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The last refuge of a Fascist

14 Tuesday Dec 2021

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Last night, from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r):

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
The last variant is communism.
8:47 PM · Dec 13, 2021

Some of the responses:

At what point do you sell your soul to the devil to get that Senate seat? Another month or two? Because man, this is some desperate stuff.

He’s long since passed that point.

You need a new comms team. Utter silliness.

You can’t blame the shit on the lackeys.

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Welp, I’m convinced. No booster shot for me if that means I finally get the communism I have always wanted.

You do realize you are embarrassing yourself, right?

Nope.

I encourage professional counseling.

Check your paper towels, I think you’re too chafed.
[….]

You have no idea what communism is. You don’t even know what truth is.

This must be what everyone is talking about when they say behind closed doors you tell them that after the election, you’ll return to being the moderate used to be. It’s incredible what some people will do just to get power.

Assumes facts not in evidence.

Wow…you’re late to the game. Even my gun-nut far right batshit crazy cousin shared that statement on social media almost two weeks ago. Keep peddling your pseudoscience fear. Killing off and permanently disabling your voter base is quite the campaign strategy.

The last variant is the one you allow to run rampant in Missouri [….]

You’re just gonna yell “communism” and “socialism” too, huh?

Is this what all the losers tweet?

Low effort tweet.

Low effort everything.

Is this “communism” in the room with you now, Mr. Schmitt?
[….]

You’re an idiot.

I’m assuming you have a college degree and a law degree so why are you such a fucking moron?

Seek help! You are totally delusional.

Measures to help in a public health crisis isn’t communism. You’re an idiot.

The Republican Variant is fucking willful ignorance.

Moron. [….]

Previously:

Well, what have we here? (December 7, 2021)

A simple request (December 9, 2021)

Forget it Eric, you’re out of your element (December 11, 2021)

The Ghost of Pandemic Present (December 13, 2021)

The Ghost of Pandemic Present

13 Monday Dec 2021

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

This morning:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
[….] Breaking: Congrats to the citizens of Jackson County Missouri! I appreciate the Jackson County legislature heeding my warning and following the law by rejecting an illegal mask mandate today. We The People are fighting back. Freedom is winning. #NoMaskMandates
11:17 AM · Dec 13, 2021

What an asshole.

Some of the responses:

Freedom to lower the Republican voter count in Missouri by encouraging the spread of Covid is an interesting campaign stance.

I am confused yet again by you. Do you believe in local entities setting laws for their citizens or your powerful arm determining what people can and cant do? I thought you stood for local choices. Oh wait, not if they don’t agree with your wants.

Wait. #freedom = siding with #Covid = being a #Bully while using #Missouri taxpayer dollars?

Who knew that a piece of fabric on the face would be such a huge deal…it’s like you want ppl to get sick…do you personally go maskless? Have you personally gotten vaccinated? If so, your telling ppl not too? Seems hypocritical to me

Wearing a mask or not does not constitute freedom. Y’all want to be victims so bad. Luckily most people and retailers in Jackson County still mask up.

How much did you sell your soul for Eric?

Covid is winning.

“heeding your warning” not exactly the verbiage we would expect a professional state official to make. Sounds a lot like a “threat” made by a “bully” was taken. You don’t run the state Eric and the sooner you learn that the better off we will all be.

“heeding my warning”

This guy is just a bully.

2 week MO Covid count up almost 100%. Are you deaf and dumb or just dumb.
[….]

How are we 2 years in and folks don’t understand how masks work? Y’all are so willfully ignorant you’ll kill your kids teacher. Disgusting.

#FuckingSchmitthead

You literally have no constitutional authority in this situation, so all of this is shameless grandstanding for ignorant people who don’t know any better. You, however, do know better. It’s embarrassing the office you hold.

Sick and tired of you imposing your political views over our health! So sad that most Republicans could care less about people and only concerned with their personal elections.

You are fighting to make sure more people get sick and die. Masks have been scientifically proven to reduce virus spread. Your policies are anti-science, pro-virus and pro-death. You should be ashamed of yourself.
[….]

You are an embarrassment. Not sure of your motives, but declaring sound public health measures that prevent Covid spread illegal is causing harm and risking lives.

No, COVID is winning, dipshit.

Previously:

Well, what have we here? (December 7, 2021)

A simple request (December 9, 2021)

Forget it Eric, you’re out of your element (December 11, 2021)

Forget it Eric, you’re out of your element

11 Saturday Dec 2021

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You know, public schools have a long history of dealing with bullying (successfully, or not).

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

The Lee’s Summit, Missouri R-7 School District strikes back (in the Lee’s Summit Tribune):

Legal counsel for the Lee’s Summit School District responded today to a cease and desist letter from Missouri State Attorney General Eric Schmitt regarding mask wearing in schools dated December 9, 2021

[from the letter:]

[….]

It is unlawful for any child to attend any of the public schools of this state while afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease, or while liable to transmit such disease after having been exposed to it. For the purpose of determining the diseased condition, or the liability of transmitting the disease, the teacher or board of directors may require any child to be examined by a physician, and exclude the child from school so long as there is any liability of such disease being transmitted by the pupil.

This law speaks for itself. Not only may a school district exclude from school a child who has COVID; it may exclude from school a child who has been exposed to COVID and who is liable to transmit it pending a medical test or examination to confirm that the child is not afflicted with the disease.

In short, the duly elected Lee’s Summit R-7 Board of Education will not abandon its statutory duty to govern the operations of the school district. If you follow through on your threat to sue the District, we will defend that suit vigorously, and pursue all remedies available to the District resulting from any suit that violates Missouri Supreme Court Rule 55.03, which requires among other things that any claim “is not presented or maintained for any improper purpose” and that the claim “is warranted by existing law.”

[….]

The letter also includes a “litigation hold” notice for the Attorney General’s office:

[….]
You are placed on notice that you are to preserve the following records given your threat of litigation:

• All records relating to your office’s refusal to appeal the decision in Robinson v. DHSS
• All drafts of, and internal communications regarding, the letter you sent on December 7, 2021 to Missouri school districts and public health officials
• All drafts of, and internal communications regarding, any “cease and desist” letters you sent to any Missouri school district or public health officials such as the one you sent the District on December 9
• All records of communication with any other public official (elected or appointed) relating to whether your office would or should appeal the decision in Robinson v. DHSS
• All records reflecting any legal research undertaken by you or any employee in your office regarding whether you had the authority to issue your December 7 and December 9 letters as described above, and whether you have the authority to in fact take legal action against school districts who refused to comply with your December 7 and 9 letters
• All communications received in your office in response to your December 7 letter as described above, including all emails sent to or received by illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov.
• All internal communications reflecting or relating to concerns that you are threatening or pursuing litigation against school districts that may lack a legal basis
[….]

Pass the popcorn.

If Eric Schmitt (r) was capable of being embarrassed he would be. But, he’s Eric Schmitt (r), so, no.

Previously:

Well, what have we here? (December 7, 2021)

A simple request (December 9, 2021)

Anything else going on around the 2nd Congressional District last night?

11 Saturday Dec 2021

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Last night:

Ann Wagner @AnnLWagner
Parents matter.
8:34 PM · Dec 10, 2021

Seriously.

Some of the responses:

Even parents sitting in nursing homes staffed with unvaccinated nursing home staff? Do those parents matter to you and your fellow Republicans?

Which parents, though?

The anti-mask, anti-vaxx, anti-DEI, anti-common decency, pro-using their kids as political props and causing harm to others in the process. FYI

You only matter to Ann if you’re gonna vote for her and support her bullshit agenda. Otherwise you don’t mean shit to her.

Hi Anne. Missouri parent here [….]. Going out on a limb and saying that the safety of our kids and educators matter more than a bunch of parents making threats and throwing temper tantrums.

There were online threats at my kid’s school this week. In your district. As a parent I had to come up w an answer when my daughter asked will they be ok/what if their school is next. Do parents of kids living w the trauma of daily gun violence matter? [….]

Hi Ann…mom (Parent) and grandma here. My family matters. My granddaughter matters along with her mom and dad( Parents). All of our safety and health matters but it seems the only ones that matter to you are the ones screaming , harassing, and threatening others. #FauxProLife

Teachers are parents, Ann. Do they matter?

Stop being dishonest. Parents have always mattered. When we as teachers would send home emails asking for parents help. They mattered. When we ask parents how can we assist them. This is not parents mattering — this is about controlling a narrative. Shame.

Parents have always mattered in my teaching experience. It’s why year after year we teachers long to see many of them at parent-teacher conferences, and the ones who need to come the most, don’t. We’re not the sacrificial lamb, the culprit, or scapegoat for your lack of policy.

Teachers in my district are being harassed by parents. Do they matter Ann?!

Apparently maybe? If they are also parents? Really, we know she’s saying only certain parents matter.

Ok,but there’s tornadoes and stuff.

Wow, Ann. Excellent tweet. You really nailed it.[….]

Question. Do kids matter? Does they’re health and safety and education matter?

I’d love to chat with you more about this. When will you be holding a town hall meeting?

Hi, check the weather app and see the tornado stuff all around us, including injuries and damage. Not now with your BS. [….] Try to be relevant once in a while.

@AnnLWagner so what’s your point? That they can harass bus drivers? That they can harass teachers? Why don’t you do your job and support constituents instead of fanning false flames for once.

I wonder how many of those parents attend parent-teacher conferences on a regular basis? How many attended the school board meetings prior to Covid? I bet the teachers can tell you.

Do all parents matter, or just some?

So do people’s lives. Probably more.

False narratives matter.

While you tweeted this, all of your constituents were in [their] basements for a tornado warning. Out of touch or what?

Oh c’mon, you can pander harder than that. Let’s hear some baseless threats, a conspiracy theory, communism, anything?

Possibly Ann Wagner’s stupidest tweet ever.

So far. Just give her time.

“Take cover” would have worked.

Ted Cruz (r) flew to Mexico for a vacation during a weather crisis in his state. You, Ann?

A simple request

09 Thursday Dec 2021

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Yesterday:

Attorney General Eric Schmitt @AGEricSchmitt
[….] ATTENTION PARENTS [….]

We want to hear from you about school districts continuing to enforce mask mandates and quarantines, in violation of the recent Cole County ruling. Parents are sick and tired of the stonewalling, and so are we.

[….]Email us: illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov
11:57 AM · Dec 8, 2021

An email I sent to the Office of the Missouri Attorney General today:

[….]
To whom it may concern:

Under RSMo § 610 I am requesting the following from your office:

All emails and attachments submitted to the email address – illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov

Please let me know of any costs associated with fulfilling this request.

Sincerely,

Michael Bersin
[….]

We’ll see.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Previously:

Well, what have we here? (December 7, 2021)

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican

07 Tuesday Dec 2021

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Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate will have a harmful impact on U.S. employers, adding to the labor force and supply chain challenges that are already roiling the economy.
4:32 PM · Dec 7, 2021

What an ass.

Some of the comments:

Actually, not having a vaccine mandate and doing nothing to combat vaccine hesitancy is killing more Trump supporters than Biden supporters.
[….]

That’s “pro-life” for you.

And people dying or having to take off time from work for being sick or taking care of a loved one doesn’t have a negative impact? If your party hadn’t politicized the pandemic and has persuaded people that vaccines are bad, things would be much better.

I’m fine with a vaccine mandate. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, it’s very simple: either submit to a regular test, or stay in your house so you don’t put others in harm’s way.

The vaccine mandate will provide a safer work environment for employees. As someone who is impacted every day, I couldn’t disagree with you more.

How will it be harmful? I want facts! Not propaganda and sound bites!

It’s in his nature.

You know what’s had a harmful impact on US employers? The death of 800,000 Americans from Covid. A free and safe vaccine is available.

You have a harmful impact on your constituents every day. How is making sure we protect one another a bad thing?

People dying of COVID-19 add a strain on the supply chain. Maybe help stop the spread?

Nope….you are wrong

If people would rather lose their jobs that save their own lives and health and the lives and health of others, it’s not the fault of those trying to save lives with a minor requirement.

Stop working for American death and disease.

You have jello for brains

That’s quite generous.

It’ll save lives so of course Roy is against it! Why did trump Republicans want Americans to suffer and die???

In blue states they have been enforcing this rule and have near 100% compliance. Anyway hospitals already require employees to vaccinate for other things. Stop undermining the effort to fight Covid.

You are consistently a terrible person

Look dude, as Americans we work hard and are generous. We don’t need YOUR KIND who steals what they want then changes the law.
People with YOUR KIND of deviousness have been allowed to stay hidden for too long.

Your legacy is tied to trump.
Hope you choke on it.

Own it, Roy.

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

There you go.

Abosultutly…

21 Tuesday Sep 2021

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Representative Martha Stevens (D) [2018 file photo]

This afternoon:

Martha Stevens @Martha4MO
Last week our new director of DHSS said, “With the increase in positivity rates among adolescents, it only makes sense to wear a mask.”

Yet our AG who is DESPERATE to win a primary continues to ignore our health experts & cause additional anxiety for parents & educators #MoLeg
[….]
1:43 PM · Sep 21, 2021

Missouri Attorney General and amateur medical expert Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

If you haven’t already done so, get vaccinated.

Wear a damn mask.

Where sleeping through junior high school math and science takes you

19 Sunday Sep 2021

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Megan Jaeger, Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees 2021 file photo].

On social media:

Megan Jaeger for JoCoMo Health Board
September 15 at 4:03 PM
After reviewing the collected data (7-day average,) it appears the counties with the highest populations have the highest vaccination rates. They also have the highest number of cases.
Boone – 51% V rate – 63 cases
Clay – 44% V rate – 46 cases
Franklin – 46% V rate – 49 cases
Greene – 41% V rate – 55 cases
Jackson – 44% V rate – 413 cases
Jefferson – 36% V rate – 104 cases
St. Charles – 49% V rate – 121 cases
St. Louis County – 50% V rate – 248 cases
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Megan Jaeger for JoCoMo Health Board limited who can comment on this post.

“Megan Jaeger for JoCoMo Health Board limited who can comment on this post.” I’ll bet.

There are comments elsewhere:

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a committee member of Johnson County Community Health Services. We are doomed.

Raymond James
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Highest population not surprisingly have a high gross number of cases. Notice no rates. No effort to compare counties bases on number of cases per 10,000.
Since when is a 51% vaccination rate high or adiquate to slow an epidemic.
She does not understand math or epidemiology.

Bad math is dangerous

So without the information pertaining to how many of the cases are vaccinated, she reaches that conclusion? I mean I can roughly estimate that 100% of the people who tested positive drank water or some liquid prior to testing positive, so is water/liquid causing Covid?

This is just basic math—if one figure is shown as a percent, the next should be as well, otherwise it is quite literally cherry-picking information.

The thing I really find disturbing, other than the lack of math skills, is this person is part of the board. She has access to the people who track infectious disease in her community but obviously has no interest in learning from them. I cannot imagine that she can’t just talk to the people at the health center and say, “look, I’m reading these statistics, what do they mean? Does that mean more vaccinated people means more infections?” It’s been my experience that the people who work in public health are more than willing to explain if you have a question.

It’s sad she is on our heslth board with such a poor grasp of facts and committed to such a scary agenda that is contrary to her oath of office. It doesn’t speak well of her character or ability to serve.

Previously:

Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – This is why we can’t have nice things (August 2, 2021)

Same planet, different worlds (August 3, 2021)

Meta: we deserve a better class of trolls (August 6, 2021)

Meta: we deserve a better class of trolls – part 2 (August 7, 2021)

Meanwhile, in Independence, Missouri

30 Monday Aug 2021

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Today, from the City of Independence:

City of Independence issues COVID-19 exposure warning to all who attended Aug. 16 Council Meeting
August 30, 2021

The City of Independence Health and Animal Services Department was made aware of at least one positive COVID-19 case associated with individuals in attendance during the Aug. 16 City Council Meeting today. All individuals in attendance at this meeting who were in the Chamber were likely exposed and should get tested, especially if showing any symptoms of COVID-19.
[….]

And approximately one incubation period earlier:

Independence City Council votes down mask mandate
4-2 vote with mayor, Dan Hobart for mandate
By: Nick StarlingPosted at 3:02 PM, Aug 16, 2021 and last updated 10:15 PM, Aug 16, 2021

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In front of a capacity crowd, the Independence City Council on Monday voted down a resolution allowing the mayor and health director to issue a health order that would make masks mandatory indoors and outdoors at “large community events.”

[….]

Several attendees arrived to the council chambers with signs in tow, hoping the council wouldn’t adopt a mandate. The majority of residents who spoke in person Monday night were opposed to a mandate, citing freedoms and personal choice.

[….]

History, if there will be any, won’t be kind.