Cont: The Marjorie Taylor Greene thread - Part II

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Captain_Swoop said:
Marjorie Taylor Greene says that Christian nationalism is nothing to fear because it's the only thing that can stop school shootings, crime, and sexual immorality, declaring that anyone who opposes it is a "domestic terrorist."

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https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1532724881523081216
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From your link:

"Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) just reacted to Trump Advisor Peter Navarro’s indictment: “If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you!”

Damn Democrats and their witch hunts for people committing crimes!
 
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JoeMorgue said:
Why do we keep getting told this (and variations on it) as if it's supposed to be comforting or is supported by recent history?

As already noted we got told the exact same thing about Trump and that didn't exactly pan out. I have zero reason to believe that old school Republicans A) can really control their fringes when they reach some arbitrary point of "no longer worth it" or B) want to.

I'm starting to get tired of the only optimism (not exactly the right word but close) being allowed is vague allusions to some undefined random point in the future where the evil and wrong will be forced to stop being evil and wrong by slightly less evil and wrong for no discernable reason by some vague unsupported idea that things just can't keep getting worse forever.

"No things can't get that bad. At some arbitrary point some force will magically start operating in the exact opposite way it always acts and fix it all." is nonsense.

Dangerous, violent, Post-fact conspiracy idiots like MTG are the Republican's future. Nobody knows that better than the Republican Old Guard. This mythology that they are going to pull the Ghost Army from LOTR on the Boeberts and the Greenes (and the much, much, much worse versions of them waiting in the wings) is suicidality naively laughable.
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More likely that they feign shock whilst being pleased that the "unsayable" is now being said and the terms of the debate is shifted.
 
Stacyhs said:
From your link:

"Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) just reacted to Trump Advisor Peter Navarro’s indictment: “If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you!”

Damn Democrats and their witch hunts for people committing crimes!
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The ultimate problem with Gohmert's statement is not (just) that it's idiotic, it's horribly nefarious. Him getting away with saying that destroys any impulse toward critical thinking and evaluating what a politician says, rather than just sucking it down because the pol is part of your tribe. It gets the tribe to accept anything. The more idiotic, the better, because then the tribe is even more firmly in your grasp, and you can do what you want and say what you want with no fear of challenge.

It's similar to how Trump's firehose of lies destroyed a common sense of truth.

We need to focus less on the idiocy of these statements, lies, etc., and more on the political rot they create.
 
Paul2 said:
The ultimate problem with Gohmert's statement is not (just) that it's idiotic, it's horribly nefarious. Him getting away with saying that destroys any impulse toward critical thinking and evaluating what a politician says, rather than just sucking it down because the pol is part of your tribe. It gets the tribe to accept anything. The more idiotic, the better, because then the tribe is even more firmly in your grasp, and you can do what you want and say what you want with no fear of challenge.

It's similar to how Trump's firehose of lies destroyed a common sense of truth.

We need to focus less on the idiocy of these statements, lies, etc., and more on the political rot they create.
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Do you think any of the people who vote for idiots like Gohmert, Boebert, MTG, Cawthorn, etc give a damn about the 'political rot' they create?
 
When MTG and her ilk say, "Christian Nationalism is nothing to fear", I see the snippet from Mars Attacks where the Martians, as they run amok ray-gunning anything moving, have a truck with loudspeaker blaring, "Don't run! We are your friends!"
 
In all seriousness, for emptyg to start talking openly about espousing Christian Nationalism is pretty scary stuff. Like a curtain going up, finally revealing just how hideous she is. Christian Nationalism is a far right movement that seeks to have governments impose rigidly conservative Christian values on secular societies.

“If we’re going to label it ‘Christian nationalism,’ this movement will actually be the movement that stops the school shootings,” Greene claimed. “This will be the movement that stops the crime in our streets. This will be the movement that stops the sexual immorality.” Talking Points dot com link
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Stops the school shootings, street crime, sexual immorality. And just how would they go about 'stopping it' I wonder? This movement, their aims and beliefs are completely un-democratic and totally un-American. It's time for the people who support her to really wake up.
 

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newyorkguy said:
In all seriousness, for emptyg to start talking openly about espousing Christian Nationalism is pretty scary stuff. Like a curtain going up, finally revealing just how hideous she is. Christian Nationalism is a far right movement that seeks to have governments impose rigidly conservative Christian values on secular societies.


Stops the school shootings, street crime, sexual immorality. And just how would they go about 'stopping it' I wonder? This movement, their aims and beliefs are completely un-democratic and totally un-American. It's time for the people who support her to really wake up.
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It's just the Christian right-wing version of Sharia law. They have fits about 'Sharia law coming to the US' (it wasn't) but don't see the irony in that at all.
 
newyorkguy said:
In all seriousness, for emptyg to start talking openly about espousing Christian Nationalism is pretty scary stuff. Like a curtain going up, finally revealing just how hideous she is. Christian Nationalism is a far right movement that seeks to have governments impose rigidly conservative Christian values on secular societies.



Stops the school shootings, street crime, sexual immorality. And just how would they go about 'stopping it' I wonder? This movement, their aims and beliefs are completely un-democratic and totally un-American. It's time for the people who support her to really wake up.
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By killing non-Christians of course.
 
Remember, all these mass shootings only started happening after we took prayer out of schools.

(Do I really need a sarcasm emoji here?)
 
https://www.businessinsider.com/mar...o-yiannopoulos-intern-ex-gay-alt-right-2022-6

Marjorie Taylor Greene hires Milo Yiannopoulos — a 37-year-old 'ex-gay' former Breitbart editor once disinvited from CPAC for 'condoning pedophilia' — as an intern

"So I have an intern that was raped by a priest as a young teen, was gay, has offended everyone at some point, turned his life back to Jesus and Church, and changed his life," she said. "Great story!"
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Some tasty tidbits on that page.
 
mgidm86 said:
Marjorie Taylor Greene hires Milo Yiannopoulos...
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I was just coming to see if that news had hot here yet.

Two of the world's most-disgusting and furthest-right people coming together. A match surely made in heaven.
 
newyorkguy said:
In all seriousness, for emptyg to start talking openly about espousing Christian Nationalism is pretty scary stuff. Like a curtain going up, finally revealing just how hideous she is. Christian Nationalism is a far right movement that seeks to have governments impose rigidly conservative Christian values on secular societies.



Stops the school shootings, street crime, sexual immorality. And just how would they go about 'stopping it' I wonder? This movement, their aims and beliefs are completely un-democratic and totally un-American. It's time for the people who support her to really wake up.
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Re the MTG quote "This will be the movement that stops the sexual immorality." am I misremembering but didn't she have an affair with her fitness instructor?
 
Ethan Thane Athen said:
Re the MTG quote "This will be the movement that stops the sexual immorality." am I misremembering but didn't she have an affair with her fitness instructor?
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She means OTHER people's sexual immorality. You know, THOSE people.
 
shemp said:
By killing non-Christians of course.
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Not just non-Christians, but also Christians who don’t follow rules of the Christians in charge.
Although, technically, those folks would be re-classified as heretical non-Christian.

The laws in the book of Leviticus will be enacted.
For instance, the Bible says if a married man has sex with his wife during her period then they both must be executed.
 
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Just checking in to see whether MTG is still the biggest blight on U.S. public service since at least Joe McCarthy.

Yes?

OK then, please carry on.
 
ponderingturtle said:
And come one cheating on your spouse is sanctioned by their Lord and Savior, as long as it is all heterosexual its all good.
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Not according to Leviticus 20.

The Bible say execution is the punishment for having sex with:
Your neighbor’s wife
Another man’s wife
Your father’s wife
Your daughter-in-law
Animals (animal must be executed also)
Siblings (and half siblings)
Aunts and Uncles
People of the same sex
 
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