, 2022)

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Previously:

The year in pictures – 2022 (December 19, 2022)

The year in pictures – 2022 – part 2 (December 20, 2022)

The year in pictures – 2022 – part 3 (December 20, 2022)

The year in pictures – 2022 – part 3

21 Wednesday Dec 2022

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2022. That’s it.

We thought we’d provide a retrospective of what we tried to cover this past year.

August

Yeah, that Senate race.

What are we going to do now with all those file photos? (August 2, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D) in Jackson County, Missouri – August 13, 2022 (August 13, 2022)

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The Governor’s Ham Breakfast.

Denny Hoskins (r).

Governor’s Ham Breakfast – Missouri State Fair – August 18, 2022 (August 18, 2022)

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At the Missouri State Fair.

“…Don’t miss it, don’t even be late…” (August 20, 2022)

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Poverty.

Jason Smith (r) [2022 file photo].

In case you were wondering, someone is winning the class war and it’s not you (August 23, 2022)

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Trudy Bush Valentine (D).

Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Campaign Office Opening – Kansas City, Missouri – August 28, 2022 (August 28, 2022)

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September

18 U.S. Code § 1924.

The great circle (September 4, 2020)

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Roll up your sleeve.

It ain’t over ’til it’s over (September 10, 2022)

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Beer.

Trudy Busch Valentine (D).

Eric Schmitt (r) gets pwned…again (September 23, 2022)

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Trudy Busch Valentine (D).

Trudy Busch Valentine (D) – Kansas City, Missouri – September 22, 2022 (September 24, 2022)

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Previously:

The year in pictures – 2022 (December 19, 2022)

The year in pictures – 2022 – part 2 (December 20, 2022)

The year in pictures – 2022 – part 2

20 Tuesday Dec 2022

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2022. That’s it.

We thought we’d provide a retrospective of what we tried to cover this past year.

June

A former newsreader runs for office.

Retail politics (June 1, 2022)

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Bigots.

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)

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Drag Queens!

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)

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Guns.

“…How many kids have you killed today”

March for Our Lives – Madison, Wisconsin – June 11, 2022 (June 11, 2022)

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Polo, Missouri – June 26, 2022.

Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go… (June 26, 2020)

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Yeah, the right wingnut dominated U.S. Supreme Court really stepped in it.

“Girls Just Wanna Have FUNdamental Human Rights”

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)

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July

Oh, they stepped in it. Big time.

“You will never have the comfort of our silence”

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)

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“Keep your rosaries off my ovaries”

“Abort the patriarchy”

Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)

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“Abort the Court”

“When did my privates become so public?”

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 4 (July 4, 2022)

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“My body, my choice”

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 9, 2022 (July 9, 2022)

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Crazy.

American history summed up in one image (July 15, 2022)

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In Kansas (July 26, 2022)

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We get mail.

东方红 (July 29, 2022)

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Previously:

The year in pictures – 2022 (December 19, 2022)

The year in pictures – 2022

19 Monday Dec 2022

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2022. That’s it.

We thought we’d provide a retrospective of what we tried to cover this past year.

January

Eric Schmitt (r) campaigns for the open U.S. Senate seat with state money:

Giving Eric Schmitt (r) his due.

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 7 (January 11, 2022)

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[….]
Subject: Mask mandate

Please be advised that I have a student at Saint Louis University and the school continues to mandate masks be worn indoors at all times, including the library, classrooms and residential housing common areas. The mask mandate remains in place although the campus also mandates all students be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk removal from the university.
[….]

It’s a private institution. Clueless.

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 8 (January 13, 2022)

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Eric the Frivolous (January 28, 2022)

Brett Penrose nails it. Again.

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February

Dark-eyed Junco. Junco hyemalis.
Canon 5D III. 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/500, ISO 400, 400 mm.

Winter visitor (February 5, 2022)

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Putin starts a war. Big mistake. Huge.

Stand With Ukraine – Kansas City, Missouri – February 26, 2022 (February 26, 2022)

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Solidarity (February 26, 2022)

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March

F 9.0, 5.0 sec, ISO 400, 70 mm.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm.

Lightning (March 5, 2022)

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Do they accept abandoned Russian armor as a trade-in? (March 8, 2022)

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May

Then, it hit the fan. The right wingnut dominated U.S. Supreme Court leaked.

“Abortion is health care”

Pro-choice demonstration in Warrensburg, Missouri – May 6, 2022 (May 6, 2022)

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“Don’t tread on me”

“Fuck the patriarchy”

Pro-choice demonstration in Kansas City, Missouri – May 8, 2022 (May 8, 2022)

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Civility (May 9, 2022)

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Guns, of course.

“Over 3000 guns”

Correlation (May 17, 2022)

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The cult.

Cognitive dissonance (May 31, 2022)

Our top twenty traffic posts – 2022 – part 2

18 Sunday Dec 2022

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It’s that time of year.

The continuation of our top twenty traffic posts for Show Me Progress in 2022:

11. Vicky Hartzler (r): “Your awl reely stoopit.” (March 17, 2022)

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

She’ll be back.

“We’d better get back ’cause it’ll be dark soon and they mostly come at night. Mostly.“ – Newt

12. This is far from over (July 5, 2022)

“…Because you get none”

Abortion. It ain’t over.

13. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” (May 11, 2022)

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Dumbass. Josh (r). Again.

14. Former County Sheriff Publicly Denounces “No one is above the law” (August 10, 2022)

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

Hee haw. Law and order. Not.

15. Trudy Busch Valentine (D) in Jackson County, Missouri – August 13, 2022 (August 13, 2022)

Trudy Busch Valentine (D) [2022 file photo].

Grassroots campaigning immediately after the August primary.

16. Virginia. Ohio. Same difference. (August 28, 2022)

Josh (r). Again.

The third senator from Virginia in Ohio.

17. 17,124 Missourians could not be reached for comment (February 1, 2022)

Mike Parson (r) [2019 file photo].

Pandemic? What pandemic?

Hee haw. Sociopath.

18. Math is hard – “…yup I’m from Missouri yup…” (February 5, 2022)

Redistricting. Gerrymandering.

19. Stupidity may be inherited, ignorance is a personal choice, expoitation of either for power is evil (December 10, 2022)

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Fascist pig.

20. We could have had six years of Valentine (D), instead we all get a pile of Schmitt (r) * (November 9, 2022)

A missed opportunity.

Previously:

Our top twenty traffic posts – 2022 – part 1 (December 18, 2022)

Our top twenty traffic posts – 2022 – part 1

18 Sunday Dec 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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It’s that time of year.

The top twenty traffic posts for Show Me Progress in 2022:

1. It’s a cult (January 19, 2022)

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

2. Anyone from Missouri on that list? (June 10, 2022)

Pardon me, or so they said.

3. Yale called, Josh, they want their law degree back (November 16, 2022)

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

4. Math is hard, proportional representation is evil, Missouri voters are stupid (February 4, 2022)

Lunacy.

5. That’s the matter with Missouri (October 5, 2022)

Mike Parson (r) [2022 file photo].

When all else fails, continue.

6. Is that how it is in Virginia? (February 18, 2022)

Pearl clutching.

7. Missouri gets what it votes for (April 20, 2022)

If we ignore it, it no longer exists. Right?

8. Campaign Finance: “I spent a week in Buffalo, Missouri one day…” (April 23, 2022)

9. Be careful to not mention anything about Missouri farm land to Eric Schmitt (r) (November 29, 2022)

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Yes, it’s Josh (r). Again.

10. Eric Schmitt (r) gets pwned…again (September 23, 2022)

Trudy Busch Valentine (D).

Beer. Beer in Missouri. Beer in the U.S. Senate race.

Our top ten traffic posts – 2021

26 Sunday Dec 2021

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The top ten traffic posts for Show Me Progress in 2021:

1. Josh Hawley’s (r) not so good, horrible, very bad morning (October 8, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

“Why is Josh Hawley not in jail?” – Joe Scarborough – October 8, 2021

2. This morning in Springfield, Missouri (July 11, 2021)

It was not good.

3. “Does the microchip have a data cap?” (February 12, 2021)

On getting that first dose.

4. Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

The fist pump.

5. We are all doomed (August 23, 2021)

What passes for useful medical advice in outstate Missouri.

6. Celebrating forced birth (December 4, 2021)

Pre 1973 2022 medical equipment.

In our future.

7. Yeah, but Roy Blunt (r) can’t go door to door in Missouri to let people know because Mike Parson (r) wouldn’t like that very much (July 14, 2021)

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

The vaccine.

8. Wait, you were trying to cancel the true results of an election (January 14, 2021)

Consequences.

9. Meanwhile, this is Missouri (July 5, 2021)

Bragging rights.

10. Stepping on the tines of a garden rake (August 18, 2021)

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Running for something?

2021 has been a hellscape of anti-science, anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-choice wingnuttery and former guy worship.

Don’t think for a moment that it’ll get any better in 2022.

Happy New Year.

Previously:

The Political Year in Pictures – 2021 (December 23, 2021)

Our top ten traffic posts in 2018

29 Saturday Dec 2018

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The top ten traffic posts for Show Me Progress in 2018:

1. Claire and the #Trumpshutdown – Claire tries to save military pay, McConnell slaps her down (January 20, 2018)

“While I voted yes tonight to continue funding the government, it’s embarrassing how badly this place is being run,” McCaskill said.

The past is prologue.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

2. Be the badass on the right (June 29, 2018)

In the late afternoon of June 29, 2018 at a Kansas City rally in support of Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees a young woman with poster board and a marker took it upon herself to peacefully confront a right wingnut counter protester.

The badass on the right. #resist

3. Suppose you organized an open public debate in the 4th Congressional District and the incumbent republican just couldn’t be bothered to show (September 19, 2018)

The Vicky Hartzler (r) of 2010 bears no resemblance to the incumbent Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) of 2018.

4. March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

The announcement for the March for Our Lives event held in Kansas City, Missouri. There was a lot of interest. There were a lot of people attending four days later.

“There should be a background check before the NRA is allowed to buy a senator.”

5. Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? (April 3, 2018)

A company in the process of creating an “up to” 6,999 beef cattle confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) on 400 acres on U.S. 50 in western Johnson County, just west of Powell Gardens, faced a public permit hearing in Warrensburg with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Hundreds showed up.

6. AG Josh Hawley (r): CAFO manure trumps Powell Gardens (September 1, 2018)

Attorney General Josh Hawley (r) (and now U.S. Senator-elect) literally shit on Powell Gardens (“Kansas City’s botanical garden”) by intervening against a Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission stay of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources decision in support of a confined animal feeding operation [CAFO] up wind of the gardens.

At Powell Gardens, Kingsville, Missouri.

7. He knew. We knew. They knew. Everyone knew. (June 1, 2018)

Posted on the day Eric Greitens (r) resigned as Governor. Chris Koster (D) tried to warn us during the campaign.

Attorney General Chris Koster (D), the party’s nominee for Governor, speaking at a GOTV kickoff rally in Kansas City – October 29, 2016.

8. Seventeen minutes of silence (March 14, 2018)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. #NationalWalkoutDay

9. Now that’s a CAFO – comments addressed to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (March 21, 2018)

Public comments addressed to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as part of the permitting process.

“Say No to Valley Oaks”

10. Oh, my – part 3 (January 11, 2018)

When the Eric Greitens (r) scandal broke in the news.

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

It’s been quite year.

Previously:

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 1 (December 28, 2018)

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 2 (December 28, 2018)

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 3 (December 28, 2018)

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 4 (December 28, 2018)

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