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Paleolithic nihilist

09 Thursday Jun 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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Attorney General, Eric Schmitt, ignoranimus, maroon, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

Who else!

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Last night:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
In the U.S. Senate I’ll dismantle the Administrative State. [….]
9:22 PM · Jun 8, 2022

Ignoranimus.

As always, there is much hilarity in the responses:

What will you dismantle? No FDA, OSHA, FBI, FCC, NASA, EPA, etc.?

You won’t make it so it’s a moot point

Never misunderestimate the political savy of Missouri republican primary voters.

The administrative state that is currently suing school districts in Missouri?

Heh. That one left a mark.

You’re not going to be a Senator.

Channeling your inner steve bannon I see, how low will you go?

What, precisely, is the administrative state?

So you will fire yourself on day one?

Google “Dunning-Kruger Effect”

Dayam. Heh.

I believe that you’ll tweet about. I don’t believe you’ll do more than that.

You will not be elected to the Senate. You are a not very smart failure who has never presented a thoughtful cohesive plan concerning the real issues that effect the daily lives of Missourians and their quality of life. It’s almost academic at this point that you will lose.

See above.

Can Eric “dismantle the Administrative State” by filing fake lawsuits and tweeting nonsense or does he have a hidden talent?

No, that’s it.

No you won’t. US Senate exists to keep any and all legislation from ever passing. Arcane rules and gross over representation of the minority of Americans. In this case keeping your radical conservatism to useless fox sound bites. I guess that’s a bonus.

Unfortunately there are two sets of rules.

What exactly is the administrative state? The govt? You’re going to dismantle the govt? WTF are you blabbering about? [….]

Based on your record we can’t believe you’ll do anything of value in any role. Go away. [….]

Mistaking mindless repetition for erudition

14 Monday Mar 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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critical race theory, CRT, Eric Schmitt, excusable neglect, ignoranimus, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

This afternoon:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Critical Race Theory is a warped and divisive ideology that separates KIDS by race and into categories of “privileged” & “oppressed.”

It should have no place in our schools. #moleg #CRT
3:14 PM · Mar 14, 2022

Some of the responses:

Just do two simple things here Eric to give your case any credence or support, just like has to be done in court for standing:

1. Define CRT.
2. Identify three examples where CRT is being taught to children in the state of Missouri.

Narrator: “Eric Schmitt can’t. He never could.”

It is also taught in zero public schools in the United States, much less Missouri. So, you are aggressively fighting and trying to create legislation to govern nothing.

That’s not what CRT is, and CRT isn’t being taught in schools.

You are fractally wrong, attacking our educational system for petty culture wars points.

Racism is what’s warped and divisive, not telling the truth about it.

It is not in our school and you don’t know what it is.

Please explain to me which schools this college level course is being taught.

Your pants are on fire [….]

Define it. Give a human example, and not a politically void bumper sticker.
We’ll wait

Narrator: “They waited forever.”

Oh gosh, it’s the CRT Boogieman, again! Such a lie! It’s not taught in public K-12!

#CRT isn’t taught in #Missouri schools. Find another meme.

What is Critical Race Theory?

How would you teach how Missouri entered the union? Please provide lesson plans so teachers won’t be attacked for teaching “CRT”.

It isn’t in our schools and shame on you for suggesting it is! You are uninformed, or willing stooge for the far right and you should never be MO’s senator!

Could you give a succinct definition of CRT?

Narrator: “He can’t.”

Excusable neglect is going to be Eric Schmitt’s (r) campaign slogan. One way or another.

Meta: we deserve a better class of trolls

06 Friday Aug 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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anti-mask, Corona virus, COVID-19, ignoranimus, maroon, meta, missouri, right wingnut, sociopath, troll

Really. This is too easy.

As always, we’re not allowing ignorant comments like these out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

We get another comment:

This article is completely laughable and highly biased. The author is obviously incapable of accepting proven research that differs from his opinion.

The post is a first hand source. That is, we were there. We took photos. We published the photos. We recorded audio. We posted the audio. There is no bias in those elements. There is no opinion in those elements. We agree that the public comments were completely laughable. We stated:

…“they” showed up to complain about masks and vaccines, spouting misinformation which would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous to others…

What “proven” research? Cite it. Explain how that works. We’ll wait.

In a later post:

[….]It was definitely not a virtuoso display of critical thinking skills. Thirty or so people in a county with a population of approximately 54,000.

Whining about a local school district “making” school children wear masks, while being lax in their enforcement, while being too strict in their enforcement, and possibly making students follow established policy.

Masks designated for biological use don’t work for paint (uh, wrong type), therefore they won’t work for their intended purpose.

Wearing a mask will cause you to breathe excessive amounts of carbon dioxide, never mind that highly skilled surgeons and medical personnel wear masks for hours. Seriously, would anyone want their medical team to do otherwise?

How many individuals in Johnson County have been fully vaccinated? Definitely more than thirty anti-science luddites. [….]

Maroon. Ignoranimus.

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)

Too stupid to remember to breathe

23 Wednesday Jun 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Asshole, blowhard, demagogue, ignoranimus, Josh Hawley, maroon, missouri, racism, right wingnut, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Senate

It’s there. In ink.

The first page of the United States Constitution [1787] – National Archives

The first page of the United States Constitution [1787] – National Archives – detail

[….]
Article. I.
[….]
Section. 2.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
[….]

Yesterday:

The Recount @therecount
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO): “I’m worried that President Biden is nominating for federal office individuals … who believe that this is a country founded in racism …”
[….]
12:57 PM · Jun 22, 2021

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Maroon.

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): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024 (January 23, 2021)

After 17 days of silence (January 24, 2021)

Yeah, but those seven Senators didn’t pump their fists at insurrectionists immediately before the breach of the Capitol (January 25, 2021)

A shooting star elbow drop from the ropes (January 28, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): you got your wish (January 31, 2021)

If Josh Hawley (r) steps in front of a microphone today we get six more weeks of sedition. (February 2, 2021)

On the wrong side of everything (February 3, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Crybaby Tour (February 6, 2021)

You got that one right (February 8, 2021)

Senator “Raise My Fist in Sedition” (r) has an opinion (February 10, 2021)

Working on the galley proofs for that right wingnut welfare vanity press book? (February 10, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Indifference (February 13, 2021)

Eric Greitens (r) is on line one… (February 13, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Hawley’s Mail (February 20, 2021)

What is Josh Hawley’s (r) favorite whine? (February 23, 2021)

Again, we already knew that (February 26, 2021)

Offered without comment (March 2, 2021)

The people you pay $174,000.00 a year believe that all billionaires are in desperate need of their help and that you haven’t suffered enough (March 6, 2021)

Home every night (March 7, 2021)

Penrose On Politics: Huckster Hawley (March 13, 2021)

“They could never do more damage than you have already done.” (March 17, 2021)

Anybody see Josh Hawley (r)? (March 17, 2021)

SB 528: Wolverines! (March 24, 2021)

Long term memory loss (March 30, 2021)

A voice in the wilderness (March 31, 2021)

Secretly wants to join the “minutemen of the state” so he can wear a brown shirt (April 8, 2021)

Calling out ALEC? (April 12, 2021)

Slam dunk (April 13, 2021)

He forgot to raise a fist (April 15, 2021)

Offered without comment (April 15, 2021)

Uh… (April 20, 2021)

A low Bar (April 22, 2021)

Just because (April 22, 2021)

One of those fancy prosecutors (April 23, 2021)

The Gallagher of American politics, only without any of the humor, intelligence, or sophistication (April 26, 2021)

A grifter is only interested in taking your money, not at all in making any sense (May 1, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “As seen on TV!” (May 6, 2021)

Participation trophy (May 7, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): an attempt at performance art (May 9, 2021)

“It read better in the original German.” (May 14, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): This you? (May 22, 2021)

Reely stoopit

25 Tuesday May 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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anti-vax, Holocaust trivialization, ignoranimus, Marjorie Taylor Greene, missouri, pandemic, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, vaccine

Grotesque and offensive willful ignorance doubles down – this morning:

Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee
Well hate freedom media would you look at this story.

It appears Nazi practices have already begun on our youth.

Show your VAX papers or no in person class for you.

This is exactly what I was saying about the gold star.

This is disgusting!
[….]
6:39 AM · May 25, 2021

Dumbshit.

Currently, in Missouri [pdf]:

Missouri School Immunization Requirements

Missouri School Immunization Requirements 0-18 Years of Age

The responses to Marjorie Taylor Greene (r):

Unvaccinated students have been banned from K-12 and college for many years. Polio, smallpox, etc. This is nothing new.

We already have to get vaccinated to attend school. Are your children not vaccinated against polio or smallpox?

“Routine smallpox vaccination among the American public stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the United States.” – CDC

I couldn’t go to elementary school without my MMR vaccine as a kid, among others.

At least 24 states require college students to be vaccinated against meningitis; at least 16 states require Hep B shots.

Many colleges also require MMR and TDap shots.

All without being called Nazis.
[….]

You have a severe misunderstanding of:

A. Historical Nazis

B. The history of mandatory vaccines for schools.

You should ask one of @mattgaetz girlfriends to explain the second one before she goes back to high school in the fall.

Read the replies Mags. It’s already a thing. It’s already been a thing for years. Yet here you are just trying to rile people up because you absolutely KNOW the people who follow you are too dumb to know the difference. You play them for the fools they are. When will they learn?

What does that first sentence even mean?

I literally had to show my records to go to college in 2000, this is not new

COVID-19

Two thing separate the US from the rest of the world
1 masks
2 vaccinations

I love the fact that you actually think you are smart!!!!

Dunning-Kruger.

psst…Marge, when my daughters started college, they had to have proof of vaccinations. Come to think of it, when they started Kindergarten, they had to have proof of vaccinations.

Required vaccinations are nothing new, my kids needed their MMR, DPT, chicken pox, polio vaccines to go to school. Even back when I was a kid I was required! Do you know how absolutely ridiculous you sound?

Dunning-Kruger.

You do know who the Nazis were, don’t you Marge?

False equivalency, Ms Greene. Even in your home state of Georgia since 01 July 2014 all students from grade 7 onwards must have must have received one dose of tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine and one dose of meningococcal (meningitis) vaccine.

Students already have to show proof of vaccinations for other pathogens before attending college, unless they apply for (and are granted) an exemption for religious or medical reasons. Campuses are germ factories; the many vaccinated protect the few who cannot be.

Marjorie Taylor Greene plumbs the depth of stupidity and evil.

The horrifying, noxious idea that Nazi attacks on Jews before their extermination were somehow NOT part of the Holocaust

Jews in ghettoes forced to wear the yellow star was part of the Holocaust

You stupid monster.

Her stupidity is not an excuse.

Does she understand that we have required vaccines in schools for decades?

Oh, stop. Y’all hate college anyway. You all are so good at not having any fundamental belief system. Owning libs isn’t political strategy, you psychopath.

You are vile.

Comparing the slaughter of 6 million Jewish mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, babies to requiring proof of a life-saving vaccine, so we can end a global pandemic?

What is wrong with you?
You need help.

Can you even read?

#FuckOffNazi

Breathtaking stupidity.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, in association with Matt Gaetz, spell the end for the modern Republican Party as a viable political party going forward.

The embrace of the GOP of these two clowns is an amazing act of self-sabotage.

Dimwit just learned schools require vaccinations? Just fu

It takes a special kind of stupid to double down on the holocaust comparisons.

And on and on.

Is somebody going to tell him?

24 Wednesday Apr 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Constitution, Donald Trump, ignoranimus, impeachment, maroon, social media, Twitter

“…If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court…”

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

This morning, via Twitter:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG. If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only……
7:10 AM – 24 Apr 2019

He doesn’t have a clue, does he? What a maroon.

United States Constitution, Article I, Section 2.
The House of Representatives [….] shall have the sole power of impeachment.

United States Constitution, Article I, Section 3.
…The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.
Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law…

It might help to actually read what’s in the United States Constitution.

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