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The Marjorie Taylor Greene case

I only hope that by 11/24, they have proven out the total vacuity and stupidity of their schtick, such that their ilk are totally rejected by the voters.
 
Elixir said:
I only hope that by 11/24, they have proven out the total vacuity and stupidity of their schtick, such that their ilk are totally rejected by the voters.
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The past has a history of letting people like this remain in power until it is already too late.
 
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Jimmy Higgins said:
Elixir said:
I only hope that by 11/24, they have proven out the total vacuity and stupidity of their schtick, such that their ilk are totally rejected by the voters.
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The past has a history of letting people like this remain in power until it is already too late.
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Between gerrymandering, voter suppression, nonsense like "Hunter's laptop, and a SCOTUS that has their backs,
It's hard to imagine a political landscape where they don't at least squeak into office in increasing numbers.
Tom
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Elixir said:
I only hope that by 11/24, they have proven out the total vacuity and stupidity of their schtick, such that their ilk are totally rejected by the voters.
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The past has a history of letting people like this remain in power until it is already too late.
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"Wouldn't things be so much better if all the people who aren't like you were to disappear" is always going to be a very popular policy. Particularly with rural communities, where few of "them" live, so their "removal" causes very little fuss or disruption.

The people who support these policies are genuinely good, if rather boring and incurious, people; Patriotic, hard-working, God-fearing folk, who just want a safe, comfortable and prosperous environment without disruptive elements, in which to raise their kids.

Which is why, when it's pointed out to them that they're precisely emulating the perpetrators of the worst atrocities of the twenty century, they cannot take it seriously. They know what Nazis are; They've seen the movies. They're strutting bullies in deaths-head uniforms and jackboots, grinning cruelly at their hapless victims.

That the vast majority of Nazi party members and voters were simple, hard-working, ordinary people is lost on them. So they repeat the mistakes. They turn a blind eye to the excesses of the more exuberant patriots, like the militias and the January sixth protesters.

Nazis are portrayed in media as villainous, so it's not surprising that many people don't recognise them when they see them. Nazis can be villainous, but that's a minority of them. Most Nazis are tedious, boring, salt-of-the-earth types, unimaginative and poorly educated, who just think it would be much better if the country were more orderly, and tidy, and nice. And who don't want to know what needs to be done to make it that way.
 
bilby said:
The people who support these policies are genuinely good, if rather boring and incurious, people; Patriotic, hard-working, God-fearing folk, who just want a safe, comfortable and prosperous environment without disruptive elements, in which to raise their kids.
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That's exactly right IMHO. And those same people are referred to when it is said that "if you can get them to believe absurdities, you can get them to commit atrocities".

I expect that less than 10% of the 1/6 protesters fail to fit that profile.
 
Marge doesn't know what "seized" means. She's complaining that Biden is intercepting more drugs at the border.

MTG is upset

"I want you to know that in 2020 there were 4.8 thousand pounds of fentanyl seized by CBP," she said to her colleagues. "But in 2021, fiscal year 2021, it increased to 11.2 thousand pounds of fentanyl was seized by the CBP. That is a direct result of Biden administration failure policies. Now here we are in to date fiscal year 2023. They have already seized 12.5 thousand pounds of fentanyl. The Biden administration is failing this country by not protecting our border and securing our border and stopping Chinese fentanyl from being brought into our country illegally by the cartels and people are dying every single day because of it."
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T.G.G. Moogly said:
Marge doesn't know what "seized" means. She's complaining that Biden is intercepting more drugs at the border.

MTG is upset

"I want you to know that in 2020 there were 4.8 thousand pounds of fentanyl seized by CBP," she said to her colleagues. "But in 2021, fiscal year 2021, it increased to 11.2 thousand pounds of fentanyl was seized by the CBP. That is a direct result of Biden administration failure policies. Now here we are in to date fiscal year 2023. They have already seized 12.5 thousand pounds of fentanyl. The Biden administration is failing this country by not protecting our border and securing our border and stopping Chinese fentanyl from being brought into our country illegally by the cartels and people are dying every single day because of it."
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Maybe she should check in with Ted von Nukem about fentanyl smuggling.
 
scombrid said:
T.G.G. Moogly said:
Marge doesn't know what "seized" means. She's complaining that Biden is intercepting more drugs at the border.

MTG is upset

"I want you to know that in 2020 there were 4.8 thousand pounds of fentanyl seized by CBP," she said to her colleagues. "But in 2021, fiscal year 2021, it increased to 11.2 thousand pounds of fentanyl was seized by the CBP. That is a direct result of Biden administration failure policies. Now here we are in to date fiscal year 2023. They have already seized 12.5 thousand pounds of fentanyl. The Biden administration is failing this country by not protecting our border and securing our border and stopping Chinese fentanyl from being brought into our country illegally by the cartels and people are dying every single day because of it."
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Maybe she should check in with Ted von Nukem about fentanyl smuggling.
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Shirtcuff:
12,000 lbs of fentanyl would be enough to kill more than half of all humans on the plane.
 
www.rollingstone.com

Serial Harasser Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands 'Safe Space'

The Georgia congresswoman is livid that someone yelled at her at a restaurant
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MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE — one of the most prominent members of a party that has long denigrated Americans seeking equal rights as “snowflakes” while decrying the idea of “safe spaces” — says she needs a “safe space” herself after someone yelled at her at a restaurant on Monday.

“We are fed up,” Greene said on Fox News Tuesday night. “We are fed up with Democrat policies. We are fed up with the woke ideology being shoved down our throat. We are tired of our children being brainwashed into these same ideas. We want our own safe space and we deserve it.”
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No, you don't.
 
 
I concede that saying "Democrat Party" seems like a MTG sort of thing. MTG herself has used that phrase.

How the “QAnon Candidate” Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress | The New Yorker - October 9, 2020 - shortly before she was elected
“There’s nothing she can do to lose my vote, unless she murdered a baby or something,” a local Republican official said. “Nothing.”

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Greene walked to the lectern in jeans and a short-sleeved shirt that showed off her biceps. She turned to a cutout of Trump propped up on her right. “I just love this guy so much,” she said, stroking the cardboard. In the next few minutes, she mentioned socialism five times. “The Democrat Party is no longer an American party,” she said. She decried the Green New Deal and the Paris climate accord. She talked about “good guys with guns at schools” and “abortion mills, like Planned Parenthood,” drawing responses of “Amen!” and “That’s right!” She mentioned “communists, Antifa, Marxist Black Lives Matters,” and said that “the silent majority has had enough.” Trump, she said, turning to the cutout again, “works for us for free. He’s fantastic. This guy right here is great!” Earlier that day, she had tweeted that children should not wear masks, which resulted in a brief suspension from Twitter. “How do we have porn on Twitter, but conservatives can’t speak their freedom of speech?” she asked, at the mall.

At one point, she called attention to a man in the room. “My friend Matt over here, from the New York Times, who—I really want to be friends with him,” she said. “You know, it’s really sad, though. Americans don’t trust the media anymore.” The next day, Greene tweeted a photo of the reporter, Matthew Rosenberg, and noted that he had not been wearing a mask at the event. “UNMASK the CCP-controlled @nytimes!” she wrote, suggesting that the Times answers to the Chinese Communist Party.
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