Oh again! I forgot how supportive Republican men are of women’s sports! [….] Are you going to increase funding and scholarships? Work for pay equity? #GOPFakeCultureWar
Aww look at you Eric… caring about the environment and women’s sports all in the last month, how very woke of you, sir! (You’re smarter and better than this).
“…You’re smarter and better than this.” Evidently not.
Your social media 🤡 is stealing money from you, @EricBurlison. Just the laziest money they’ve made in their life. They think you’re a sucker.
Dude, get the fuck out of the People’s House with this pandering bullshit.
You miss out on those early basics of critical thinking.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
From time to time a right wingnut concern troll will try to leave a comment here. Our system defaults to automatic moderation – that is, comments have to be approved. We don’t allow such comments to be linked to the original post, but on occasion, when we see fit, we’ll mock these attempts.
We see fit.
An attempted comment to a post about the priorities of the right wingnut republican controlled Missouri General Assembly:
Why not even the odds…why are you not doing the same on the Democrats? If your really concerned about inflation check on all parties Not just one!
Republicans maintained their supermajority in both chambers of the Missouri General Assembly after Tuesday’s election.
Republicans hold 111 of the 163 seats in the Missouri House and 24 of the 34 seats in the state Senate, according to unofficial election results from the Missouri Secretary of State. Democrats have 52 seats in the House and 10 seats in the Senate. A two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate are needed to override governor vetoes.
Republicans have maintained control of both chambers for the past two decades.
[….]
Contemplate the meaning of a “veto proof majority” and how the Missouri General Assembly has operated for the past twenty years. You know, actually pay attention.
Rep. Jason Smith @RepJasonSmith
I am deeply humbled to have been selected to be the next Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Ways and Means Republicans will build an economy that is strong by prioritizing our most valuable economic resource, the American worker.
[…] 3:23 PM · Jan 9, 2023
Jason Smith, a friend of the American Worker?
Some of the responses:
We now return you to your regular GQP programming.
Republicans are far more interested in manufacturing discontent than in doing anything to fix anything.
How does cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Food Assistance programs, stifling Unionization efforts, and slashing taxes for the obscenely wealthy help “the American Worker”, Jason?
Can you explain to me what your objectives are and how they benefit workers?
Gaslighting. Wealth distribution upward. Just to name a couple.
You are a joke and will do nothing more than hurt the working class people. Signed, a Missourian
You’re a liar.
[….]
The 1/6 Traitor says what?
Traitor.
You’ve voted against almost every bill passed by Biden that ACTUALLY prioritizes the American worker. [….]
I won’t hold my breath that you’ll actually do anything of value in this position.
I notice in your feed you talk a lot about Democrats adding 2 trillion to the debt but I don’t see anything about Republicans adding 8 trillion in 4 years under the last admin and the majority of that was tax cuts for rich folk. Funny how that slipped your list of grievances
Gaslighting.
Peak Missouri Republican: Constantly complain about government spending, never address that majority is going to districts like your own while majority of taxes are coming from Democratic districts.
Joe already built it— but like a Trumplican you’ll find a way to take credit for the work YOU didn’t do.
What Jason means is, The Americans in The Blue States
Will subsidize The Red States Who refuse to Pay Their
Own Fair Share of American Taxes.
Why did you vote against certifying the 2020 presidential election?
This guy is hilarious.
He has one of the most anti-labor / anti-worker voting records in Congress.
See AFL-CIO Legislative Scoreboard
This chairman position was bought and paid for.
Freaking clown show
I don’t recognize insurrectionist trash as legitimate lawmakers. Therefore I’m going to ignore and laugh at anything that comes out of your committee.
Republicans exploit American workers with their massive tax cuts for corporations, which never “ trickle down”
The House made a big mistake making you chair of anything. You are an #Insurrectionist and a worthless representative for MO.
I hope you will not become even more deeply humbled because @HouseGOP juvenile delinquent anarchism leads to a default on debt obligations *already incurred* and a market crash
best luck with that, congressman
you might end up wishing you were back in the minority, trolling away
Aren’t Republicons for the wealthy. Your trickle down economics have destroyed our economy. Good luck getting past Senate and Biden.
He might be able to name a few Post Offices.
Please don’t strip away Social Security and Medicare from seniors who have worked hard and contributed to the system their entire lives.
Especially if you plan to turn our money over to millionaire grifters
“Our freedoms, liberty, and constitutional rights are in peril, now more than ever before in our lifetimes,” Scharf said in the release. “Now is not the time to compromise or cut deals with the woke left. Missourians deserve leadership that will stand up for them against federal overreach, special interests, and political insiders.”
When asked to be specific about where the peril is coming from, Scharf said he meant “radical overreach by the Biden administration” and “an increasingly take-no-prisoners attitude toward ordinary Americans” by liberals.
The Trump Administration was filled with far too many incompetent boobs, starting with Donald Trump (r).
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Testimony:
SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE
JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL,
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DEPOSITION OF: KASHYAP PRAMOD PATEL
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Washington, D.C
[Page 49]
[….]
Q How about the summer of 2020? asked you some questions about the impact that the summer protests had on preparation. Right now, separate from any email, separate from any document, what do you remember about how what happened in the summer impacted preparations for January 6th?
[Discussion off the record.]
The Witness. So, at that time, in the summer of 2020, I was deputy assistant to the President and senior director for counterterrorism. So that was my focus.
BY [….] Q I understand.
A So what I remember? I remember the media and the Lafayette Square incident. Of course, I remember the media’s portrayal of it, and I remember the video and the walk-across. I don’t recall having conversations with intel or DOD at that time, and —
Q That’s not my question. My question is, in January, the first few days of January of 2021–
A Uh-huh.
Q — you’re the chief of staff to the Secretary of Defense. Was there any discussion that you recall about what happened in the summer impacting preparations, DOD preparations, for what was coming on January 6th?
A So I believe I addressed that, so I’ll refer back to that answer. But, to address your question again, I rely on what I previously stated. But do I recall conversations about the summer in early January?
Q Yes.
A I recall some conversations with leadership at the Department that it came up. The specifics I do not recall.
Q Okay. Again, as you sit here today, no recollection of any of the specifics of how the summer protest events impacted the Defense Department’s preparation?
A I think as I stated earlier, what I do remember is that the senior leadership that was in place at the Department of Defense reminded senior leadership that was then in place of lessons learned. And whatever those lessons learned were documented by us in our recording — in our reportings, excuse me. And so, outside of that, I don’t have any other independent memory of not using anything else.
Q What were the lessons learned?
A You’d have to ask the people that were there —
Q I’m asking you, Mr. Patel.
A Well, I wasn’t there.
Q In your mind, what were the lessons learned from the summer that affected preparations for January 6th?
A The biggest lesson in my mind —
Q Yes.
A — looking back at the arc of this entire thing —
Q Great.
A — is that the Members of Congress did not want an arms display, for lack of a better word, on National Guardsmen and -women ever. That’s my recollection.
Q Okay.
A Now, that’s what the number one — I wouldn’t call it number one — that was a lesson learned that I recall other folks saying, but that’s about it.
Q And how did that relate to the summer of 2020?
A I’m not sure. What do you mean?
Q What do you recall — you said Members of Congress didn’t want an armed display. How does that in some way — again, your recollection — reach back to what happened in the summer of 2020?
A I think it stems from, I believe, Chairman Milley at the time walked across Lafayette Square with a sidearm holstered on his military uniform. I believe that’s what that reference was to. And Chairman Milley would have a better idea of those conversations because it impacted him directly.
Q I’m not asking you to look inside of Chairman Milley or anybody else’s mind. I’m just asking you, in your role as a high-level official in the Department of Defense, how the summer events affected preparation for the riot at the Capitol.
A Look, I believe I’ve answered it. I mean, if you would like, we can again look at things that can help to jog my memory, but I believe I’ve answered your question.
Q You have no independent recollection beyond the stuff, the documents, that we’ve provided you —
Mr. Gabe. Respectfully, you’ve asked him the same question in slightly different ways five or six times. He’s testified to what he remembers, his best recollection. He’s talked about what he doesn’t recall, but — and I understand that you may wish that he recalled more, but he’s answered the question, like, five times.
BY [….] Q I’m just trying to pinpoint whether you have any independent recollection beyond the documents that you’ve been provided to review today.
A Beyond the documents that I’ve been directed to review, beyond whatever was provided, and beyond whatever I’ve already said, outside of that, I don’t have an independent recollection.
Q Okay. I thought that’s what you said. Thank you.
[….]
“…Q What do you recall — you said Members of Congress didn’t want an armed display. How does that in some way — again, your recollection — reach back to what happened in the summer of 2020?
A I think it stems from, I believe, Chairman Milley at the time walked across Lafayette Square with a sidearm holstered on his military uniform. I believe that’s what that reference was to. And Chairman Milley would have a better idea of those conversations because it impacted him directly…”
That’s it? Interestingly there was quite a bit more in all the video coverage. Quite a bit more.
========== Update: There is plenty of photographic coverage of General Mark Milley dressed in his BDUs accompanying Donald Trump (r) on the infamous walk across Lafayette Square. No belt or “holstered” sidearm on General Milley is visible in a multitude of images. ==========
[page 52]
BY [….] Q Okay. Let’s start on January 6th, on the day of.
A Uh-huh.
Q When did you first learn about the — any type of escalation of violence at the Capitol?
A I’m not sure. I think it’s detailed in the timeline I provided you, so I would say whatever that timeline says is the appropriate answer.
BY [….] Q Well, the timeline’s not just your memory, though, right? Without the timeline, do you remember when you first learned on that day that there was a breach at the Capitol?
A I believe late morning, early afternoon, from the best of my memory, is that on TV — and there’s TVs on at the Department of Defense, and there was a showing by video cameras that people were marching towards the Capitol. So whenever that was, in and around that time is when we saw it.
Q “We” meaning who?
A Whoever was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where the TVs were on.
Q And do you remember listening to President Trump’s speech that day?
A I don’t. I believe I was working on a number of other things.
Q Did you speak to anybody — after you saw the march up to the Capitol, what happened next, from your memory?
A As best as I can recall, there was a lot of phone call activity that started happening. We tried to divvy up the work as best we could to be responsive to Congress, to public affairs, to the White House.
[….]
[page 59]
[….]
Q Did Tony Ornate ever reach out to you?
A Being the deputy chief of staff to Mark Meadows, he probably did. He —
Q On January 6th?
A Tony and I — Mr. Ornate and I have worked together for a long time, and so it’s possible he also reached out. I’m telling you, I can’t remember every phone call I had. If there’s something you can show me, like a call log, that says I talked to them, maybe I can narrow it down.
Q Did you talk to the President at all during January 6th?
A I don’t believe that the President — President Trump and I spoke on January 6th. That’s my memory.
Q Do you not believe — wouldn’t you remember if the President reached out to you on January 6th?
A Not necessarily. But I’m telling you, I don’t remember him doing so, and I don’t remember calling him on January 6th.
Q When you say “not necessarily,” there’s an attack on the Capitol, and he is the President of the United States.
A Okay.
Q You wouldn’t remember if you talked to him on January 6th?
[Discussion off the record.]
The Witness. Yeah, as I said, I don’t remember having a phone call with the President on January 6th.
BY [….] Q So, Mr. Patel, just so I’m clear, that does not mean you did not have a call with the President on January 6th. States during an attack on the Capitol would be memorable, no?
A To me?
Q To you.
A To me as chief of staff? It might be. I know this might be hard for you to believe, but I talked to the President a number chimes. So, any time that the President called, it was a memorable moment. But I don’t remember every single phone call I fielded, especially on a day when I fielded upwards of 100 phone calls.
Q So you have no recollection if the President called you or did not call you.
A I believe — as I said, I don’t believe we spoke on January 6th.
Q But by saying “I don’t believe” — and you’ve been an attorney, a trial attorney — it’s not precluding that you did have a conversation with President Trump.
A And, as I’ve said, if you show me a call log that says —
Q I don’t have to show you a call log for you to jog your memory if you talked to President Trump or not.
Mr. Gabe. Hold on just a second.
[….]
Apparently any memoir will be really short.
Too many people bear responsibility for all of this.
Go to the transcripts. Pick one, any one. You will and should be horrified.
[General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]: …One example is I received a written document on the 11th, I think it’s — no, it’s the 12th, I think it is, the 12th of November, 3 days after Secretary Esper is relieved, I get called up into Acting SecDef Miller’s office. And it’s Miller, me, and Patel. Patel hands me a piece of paper and I testified this to Congress a couple, 3, 4 weeks ago hands a piece of paper to me signed by then President Trump. And it basically has two sentences in it.
And it says: You are hereby ordered to withdraw all U.S. military forces from Somalia no later than 31 December. The second sentence says: You are directed to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by 15 January. That’s it. And there was another line that said something like inform all allies or something like that. And I looked at Patel and I said: Who gave the President the military advice for this? Did you do this, Kash? And he said: Oh, no, no, I had nothing to do with it.
looked at Acting Secretary Miller and I said: Did you give the President military advice on this? Oh, no, no, not me. I said: Okay, well, we got to go over and see the President then to make sure that he’s fully informed — going back to the constitutional responsibilities — to make sure he’s fully informed. It’s a legal order, but I want to make sure. I’ve got duties to do here, constitutional duties that I’ve got to make sure he’s properly advised. So we go over to the White House. We walk into the National Security Advisor’s office, Robert O’Brien, hand him the order, said: Robert, where’s this coming from and is this true? And O’Brien says: I’ve never seen it before. Said okay. Kellogg is — Keith Kellogg, the National Security Advisor to the Vice President, is there. Kellogg says: Let me see this piece of paper. Kellogg takes the piece of paper, looks at it. He says: Something is really wrong here, this doesn’t look right.
And I looked at Kellogg and I said: You’re telling me that thing is forged? That’s a forged piece of paper directing a military operation by the President of the United States, that’s forged, Keith? And he said: I don’t know, I don’t know. So O’Brien and Kellogg then say: Give us a few minutes.
And they go away. I assume, I don’t know factually, but I assume it was to see the President. They come back 10 or 15 minutes later and they say: It’s rescinded. It’s over. It never existed. I said: Okay, fine. So it doesn’t exist. So I’ve seen reversals, like the little story about Gina, I’ve seen that before in that administration, these immediate reversals when challenged on specific things if they’re not rigorously thought out, et cetera. So that’s an example.
[….]
Forged?
It appears that General Milley took his oath seriously.
Too many people bear responsibility for all of this.
Go to the transcripts. Pick one, any one. You will and should be horrified.
“One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong…”
HB 2448
Establishes the “Rev Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Highway” and the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Highway” in Poplar Bluff
Sponsor: Billington, Hardy (152)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2022
LR Number: 4992H.01I
Last Action: 01/14/2022 – Read Second Time (H)
Bill String: HB 2448
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BILLINGTON.
4992H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 227, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the designation
of memorial highways.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 227, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto two new sections, to beknown as sections 227.798 and 227.799, to read as follows:
227.798. The portion of Pine Street (Business 60) from North Westwood Boulevard (Business 67) continuing to B Street within the city of Poplar Bluff in Butler County shall be designated the “Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Highway”. The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway, with the costs to be paid by private donations.
227.799. The portion of North Westwood Boulevard (Business 67) from West Pine Boulevard (Business 60) continuing to Highland Road within the city of Poplar
3 Bluff in Butler County shall be designated the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Highway”. The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway, with the costs to be paid by private donations.
In context. The list of bills sponsored sponsored by Hardy Billington (r):
HB 1451 – (3064H.01I)
Designates January 12 each year as “Rush Limbaugh Day”
HB 1452 – (3096H.01I)
Requires the performance and explanation of an obstetric ultrasound and auscultation of fetal heartbeat prior to an abortion
HB 1453 – (3070H.01I)
Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee for having a firearm in the employee’s vehicle on the employer’s premises
HB 1454 – (3076H.01I)
Modifies provisions for voter identification
HB 1455 – (4000H.01I)
Prohibits the sending of unsolicited absentee ballot request forms
HB 1456 – (3147H.01I)
Changes the law regarding catalytic converters
HB 1457 – (3087H.01I)
Prohibits the use of the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times in the public schools of the state
HB 2448 – (4992H.01I)
Establishes the “Rev Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Highway” and the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Highway” in Poplar Bluff
HJR 65 – (3075H.02I)
Modifies the process for getting an initiative petition on the ballot
That’s quite a trend there.
You half expect HB 1456 to require a profile stamp of Rush Limbaugh an all catalytic converters sold in Missouri, which with the emitted hot gases would actually make some sense.
Dennis Newberry – Mayor of Lake Ozark
A dear friend of mine [….] is in a Central MO hospital with Covid. [….] is the owner of [….] MO. I have known him for over 30 years. He keeps his boat at a marina here in Lake Ozark. As a hail merry pass I have procured some “ivermectin” for him and will be driving it to him today. Please pray for cooperation from his caregivers and Hospital admin to allow his loved ones and friends to step in and assist with his life. If we do nothing his life will surely be taken from his 18 year old son, his family and friends. I need your prayers and comments to attempt to gain favor with the powers to be. Thank you!
Some of the comments:
When I first started reading your post I thought it was satire. If you’re serious, when you get to the hospital with your Ivermevtin check your friend out and treat him at home. Save the hospital bed for the patients that are going to let the medical professionals treat them.
“A dear friend of mine is in hospital where he is being treated by medical professionals with decades of education and experience between them. But I’m going to try and give him horse deworming meds because some guy on the internet said it was a good idea.”
If Americans had been like you in 1775, my people would still be running your country because you’d have been convinced that running into musket fire was a cure for pimples.
I thought this was a joke. This was not a joke. Holy hell and “hail ‘merry!’” Bring on the farm animal meds for the unvaccinated fools around the county.
He should be transferred immediately to Lake Ozark veterinary. Call and get him transported right away.
Let me push all the actual trained and board certified physicians that spent 10+ years in school for this exact thing out of the way to administer a drug proven not to work. Way to go mayor. You are an embarrassment to Missouri.
I really hope that your friend pulls through and feel for his family.
But no matter what any of our beliefs or disagreements are, it seems like a very odd choice to post this publicly on your elected official page, instead of your personal.
Your post even had a warning attached to it.
By sharing this, you’re publicly condoning a treatment that isn’t approved, and that most doctors consider to be ineffective and dangerous.
I think many of us are also wondering, how you got a prescription med to give to another person? What doctor or vet did such a thing with no examination or anything?
I hope that at the very least the medicine is given to the man’s doctors and the administration of it is left up to them.
I also assume that this friend did not get the vaccine or it seems like you would have mentioned it. So if you’re going to publicly share the information that you’ve gotten an unapproved/possibly dangerous medication to give to someone else, it would be helpful to also let those people know if his level of illness is perhaps due to his not having the vaccine, or in spite of having it.
My guess is that if it were the latter, you’d have said as much.
That’s the information that would be an appropriate PSA for the people of your city. Not the whole “If you’ve got friends in high places you can get things others can’t get, even if it’s not approved. And PS I’m totally condoning this med regardless of scientists and healthcare professionals saying it’s dangerous.”
This is just a crazy thing for a mayor to post.
On the downside you’re committing a felony. But on the positive he at least won’t die of worms.
Do you help with surgeries too? I’m envisioning you showin’ up at your Great Aunt Lucy’s gallbladder surgery with one of your steak knives and some screencaps from YouTube.
Killing my friends and then being sued by his family to own the libs
All the people claiming your doctor supports this treatment: post their name and office phone number, so we can call and verify. I don’t believe any of you.
Y’all don’t know me, and have no reason to trust me, but I humbly ask you all to not give your friends and family animal medicine for treatment. Please don’t do this.
“A realtor-turned-mayor took it upon himself to obtain a drug that is indicated to treat heartworm in large farm animals to give to a guy who was severely ill due to COVID-19, after warnings from the FDA, WHO, and local emergency medicine physicians are urging the public to refrain from taking this medication, as it is causing hundreds of hospitalizations across the US.”
Turn the car around, man. You’re not even driving in your own lane.
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Let me explain this to you. Corporate liberals are woke capitalists. The corporatists love critical race theory and all the other warmed-over Marxist garbage. They sell out working Americans and sneer at them at the same time. That’s the New Left
[….] 4:02 PM · Nov 30, 2020
Was this some kind of bizarre Senate office assignment hazing ritual requiring him to work “corporate”, “capitalist”, and “Marxist” into a single incoherent tweet? Just asking.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Some of responses:
As Missouri Attorney General, you took millions in donations from a company scamming consumers. As Senator, you take money from corporate monopolists.
You’re bought and do nothing for working Americans.
Anti-union. Anti-relief. Anti-dignity.
But do keep “explaining.”
Let me explain this to you: you don’t live in Missouri and your voter registration at your sister’s house is fraud.
hell yeah, “capitalists” and “corporatists” definitely support Marxism. really smart shit here, my man
So, “woke capitalists, marxists”?
That makes a lot of sense
What the hell are you talking about?
this makes zero sense
This is the kind of answer on an exam in high school where the teacher would say quit using a bunch of words you read or heard somewhere without putting anything together in a paragraph that makes sense.
Woke Corporatist Marxist, damn.
I need a new bingo card.
This makes no sense
The only major legislative achievement that the Republican Party has accomplished in the past 4 years (when they controlled the White House & Senate) is a tax cut for millionaires and billionaires.
But go on, Senator Hypocrite, tell us more about how the liberals are elitists…
20+ years actually.
Tax cuts for the rich is the ONLY policy that the GOP has had for at least 2 decades.
So the “New Left” embraces Marxist social policies(?), but are capitalists. As capitalists they “sell out the working class,” as of course any good capitalist would. Finally, they condescend to them because they are economically beneath them? or social Neanderthals? I’m confused!
Oh no, I’ve got it figured out. This was just a prep school, Stanford/Harvard guy trying to figure out how to relate to the MAGAs and mangling it. I’m good now!
josh do you see the woke capitalists right now? are they in the room? does it smell like battery acid and burning toast?
Show me on this doll where the woke capitalists touched you.
this word salad needs seasoning
He should have added something about antifa for that extra flavor
Senator Stanford Yale really just gets working Americans, ya know? If he’s not trying to woo us w nonsense tweets like this he’s tweeting pics of his second home being built. Meanwhile, Missourians are suffering bc of Covid. Crickets.
It’s like a dump truck full of rejected Federalist articles ran into another dump truck full of misspelled signage from a militia rally. It’s astonishing that you managed to hoodwink admissions officials and professors at both Stanford AND Yale
I feel like the likes of Hawley or Cotton aren’t the future smart ones they keep warning us about.
There are a lot of words there. I’m not sure you know what any of them mean though.
Federalist slenderman from the “right to work” party has some words he’d like to string together. No, they don’t make any sense, but that won’t stop him.
Everyone is tweeting their gobblygook trying to find their post Trump populist stance. This one is interesting, hating on capitalism and marxism at the same time. And given the base, it could work. I mean, there is literally no party platform now and zero people seem to care.
Just say “Jews,” you little bigot. You’re not fooling anyone.
This is like every dumb Daily Caller outrage posting buzzword in one meaningless tweet, nice work Hosh Jawley
I feel like you just grabbed your GOP Magnetic Poetry Kit, threw a handful of loaded words at the fridge, and tried to compose a tweet with the ones that stuck.
