Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): “Reject #gaslighting”

02 Friday Aug 2019

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

This morning from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Employment Situation Summary

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — JULY 2019

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 164,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today…

…The unemployment rate held at 3.7 percent in July, and the number of unemployed persons was little changed at 6.1 million…

…In July, 1.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. (Data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey…

…Mining employment declined by 5,000 in July, after showing little net change in recent months…

…The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised down by 10,000 from +72,000 to +62,000, and the change for June was revised down by 31,000 from +224,000 to +193,000. With these revisions, employment gains in May and June combined were 41,000 less than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.) After revisions, job gains have averaged +140,000 per month over the last 3 months.

Didn’t someone go to coal country during the 2016 presidential campaign and tell people there that their mining jobs were coming back?

Meanwhile:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Jobs Report just came out and it’s a good one! 364,000 new jobs created in July!! Unemployment rate is at 3.7%. The economy is humming and that means more money in the pockets of hard-working Americans. Keep taxes low. Reject #socialism.
10:41 AM · Aug 2, 2019

#SupportReadingComprehension

Some of the comments:

Cool. It is good to know you will reject price supports and subsidized crop insurance. You will oppose fed support for rural broadband — just another socialist scheme.

[….] P.S. @BLS_gov says only 164k new jobs were added. Thanks for lying to us, yet again. #SlickVick

If we’re to reject socialism, maybe you should lead from the front instead of from the rear.

Reject #gaslighting.

Numbers are wrong. Take care of Americans. No more having to work 2 and 3 jobs. Please if you are so against any form of socialism, quit driving , going to parks, don’t use the police, military, fire dept. the list goes on. These turned out to be some of the great things.

Reject socialism? By that statement you should be rejecting farm subsidies and bail out money. Do you reject #racism?

what are you talking about?

you’ve inflated the number by 200k and are one of the biggest proponents of socialism

Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): Shall we all take a tour around the 21st Senate District?

28 Sunday Jul 2019

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From Donald Trump, yesterday:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place
4:14 AM · Jul 27, 2019

Well, look at that, openly racist. Not that anyone is surprised.

His consistent behavior gets normalized.

The reality:

More about Elijah Cummings’ 7th congressional district in Maryland

…Using data from the “Biggest US Cities” website, Nate Sliver…point[ed] out that Cummings’ district has “above-average college education rates and home prices, along with a pretty good mix of urban and suburban area (even some rural), and well-off, working-class and middle-class areas”

Silver also pointed out the district is the second-wealthiest majority-black district in the country, with a $58,000 median household income, trailing Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, which includes Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties. Cummings’ district is also the second-most-well-educated majority-black district because 37% of the residents have a bachelor’s degree or higher, trailing Georgia’s 4th District, Silver added…

Senator Denny Hoskins (r) just couldn’t resist retweeting republican propaganda:

So, shall we compare?

Shall we take a photographic tour around Missouri’s 21st Senate District? Just asking.

Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].

It’ll be an easy vote for the Trump sycophant

09 Thursday May 2019

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

From Josh Hawley (r), yesterday evening, via Twitter:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
One year since the U.S. withdrew from the terrible Iran nuclear deal and Iran is already threatening to stockpile & resume uranium enrichment unless we prop up their failing economy. Our partners and allies should not give in to nuclear blackmail
[….]
6:35 PM – 8 May 2019

WTF? Uh, Donald Trump (r) withdrew the United States from the deal.

Some of the responses:

Yes, Josh. When one side fails honor their end of a deal, the other side tends to not keep their end up either. One year of Trump’s policy and what do we have? Iran back to enriching uranium. Americans still in jail or missing. More chaos in the region.

Call me a skeptic but I doubt any man who negotiated his way to losing $1 billion over a decade is going to how the hell to negotiate a complex nuclear deal.

So maybe the “terrible deal” was actually a pretty good deal?

What partners?

Ironic or sarcastic? Your guess is as good as mine.

Don’t you have some kid’s video game to ruin?

That’s definitely sarcastic.

The 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council+Germany+Iran were signatories.The only country to break the treaty & exit the deal is the US.
Deal was verifiable.
The US is pushing Iran into a corner.
Mortifying but true: our country is the one destabilizing this situation.

We abandoned the deal unilaterally, and somehow the Iranians are supposed to be the bad guys for adhering to the deal we abandoned for an additional year?

Does anyone in your office have _any_ respect for your constituents? Your contempt for us and reality is pathetic.

This is perhaps the most dumb tweet you’ve made. And that is an impressive accomplishment.

I’m sad that I have to wait so long to vote against you.

Josh, I’m no foreign policy expert, but it might have something to do with the #BillionDollarLoser withdrawing from the deal for no good reason and against advice from both his Sec. of Defense and National Security Adviser. Also, you are an embarrassment to Missouri.

Well, compared to Donald Trump (r) you certainly are a foreign policy expert.

Hey genius, they weren’t threatening to stockpile & resume uranium enrichment when the “terrible” deal was in force. You sure you went to an elite law school? [….]

One of those fancy ones.

What did we expect to happen? I don’t get “already.” We walked out on the agreement. This had to have been expected, no?

Expect Kim Jong-un to be thinking that it would be stupid to make any deal with Trump.

Your complicity to this failed white house is putting our country in danger.

Thanks to orange Nixon’s tax cut the deficit is higher than ever, you and your cronies are trying to get rid of what little healthcare we have, and now you’re advocating for another war?
Utter bullshit.
Sign up for your own damn war and take the 1% with you.

Whatever trump says the puppet repeats. You are a dangerous sycophant.

We noticed that, too.

What would you expect them to do-we pulled out of the deal. Spare us your fake outrage. It’s similar to how you ran your Senate race running commercials about health care-straight up lying -you were part of the lawsuit. We’re on to you #Gaslighting

You realize you’re owning yourself in this tweet, right?

No. But he did attend one of those fancy law schools.

What allies? We ditched them all when we unilaterally backed out of the agreement.

Senator, I’m not really hearing a solution here. What’s the GOP’s plan here? So far Trump broke America’s word, removing all incentive to slow down Iran’s enrichment program, all while making incendiary comments increasing tensions. What are you doing as my senator to solve this?

Nothing.

Dumbest fucking thing I’ve read today. Good job.

I can’t believe you’re actually whining about Iran not holding up their end of a deal your boss walked away from. You are an empty shirt, and a syncophant of the highest order. A soulless automaton that cannot think for itself.

You and your idiot ignorant party will drag us into a huge war. The republican party has zero clue with regards to common sense, let alone geo-political affairs.

You effing morons.

Gaslighter in chief

21 Friday Dec 2018

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In his own words.

“…I will take the mantle of shutting down…”

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

Ten days ago:

Remarks
Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker-Designate Nancy Pelosi
National Security & Defense
Issued on: December 11, 2018

[….]

THE PRESIDENT: I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, because the people of this country don’t want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. So I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it. The last time you shut it down, it didn’t work. I will take the mantle of shutting down.

[….]

This morning:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Democrats now own the shutdown!
9:07 AM – 21 Dec 2018

His base believes him.

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): all in on Donald Trump’s (r) wall (December 19, 2018)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): doubling down on Donald Trump’s wall (December 21, 2018)

Donald Trump’s (r) government shutdown is imminent (December 21, 2018)

You don’t hand over control of the government to a tax cheat

09 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Gaslighting.

A few days ago:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
You don’t hand matches to an arsonist, and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob. Democrats have become too EXTREME and TOO DANGEROUS to govern. Republicans believe in the rule of law – not the rule of the mob. VOTE REPUBLICAN!
8:21 PM – 6 Oct 2018

We remember 2009.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): open forum in Hillsboro – photos (August 12, 2009)

The altercation over an “unauthorized sign”. Law enforcement quickly separated the parties and escorted them outside.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): open forum in Hillsboro – video of the Rosa Parks poster altercation (August 12, 2009)

I spoke with Maxine Johnson outside the field house after the event was over:

Show Me Progress: So, what happened? What happened, did, after you sat down?

Maxine Johnson: When I sat down I put my sign in the chair in front of me. It was rolled up. And the reporter kind of, news reporter crawled over there, she was standing up and she asked could she take a picture of the sign. We unrolled the sign laying down in the chair. And she was taking a picture of Rosa Parks. This man comes out of the crowd, snatch my sign, I stood up, they said he pushed me. I don’t remember anything ’cause you know by that time my adrenaline going everywhere…All I’m thinking about is getting my sign back. I got up in…to proceed, go get my sign back. ‘Cause he was crumbling it up. I said, “Give my sign back!” When I said that, next thing I know I had four police officers on me and one on him. I’m the victim here, [laugh] you know. And then as I say, “I’m pressing charges!”…I said, “Obama, Obama!” So, you know what, you know like I said Rosa Parks fought for our freedom back then, now I’m fighting for our freedom now…So we’re fighting for the next generation…

We remember very angry right wingnuts – and that was just about increasing access to affordable healthcare.

That was then, this is now.

Update:

There’s a tweet for everything.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The paid D.C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they haven’t gotten their checks – in other words, they weren’t paid! Screamers in Congress, and outside, were far too obvious – less professional than anticipated by those paying (or not paying) the bills!
7:32 AM – 9 Oct 2018

WTF?

#resist

An honors graduate of the Nathan Thurm School of Gaslighting…

30 Thursday Aug 2018

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This morning, via Twitter:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
What’s going on at @CNN is happening, to different degrees, at other networks – with @NBCNews being the worst. The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!
6:02 AM – 30 Aug 2018

…with a major in Fascism.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I just cannot state strongly enough how totally dishonest much of the Media is. Truth doesn’t matter to them, they only have their hatred & agenda. This includes fake books, which come out about me all the time, always anonymous sources, and are pure fiction. Enemy of the People!
6:11 AM – 30 Aug 2018

Mike Pence (r): your awl stoopit

28 Tuesday Aug 2018

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….the classic ‘legal’ definition of chutzpah….a person who kills his parents and pleads for the court’s mercy on the ground of being an orphan….

This afternoon, via Twitter, from Mike Pence (r):

Vice President Mike Pence @VP
…Justice Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received support of 96 Senators. If we lived in a more respectful time, Judge Brett Kavanaugh would be overwhelmingly confirmed by the United States Senate. #ConfirmKavanaugh
3:03 PM – 28 Aug 2018

Some of the responses:

If we lived in a better time, you’d be an anonymous potato farmer.

Actually he would be still be a DJ on a low-powered radio station somewhere in an Indiana cornfield.

If we lived in a more respectful time, all records would be released #WhatAreTheyHiding

#UnindictedCoConspirator doesn’t get to pick his own judge.

Remind us again how many votes Merrick Garland got.

If we lived in a more respectful time, you would not be Vice President.

If we lived in a more respectful time, Judge Merrick Garland would have been overwhelmingly confirmed by the United States Senate instead of being back burnered for months and months by your party. What a hypocrite!

Manafort’s top draft pick.

Сделать Америку великой Снова.

Well blame your boss for not living in respectful times.

Traitor says what?

If the documents had all been released already we’d have no problem beginning hearings. This nominee lied in confirmation hearings held on his appointment to the circuit court. We will not seat a man of no integrity.

Trump once said, “Most people aren’t worthy of respect.” His behavior toward others continues to demonstrate this belief. The lack of respect is coming from the top. If you wanted to live in more respectful times, you shouldn’t have helped him into the WH. #MerrickGarland

If we lived in a more respectful time, your boss would not Tweet hate towards everyone except those who bow at his feet. #YourBossIsUnindictedCriminal #NoKavanaughUntilMuellerIsDone

This is disgusting. If we lived in a more respectful time, the GOP would have given Merrick Garland A HEARING. And in a more respectful time, Trump would not be sitting in the Oval Office, and you, as transition head, would not have ignored bipartisan concerns over traitor Flynn.

what about MERRICK GARLAND? where was the respect owed him? where was his vote?

garland’s not on the record perjuring himself. garland wasn’t working in concert to hide 85% of his records from congress. garland didn’t say that a POTUS couldn’t be indicted.

Um…and Elena Kagan had to show ALL her papers from when she was an advisor the White House. THAT is the holdup over Kavanaugh. Republicans are damming up the flow of those documents that will be incriminating against Kavanaugh. Respect has nothing to do with it; documents do.

What was the final vote for Merrick Garland?

Was the president who nominated them under investigation for committing treason and working with Russia to make himself president?

If we lived in a more respectful time, you wouldn’t be in office. #complicit

Judge Merrick Garland deserved the support of every member of the United States Senate. If we lived in a more respectful time, Garland would have been easily confirmed. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds. #ReleaseTheRecords

NOPE Sorry Kremlin Ken. We don’t want a Putin appointed president to decide who sits on our highest court.

How DARE you complain about times not being “respectful”. The man you are enabling and hiding behind is the least respectful and most abusive person in our government, and is the top reason why our country is so divided and disrespectful. Get HIM to change, or stop your whining

Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland.

What was the vote on Merrick Garland, @VP?

“If we lived in a more respectful time…” With all due respect Mr. Vice President, get bent.

Only if we lived in less corrupt days.

have you had your irony surgically removed, or are you just that incapable of understanding it?

You have got to be kidding me. Tell me this is a joke.

Two words: Merrick Garland. Three more: so shut up.

Merrick. Garland.

A president under investigation should not pick his judge. #NoHearings

If we lived in a more respectful times, Merrick Garland would be a Supreme Court Justice, actual Nazis wouldn’t be running for public office, and Donald Trump wouldn’t be either a celebrity or a president.

Yep. Justice Merrick Garland fully agrees.

The ABSURD posturing around blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination and refusing to even let a vote happen has left your party with ZERO moral high ground to complain about lack of cooperation with Supreme Court nominations, you jackass

Not forgetting the confirmation vote for Merrick Garland, you pompous, purpose-less poser.

The hypocrisy runs deep in this one.

Merrick Effing Garland you putz

Merrick. Garland.
You set the standard.
Now live with it.

The difference is Scalia and RGB we’re appointed by a democratically elected administration. #NoNewAppointments

You’re a stooge, a crook and a flunky, Pence. Everybody knows it, even those who pretend otherwise to your face.

It goes on and on.

Mike Pence (r) is a putz. And probably the only reason why Donald Trump (r) won’t be impeached, convicted, and removed from office.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting

30 Monday Jul 2018

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All in as a card carrying member of the MAGA cult.

…Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn’t realize how much they’ve been brainwashed…

GDP growth touted as “historic” by Trump is anything but

….In fact, Mr. Trump didn’t inherit a fixer-upper economy.
The U.S. economy just entered its 10th year of growth, a recovery that began under President Barack Obama, who inherited the Great Recession. The data show that the falling unemployment rate and gains in home values reflect the duration of the recovery, rather than any major changes made since 2017 by the Trump administration.
While Mr. Trump praised the 4.1 percent annual growth rate in the second quarter, the economy exceeded that level four times during the Obama presidency: in 2009, 2011 and twice in 2014.
In purely numerical terms, a larger shift took place in the second quarter of 2014, when the economy went from contracting by 1 percent to growing at a rate of 5.1 percent….

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

This past weekend from Representative Vicky Hartzler (r):

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Great news yesterday at our economy grew by 4.1% last quarter! So much better than the abysmal growth we had for years under the Obama Administration. Jobs are coming back, paychecks are increasing, opportunity is reborn. It’s a new day! #MAGA #Hope #Jobs
8:54 AM – 28 Jul 2018

No, it’s not a new day.

Some of the responses:

Actually Vicky, in the 2nd quarter of 2014, the GDP grew by 5.1%.
Obama was the president at that time. 5.1 is larger than 4.1
“the economy exceeded that level (4.1%) four times during the Obama presidency: in 2009, 2011 and twice in 2014.”

We deserve a Rep who is familiar with the history of their own nation at least going back 9 years or so.

You are part of the problem, Vicky. Why does good news on the economy always have to be contrasted with the Obama administration? Oh, because the Liar in Chief says so in his hateful insecurity.
Btw, the Obama years hit 5% from time to time.

Each lie gets a little easier, huh Vicky.

Literally everything you said after that first sentence was false.

Wages = flat

That is a lie

Uhmmm….we hit 5% several times under the Obama administration. No need to lie to get your point across.

Who ARE you?

#Derp

Wages are not increasing and growth hit at least 4% several times in the Obama years. You consistently lie to suit your far right worldview and I’m embarrassed that you’re my rep in Congress. Stop trying to sell tax cuts for the rich as something good for average Americans.

The Chicago Times said that inflation increased slightly. The number of homeless grew in 2017 for the first time in a decade. Don’t worry. All these things are completely natural business fluctuations.

Obama had 3 that were higher than 4.1% and he didn’t go out bragging. Let’s start talking about the deficit that the GOP are blowing up. We just borrowed $12 billion from China to give welfare to our farmers because of Trumps tariffs. Trump filed bankruptcy 4 times.He’s brilliant

Wrong.

But who cares about him being a Russian puppet, immigrant children still not with their parents, and 3D printed plastic guns coming soon. You sicken me.

under Obama:
—5.1% Q2 2014
—4.9% Q3 2014
—4.7% Q4 2011
—4.5% Q4 2009

I know the truth is hard for you, but maybe you should try lying about something this isn’t so easy to fact check.

Another lie from Missouri’s 4th district mouth piece. You could care less about the dismantling of our country! Sad-shame-pathetic!

You know this is a blatant lie, right? Is that the new playbook for the @GOP just lie and hope people are too dumb?

That appears to be their plan.

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31 Thursday May 2018

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…Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn’t realize how much they’ve been brainwashed…

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