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Fiddling While The Constitution Burns

07 Sunday Sep 2025

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

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4th Congressional District, former newsreader, identification, Mark Alford, Passport, read the room, right wingnut, social media

Is he trying to tell us something?

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Friday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[September 5, 2025]

Hey Missouri, need a passport?
Check out this opportunity to get one at the passport fair!
[….]

There was much hilarity in the responses:

Most Missourians only need a passport or passport card to show to ICE while at work. Of course that only applies to those working while brown. Old white guys like me never get asked for ID.

Yet.

I mean, we’d really just like our sick leave back, since, y’know…WE VOTED FOR IT.

Awesome, now leave!!💯🤡

What is proof of citizenship? I would think your birth certificate is such.

is is, unless you have changed your name, like women who marry and change their last name.

but your current ID should have your correct name on it and would have had to show documents when name change was made. It’s all to put burden on women.

It almost gives women incentive NOT to marry and go through the hassle. I thought Republicans wanted marriages. Women are not going to jump through hoops. It’s easier not to marry…..

I tell young women when they marry to keep their names

How about holding one in every county you represent?

Why not everywhere you represent?

because he doesn’t care

Will they be at reduced cost or free?

No. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

ICE agents will be at the door

“Fuck Ice”

Is this only in St Louis

Apparently, we ALL need passports.

Your papers, please.

my son in law carries his at all times now because he is Latino, speaks fluent Spanish at his job and is scared to death ICE will arrest him for the crime of being Latino

Why not one in your district ? St. Louis is 4 hours away

This seems like a trap…

“ICE is the new Gestapo”

Yea all women in Mo will probably need one to vote because of GOP.

Can we renew our existing at this “fair”? Will there be canapès and cocktails while you wait? Whom is the entertainment? Valet parking?

Why? You can go to the Post Office and apply for a passport. This seems like a trap somehow.

Every woman is going to need one, if you guys get your way. They need to be free!

“Nasty Women Vote!”

if they were free the people they don’t want to vote will get passports

Yeah. Let’s get a far away from fuckawful Alford as possible.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Um, not sure how this will help any of the constituents in YOUR DISTRICT. You really are a daft human. #VoteAlfordOut

Sure, ill drive torn up old I-70 to get to St Louis….how’s that road improvements going? About as well as the exposing the Felons crimes?

Just St. Louis? You might get more self deportations by offering US citizens free if other countries would accept them.

Uh.

Everyone will need a passport to leave the shambles Trump will leave this great country in!!

Do you need a passport while your head is up trumps ass?

The best president of Alford’s lifetime. And it has to be true, because Cult media is stating it [….]

BEWARE: Mark is selling fake passports.

If you had ANY morals you would speak out against Senator’s Schmitt’s racism.

This.

Yes, so we can leave this fascist dictatorship.

Fuck you. This is basically forcing transgender people to out themselves so they’ll be on a government no fly-list. Whos next? Jewish people? Black people? Muslims? People who were born in blue states? People who were born to same sex parents? Why isnt a social security card and a photo ID good enough?

Do you feel we all need to leave from your horrible policy positions?

At least you’re giving people, especially women, a chance to get the fuck out of the country.

We are the granddaughters of the witches you were never able to burn” [2020 file photo]

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