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09 Wednesday Apr 2025

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

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Congressman Mark Alford
[April 9, 2025]
‼️ Look, we have a responsibility to our nation to protect Americans from the largest tax hike in history.
There’s no time to waste. This budget resolution is the first step toward getting that done in one big, beautiful bill.

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Did you read the bill, Mark? Just asking.

You have lost any and all credibility Congressman.

Never really had any.

Mark is just priming the pump to give us a tidbit and a huge tax break to the wealthy.

Protect Americans means PROTECT THE RICH! People aren’t that stupid Mark. They’re opening their eyes. Quit with the propaganda already and either do your job or stop posting as if you’re believing this crap. 💩

You mean taking away from the working class to give more to billionaires like Musk??!!!!! Lmbo

More 💩, smokescreen for billionaires. No one believes you but you’ll do it and pretend you are a friend to the common person.

Cool, you can start by resigning. Because you don’t know a fucking thing about the government. All you know is how to drink MAGA Kool-Aid…..

Who are you protecting from tax increases?
Not us. Just the big boys and the corporations.

He’s day trading with the ENTIRE stock market, bro.

Ahem. The outrageous tariffs are the biggest tax hike in history, paid for by American consumers. Businesses that depend on imports from China are cancelling their orders, laying off workers and closing their doors. Your uber rich buddies will barely notice the tax increase. Instead of lowering THEIR taxes, raise theirs and restore all the programs that help the rest of us.

I thought tackling the debt was our big concern.
How do tax breaks help with that?

Which Americans? The ones here in Missouri you actually represent or the ones who line your pockets?

Is this a great country, or what?

he doesn’t actually represent any here…

Don’t lower taxes on the ultra wealthy and billionaires dollar+ corporations and you won’t have to. It’s pretty simple.

you sir are a liar

Worried about taxes increases while praising tariffs that we pay as consumers. You are pathetic.

You are a JOKE!

Your tariffs are causing huge inflation! It’s time to make the ultra rich pay their fair share in taxes. You’re taxing the middle class into extinction. The trump administration is so clueless. Constant firing and rehiring and now a military parade for trumps birthday? What happened to balancing the budget? trump and people like you are destroy America! The world hates us. And what’s with wanting Greenland and Canada?!? That’s just silly. We’re now the land of lawlessness. It’s disgraced. I’m ashamed of my government. Least Christian admin ever. True Christian’s seek to help our fellow man, not look at them with disdain.

“Look, we have a responsibility to our nation to protect Americans from the largest tax hike in history.”
Correct. Now, all you have to do is vote down that sham of a budget resolution. See how easy that was? I’d tell you to go back to being a newscaster, but you weren’t good at that either. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Mr. Alford, when’s the next Mondays with Mark, where you meet with your real constituents to answer their real questions and get to see their real response to you regurgitating Republican talking points?

I’m asking my representative if he can answer a simple question in public. Is that too much to ask?

Please don’t parrot Trump’s vocabulary. All it does is cement the divide between people. “Big, beautiful bill” does absolutely nothing but signal submission.
As for the “largest tax hike in history,” it’s too late. Trump already inflicted it.
[….]

You have a responsibility to the women in your district who got married and changed their names to their husbands name to vote against the SAVE Act. 69 million women in this country have changed their names after marriage and this act would prevent them from voting.

They consider that a feature, not a bug.

Not too popular are you?

We noticed that, too.

Quit posting garbage and lies. Worthless.

Isn’t this “largest ever tax increase” just the sunset provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? Y’know, the bill of tax cuts that your party created and passed and that Trump signed into law during his first term?
Why do our miniscule cuts sunset, but not the cuts for the wealthy and corporations? Why does your party legislate so badly that you need to “save” us from your own bad legislation? And why are you trying to pass even more tax cuts for the wealthy with a bill that actually raises taxes for the rest of us? Why do you think the tariffs aren’t a tax increase? Why don’t you understand economics as well as a 19-year-old in Econ 101?

Lying to our faces. See you at the ballot box

Oh you mean taking care of the rich? Look at what’s right in front of you. Our economy is tanking thanks to this new leadership…..and you’re part of it. Hope you’re not getting too comfortable there cuz you’ll be coming home sooner than you think!

Saw your last town hall! Next time an empty chair will make more sense judging from this post!

Why do you continually lie? This bill isn’t protecting the little guy, only the filthy rich.

You just gave us the largest tax increase with tariffs dumbass

Congressman Mark Alford. that House Rep office must mean more to you than anything in the world, considering how you whore yourself out for it day after day after day.
You’ve shown it isn’t the office you care about at all, it’s the trappings. All that taxpayer money and campaign money you spend daily, on cigars, high dollar hotels, fine dining, those mileage reimbursement checks your write to your wife and yourself, all that “extra” money you spend, to the tune of millions a year. All that time you spend playing video star, building a portfolio you hope to parlay to the national talking head stage. That’s what matters. That’s the job to you, and nothing else. All I see here today with this post is more asinine gaslighting and your ability to use the buzz words the party has handed you this week, re: “big, beautiful bill.”
You lie, continually. You gaslight, continually. You spread hate and division, continually. The entire Republican Party abdicated the job they took an oath to do and there are those among you that are now openly confessing, “yep, that’s what we did.” “We handed our power to trump and it didn’t work out like we thought.” Grassley and other Senators, Bacon and others in the House. They have all said the Republicans in Congress abdicated their Constitution authority and gave it to trump, and that was a mistake.
Congressman Mark Alford you took what you should have defended and held dear, the powers the Constitution gives to the House, and gave it to a madman. You violated your oath of office. You shit on the Constitution of the United States of America. You’re as unfit to serve as your orange Russian. The 4th District deserves better.
#Resign #YouWipedYourAssWithTheConsitution #Traitor

Well Congressman Mark Alford wants SO badly to be important!
He’s a little boy playing in a big ocean.
He knows NOTHING about governing.
He just falls in line & steps to whatever his cult master tells him to.

I’d call you a sellout but that would imply you had integrity before you became a congressman

I’d call you a sellout but that would imply you had integrity before you became a congressman

Your pandering is just gross.
[….]

Now you’re even quoting orange Hitler.

The entire world is sick of you nazis.

Liar…still

Just shut up liar

You’re a fucking liar! bootlicking nazi!

Liar. Resign you complicit pandering hack.

Mark, I am so disappointed in your ability at boot licking. You lie to us almost every day.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

And:

Congressman Mark Alford
[April 9, 2025]
President Trump has been CRYSTAL CLEAR.
NOW is the time to pass our House Republicans budget resolution and deliver the America-First Agenda.

And, more responses:

À Président manipulation of the stock market is criminal. Let’s find out who profited from this pause.

I would guess his billionaire cronies, family and Republicans in the House and Senate.

You’re complicit. Step the F down!

Tax the rich and start to fix America

If you think “voodoo economics” is viable policy, you’re an idiot.

the first market drop was the companies that are “#MAGA compliant” being warned about the tariffs, & selling off hours before the first crash.
Then the day traders, & pension funds, pull back, dropping it further.
Then the rich #MAGA guys buy while it’s low.
Pump, & Dump.
It’s the new GOP fundraising by fraud platform.

The guy who changes his mind about tariffs every few days is being crystal clear?

Trump is less than CRYSTAL CLEAR about much of anything. I wonder if anyone will notice?

Crystal clear? He can’t make up his mind on tariffs. Are they on? Are they off? What countries now?

President Trump is playing chess while you rub your two brain cells together screwing up a game of checkers.

“…Now, was that smart? Was it shrewd? Was it good tactics? Or was it stupid?”

“Don’t call me stupid.”

“Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you’re an intellectual, don’t you, ape?”

“Apes don’t read philosophy.”

“Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.”

Tossing the board up into the air is not “playing chess”.

Go crawl back into your hole, Alford. You couldn’t stay at a Town Hall with your constituents being upset about Trump. You ran, then bashed people later because they were upset.

Yep.

Can’t you just tell the billionaires that it’s God’s plan for their tax cuts to expire? You know, like how you talk to financially strapped Missourians who are losing their jobs and watching their retirement accounts disappear.

We see what you did there.

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just PULLED tonight’s expected vote on the GOP budget blueprint, for lack of votes.

Anyone who sides with a felon, sex offender, con man, and horrible business person is one as well. My mom told me when I was young, you are who you hang out with. Think about it! You have yet again failed in your duties. Time to resign.

I guess insider trading is legal now. Good to know. Didn’t Martha Stewart go to prison for that?
[….]

Crystal clear? What a joke. There isn’t one person in the whole world who knows what he’ll do tomorrow, and that includes him. He is truly a nut.

Trump as never been crystal clear in his life. He is a con man, a manipulator, a bankrupt businessman, draft dodger, sex predator and convicted Felon. He only ran for president to stay out of jail and to retaliate against those that he thinks did him wrong.

When screamers beg for the elites you can bet Congressman Mark Alford will be one of the loudest
He loves his elite benefactors but apparently a few in his Party don’t agree with adding massive deficits to reward his handlers

You are a traitor and will be judged to be on the wrong side of history. How dare you worship this rapist, felon and professional grifter. You are truly out of touch supporting the billionaires instead of the people.

So the tariff reversal ( again) does what for his agenda…. The tariff flip flops cause chaos and panic.

No. He’s a nut case.

JUMP then. Did he tell you how high?

Crystal clear as mud, congressman sycophant, toady. Tariffs on, tariffs off, tariffs on, tariffs off. Of course with a$$ kissing cowards like you parroting his lies, he doesn’t need to be clear. That’s why the stock market is on a roller coaster ride, numb nuts. Historians will look back on this last decade, and they will wonder how one party could EVER find so many supplicants willing to sell their souls.

Nothing about that tainted, rotting scum bag pustule is or ever has been crystal clear. You lie.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Unemployment – April 2020

08 Friday May 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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#TrumpPandemic, Bureau of Labor Statistics, depression, Donald Trump, recession, unemployment

It’s going to get worse.

This morning the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its April 2020 Employment Situation Summary:

Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 20.5 million in April, and the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The changes in these measures reflect the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it. Employment fell sharply in all major industry sectors, with particularly heavy job losses in leisure and hospitality.

[….]

In April, the unemployment rate increased by 10.3 percentage points to 14.7 percent. This is the highest rate and the largest over-the-month increase in the history of the series (seasonally adjusted data are available back to January 1948). The number of unemployed persons rose by 15.9 million to 23.1 million in April. The sharp increases in these measures reflect the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to contain it…

[….]

In April, unemployment rates rose sharply among all major worker groups. The rate was 13.0 percent for adult men, 15.5 percent for adult women, 31.9 percent for teenagers, 14.2 percent for Whites, 16.7 percent for Blacks, 14.5 percent for Asians, and 18.9 percent for Hispanics. The rates for all of these groups, with the exception of Blacks, represent record highs for their respective series.

[….]

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate) – [April 2020] 14.7%

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force – [April 2020] 22.8%

Thanks for nothing, Donald.

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

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