I thought those looked familiar. Same exact thing was littered last year. The one on the top right matches the one from last year. I think even the bags are the same.

I wish someone could get fingerprints off these so the perpetrators could be caught, but I don't know how any of that would work or if it is even possible.

Maybe the team can be called "The Physicians, Surgeons, and Lawyers"

I feel like the aesthetic there would be good for like a post-apocalyptic video. It looks just odd enough to pull it off.

Look. I've been to a lot of places. So many beautiful places. I have seen rain in these places. So I know rain when I see it. I do not see any rain. The surfaces are wet, but that's just the agenda of the radicals.

Fake news. It isn't raining currently! Sad!

We have lots of folks on the local discord that are parents and/or in to nature things like hiking or going to the nature center. Feel free to check it out if you like!

I know of some people on the local discord server that are in poly relationships, so I imagine they are more common than people would imagine.

Another floating object was spotted in the vicinity. Those are the locals trying to bring it down.

Look, I said noods. NOODS. You know, short for noodles? Moderating doesn't pay the bills, you know.

I can give you my best armchair analysis but keep in mind that it's mostly just opinions based on my observations from a rural area and just enjoying data and trends.

My feeling is overall between the two major parties Missouri on a national scale is "comfortably red". The only thing keeping it from being solid red are the metro areas, like Kansas City, St. Louis, Jefferson City, and even Springfield to some degree. Years ago in 2012 I opined about Missouri not being seen as a bellwether when it didn't vote for Obama and after that it's trended more Republican with the senate seat flip of McCaskill's loss in 2018, the governorship flipping to Republican, and reliably voting Republican in every major election since. To compound this more is the local government which has carried a Republican supermajority for a long time now even well before that and shows no signs of changing any time soon.

On the other hand are amendments and issues. Most of the time these are not along party lines. Even though this is a conservative state in the Bible Belt, Amendment 3 with legalizing marijuana passed which feels opposite of what you'd expect. I've actually been surprised at the results of other measures in the past too, thinking "There's no way this will pass" and sure enough I'm proven wrong. My personal, albeit biased, thought on this is when you do not align an issue directly with the major political parties that people are more free to really think what is best for them and it turns more in to a purple situation. I actually feel if some Republican PAC would have put some effort in messaging by saying "If you vote Republican vote no on 3", then it would have failed because the people that vote on party lines would have went with it.

So TL;DR - On a national scale Missouri heavily favors Republican, on a local government scale it is solidly Republican, but on issues it's a mixed bag.

There is some coming in now. It’s less than 1%, but there will be a lot more very soon.