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13 Wednesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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4th Congressional District, Capitol breach, Donald Trump, gaslighting, impeachment, Insurrection, missouri, sedition, Vicky Hartzler

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Hartzler Statement on House Impeachment Vote
January 13, 2021 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-04) issued the following statement this afternoon rejecting the House’s vote on an article of impeachment against President Trump:

“America is hurting. After a year of riots in our streets, COVID restrictions and health challenges, and a contentious election, our citizens need healing — not further actions which tear us apart. This latest push by Speaker Pelosi and Democrats to impeach a duly-elected president seven days shy of leaving office does nothing to bridge this gap or work towards President-elect Biden’s declared ‘Unity’ message, instead further dividing our nation.

It’s already been made clear: Congress certified the 2020 presidential results and this election is over. We owe it to our nation to move past these divisive tactics and work towards bringing America — and our communities — together.”

Some of the responses on Twitter:

Yes, America is hurting.

America will heal.

But America will only heal when those that seek to tear it apart have been punished appropriately.

That’s called Law and Order.

You should make yourself aware of the concept.

And it should apply to everyone equally.

Investigate, charge, and sentence every traitor to the maximum penalty under the law.
Be they Congress members, members of the executive or judicial branches or average Americans.

No one is above the law, especially traitors.

You helped tear us apart by spreading the misinformation about election fraud. SHAME ON YOU!

I’ll explain this to you in terms from personal knowledge, @RepHartzler: Healing comes after the cancer is removed, not when the tumor is still inside the body.

Nonsense. America needs strength, not capitulation.

And true strength would be recognizing that #WhiteSupremacyIsTerorrism.

I needed you to vote for impeachment.

You tried to help overthrow the government, Vicky

Healing begins by removing Trump from power. We can unify behind agreeing that his words and their actions were not acceptable.

Actions need to have consequences, Vicky.

We owe it to our nation to drive those who would seek to violently overthrow our “nation of laws” into the light where they can be held accountable, or they will continue to fester until they do it again.

We don’t negotiate with terrorists. Even if they’re our white neighbors.

America is hurting because—after the sacking of the Capitol—the likes of @RepHartzler voted to deny Arizona and Pennsylvania citizens the right to choose their own electors…on the basis, shamefully, of Trump’s big lie of election “theft”.

This is just driving me mad. You pushed and pushed and pushed when it was unprovable and non-existent fraud, but now as soon as the tables are turned we hear…

“Unity”
“Healing”

“Bullshit” is what it is.

Before wounds can be healed they must be cleaned. Before this nation can heal there must be accountability. I’m sorry – and I mean that – that this seems to escape you.

You encouraged a mob to try to over turn an election.

Blah…blah…blah!

No healing without contrition.

If you can not see that you are supporting a criminal then you should not be in the position you are in. I’m all for unity, but, im also in support of seeing criminals punished.

So we “needed” false election misinformation pretending Trump won inciting division and mistrust but now we don’t need to hold criminals accountable

Kumbaya is a few weeks & a call to decertify too late. You can’t back pedal calls to fight and combat. Consequating insurrection isn’t the divisive act or theater here, it’s justice. The divisiveness was feeding a narrative that the election wasn’t legit. You are complicit.

We need justice. Republicans lied about outcome of a free and fair election for months. Then called a mob to DC, told mob to go into combat, and tweeted location of Speaker as mob was yelling threats to harm her. Only way we move forward is to prosecute every criminal in GOP

After everything you’ve said? Really?! Yeah…no. Impeach.

Local woman more afraid of being primaried than of the potential long term consequences of breaking her oath to defend the US Constitution.

Coward.

No moving past the insurrection until all parties involved are punished.

How dare you call impeachment “divisive?” You know what’s divisive? An attack on the capitol – which you enabled with your lies, Vicky.

This is called accountability. Your words are hollow. As a Missourian, I am ashamed of you. History will despise you, and you deserve it.

There can be no unity without accountability.

You disgust me. You always have.

A few of the Facebook comments on the same press release:

I am heartbroken to see our nation as it is today. I wish people could realize we are all Americans wanting to live each day as peacefully as possible. This impeachment is just driving our nation further apart. We have witnessed for 4 years the hate Pelosi & the Democratic’s have had for President Trump. They wouldn’t even let him actually be the president he could have been , from the first day he took office.in all my years I have never seen such treatment of a president. I pray for calm , and a dignified transfer of power. May God Bless America!

What color is the sky in their world?

I thank you so much Congresswoman Hartzler, for your comments. Yes, AMERICA HAS BEEN THROUGH AN AWFUL TIME! I wish we could heal, but the truth is, that isn’t what certain Democrats want to happen. I dread what lies ahead under their leadership….

A taco truck on every corner.

Agree and further more this is doing the same thing that the Democrats are accusing President Trump of doing. Such hypocrisy and it needs to end. What good is coming from this? None except for driving the wedge further and invoking more of what has been happening for the last 4 years. Unity does NOT equal conforming everyone to one view.

Not to mention how blatantly Socialistic/Communistic those on the Democratic side have said time after time that they are GOING to make our Country into . I didn’t serve in the United States Marine Corps to simply walk away from this kind of Tyranny . Our Freedom and our Rights are being Choked to Death !! Mrs Hartzler I respect what your saying but the Truth is the new administration is not and will not be thinking of the people of this Country they will only think of pandering to other countries to pad their bank accounts

Vicki I honestly dont know how its possible to unify the country with Pelosi, Schumer and Harris at the controls of Congress. Good luck and God bless

Wait, isn’t it supposed to be Vicky?

it is clear that there is an attempt by the Democrats to have one party only. From boycotting firms that provided support to the President or Republicans to BLM/Antifa riots in multiple cities simultaneously with bussed-in agitators, to main stream media collusion instead of reporting.

You’re right,they incited riots by telling Dems to push back at us and run us out of restaurants, etc. then violence kept going by them.

Have you tried curbside pickup?

And we haven’t spent the last 4 years cleaning up the mess from obuma, and his senile partner?
Now we’re going to see how bad that senile old buffoon can really screw things up!
God help us!

A hug won’t work on this one.

I don’t think we should ever embrace evil and call it unity! What has happened to common sense, I know it has turned to radical socialism! Many people know it was Antifa acting like Trump supporters and NOT Trump supporters . The corruption is so deep we have brain washed millions of people! May God have mercy on America.

How can we possibly unite and possibly heal after the way they have treated President Trump the last four years, how?

YOU DEMOS ARE THE ONES THAT NEED TO LEAVE AMERICA AND GO TO A COMMUNIST COUNTRY AND LEAVE AMERICA ALONE YOU ALL ARE EVIL AND GODS GOT YOUR #!!!

It’s a special device, the knobs go to 11.

I completely agree. Democrats (including Biden) are speaking out of both sides of their mouths. On one hand they say “it is time to move forward and heal the nation” and on the other side they say inflammatory remarks such as Pelosi saying that those who are Trump supporters are racists. Biden went so far as to compare one politician (I think it was Josh Hawley?) to the infamous Nazi butcher, Dr.Joseph Goebbels. What the heck?!! Under any circumstances is that comparison right, fair or just! Dr. Goebbels committed vile, heinous acts on human beings. Such comments are made to shut down dissent. When I hear prominent politicians making those kinds of remarks, it does nothing towards healing our nation! In fact, it shows the opposite, that they really have no intention of trying to heal our nation. They would rather continue to feed the very tension they say the Republicans are guilty of. As far as I’m concerned, the Democrats are equally to blame for the tempers and tensions that have been flaring up since the election. Actions speak louder than words. In other words, I’ll believe it when I see it!

“…We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ’em stories that don’t go anywhere – like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…”

Previously:

Once again (January 13, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): “…protesters…”

09 Saturday Jan 2021

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4th Congressional District, apologist, Capitol breach, Faux News Channel, gaslighting, missouri, right wingnut, sedition, Vicky Hartzler, White Racist Fascists involved in Insurrection and Riot

“… The protesters were here…”

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2018 file photo].

Riot. Insurrection. Sedition. Call it what it is.

Yesterday, from Vicky Hartzler (r):

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
As Wednesday’s events were unfolding, I was asked to share what was happening and wrote this summary on my cell phone after being evacuated and taken to a secure location by Capitol Police:
[….]
12:52 PM · Jan 8, 2021

For The Faux News Channel.

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

You think The Faux News Channel stylebook requires “…protesters…” in place of “White Racist Fascists involved in Insurrection and Riot?” Just asking.

Some of the comments on Twitter:

And during that time did you do any self reflection? Have any thoughts on how your lies contributed to their anger and confusion?

Did you think that by objecting to a STATE not YOUR OWN, caused any of these? Your grandchildren will read YOUR name in the history books as an insurrectionist, who, was coddled by Capitol Police saving her life. You do not deserve your seat any longer, and you know it.

History will remember Seditionists. #SeditionCaucus….

hartzler agitated this into being. she should resign

“The fire that I have been slowly pouring gas on all of a sudden got out of control and burned me! HOW DARE IT!”

How dare those face-eating leopards eat MY face.

I’m a constituent & I’m ashamed of you. I don’t think you feel any remorse or even acknowledge your part in this coup.

But if you truly, truly want to start working together with Democrats for the future of our republic, VOTE ‘AYE’ TO IMPEACH.

If police officers allow you in, what kind of an assault is it???

Sorry but entering the capital to kidnap and kill the speaker of the house and the VP is not something you can put back in a bottle.

YOU helped create this insurrection. There is blood on YOUR hands, ViQy–the blood of Americans and the blood of our democracy.

14th AMENDMENT SECTION 3

“No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress who shall have engaged in Insurrection or Rebellion against the same or given and or comfort to the enemies thereof”

Have you taken steps to force his resignation today?! He sent a private army to invade our Capitol and what are the consequences?!

They took your lies so seriously that they murdered a police officer in the name of them. And you chose to still continue on with those lies after?

Vicky voted to overturn a legitimate election and push the Big Lie that the election was “stolen” but she doesn’t want to be held responsible for the violence the Big Lie was meant to elicit.

Vick. You did this to yourself.

Columbia constituent here. We are ashamed of you.

Perhaps you should think twice before tweeting any more of these kinds of tweets. Things are pretty raw for us right now, so maybe wait until 2022 when you run for reelection. Unless you decide to resign of course.

Fact check: it was an invasion of the Capitol by Trump “Patriots” that he incited to action earlier in the day and cheered as he watched them on TV enter the building.

United States Constitution says that “no Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress” who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the Constitution, “or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Every member of the house and senate who perpetuated the lie of voter fraud is responsible for the violent act of domestic terrorism at the capitol and must be held responsible by being removed for insurrection.

I hate the gatherings of those who do evil, and I refuse to join in with the wicked.
Psalms 26:5

It is unequivocally the spasm of the 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 to immediately create a thousand false narratives to virtualize reality beyond navigability. They will say and do anything to maintain the illusion they are civil, humane beings. This is the 𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 gaslighting you.

Speaking of phones, why is nobody answering any of the phones in Vicky’s offices? Does she think that she can just hide out until her attempt at insurrection blows over? Does she plan on meeting with the family of the Capitol police officer that she got killed?

This account has been awful quiet since then. I wonder why. Winking face

You created the monkies, deal with the circus. #ResignVicky

You cannot praise and follow Trump for 3 years and 11 and 1/2 months and now try to distance yourself when his words and actions have been consistent all the way up to and including January 6th!

You built this.

Indeed she did.

Stirred shit for 4 years. Gfy.

Yep well Kevin McCarthy you and the Republicans were complicit in all of it. You let this happen. Shame on you.

Resign immediately.

@GOPLeader was out there liking photos of the insurrectionist mob attacking you all. Isn’t that right, Kevin?

Resign NOW!

The only words, as your constituent, that I want to hear from you is, “I deeply regret my involvement in an attempted coup of our government and I resign.”

Resign!

As a Missouri constituent, please resign . Whoever is running against you has a head start.

You are party to sedition against the United States. The 14th Amendment prevents you from serving in Congress. Resign or be expelled.

COMPLICIT

Insurrectionist.

A gop lead failed coup attempt will forever chained around republican leadership.
#SeditiousGOP

Ypu should be ashamed of yourself. We will never forget your role in this, and your love for trump.

It’s your POTUS who blew his dog whistle for this to happen. Don’t try to distance yourself from your own culpability.

Vicky you are seriously delusional to believe you have no part in fueling this. Again, read the room and own up to your own misjudgments before trying to take a spotlight for getting caught up in this terrorists attack by your own party supporters.

No way do you get to gloss over the fact that you are the one who incited this insurrection by continually lying to the people of Missouri and America about a free and fair election just because you made the choice to be subservient to an autocrat. We won’t forget.

Some of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol defecated inside the building and smeared feces in hallways.
#GOPSeditiousTraitors
This is your Party. Your legacy.

And on and on…

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

How did signing on to that Amicus brief turn out for you? (December 12, 2020)

Fascist is as Fascist does (January 1, 2021)

Taking cluelessness and turning it into a high art form (January 4, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): as usual (January 6, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): you built this (January 6, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighter (January 7, 2021)

The backwash from guzzling all that Sedition is none too pleasant, is it? (January 7, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): own it (January 8, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): blah, blah, faux outrage, blah…

05 Saturday Dec 2020

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4th Congressional District, CARES Act, Corona virus, COVID-19, gaslighting, missouri, pandemic, social media, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler

Yeah, the faux outrage doesn’t wear well.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
This is despicable, @SpeakerPelosi. Many Americans desperately need help in the face of this pandemic. Congress must act on the real needs of the American people, not spend precious time on frivolous political games.

This is a total shame and a sad admission by the Speaker.
[….]
11:50 AM · Dec 4, 2020

“…Americans desperately need help in the face of this pandemic…” Think about that for just a second. Think about Mitch McConnell (r) sitting on legisltion from the House for months with no action. Then think about the irony of “GOP Rapid Response”.

Some of the responses:

Give me a break. Review the history. The delay was a stall tactic perpetrated on the American public by @senatemajldr.

You know, Moscow Mitch (r).

So you want them to pass a Bill where companies can just let covid run rampant through their businesses? That is unsafe for employees

Yes. That is exactly what they want. Republicans do not give a shit about anyone or anything but themselves.

Pelosi didn’t admit anything of the sort

Who blocked the House passed bill in May? Just asking.

Yeah. The 100% deductible business meals sure would be beneficial to those millions of Americans. Spare me the faux outrage.

The bill that was sent to the Senate in May…..Questions – Comments?…..

You are gaslighting your base. She didn’t admit to what you just said. The HEROES act has been on Mitch McConnell and the GOP. There is nothing in the new relief Bill for everyday people and that is a tragedy, considering many need help (months ago).

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Dems passed a bill in the spring.

So what about McConnell I guess you are okay with his obstruction? Am I right? Of course I am. Hypocrites GOP. Pointing fingers oldest trick in play book do nothing but point fingers. Nothing new same old same old.

You are embarrassing yourself and I love it. Keep it up!

You planning on giving back that $500,000 you took before you left the rest of us to die and starve? Just curious.

It’s the strangest thing, I’m looking at a COVID relief bill from May, and what’s this, you voted *no* on it? Wonder how that happened.

Pelosi and House Democrats passed a bill IN MAY.

Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell sat on the bill, 15-20 Republican Senators refused to pass any relief, and they focused on confirming Trump’s judicial appointments instead.

THE GALL to put this on Pelosi.

Chutzpah.

The only thing despicable about this thread is the hypocrisy of Trump supporting Republicans who enabled the massive grift of billions of dollars in the first stimulus bill to their wealthy friends and supporters.

They’re just worried they won’t get any in the 2nd bill.

The CARES Act was passed by the House in May and Mitch McConnell held it up in the Senate all this time.

That’s despicable.

You know that is bullshit.

Go sit down. The adults are talking.

I’m concerned that an elected official is so dense when it comes 2 how bills get passed. Take it up with the Sen. Maj Leader and remember Pelosi had legislation on his desk for months. No one w/ a rudimentary understanding of how bills become law is falling for your b.s., Vicky.

Screw you, Vicky. Go talk to McConnell and Mnuchin.

She passed a bill six months ago. You were there.

Yep.

Roll Call 109 | Bill Number: H. R. 6800
MAY 15, 2020, 09:24 PM | 116TH CONGRESS, 2ND SESSION
Vote Question: On Passage
HEROES Act
Vote Type: Yea-And-Nay
Status: Passed

PARTY YEAS NAYS PRESENT NOT VOTING
Democratic 207 14 0 12
Republican 1 184 0 11
Independent 0 1 0 0
Total 208 199 0 23

Hartzler Republican Missouri NAY

There you go.

Despicable.

Too bad they didn’t think of that when they dismantled the Post Office sorting machines in Kansas City

18 Sunday Oct 2020

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In late August:

USPS removes 4 mail-processing machines in Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An official at the United States Postal Service confirmed Friday that four mail-processing machines have been removed at its Kansas City, Missouri, facility.

The removal of machines comes as part of changes made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, according to a report from CNN.

The USPS official said that in addition to the four machines removed in Kansas City, the USPS had removed two machines in Springfield and one in Wichita “for efficiency and lower mail volume.”

[….]

“We are seeing the destruction of the postal service,” U.S. Rep Emanuel Cleaver II, a Missouri Democrat who represents KCMO, said. “I don’t think there are any questions about it.”

[….]

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported Friday that Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft was notified in late July that the USPS may not be able to return all mail-in ballots to election authorities by the Nov. 3 election.

That delay could invalidate some ballots for the general election, when the country will elect a president and Missouri will elect a governor, among other races.

[….]

That was then, this is now.

A campaign piece, from Uniting Missouri, the PAC propping up Governor Mike Parson (r), arrived in our mail yesterday:

“Officials say you should return your mail or absentee ballot now to ensure it is received and counted in time.”

No shit, Sherlock. Who’s responsible for this state of affairs?

Wait a minute. In Donald Trump’s (r) world aren’t mail-in ballots rife with fraud?

This right wingnut mail piece is just oozing cognitive dissonance and gaslighting. Not that their target audience would notice.

Oooh, scary stuff.

Fascists gotta Fascist.

Previously:

Spending that campaign cash: A very expensive combination of irony and satire… (October 16, 2020)

William Barr (r) was kissing Donald Trump’s (r) ass and it just accidentally went off

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Alternative history:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Our #CommitmentToAmerica is to protect the fundamental principles that keep our communities safe.

I condemn ALL who hijack a legitimate national conversation and use it as an excuse to loot, destroy, and kill. Their actions are reprehensible and have no place in our nation.
[….]
8:39 AM · Sep 16, 2020

In the 4th Congressional District?

Lindsey Simmons (D) [2020 file photo].

The reality:

Lindsey Simmons @LynzforCongress
Hard to keep communities safe when the President of the United States gasses his own citizens.
[….]
5:44 AM · Sep 17, 2020

“It was an accident, I swear.”

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

2,868,686 votes

02 Wednesday Sep 2020

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Donald J. Trump (r), gaslighter.

The popular vote winner in 2016:

Hillary Clinton [2016 file photo]

From the Federal Election Commission (FEC):

2016 PRESIDENTIAL POPULAR VOTE SUMMARY [PDF]
FOR ALL CANDIDATES LISTED ON AT LEAST ONE STATE BALLOT

Candidate (Party Label) Popular Vote Total Percent of Popular Vote

Hillary Clinton (Democrat [….]) 65,853,514 48.18%

Donald J. Trump (Republican [….]) 62,984,828 46.09%

Gary Johnson [….] 4,489,341 3.28%

Jill Stein [….] 1,457,218 1.07%

Evan McMullin [….] 731,991 0.54%
[….]

[emphasis added]

Yesterday:

American Bridge 21st Century @American_Bridge
“I think I did win the popular vote.” – @realDonaldTrump

FALSE. Over 2.6 million voters say different, and this November, Trump will lose it again.
[….]
10:20 PM · Sep 1, 2020

Liar.

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

#loser #liar #TrumpLostThePopularVote

Vicky Hartzler (r) wants us all to believe that she has never ever heard of Mitch McConnell (r)

31 Monday Aug 2020

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This morning:

Vicky Hartzler @VickyH4Congress
US House candidate, MO-4
Democrats’ plan if they win this November is to silence voices of people who disagree with them. They’re more interested in passing their own liberal agenda than working with people across the aisle:
[….]
11:08 AM · Aug 31, 2020

Some of the responses:

Vicki, and I mean this sincerely, I hope you lose this election. I hope the good people of Missouri see that you are intent on perpetuating the us vs. them rhetoric currently dividing this nation and preventing any meaningful progress from being made.

I think she may prefer “Vicky.”

Please show examples of when Republicans have shown interest in “working with people across the aisle”

The party of Mitch McConnell can shut ALL the way up about “reaching across the aisle.”

There you go.

No more fear tactics, Vicky.

What’s she talking about? As if the GOP works across the aisle.

You’re silencing our voices right now. In this present reality of police brutality, a pandemic, economic depression, unnatural disasters. Trump’s America is the worst America has ever been. You want to scaremonger about a different leader who is actually sane? That’s your play?

When that’s all they’ve got…

I really like the liberal agenda. Reduction in death and sickness, increase in funding for small business and prosecution of every member of the Trump administration that has been corrupted.

The @GOP strategy is repeat lies often and hope that people start to believe and vote against their own interests. Or they are racists. Pretty simple.

Hold a town hall

1. This article is over a year old.
2. How is considering ending the filibuster an example of “silencing” anyone?

Good catch.
They’ve got nothing but lies, hate, & old news.

What are Republicans doing then when you and they silence the voices of the MAJORITY who disagree with you?

Well, now they get to name post offices, Ironic, eh?

Your Senate Majority Leader won’t even bring up Democratic bills for a vote. Tell me, what exactly have the Republicans done to each across the aisle

Please show me that “plan”. I’m a die hard Democrat and haven’t seen what you claim. #LiesLiesLies

Republicans are hiding behind their social media accounts, mean tweeting, because that’s what the @potus taught them to do when they don’t want you focus on their own failures. @senatemajldr has had legislation on his desk for months designed to help the American people.

Says the Congressperson who doesn’t even have anyone answer the phones for constituents any more. Now you can only communicate via email, when much of her district lacks adequate internet. Well, I guess you could mail a letter…oh, wait.

There’s that irony stuff again.

Examples please! Hartzler it’s bull shit and you know that. You are one of the most divisive people I know in Missouri, And that’s saying a lot.

Seriously? What world do you live in? Are you pretending be this stupid? You really know the truth. Your party’s now the trump party. If you choose to stay in there, at least accept the narcissistic morons agenda for what it is. Complacent.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

That’s not what she said the first time, or the second time…

26 Wednesday Aug 2020

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A birther gave a speech last night and old media gushes. You know, for “balance”.

We remember.

I really do care. Do U?

I really do care. Do U? – June 24, 2018

Be best!

Previously:

Protest imitates fashion (June 22, 2018)

The more you know… (June 24, 2018)

Melania’s claim to fashion immortality (June 24, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): “…Now I know he went to Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…”

12 Wednesday Aug 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate

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faux populism, gaslighting, Josh Hawley, Kamala Harris, missouri, social media, Twitter

Josh Hawley [2016 file photo].

Ah, the Missouri “populist” speaketh:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
First Wall Street, now #BigTech lines up for Biden/Harris. The ruling class strikes back. That’s what this election is about
[….]
7:54 AM · Aug 12, 2020

And, some of the priceless responses:

“The ruling class” In MO that would be David Humphreys. “As Hawley’s biggest donor, this billionaire gave Hawley over $4 million, nearly 75% of his indiv donations for his AG’s campaign & Hawley has since ignored bipartisan calls to investigate Humphreys after allegations of p2p”

Josh Hawley (r) – October 2015 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report (October 18, 2015)

Contributions to Josh Hawley’s (r) 2016 Attorney General campaign for the third quarter – from the campaign’s October quarterly campaign finance report filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission.

We have the “best” politicians money can buy

Ah yes, the one ticket in our presidential history that doesn’t have an Ivy League graduate is for the “ruling class.”

Haha says the senator who went to Stanford and Yale who does nothing for us in Mo.

Ask him about his flatbed truck.

Yeah, it’s a shame she didn’t bootstrap her way through Rockhurst, Stanford and Yale the way you did, as a “man of the people”, Josh.

You are so caught up in the divide, mock, and ridicule posturing for your Fox & friends. What will it take for you to reach out and unite Missourians? #WorstGOPSenator #thirstyHawley

Can you even locate Missouri on a map?

That remains to be seen.

Dude, you only play a commoner on tv.

Not to worry, Josh. I’m sure one more round of Republican tax cuts for the rich will bring them back to you.

A Senator complaining about the ‘ruling class’?

Yeah, we noticed that, too.

FYI: Sen. Hawley went to an exclusive prep school, then to Stanford, and Yale Law school, clerked for the Supreme Court, then worked for a multinational elite corporate law firm. He is the very definition of ’elitist’ trying to position himself, falsely, as a blue-collar guy.

Don’t confuse Josh with facts.

For one who defends an Oligarchy, you certainly don’ seem like a Bolshevik. Your faux populism may play with a few, but not many.

Look at yourself, banker’s son. You went to the fancy high school of the patriarchy, and then to Stanford and Yale. You clerked for Roberts. Every inch of your path, the ruling class carried you along. Now you’re Trump’s Plus One. You want to draw comparisons?

Wow. A daughter of immigrants who attended an HBCU is now in “the ruling class”? Sounds like the American dream to me.

There is that.

So, some of the brightest minds, most successful entrepreneurs that created global powerhouse US companies are supporting candidates they believe will really #MAGA. Got it. Thanks for pointing that out Joshie.

Because the ruling class has been soooo devastated by the current administration.

Stanford to Ivy League Showboat Queen tells us about the elite.

Did you learn about the ruling class at Stanford or Yale?

Jeeves, my luggage to the lifeboat, stat!

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Heh. Including a ladder reference would have made it a twofer. Adding a midday workout would have been a threefer.

So tweets a card-carrying member of the ruling class.

Republicans literally gave the ruling class massive tax cuts. You rose the deficit for that, the largest in history.

Is it hard to run under hypocrisy?

republicans consider that a feature, not a bug.

Bahahaha what class do you represent, Hawley? When’s the last time you were in Missouri? Daddy trump certainly doesn’t represent us. And I know you don’t either… this angle isn’t working for you. Better say something about Hong Kong.

The party of *checks notes* socialists and wall street…. you guys really are clowns

Didn’t you support the ruling class tax cut?

this is hilarious coming from a guy who doesn’t know the difference between a flatbed truck and a trailer. also, you went to rockhurst, stanford, and yale, so maybe sit the “elitist” bullshit on the back burner, j-dog.

That about sums it all up.

Ivy League patrician mocking the “ruling class”. That’s “rich”. Do you support Trump’s promise to defund Social Security and Medicare?

U are bad at your job

The good thing for him – he considers it just another step on the ladder.

The ruling class apparently excludes preppy, Ivy-educated lawyers whose daddies were bankers like you?

The ruling class? You are an Ivy League US Senator. Stop.

Disingenuous political hack thinks voters are too stupid to know Republicans are in power.

Republicans attacking Democrats as the party of “the ruling class” will never, ever stop being frigging hysterical!!

And where did you go to school? Oh yes, Stanford and Yale. You are a phony.

So the President isn’t part of the ruling class? It’s gotta be so weird to have to constantly pretend to be a victim.

You went to Stanford and Yale. Spare me “the ruling class” bullshit, Chauncey.

LOL. Have you looked at your own pedigree?

You’re a clown.

And who are you?

Senator Kamala Harris (D) [2019 file photo].

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): Fascist toady

02 Tuesday Jun 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, Resist, social media

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Donald Trump, Fascist asshole, gaslighting, George Floyd, Josh Hawley, missouri, social media, Twitter

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

After last night’s assault by federal law enforcement on peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C. – so Donald Trump could hold up a bible for a photo-op:

Kasie Hunt @kasie
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., stops to talk to cameras, says he has seen “conflicting reports” of what happened at the White House. Says looting and violence is detracting from what should be the focus on George Floyd.
1:11 PM · Jun 2, 2020

As always, some of the responses:

U should of told him it was in Hong Kong. Only then he would of believe you.

There was no looting or violence at Lafayette Park when Trump ordered the peaceful protesters to be gassed.

It was a peaceful demonstration. We watched this live on television. There is plenty of video/audio evidence.

Trumps fake photo op, (look at me) terrorizing peaceful protesters, gassing them, hitting them with shields & moving up curfew by 1/2 hour is a distraction. Trump saying he loves peaceful protesters, is a blatant LIE. He ordered his militia to “dominate” the crowd using force.

I didn’t realize the White House had been looted. What did the looters get? Did the media catch any of it on film?

[….]Republican corruption is only exceeded by cowardice.[….]

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

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