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16 Saturday Dec 2023

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

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4th Congressional District, appeasement, former newsreader, gaslighting, Hypocrisy, Mark Alford, performative bullshit, Quisling, right wingnut, Russia, social media, Ukraine

As usual.

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 15, 2023]
Earlier this week, President Zelenskyy was in Washington asking for more money.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again — we cannot allocate any more money until two things happen.
1. We need strategic clarity. What does victory look like?
2. More funding for our own border.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Your “questions” are stupid and have been answered multiple times. Border funding is a DOMESTIC issue – I guess if you’re GQP, your own “clean bill” BS doesn’t apply to YOU. Tearing down is easy – any fool can do it. Putin has your number.

Mark’s probably getting campaign cash through the RNC from Putin.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Mark Alford pushing has to make a stand and it’s either with Ukraine or Putin
He knows who he’s helping by acting like this and that may be the point

that’s the Neville Chamberlain head in the sand stand down plan to appease a dictator
Didn’t work out well historically

Why you support Putin and insult our Military?

When will the House GOP investigate Congressman Comer’s million dollar shell company that he forgot to report on? That violates House rules.

Maga mark is a joke

The ex fox tv morning show host laying down his expertise and judgement. Now that he has opened his mouth, he has to prove it. When he can’t, he should be removed immediately. Alford also likes to place people is historical record books. I would say it is safe to say, Alford has made himself the most embarrassing thing to ever come out of area 4 in Missouri. A complete do nothing, finger pointing, pandering, hide in small coffee shop, literally do a TV style show called “Mark Alford’s America (not Missouri, not ours, but Mark Alford’s), and spend the rest of his time on social media, Fox, Newsmax, and what ever else would let him read from a teleprompter. He uses little woke slogans, bullies CBP agents, mocks the military, and wants to form everything around HIS specific religious believes, which he pushes down everyone’s throat. I understand the “party people” that can’t think on their own, or who have to have someone else to blame will say Alford is doing great. They have to. But when they go to bed at night, or slip up and think on their own about what Alford has and has not done, they are going to be embarrassed, just like so many other Missourians.

And I thought Vicky was bad [….]

Dear Santa, Please bring us a Representative who is smart enough to spell words as simple as “yea” and “Reagan”.

please explain how and why YOU are against working on the current Budget, funding for Ukraine? What legitimate and solid ideas do YOU have, and proposed for INCREASED border security? Just holding out for more funds and whatever else you seek that’s not border security related.
If YOU are NOT part of the solution,
then YOU are the PROBLEM.

where’s that missing file Marky? [….]

The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump [December 15, 2023]

Maybe investigate that?

With your destructive ultra right/ Trump views, there is no way I will vote for you. I love my country too much.

We can allocate money to Ukraine and should, as soon as possible.

I received a mailer from you last week saying how Biden was failing our allies. You have also repeatedly stated that there should only be single topic bills yet you explicitly link non-related items by demanding the border security issues be dealt with before supporting an allied nation fighting for its very existence. I never thought I would see the day where the Republican Party openly supported actions enabling Russian aggression. Your positions directly threaten the western alliances that we have painstakingly built since WWII and paid for with the lives of thousands of Americans.

our taxes paid for him to send that crap out too.

Why isn’t your name on this list of representatives who voted against warrantless surveillance of American citizens this morning?

Mark, I have a suggestion for you. Apply the strategic clarity concept to the border. After doing that, does Ukraine have anything to do with the US border? I thought so.

Mark (and others) have bought into “…the big, beautiful plans and programs…” Trump has. They have drank so much of the Kool-Aid they are his Trolls.

So you are attaching border funding to Ukraine funding? Weren’t you just complaining about that a couple of weeks ago? I guess it doesn’t count when it’s you and not a Democrat. Hypocrite.

another putz comment from the Trump Putin lover! You’re a disgrace to the US Congress!

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

Mr. Alford – Do you understand that by his own choice, Putin is an enemy of the US and is waging an asymmetrical war against us, and that the war in Ukraine is just a part of his strategy?
If you abandon an ally now, you position the US as an unreliable partner when it comes time to help Guyana, Taiwan, Western Europe, or any other target of aggression. That gives Putin and Xi more influence, not less.
So perhaps you’d like to tell us what YOUR strategic objective is as it relates to Ukraine? And Russia. And China.
Because for all the posturing and puffing, as it relates to Putin and Xi you appear either a strutting peacock, a pandering fool, or a complicit cooperator. Which is it?

Al the above!
Alford like most other Republicans, especially Trump are ignorant and don’t care. They don’t see, let alone understand the big picture, world politics nor the global economy.

Say hello to Cleta Mitchell and Leonard Leo next time you collect for your participation in this b.s.

They’re not impressed. At all.

Previously:

Performative (December 12, 2023)

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

Fiddling while the world burns (December 13, 2023)

Eric Schmitt (r) slept through his history classes when they covered Neville Chamberlain and Vidkun Quisling

20 Monday Feb 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, social media, US Senate

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appeasement, Eric Schmitt, Fascist pig, gaslighting, missouri, Putin stooge, social media, U.S. Senate, Ukraine

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo}.

This morning, on word (obviously) that President Joe Biden (D) traveled to Ukraine:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
If you want to understand why so many Americans are frustrated right now:

Biden is in Ukraine before Ohio.
8:46 AM · Feb 20, 2023

Herbert. Herbert. Herbert.

What a dick.

Some of the responses:

Americans are frustrated because people like you keep lying and misleading them.

Joe Biden is President of the United States, not Governor of Ohio.

Speaking of which, let’s check with the Governor of Ohio, shall we?
[….]

The reason why a majority of Americans are so frustrated that we have to listen to manipulative and inaccurate drivel like this from people like you.

I’m a constituent of yours out here in rural MO farm country (you should visit us out here some time, btw), & I’m thrilled the President traveled to Ukraine. It’s one of the most important presidential visits in the past 20 years.

I’m not frustrated at our President. Our President is doing today what America used to believe in; fighting for freedom and democracy around the world. You have seventeen gov’t agencies on the ground in East Palestine right now, what else is there to do?

Interestingly, Eric Schmitt (r) isn’t there.

GFY!

The trip to Poland was planned a long time ago. President Biden took the opportunity to visit Ukraine.

What are you doing about Ohio, Eric, besides tweeting snarky comments about the President?
Why don’t you get your Republican colleagues on board to tighten railroad safety regulations that were relaxed under Trump?

It’s in his nature.

You sully your comms team by making them shovel this waste. This work will be a permanent stain on their resumes.

Actually it’s gaslighting like this that frustrates me

If you want to understand why A FEW Americans are frustrated right now it’s b/c they have been indoctrinated to hate democracy, root for it to fail, & clearly don’t get that if our (and others) democracy fails, they will rapidly lose all the FREEDOMS they so cherish.

You’re literally making a living out of advocating for deregulation and shitting on the EPA. How about sitting this one out?

I LOVE all your tweets. Zero substance. Keep them coming.

Clowns have to be clowns.

You’re pathetic!

If you want to understand why so many Americans are frustrated right now:

You’re a U.S. Senator.

Straight up Vladimir Putin talking points.
[….]

I’ll bet EPA, FEMA, and Transportation are all there doing their jobs. Quit gaslighting people and do YOUR job.

You’re an embarrassment to Missouri.

Idiot.

Nope. But look at the crap you and Josh pulled while advancing your political career at the expense of the Missouri people. That’s frustrating.

You lie so easily.

Color me frustrated that an idiotic portion of our country wants to complete ignore US History and the Cold War to justify allowing Putin to invade an independent country. But, you’re an idiot, so there’s that.

You can’t be that stupid, can you?

He is.

Previously:

Слава Україні (February 20, 2023)

Josh Hawley (r): a-bed in Virginia on St. Crispin’s Day (February 20, 2023)

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