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Vaccinated with a phonograph needle

06 Wednesday Sep 2023

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And the player is stuck on repeat.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo}.

Yesterday evening:

Eric Schmitt
[September 5, 2023]
No vaccine mandates. No vaccine passports. No mask mandates. No lockdowns.

Some of the responses:

I didn’t comply last time and won’t this time . If Trump is not on the ballot in 2024 i’ll vote for the constitution party candidate .

Proceed.

No THOUGHTS…No IDEAS…No MESSAGE…No PLANS…No NOTHING….just sitting here in DC sucking up YOUR tax dollars….Senator Eric Schmitt…

There are none of these in place now. But if the need arises again, I will wear a mask and get a vaccine passport if it will save my life or the life of others.

Hope MO schools hear your words loud and clear. Please keep a close eye on them.

What’s he going to do? Issue a harsh statement on social media?

If you actually wanted to be helpful you could petition your GOP senate colleague to stop holding up military promotions and endangering our national security.

There’s that.

Who has implemented any of these at this time? No one has made any laws taking the most precious of Republican commodities away from all citizens of the US, so you can still have your freedom to spread disease, own gas stoves, guns, washing machines and driers, cars, amd ceiling fans, or drink beer till you pass out. In fact, the only things being banned are books in schools. and that is not President Biden. Quit spreading propaganda.

No one knows the exact number. How many died from heart attack or something else and they put down Covid. It’s God’s plan when you die. How many people died from pneumonia?

Has difficulty understanding the concept of excess deaths.

We can blame William Jennings Bryan for that one.

Maybe civilization will be smarter when all these people who can’t spell virus [….] or mutation pass on

Get back to work and do something meaningful

Quit stirring the pot and get back to work. You’re wasting my money

Didn’t comply before, won’t comply if they try the scamdemic again.

No science, no critical thinking & you sure seem to want body autonomy. Let’s have a group of women vote on the control you have. Your rhetoric is so dated.

So Eric did you and your family receive the vaccine last time? Just asking for a friend.

You are spineless. It is so easy to write such words when to date none of these things have been implemented. It is so easy for you to rile up your base. But what is not easy is to take a stand against a first term Senator with no political experience who is holding up at least 250 military promotions. Not only are you and the other cowardly senators affecting the military readiness, you are affecting the lives of the families of these people. So please spare us your Covid outrage. Your inactions show you really do not care

No one is asking for them so how about stop fear mongering.
Causing a problem when there isn’t one

red meat for his followers.

Can you tell me where this is happening in 2023 in Missouri?

Dude. Who the fuxk is talking about any of that shit but your loser ass with nothing better to say but bullshit!
Asshatt.

You better stop the executive orders and bureaucrats who are wanting to control stoves, dishwashers, gas cars and ceiling fans.
Also stop IRS’ building of an army of armed agents.
Also stop the ATF from trying to make every citizen who wants to privately sell a firearm into a criminal.
Also stop the Executive Branch from banning the transport of LPG (propane) on trains.
These people are lunatics, and we want you and Sen. Hawley to stop them from violating Constitutional rights and the Republic
Thanks for listening

Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy – not complete

I’m going to hold you to your word. If the feds try coming to our state and want to override you, you better not give in! I don’t know who is in charge of your page here, but I hope you tell our AG we will never comply and he better not give in!!

GFY

Eric Schmitt (r): losing again

30 Tuesday May 2023

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“…Make arguments like that in court. I dare you. Dumbass…”

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) has a past.

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 1 (January 6, 2022)
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Subject: STOP

Please stop this!!!! School boards are elected to make decisions locally! Let them do their jobs. Republicans are the party of local control. Please leave it to them.
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Eric the Frivolous (January 29, 2022)

Stuck on mindless repeat (January 28, 2022)
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Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Lockdowns cause harm. Schools should remain open. Cloth masks are ineffective. Many hospitalizations/deaths are with and not from Covid. Vaccines aren’t preventing transmission. All labeled misinformation at one point —all true. #NoMaskMandates #NoLockdowns
7:57 AM · Jan 28, 2022

Make arguments like that in court. I dare you. Dumbass.
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Sociopath.

And now, overreaching authoritarian and incompetent boob.

Via the Missouri Independent:

Judge rules Missouri AG had no authority to order end of school mask mandates
Former Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s public attacks on school districts led to ‘even greater confusion than the pandemic had already caused’
BY: JASON HANCOCK – MAY 27, 2023

Former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt lacked any legal authority to order school districts to end COVID-19 mitigation measures, a Jackson County judge ruled Friday.

In his 18-page decision, Judge Marco Roldan concluded that the attorney general’s office did not follow Missouri law when it demanded last year that Lee’s Summit R-7 School District rescind the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Schmitt sued Lee’s Summit, along with 46 other school districts, then amplified his attacks on social media, “encouraging parents and students to defy the authority granted to the board of education by Missouri law,” Roldan wrote.

That led to “even greater confusion than the pandemic had already caused.”

“The attorney general lacked any legal authority to insert himself into the school district’s efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic,” Roldan wrote.
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Via a link at the Missouri Independent:

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Former Attorney General Eric Schmitt twice directed the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District to rescind its COVID-19 mitigation measures, even though its Board of Education had validly adopted those measures under Missouri statutes giving the Board of Education broad powers to control and govern the School District’s operations. The Attorney General did not identify statutes or constitutional provisions to support his order, resting his directive instead on a judgment in another case to which no school district was a party, and whose rationale did not apply to the School District. The Attorney General then amplified his orders on social media, encouraging parents and students to defy the authority granted to the Board of Education by Missouri law. Parents and students followed the Attorney General’s lead, leading to even greater confusion than the pandemic had already caused.

Aside from lacking any authority over locally elected boards of education, the Attorney General’s orders did not follow Missouri law and were therefore without legal force or effect. Neither Attorney General Schmitt nor his successor has disavowed the orders, and in fact, the Attorney General continues to insist that school districts lack the very authority granted them under Missouri law.
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This case began with a petition filed by then-Attorney General Eric S. Schmitt on behalf of the State of Missouri. Several individual plaintiffs joined in the petition. Broadly speaking, the petition alleged that the Board of Education of the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District acted unlawfully by adopting a mask mandate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The School District denied many of the material allegations of the petition and asserted a counterclaim against the Attorney General. Its counterclaim sought a declaratory judgment that the Attorney General exceeded his lawful authority when he issued and publicized through social media letters to the School District and its Superintendent ordering them to rescind the School District’s mask mandate and abandon other COVID-19 mitigation measures.

The Attorney General and the individual plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their petition less than two months after filing it, leaving only the School District’s counterclaim for the Court to resolve. Both parties have moved for summary judgment since there are no genuine issues of material fact and the School District’s counterclaim raises only questions of law. The Court agrees there are no material issues of fact. After carefully considering the arguments raised by the parties, the Court GRANTS the School District’s motion for summary judgment and DENIES the Attorney General’s motion for summary judgment.
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The Attorney General also posted Facebook messages asking parents to notify him about “school districts continuing to enforce mask mandates and quarantines, in violation of the recent Cole County ruling” and to notify him of “mask mandates that are null and void under the judgment.”
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The Attorney General has argued that his letters were standard cease and desist letters that any prospective litigant is free to send as a precursor to litigation. The Court rejects this post-hoc rationalization because it ignores both the tenor and threat of future orders of the letters and the social media posts the Attorney General distributed to amplify them. It also elides the interpretation of the orders the public had of the Attorney General’s authority. The letters were not supported by statute or legal precedent and were subject to misinterpretation of the laws of the State of Missouri. The clear intent of the Attorney General’s letters, particularly in view of his later communications and social media posts, was to leave the School District and the public with the impression he had authority he did not have.
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The Attorney General’s December 7 and 9 letters to the School District, stating that the School District was bound by the Robinson judgment was an incorrect statement of the law and was interpreted by lay persons as the law of the State of Missouri.

The Court therefore GRANTS the School District’s motion for summary judgment and DENIES the Attorney General’s motion for summary judgment. As a result, the Court enters judgment for the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, and declares that the Attorney General’s December 7, 2021 to the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District and his December 9, 2021 letter to the School District’s Superintendent exceeded the Attorney General’s authority, and had no legal force or effect.

IT IS SO ORDERED.
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Interestingly, Eric Schmitt (r) has yet to say anything about this on social media.

Losing. Again.

Previously:

A simple request (December 9, 2021)

We get a response (December 14, 2021)

We’re still waiting… (December 31, 2021)

There’s much more to follow (January 6, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 1 (January 6, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 2 (January 7, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 3 (January 8, 2022)

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

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 4 (January 8, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Get In Good Trouble (January 9, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 5 (January 9, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – One Is The Loneliest Number (January 9, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Photo Evidence (January 10, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – part 6 (January 10, 2022)

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

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Generations (January 12, 2022)

illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Pets (January 12, 2022)

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

19,355 Missourians can’t respond

12 Saturday Mar 2022

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Today:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
It’s almost as if all the fear mongering around COVID was just one big power play.
1:36 PM · Mar 12, 2022

Sociopath.

Some of the responses:

Jason Kander @JasonKander
Replying to @Eric_Schmitt
Are you vaccinated? Did you get the booster?
3:24 PM · Mar 12, 2022

It’s as if the claim about fear mongering around COVID is just another example of Schmitt’s stupidity.

950,000 US deaths; 19,500 MO deaths. Many with long haul COVID and our healthcare system almost breaking. No one should worry about that.

What a ghoul!

20k dead constituents could not be reached for comment.

Help me understand this. I’m not supposed to care about something factual, but whatever you’re selling is legit. Just how much is your snake oil and where can I purchase some?

What is wrong with you? [….]

Day drinking and tweeting again Eric? What’s this even about? See this is why you lose so many lawsuits; all accusation, no context.

It’s almost as if all the COVID-denialism (almost 1 million US deaths!) was just one big power play… (as you, for example, run for senate)

It’s hard for me to understand an elected politician being so openly dismissive of nearly a million dead Americans as @Eric_Schmitt seems to be.

Kinda like “build a wall” bullshit right???

My father died of Covid. You are a horrible person.

So the people who died from COVID were just part of a huge fear mongering power play? You are an idiot.

It’s almost as if you’re a #PoliticalHack.

People have tried to explain the science behind the measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID pandemic to you but obviously you cannot comprehend. So now we just have you spewing forth your vomit of lies and misinformation.

Do you LIKE playing the miserable SOB who people loathe with a passion?

Right, f*ck those petty people that buried family and friends.

So, everyone who has died from Covid don’t really exist? Brick shy of a load Schmitt.

You’re an idiot. Millions have died. What a pathetic existence you live.

Tell that to everyone who lost people. Asshole.

Or you’re just an idiot

My god. What the actual fck is wrong with you? Are you seriously so desperate for attention you sit there and make lists of the most vile things you could say? A lot of people died. A lot are suffering long term effects. This is disgusting and your family should feel shame.

How many of your constituents died from it last week, you monstrous shit?

Watching the Faux News Channel all the time will rot your brain

05 Saturday Feb 2022

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Early this morning:

[….] you are and idiot you need to go live with BRAINDEAD biden because if this covid was so bad where is all the contamination barrels at so that all the contaminated mask and shit can be put because you see them laying on the ground and in shopping carts and they have them laying out where everyone walks by them so all those germs get on them and it is funny how certain people get it and alot don’t I have never wore a mask never been tested never been sick and guess what I am from Missouri you all are a bunch of snowflakes that worry way to much we would rather live our life free from mask and all the bullshit than to hear all the democrats saying you have to do this forcing people is not American so if you want live like that move to where you can live in communism go

Bless their heart.

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Previously:

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

299 former residents of Stone and Taney Counties could not be reached for comment (February 1, 2022)

Theocracy

02 Wednesday Feb 2022

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He’s saying the quiet parts out loud.

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

Last night, after right wingnut republicans in the Missouri Senate refused to confirm Governor Mike Parson’s (r) nominee as Director of the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) – during a pandemic:

Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
Missourians know that I share these beliefs and would not have nominated someone who does not share the same Christian values. Yet, Senators chose to believe baseless rumors and outright lies on social media rather than the facts in front of them.
6:02 PM · Feb 1, 2022

“Missourians know that I share these beliefs and would not have nominated someone who does not share the same Christian values…”

Uh, no.

United States Constitution, Article VI

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Missouri Constitution, I Section 5.

….that no person shall, on account of his or her religious persuasion or belief, be rendered ineligible to any public office or trust or profit in this state, be disqualified from testifying or serving as a juror, or be molested in his or her person or estate; that to secure a citizen’s right to acknowledge Almighty God according to the dictates of his or her own conscience, neither the state nor any of its political subdivisions shall establish any official religion….

Missouri Constitution, I Section 6.

That no person can be compelled to erect, support or attend any place or system of worship, or to maintain or support any priest, minister, preacher or teacher of any sect, church, creed or denomination of religion; but if any person shall voluntarily make a contract for any such object, he shall be held to the performance of the same.

It’s possible Mike Parson (r) has read the words. It’s clear he doesn’t comprehend them.

299 former residents of Stone and Taney Counties could not be reached for comment

01 Tuesday Feb 2022

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Meta.

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When anyone posts a comment here at Show Me Progress their email and IP addresses are attached to the comment.

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One from today:

We are doing well here in Branson Missouri! And if you go to the local hospitals here where are the patients that are deathly ill??? Empty as empty can be!!! I believe you have an agenda for writing your post as well sir and your vote we can do without!! If it’s a deadly virus then we should be properly disposing them instead of wearing the same ones daily lol come on now we all should know how viruses spread and wearing masks is not the answer here and also we wear the same clothing weekly in and out of schools, Walmart, hospitals and wow nothing is being said on how to properly wash our clothes or disposing of our own clothes lol sad people think that wearing a masks and getting the 50th shot is going to stop a deadly virus as the dummies of the white house is stating lol and did you read where biden has exempt his own staff from the vaccine?? Okaaayyy please use what brain cells you all have left and really look at what’s happening!!

We rest our case.

Missouri DHSS:

Cox Health in Branson:

Previously:

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

Go ahead, you be you

31 Monday Jan 2022

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It’s everyone else who gets to suffer.

Mary Elizabeth Coleman (r) [2019 file photo].

Yesterday:

MaryElizabethColeman @meaccoleman
This is [….]. He didn’t wear a mask to school, and in response, [….] Superintendent Clint Freeman [….] called the cops on him for trespassing, and he was promptly hauled away in the back of a police car.
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8:57 PM · Jan 30, 2022

On a Sunday?

A kid? Is the student over the age of 18? Did the student refuse to leave?

The consequences of not wearing a mask are clear.

From the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) COVID-19 Dashboard:

Note the number of cases in the last 14 days, compared to the total since March 2020. Do the math.

Note the test positivity rate.

The current Dunklin R-5 School District masking policy:

That’s fair warning.

Previously:

HB 1987: apparently 1984 was already taken (December 16, 2021)

The reason for the season? (December 26, 2021)

HB 1993: and you’ll have to wear a brown shirt while you’re driving on it (December 21, 2021)

HB 2424: Covid Mary (January 14, 2022)

Psychopaths

29 Saturday Jan 2022

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Yesterday:

Acyn @Acyn
Michele Bachmann says Sarah Palin should be commended for eating at a restaurant while having COVID
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6:26 PM · Jan 28, 2022

A perfect response:

Michele Bachman commending Sarah Palin on Jesse Watters’ propaganda hour… it’s like a Russian nesting doll of suck. [….]