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“…drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”

25 Saturday Jan 2025

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, Josh Hawley, US Senate

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confirmation, Donald Trump, missouri, Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, sycophants, unqualified, Virgina, vote

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

Roll Call Vote 119th Congress – 1st Session
Vote Summary
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Peter Hegseth, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Defense)
Vote Number: 15 Vote Date: January 24, 2025, 08:57 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN11-7
Nomination Description: Peter Hegseth, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Defense
Vote Counts:
YEAs 50
NAYs 50
Vice President of the United States Voted Yea

[….]

Hawley (R-MO), Yea
Schmitt (R-MO), Yea

[….]

Collins (R-ME), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay

[….]

[emphasis added]

Bipartisan opposition.

Missouri and Virginia sycophants.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Some of the responses to Eric Schmitt (r):

What’d you like about him? His Nazi tattoos? His sexual assaults? Drunkenness?

You just confirmed an alcoholic, rapist, who has never commanded anything larger than a platoon to secretary of defense. This is criminal neglegence.

Unqualified. Cheat. Thief. Yet you confirmed him like Trump’s good little boy.

you should be disgusted with yourself for supporting someone as hilariously unqualified as hegseth. truly running this country to the ground

Sir. I am a Missourian and a lifelong Republican. I am also a sexual assault survivor I will not forget your vote on Hegeseth. Shame on you. Nothing I can do about that now, except to not vote for you ever again, and hopefully God will judge you accordingly.

You are now responsible for putting an abusive alcoholic in one of the highest positions of power.

What a joke!

Well with the GOP bar being so low he can stumble and crawl to it.

Eric Schmitt did a useless job confirming the least qualified SecDef in history.

Xi is celebrating [….]

Eric Schmitt YOU HAVE REACHED A NEW LOW- even other Republicans had the bravery to vote against confirmation.

Just f’ing incredible- to confirm an alcoholic, domestic abuser and is the least qualified militarily to be in charge of Defense. All because Trump liked him on Fox.

What a whore for your leader. What an unqualified person. Something you are familiar with.

A drunk rapist. You’re disgusting.

You’re a fuck up. You’re incapable of thinking for yourself and are just a pussy puppet doing what you’re scared into doing. You don’t represent the people of Missouri or this country. You just made us weak. You would’ve done better voting for Frank Burns or Gomer Pyle.

Josh Hawley (r) [2024 file photo].

Wait, isn’t it only supposed to be an affront to right wingnut orthodoxy if litter boxes are involved?

21 Wednesday Aug 2024

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

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Fascist pig, Josh Hawley, manufactured outrage, restrooms, right wingnut, social media, U.S. Senate, Virgina, we never get out of junior high school

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

What a maroon.

Some people never get out of junior high school.

Josh Hawley (r) [2024 file photo].

Yesterday from Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Of course. The Dems want to erase women👇

Susan Ferrechio @susanferrechio
[….]
In the press filing center at the DNC, organizers took away the ladies room.

9:13 AM · Aug 20, 2024

It’s an arena. There are restrooms everywhere.

So far, there haven’t been any reports of credentialed media peeing on the floor in significant numbers.

Previously:

A debate about debates – Josh Hawley (r) and Lucas Kunce (D) at the Missouri State Fair Governor’s Ham Breakfast – August 15, 2024 (August 15, 2024)

Now what, Josh (r)?

12 Friday Aug 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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18 U.S.C. §§ 2071, 18 U.S.C. §§ 793, 18 U.S.C. §§1519, Donald Trump, dumbass, Espionage Act, Fascist pigs, FBI, right wingnuts, search warrant, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate, Virgina

“Biden and Garland want to have this FBI raid swept under the rug. There needs to be real accountability here.”

18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information

….(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both…..

18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally

(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

18 U.S. Code § 1519 – Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy

Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

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

From the federal search warrant of Donald Trump’s (r) residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, released by the court today:

ATTACHMENT A
Property to be searched

The premises to be searched, 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480, is further described as a resort, club, and residence located near the intersection of Southern Blvd and S Ocean Blvd. It is described as a mansion with approximately 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, on a 17-acre estate. The locations to be searched include the “45 Office,” all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate. It does not include areas currently (i.e., at the time of the search) being occupied, rented, or used by third parties (such as Mar-a-Largo Members) and not otherwise used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff, such as private guest suites.

ATTACHMENT B
Property to be seized

All physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 793, 2071, or 1519, including the following:

a. Any physical documents with classification markings, along with any containers/boxes (including any other contents) in which such documents are located, as well as any other containers/boxes that are collectively stored or found together with the aforementioned documents and containers/boxes;

b. Information, including communications in any form, regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material;

c. Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021; or

d. Any evidence of the knowing alteration, destruction, or concealment of any government and/or Presidential Records, or of any documents with lassification
markings.

From the “Receipt For Property” – materials removed by the FBI:

Classified material.

Someone’s in deep shit.

Well, Josh?

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Dumbass.

Previously:

Schadenfreude-a-Lago (August 8, 2022)

Barking out approved talking points with the rest of the MAGA seals (August 9, 2022)

Tell us you don’t know how search warrants actually work without telling us you don’t know how they work (August 10, 2022)

Former County Sheriff Publicly Denounces “No one is above the law” (August 10, 2022)

He was framed! (August 11, 2022)

And your point is? (August 11, 2022)

Proliferation (August 12, 2022)

A permanent meme

07 Sunday Aug 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Fascist pig, Josh Hawley, meme, right wingnut, running, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate, Virgina

It’s his destiny.

Yesterday:

The Good Liars @TheGoodLiars
We put up some signs for “Josh Hawley’s Morning Cardio Class” at CPAC.
[….]
10:26 PM · Aug 6, 2022

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

Josh Hawley (r) is famous! (July 21, 2022)

“Fistpump McRunpants” (July 22, 2022)

Not in Missouri (July 22, 2022)

Running Man (July 24, 2022)

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