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It is good to be the King

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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convicted felon, Donald Trump, Fascist pig, narcissist, social media, WTF?

“It is said that the people are revolting.”
“You said it! They stink on ice!”

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

Today:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

I just won the Golf Club Championship, probably my last, at Trump International Golf Club, in Palm Beach County, Florida. Such a great honor! The Awards dinner is tonight, at the Club. I want to thank the wonderful Golf Staff, and all of the many fantastic golfers, that participated in the even. Such fun!

2.41k ReTruths 13.5k Likes Mar 16, 2025, 1:52 PM

I just won Best in Show – photo, probably not the last, at our house, in Johnson County, Missouri. Such a great honor! The pizza dinner is tonight, at our house. I want to thank the wonderful photography staff, and all of the many fantastic photographers, that participated in the even[t]. Such fun!

The winning images:

Apologists

20 Monday Jan 2025

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ADL, Elon Musk, gaslighting, Nazi salute, social media, WTF?

ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Today, ADL continues to fight all forms of antisemitism and bias, using innovation and partnerships to drive impact. A global leader in combating antisemitism, countering extremism and battling bigotry wherever and whenever it happens, ADL works to protect democracy and ensure a just and inclusive society for all.

Okay.

Today:

ADL @ADL
This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.

In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2025

“…awkward gesture…”

“If you have a Nazi sitting at a table and nine other people sit at the table, you have a meeting with ten Nazis.”

German Nazi Swastika Flag, National Museum of American History. Catalog number
1977.0788.03, 29 in x 49 in; 73.66 cm x 124.46 cm.

Rolla

05 Sunday Jan 2025

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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abortion, Amendment 3, fetal personhood, missouri, right wingnuts, Rolla, Rolla City Council, social media, women's health care, women's reproductive health, WTF?

“How is this going to work?
Does the sanctuary kick in when they teleport inside the city limits?
Just asking.”

“WTF is going on?”

Missouri Democratic Party Rural Caucus
January 3 at 11:20 PM

There is an issue being discussed by the Rolla City Council that we would like to make you aware of.

Some members of the City Council are interested in declaring Rolla a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn”, and as such, taking away some of the reproductive rights that were supported by the majority of voters at the November 5th election when Amendment 3 was passed.

If this is an issue that is important to you, please consider going to the Monday, January 6th City Council meeting at Rolla City Hall, 901 North Elm Street, Rolla, MO at 6:30 pm. There might be a big crowd, so please come early. Planned Parenthood is requesting that supporters of keeping our reproductive rights wear pink.

Our City Council needs to know that they are not supporting the will of the people by trying to impose an ordinance that could limit the availability of reproductive rights that were just approved by the voters.

If you cannot be present at the meeting, you can watch it online: Rolla MO City Council Meeting January 6 2025 [….]

On social media:

Jess Piper ‪@piperformissouri.bsky.social‬
FFS… some members of the Rolla City Council are wanting to declare that city a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

Missouri just overturned our abortion ban through a constitutional amendment.
[….]
January 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Jessica Piper [2023 file photo].

Some of the responses:

I’m not sure if they’ve worked out the details of how a blastocyst applies for sanctuary…

As long as they can kill some women, that’s all they care about.

Truth

Rolla City wants to declare itself a ‘sanctuary city for the unborn,’ yet Missouri has already overturned the abortion ban with a constitutional amendment. The fight for reproductive rights is far from over

Im sorry..but thats just weird.

And that will end up in court. City ordinances don’t supersede state laws.

Why are they so ignorant to what their citizens want? What a waste of citizens money.

I long for the day when city councils focus on garbage pickup, filling potholes and clean tap water, and state legislatures fund the schools and destitute and Congress brings home the pork.

This is why I refuse to let my engineering major sons spend my tuition money in Rolla.

Same.

When they don’t give two shits for the already born?–seems a little hallow, eh?

Anti-abortion is to saving babies like Agent Orange is to gardening. =TOXIC

So basically… they read A Handmaid’s Tale, and decided it looked like a great policy choice? [….]

“Abort the court”

What, pray tell, will they do with the walking around children? Let them go hungry and cold, no doubt.

Rolla is in the poorest district in the entire state of Missouri

Yep. I grew up in Texas County, next door to Rolla. Geezus people.

Idiots. What a waste of time and money. Another example of the rule of law party not following the law or voice of the people. [….]

OH, “Stupid is as stupid does” immediately comes to mind. There aren’t enough facepalms to facepalm here. Good grief! Missouri has spoken. Leave it alone!

Notice how the voters keep coming together and voting for higher wages, human rights, & healthcare.
But Conservative Christian Republicans in office keep trying to overthrow the will of the people to take away more of our rights.

Fucking Republicans refuse to listen to the voters. It’s sick.

Does this mean that pregnant women can come to the city and be taken care of until the baby is born?

No.

Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy – not complete

Why don’t they take it step-by-step.

First, be a sanctuary city for those that have been born.
When they find that fulfilling of the needs and caring for all those who have been born is mission accomplished, then they should take their extra resources and be a haven for the unborn.

OMG.

It’s all about control. Judging for someone.

The bible thumpers need to tend to thine one gardens a bit more.

If love to see the passengers on that bus

They lied when they said it was about state rights, they want a national ban.

They lie when they say it’s the will if the people. They keep trying to overturn the will if the people.

It’s about power over women.

Is it a sanctuary city for the women who provide the nutrients for the “unborn”? Free healthcare for pregnant non-citizens and poor people?

Religious zealotry makes people so stupid.

Previously:

Chutzpah (Kansas) (August 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Not too sure about that (January 16, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – women’s rights initiative petition for 2024 ballot (January 18, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Remember Kansas? Missouri is next. (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: own it (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: We’re not in Kansas anymore (January 19, 2024)

Mark Alford (r) – failure to read the womb, again (January 21, 2024)
Campaign Finance: More (January 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and more (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: It does, but not in the way you think. (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and even more (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “No one expects the anti-choice imposition” (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: this is the beginning, not the end (February 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming (February 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: philanthropy (February 6, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – volunteer training, petition signing, rally – Kansas City, Missouri – February 6, 2024 (February 6, 2024)

Rev. Holly McKissick – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Rabbi Doug Alpert – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Dr. Iman Alsaden – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Hartzell Gray – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the world in which they want you to exist (February 9, 2024)

Signing, Everywhere, All at Once (February 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: definitely a global impact (February 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: forward (February 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: still more (February 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: more forward (February 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (March 5, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Sedalia, Missouri – March 17, 2024 (March 17, 2024)

Campaign Finance: there’ll be more (March 20, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Warrensburg, Missouri – April 5, 2024 (April 5, 20204)

Campaign Finance: sign the petition (April 10, 2024)

Sign the Petition (April 15, 2024)

Signing the petition in Lexington, Missouri (April 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: on several levels (April 27, 2024)

Signing the Petition in Raymore, Missouri (April 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: guess what’s next (April 29, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions (May 3, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions – part 2 (May 3, 2024)

Abortion Rights Rally in Jefferson City – May 3, 2024 – Press Gaggle (May 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised? (September 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a friend (September 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: wedge issue (September 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no time to waste (September 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: time is almost up (October 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Who would have thought? (October 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: unequal and opposite (October 9, 2024)

Campaign Finance: not messing around (October 10, 2024)

Donald Trump’s (r) World: they want you to continue to live in it (October 15, 2024)

Campaign Finance: In 20 days (October 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more for choice (October 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: what she said (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: after that forced birth, you’re on your own (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: everyone knows someone (October 27, 2024)

Campaign Finance: making it their business (October 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: gird your loins (October 29, 2024)

Campaign Finance: To spend on what?

Fuck You, Fuck You, Very, Very Much (October 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the forced birthers spend their money (November 2, 2024)

On the same ballot (November 6, 2024)

And here you thought you were safe (November 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: missed it by that much (November 9, 2024)

Andrew Bailey’s (r) favorite whine (November 27, 2024)

SB 119: right wingnut lunacy (December 5, 2024)

Amendment 3: a number of Missouri’s TRAP statutes enjoined by the Jackson County Circuit Court (December 20, 2024)

Planned Parenthood remains subject to TRAP restrictions in Missouri (December 21, 2024)

“1968 is calling, don’t answer”

Donald Trump (r) keeps handing out participation trophies

13 Wednesday Nov 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Attorney General, cabinet, Director of National Intelligence, Donald Trump, failing upward, Fascist pigs, Matt Gaetz, participation trophy, right wingnuts, Tulsi Gabbard, useful idiots, Vladimir Putin, WTF?

Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, future boy, who’s President of the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?
[chuckles in disbelief]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who’s vice president? Jerry Lewis?
[rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory]
Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: [following Doc] Whoa. Wait, Doc!
Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is secretary of the treasury.
Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me.
Dr. Emmett Brown: [opens the door to the lab] I’ve had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!

Director of National Intelligence:

David Corn ‪@davidcorn.bsky.social‬
Donald Trump has just picked Tulsi Gabbard, a Putin stooge and a promoter of Russian propaganda, to be in charge of the entire US intelligence community. Will any Republican senator be concerned about this?
November 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM

Adam Kinzinger ‪@adamkinzinger.bsky.social‬
Tulsi Gabbard for DNI, a Russian spy. Brilliant
November 13, 2024 at 2:21 PM

Judah Grunstein ‪@judah-grunstein.bsky.social‬
Tulsi Gabbard as DNI means Five Eyes just became Four Eyes for the next four years.
November 13, 2024 at 2:21 PM

Anthony Michael Kreis
‪@anthonymkreis.bsky.social‬
Tulsi Gabbard as DNI? There’s not even a pretense of responsibility from Trump. We might as well just sign up to be a Russian client state.
November 13, 2024 at 2:19 PM

We will be in January.

Attorney General:

Brian Tyler Cohen ‪@briantylercohen.bsky.social‬
My God. Matt Gaetz nominated as Attorney General.
November 13, 2024 at 2:30 PM

illumi ‪@illumi.meme‬
Matt Gaetz has been training for this role as Attorney General since he was a teenager. Google “Matt Gaetz 17 year old” to learn more.
November 13, 2024 at 2:50 PM

Joyce Vance ‪@joycewhitevance.bsky.social‬
Matt Gaetz is not qualified to be AG. Full stop.
November 13, 2024 at 4:02 PM

Tea Pain ‪@teapainusa.bsky.social‬
BREAKING: Trump just nominated Matt Gaetz to be the Attorney General because Jeffrey Epstein is dead.
November 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM

Adam Parkhomenko ‪@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social‬

I’m tempted to say America is fucked.

But I think she’s too old for Matt Gaetz.
November 13, 2024 at 2:58 PM

Angry ‪@angrystaffer.bsky.social‬

Matt Gaetz for AG?

Tulsi Gabbard for DNI?

Holy fuck.
November 13, 2024 at 3:08 PM

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

Previously:

Think of the possibilities (November 12, 2024)

Eschatology (November 11, 2024)

This is why we can’t have nice things

13 Wednesday Mar 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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cult, right wingnut, social media, true believer, WTF?

Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy – not complete

A comment today from a true believer on a local right wingnut politician’s social media page directed at a dissenting voice:

[….] Let me guess, your ok with the open boarder? Lol

If you’ve ever wondered what you’d be doing if civilization as we know it ended, you’re doing it now

08 Friday Dec 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, social media

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cashew chicken, General Assembly, HB 1624, Jamie Gragg, Sarah Unsicker, social media, WTF?

“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” – Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)

A bill, pre-filed by Jamie Gragg (r):

HB 1624
Designates cashew chicken as the official dish of the state of Missouri
Sponsor: Gragg, Jamie (140)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2024
LR Number: 2929H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2023 – Prefiled (H)
[….]

10.249. Cashew chicken is selected for and shall be known as the official dish for the state of Missouri. Deep-fried cashew chicken was invented in 1963 in Springfield, Missouri by chef David Leong. An immigrant from China, Leong sought to make his native dishes more appealing to locals. Deep-fried cashew chicken is now served in more than seventy restaurants in the Springfield area.

But, wait, there’s more:

Sarah Unsicker (D) [2023 file photo].

Cashew Chicken
Show me elected officials who should Log Off!

CONNER KERRIGAN
DEC 4, 2023

Rep. Sarah Unsicker, as of this writing, is currently the main character of Missouri politics Twitter (I’m sorry, I keep trying to call it X and it makes the skin on my typing fingers crawl).

It’s hard to find where all of this started, but as far as I can tell, it has something to do with Rep. Jamie Gragg’s HB 1624, which seeks to make Cashew Chicken the official state food of Missouri. Yes. That’s where all of this started. People on Twitter got upset about the bill, as people on Twitter are literally always getting hyper-upset about uncontroversial things. It’s part of the fun of the platform.

And that also could have been where all of this ended. We all could have had a nice laugh about a superfluous bill that will never become law and moved on with our lives. But I am here writing about it because Rep. Unsicker began pointing to tweets about cashew chicken and HB 1624 as examples of a literal foreign influence campaign, meant to distract us all from the real issues. She has multiple multi-tweet threads about how there is a grand conspiracy to divide democrats and hurt Rep. Unsicker, specifically, using anger over cashew chicken. Seriously.

[….]

Of course, there’s more. There’s always more:

Missouri Democrats Strip Unsicker of Committee Assignments
The Shrewsbury representative also faces calls to resign over her boasts about meeting with an alt-right troll
By Sarah Fenske on Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 8:38 am

House Minority Leader Crystal Quade has removed a St. Louis-area representative of her committee assignments over her association with a notorious alt-right troll.

State Representative Sarah Unsicker (D-Shrewsbury) has faced calls to resign from her fellow Democrats after an odd series of tweets this past week….

[….]

In short, what began with a weird series of tweets about cashew chicken has led to a big mess for a St. Louis County politician with statewide ambitions — and yet another indicator that anyone trying to achieve something in this world is best off never Tweeting or X-ing about anything — and especially about grabbing lemonade with alt-right trolls….

[….]

Campaign Finance: It’s your money and you can do what you want with it

19 Saturday Aug 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, HRCC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, organized labor, WTF?

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Missouri-Kansas Area PAC 1401 Hampton Avenue Saint Louis MO 63139 8/16/2023 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Because the HRCC has always been about for looking after the interests of working people?

Professional clowning for fun and profit

26 Wednesday Jul 2023

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

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4th Congressional District, clown, former newsreader, Mark Alford, right wungnut, social media, that ridiculous hat, WTF?

Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Yesterday:

Mark Alford
[July 25, 2023]
The Biden Crime family web is unraveling. And President Biden is the black widow in the middle of it all!!!
[….]

Clown.

Some of the responses:

Sure. Good luck.

This can’t be ignored like the Hillary debacle. Impeachment proceedings followed by criminal charges needs to happen

Hillary was the principal of 7 House and Senate investigations.
What did they find, again?

is that a serious question?? Lol

Seriously, what were the findings?

that you KNOW exactly what was found but the Rino Republicans who had their hands in the same cookie jar wouldn’t do anything about it

Okay

Americans deserve to know the truth and Republicans need to follow through full speed ahead to expose all the corruption!!

time it so the verdict comes in Oct of next year

Accountability!

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

Mark, don’t you believe others are really controlling all actions and speech coming from this (puppet) president?? Yes, he needs to be held accountable for his crimes. But, isn’t there way too much credit is given to him for all the evil and destructive administrative decisions and actions coming from those “pulling his strings”? Just an observation.

Obama, Clinton’s , George what’s his name and others.
#Follow the money

What’s his name and others? WTF?

just trying to focus on the massive current attention to Biden that distracts away from those who may be really in charge and exerting power in the here and now.

You are sooo right. The layers of this onion are thick

If Biden is removed, what then puppet Harris or in 2024 Michele Obama?

We want the truth mark!!!!! Stay after them!!!!!!

if Republicans are involved that’s not likely going to happen. All the time, resources and millions of dollars wasted on Hillary and the Bengazhi investigations is proof of that…

kinda like the Mueller report and all the other Trump investigations.

It is time this web is untangled and the whole bunch of them are held accountable including criminal charges

So is The Doctor she’s apart of it. More then you think.

Jared and Ivanka made about 250,000,000 dollars while serving as White House advisors.
In case you need to be refreshed on Hunter’s government stipend?
Zero dollars.

the difference is that both Jared and Ivanka have businesses. Legitimate businesses that had income before and after the WH. The Biden’s have no business whatsoever. The only business they evidently have, is the business of selling policy.

Someone should tell him.

but Hunter got plenty of money from China and Ukraine to spend on crack and hookers.

Sounds like the American dream in Ohio.

A private citizen. Ivanka and Jared actually worked in the White House. Big difference.

if you say so.

Joe Biden is the tip of the iceberg. Why do you think Trump was impeached the first time? Ukraine is corruption center. The uniparty has been feeding there for years. The cartels launder money there and pay their protection money to the globalists. They wanted Trump out because he was apt to find them out as he did.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

$250 million? Please send me your references.

From CREW:

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working in the White House, according to an analysis of financial disclosures by CREW. It is impossible to tell the exact amount as the income is sometimes reported in broad ranges and cover four months of income before Ivanka Trump officially joined her father’s administration and nearly one month before Jared Kushner joined.

[….]

But will it really matter? So far we have a media blackout and an all out assault from the left.
Nothing personal but I see just more GOP blustering. What about the 18 reps from Biden areas. Will they go along with this?

Hopefully something can finally happen. The crooked democrats seem to always get away with everything and nothing ever happens to them. Good luck Mark!

It’s about time it unravels !

You picked a heck of a time to get in
this isn’t business as usual our country is at stake Kevin is not to be trusted Don’t come home stay in DC for the 6 weeks you know Kevin’s going to be doing back door meetings these are serious times defund Ukraine use the power of the purse

The Biden Crime Family is as crooked as they come. They make Tom Pendergast look like a saint.

Kevin McCarthy has already said, they would impeach Biden as retribution for Trump. When is this tit for tat crap going to stop? Americans need you guys to take care of business for the country. There are so many things that need attention and all any of you are doing is trying to make the other party look worse than you do. Do something about Immigration reform. That is something Congress can do but they’d rather leave it broken so they can blame the opposing party. It’s all a game to you guys. This all started before Trump was president. It’s been going on since Bill Clinton was in office. Just Stop It!

Preaching to people who don’t want to hear it and never will.

And we knew all of this before he became president. Grrrr

From the BBC:

[….]

Trump: “I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married.”

Unknown: “That’s huge news there.”

Trump: “No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn’t get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.”

Bush: “Your girl’s hot as shit. In the purple.”

Multiple voices: “Whoah. Yes. Whoah.”

Bush: “Yes. The Donald has scored. Whoah my man.”

Trump: “Look at you. You are a pussy.”

Bush: “You gotta get the thumbs up.”

Trump: “Maybe it’s a different one.”

Bush: “It better not be the publicist. No, it’s, it’s her.”

Trump: “Yeah that’s her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful… I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”

Bush: “Whatever you want.”

Trump: “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

[….]

Golf? Seriously? WTF?

12 Wednesday Jul 2023

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

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China, clown, Fascist pig, golf, insurrectionist, Josh Hawley, PGA, seditionist, social media, U.S. Senate, Virginia, WTF?

Yesterday, from Josh Hawley (r):

Senator Josh Hawley
[July 11, 2023]
We can’t afford to let Communist China co-opt American institutions.
“It worries me when I see the PGA doing business with the Chinese gov’t…a gov’t that is attempting to use American institutions as a megaphone for their own totalitarian, dystopian & frankly evil policies.”

Some of the responses:

but chain saw saudis are ok… got it..

How about when farmland in the state you claim to reside in is sold to Chinese citizens? You seemed OK with that… but you live in Virginia and really don’t care…

Better start with James Comer since his committee was collaborating with a spy for the Chinese.
You colleague, Tuberville, is also weakening our military readiness.
Repugs are traitors.

China was one of the first that you identified as ‘the enemy”, along with Democrats, immigrants, teachers, the government, LGBTQIA+ people, women who do not want children or who have at-risk pregnancies, others. You sued that country and lost.. Have you investigated schmitt for his part in selling Missouri land to China. Clean up the mess in your own house before you start messing in other’s.

But Josh loves the Saudis.
They funded the attacks on 9/11.
They murdered a Washington Post American journalist.
They bribed Kushner w $2billon for…?
Yeah, the Saudis are great for America/Republicans.

Hey, talk about Jared Kushner and your orange overlord, Haulin A*s Hawley!! They’re totally in bed with the Saudis.

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

WTF Josh. The PGA is now owned by the Saudis who just made a deal to enrich Trump. Get a clue Tiny Fist Man.

Then why aren’t you concerned about the PGA doing business with the Saudis?
You know, the same guys that helped fund the 9-11 attacks against America, and who kill America journalists, and who raise oil prices to hurt western countries like the US, AND who arrest Christians in Saudi Arabia for practicing their faith!
You’re not a serious elected official, you just do things for the camera. SMH

Resign, seditionist, and do so with exceeding haste.

So, Mr. “The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming!” how upset are you at your House colleagues for colluding with a Commie spy?
[….]

But Joshie … Capitalism and free markets … or only when you approve?
Run along Joshie … literally run along.
[….]

29 consecutive months of job growth, inflation steadily declining, durable goods having been up for three consecutive months, 35,000 new infrastructure projects, an extended period in which real wages exceeded inflation and outsize gains for lower wage-earners.
Economic transformation in little towns, rural areas and aging metro centers brought about by new investment in plants, infrastructure projects and green energy related to the Chips Act.
Limiting China’s access to U.S. technology that has military applications and bringing supply chains homeYellen told U.S business leaders: “I have made clear that the United States does not seek a wholesale separation of our economies. We seek to diversify, not to decouple. A decoupling of the world’s two largest economies would be destabilizing for the global economy, and it would be virtually impossible to undertake.”
Biden’s policies have wiped out a quarter of the inequality built in the previous forty. And at the same time that Biden’s resurrection of the liberal consensus of the years from 1933 to 1980 is illustrating that the economic problems in the country were the fault of Republican policies rather than of marginalized people, the extremism of those angry Republican footsoldiers is revealing that they are not the centrist Americans they have claimed to be.
The Republican embrace of Moms for Liberty illustrates dramatically and to a wide audience how radical the party itself has become, threatening to turn away all but its extremist base. A strong majority of Americans oppose book banning: about two thirds of the general population and even 51% of Republicans oppose it, recognizing that it echoes the rise of authoritarians.
-Excerpts from Heather Cox Richardson’s fact checked weekend report.

Resign you pandering hack

Whatever you say traitor.

saudis…. ????

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Three yeers ago I couldn’t spell scyance, now I are a sentor

17 Saturday Jun 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, social media

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].

Yesterday:

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Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Time to toss those weird Fauci candles in the ash heap of history.
[….]
4:12 PM · Jun 16, 2023

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Health Statistics
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

…Estimates of excess deaths can provide information about the burden of mortality potentially related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths that are directly or indirectly attributed to COVID-19. Excess deaths are typically defined as the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods. This visualization provides weekly estimates of excess deaths by the jurisdiction in which the death occurred. Weekly counts of deaths are compared with historical trends to determine whether the number of deaths is significantly higher than expected.

Counts of deaths from all causes of death, including COVID-19, are presented. As some deaths due to COVID-19 may be assigned to other causes of deaths (for example, if COVID-19 was not diagnosed or not mentioned on the death certificate), tracking all-cause mortality can provide information about whether an excess number of deaths is observed, even when COVID-19 mortality may be undercounted. Additionally, deaths from all causes excluding COVID-19 were also estimated. Comparing these two sets of estimates — excess deaths with and without COVID-19 — can provide insight about how many excess deaths are identified as due to COVID-19, and how many excess deaths are reported as due to other causes of death. These deaths could represent misclassified COVID-19 deaths, or potentially could be indirectly related to the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., deaths from other causes occurring in the context of health care shortages or overburdened health care systems)…

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Over a million Americans died.

Some of the responses to Eric Schmitt (r):

You, sir, are a bloviating bag of gas. You hinder progress and public safety at every opportunity. You & the senior senator from Missouri an embarrassment.

Total fraud Eric Schmitt believes in the Republican First Commandment: Trump is the Lord thy God and Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me.

The guy who has spent his entire career fighting infectious disease for the betterment of mankind, that Fauci?

You’re a fraud

Thank you Dr Fauci. No covid or long covid for me. Just got another booster. Ignore attacks on retired octogenarians by folks who think Trump is a role model. When you are.

Politicians who only appear on Fox and Newsmax are publicly announcing that they have nothing worth listening to, but are so anxious for publicity that they will recite the gospel of tRump to the other losers. Quit practicing medicine without a license.

Eric’s epidemiology and virology degrees were from tRump University. I know who I’ll listen to……

Unbecoming of a US Senator

Thank God we had Fauci.

Not what the majority of what Missouri is saying. After surviving covid, they’re saying they wished they would have listened to doctors instead of politicians.

Just say you couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask to protect others and we’ll understand.

Thank goodness for Dr Fauci!! His medical advice saved countless lives.

Where’s your scientific proof to back up your claims? All you have is conjecture and misinformation. You are nothing but a bully and a coward. So unless you have solid scientific proof sit down and be quiet.

Meanwhile Missouri Red and rural vax resistance had 4600 more deaths than births for 1st times ever in 2020 & 2021 including the 1918 pandemic, one of only 25 states to avoid science with such dramatic results. Republicans strike again.

Fascism – Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Are you the douche that sent his kids to a private mask mandate school and fought public schools to drop theirs? What a hypocrite.

What the fuck is newsmax?

Dr. Fauci is a renowned doctor and super star in the infectious disease area. He has been cited across all scientific journals and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush. You on the other hand are a total fraud and embarrassment to the State of Missouri.

I wonder what history will say about you? Your career will be nothing compared to Dr Fauci’s. His contribution to AIDS research and work during the pandemic make him a true gift to America. You, on the other hand, will have no real accomplishments.

To what end do you spout such mindless drivel?
Fauci likely saved tens of thousands of lives.

Unbelievable that you’re still on this. He’s smarter than you. Just get over it.

Does the Republican Party go out of its way to nominate the stupidest people possible for high office?

They always have a pool of possible candidates for office.

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