The Marjorie Taylor Greene thread.

[Craig4]

Damn. I misread that as a spanking tour. My imagination is not that good.

You could be on to something. I hear some weird **** goes on in The Villages. Maybe the Green slut and the Gaetz man whore attended one of the infamous orgies The Villages is supposedly famed for.

 

[smartcooky]

How would they explain Trump's constant bragging about being responsible for the quick development of the C 19 vaccine and its distribution which would never have happened without him (according to him)? If the vaccine is poisoning everyone, then Trump is bragging about being responsible for poisoning the American people. Yet their little pea brains don't seem able to connect the dots.

.....because "cognitive dissonance" is a term you and I both know, but that they have never heard of.

 

[PhantomWolf]

I don't think they assign any value to connecting the dots. It has never given them any satisfaction, so they simply don't try. A feature of being a skeptic is that you connect the dots even if the result hurts.

Hans

You don't need to connect the dots when your entire position is based on obstructionism. All they need to know is that the Democrats support it, and thus it is wrong and they need to oppose it. That this might cause a contradiction elsewhere doesn't matter.

If democrats introduced a Clean Air Bill into Congress where they want to make it the right of all Americans to have clean air with enough oxygen in it to live, the Republicans would oppose it and you'd soon have crazies on FOX and OAN claiming that the Democrats were trying to take away people's right to hold their breath.

 

[smartcooky]

Yellow "Not Vaccinated" Star of David

This is an example of how vile speech has consequences...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/29/...=Feed:+rss/cnn_latest+(RSS:+CNN+-+Most+Recent)

Thanks MTG!

 

[Norman Alexander]

This is an example of how vile speech has consequences...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/29/...=Feed:+rss/cnn_latest+(RSS:+CNN+-+Most+Recent)

Thanks MTG!

I'm sure MTG is just revelling in the controversy. It gets news-minutes and column-inches, and that draws donations.

 

[Stacyhs]

This is an example of how vile speech has consequences...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/29/...=Feed:+rss/cnn_latest+(RSS:+CNN+-+Most+Recent)

Thanks MTG!

Another example of the stupidity of so many right-wingers. I think this quote from the article is accurate:

"There's no way you could reasonably associate choosing to go without vaccinations for Covid ... and assuming that you're in the same spot as a Jewish person in Nazi Germany," Abramson said.

"To me, it's willful ignorance," Abramson continued. "The information is out there. People are willfully ignoring facts, information and history because it doesn't fit what they want to believe or it doesn't fit some narrative they have."

Now that Stetson has cut off business ties with the idiot owner of the store, expect right-wing accusations of "cancel culture".


The owner of the Nashville store is defending her idiocy with this Instagram post:

 

[newyorkguy]

According to news stories, other hat makers, brands like Tula Hats and Kangol Headwear, have also pulled their merchandise from the store, Nashville's hatWRKS. As Stacy posted, at first the store owner was defiant and dismissive of complaints.

“People are so outraged by my post? But are you outraged with the tyranny the world is experiencing? If you don’t understand what is happening, that is on you, not me.”

But as protests escalated, and there were economic consequences, owner Gigi Gaskins did a sudden 180°:

“In NO WAY did I intend to trivialize the Star of David or disrespect what happened to millions of people,” the post reads. “That is not who I am & what I stand for. My intent was not to exploit or make a profit. My hope was to share my genuine concern & fear, and to do all that I can to make sure that nothing like that ever happens again. I sincerely apologize for any insensitivity.” Yahoo News link

 

[Stacyhs]

Sure, Gigi, sure. It hits you where it really counts for you and then you "see the light". And Trump's apology for his "locker room talk" about grabbing women's ******* was sincere, too :

“Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am," Trump said.

“I said it, I was wrong and I apologize."

However, in a statement shortly after the video's release, Trump dismissed its importance.

“This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago," the GOP presidential nominee says. "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course — not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended.”

 

[bruto]

According to news stories, other hat makers, brands like Tula Hats and Kangol Headwear, have also pulled their merchandise from the store, Nashville's hatWRKS. As Stacy posted, at first the store owner was defiant and dismissive of complaints.


But as protests escalated, and there were economic consequences, owner Gigi Gaskins did a sudden 180°:

"That's not me" seems like the latest non apology pretense for people who want to get away with bigotry and not pay for it.. No, miz hathat, that is exactly you. I hope nobody buys her lame excuses or her hats.

 

[JoeMorgue]

"That's not me" seems like the latest non apology pretense for people who want to get away with bigotry and not pay for it.

This is why I've developed such an actions and results based view of morality, because of the upswing of people trying to find new ways to try and argue new variations on "Sir I might wake up every morning and kick a puppy, but that doesn't make me a puppykicker!"

Yes, yes it does. This ******** "I know who I really am in my heart of hearts and that's all that matters" crap needs to stop.

You are what you do. Period. You are your actions, not your internal thoughts.

 

[slyjoe]

This is why I've developed such an actions and results based view of morality, because of the upswing of people trying to find new ways to try and argue new variations on "Sir I might wake up every morning and kick a puppy, but that doesn't make me a puppykicker!"

Yes, yes it does. This ******** "I know who I really am in my heart of hearts and that's all that matters" crap needs to stop.

You are what you do. Period. You are your actions, not your internal thoughts.

I agree. In other words - talk is cheap.

 

[Hellbound]

I agree. In other words - talk is cheap.

To quote an old punchline: “but you have sex with ONE goat...”




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[JoeMorgue]

Take a sheet of paper. On the top of it write "Who I am." Now, and be honest, list all the stuff that you think makes up "You." List all your morals, your standards, your wishes, your desires, all your qualities.

Okay now take a second sheet of paper. On the top of it write "What I do." And list, in order of time voluntarily spent, everything you've spent the last...week let's say actually doing.

Now, and this is the important part. Cross out "What I do" and write "Who I am" on the second sheet of paper and throw out the original "Who I am" sheet because it's completely meaningless and useless.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Take a sheet of paper. On the top of it write "Who I am." Now, and be honest, list all the stuff that you think makes up "You." List all your morals, your standards, your wishes, your desires, all your qualities.

Okay now take a second sheet of paper. On the top of it write "What I do." And list, in order of time voluntarily spent, everything you've spent the last...week let's say actually doing.

Now, and this is the important part. Cross out "What I do" and write "Who I am" on the second sheet of paper and throw out the original "Who I am" sheet because it's completely meaningless and useless.

Yup.

I never will understand why people think they can get away with saying "Oh, I didn't do that" when we have video of you doing the thing you are claiming you did not do (see M Flynn).

Politically I am a socialist. I vote for the candidates in elections that are closest to my personal philosophy. I used to (back when I had more time) volunteer for those candidates. I defend the ideals I have in discussion when such a time arises that I can and wish to do so. Who would believe me if I then turned around and said "Oh I'm a conservative really"? Why do these people think we will believe them when they pull the same trick?

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

To quote an old punchline: “but you have sex with ONE goat...”




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I thought the punch line was, "But not an ugly one"?

 

[TragicMonkey]

This is why I've developed such an actions and results based view of morality, because of the upswing of people trying to find new ways to try and argue new variations on "Sir I might wake up every morning and kick a puppy, but that doesn't make me a puppykicker!"

Yes, yes it does. This ******** "I know who I really am in my heart of hearts and that's all that matters" crap needs to stop.

You are what you do. Period. You are your actions, not your internal thoughts.

The problem is that a staggeringly huge percentage of the population believes their imaginary world is more real than reality. If confronted with an irreconciliable contradiction between their thoughts and reality they will choose to believe their thoughts. And since many, if not all, of them believe they are good people then it doesn't matter what they do. They will never, ever reconsider their own view of themselves no matter what actions they've done. They have granted themselves license to do absolutely anything because they are 'the good guys' in their personal world of illusion and stupidity. That makes you the 'bad guy' for questioning them.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Also at this point the "Do the thing and the immediately apologize for it" is as much as "I can do whatever I want and nobody can stop me" flex as their hypocrisy thing.

 

[Armitage72]

Also at this point the "Do the thing and the immediately apologize for it" is as much as "I can do whatever I want and nobody can stop me" flex as their hypocrisy thing.

Indulgences have a long and honored history. Spend your life being cruel and greedy, repent at the last minute, and all is forgiven.

 

[MRC_Hans]

Indulgences have a long and honored history. Spend your life being cruel and greedy, repent at the last minute, and all is forgiven.

That is, IMHO, uniquely the weirdest concept in Christianity. Far outstrips miracles and human parthenogenesis.

Hans

 

[Stacyhs]

"That's not me" seems like the latest non apology pretense for people who want to get away with bigotry and not pay for it.. No, miz hathat, that is exactly you. I hope nobody buys her lame excuses or her hats.

I'm surprised she hasn't included the honored GOP excuse of "It was taken out of context".