As we slowly see Missouri through Josh Hawley’s ambitious, Virginia-living eyes let’s start by all agreeing on one thing:
It’s creepy as hell to have staff list the salary of the people you’re meeting with. #Va2Mo#MissourianForADay
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#MoLeg Republicans should know Hawley’s Government staff is always watching them.
If they fail to tweet when asked it is remembered. @hrehder@NickBSchroer (Good on you both)
Not sure how @tonylovasco’s twitter account became “An issue at play this session”
Special ire reserved for Majority Floor Leader Caleb Rowden and @STLCountyGOP Exec candidate @Dogan4Rep who “has tweeted/retweeted on multiple occasions messages that were critical of you.” #Va2Mo#MissourianForADay
Dems can be grateful that we’re +1 or +2 in the fight to control the House because in @SenHawleyPress words “The congressional delegation opposes 7-1 maps because in a down cycle one/some may have to campaign.” @BobOnderMO@BillEigel@DLHoskins@RepBlaine
How disconnected from Missouri is Virginia living Josh Hawley?
He needs a primer on how to even pronounce the names of a third of Senate Republicans (including pro tempore & #MoSen candidate @DaveSchatzMO) & the incoming Speaker of the House @deanplocher
Sounds like Team Hawley thinks the Governor’s office broke the GOP super majority via appointments just to weaken/retaliate against Speaker @RobVescovo#Va2Mo#MissourianForADay#MoLeg
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17 years ago today I was in my first serious combat.
I was 20.
All day I’ve been thinking about them walking into that ambush.
About laying in a ditch as tracers crisscrossed overhead until the tanks came.
7 years ago 👇
Then I saw this article about how Josh Hawley is a hypocritical fraud on Iraq, no surprise.
In the article it quotes a young Joshua making fun of the movie Jarhead. Calling the Marine, the one who served and went to the war, a whiner. Mocking the dangers of war, and the authors experience.
In 2010/11 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) adopted their 12th “Five Year Plan.”
(The most infamous of these 5 year plans was Mao Zedongs “Great Leap Forward” that resulted in the starvation of 30-55 million people.)
The Communist Plan directed government officials & state owned businesses to “leapfrog” agriculture growth through state supported “mergers and acquisitions.”
It wasn’t a fight to liberate a city. It was a fight over a rock.
The Japanese Army wanted it. They fortified it. We took it.
In 36 days around 7,000 Americans were killed.
The flag raising(s) at Mt. Suribachi is our iconic moment.
There's been discussion about a Trump surrogate & former political appointee who dismissed 3/4 of vets w/ PTSD as liars, says he "sucked it up" & referred to sharing feelings as "beta."
Let me tell you about a time in Fallujah, Iraq that I think about a lot.
Thread 👇
After an ambush two of our guys were medevaced. One had been shot in the stomach. The other had been shot in the head.
They were in serious condition, but alive.
Several hours later, word got back to our platoon that, somewhere along the medevac, one of the guys had died.
One of his best friends in the platoon started to cry.