The Marjorie Taylor Greene thread.

[wareyin]

To be fair, I parsed wareyin's post as saying

25% of her votes were for per personally
73% of her votes were simply because she has an "R" after her name
Some of all that might have come from fraud

Yes, that is what I meant.

 

[wareyin]

Interesting, but when you write "probably 25% I agree with her," are you referring to yourself or referring to what others would say?

The idea that Greene got 73% of the vote because she had an R by her name overlooks the fact she got 40% in a nine-candidate field in the June GOP primary. The runner-up, John Cowan, got 21%. In the special runoff, she beat Cowan with 57% of the vote.

I was referring to what her voters would say, and the percentages were of her votes in the general election. Sorry it was worded clumsily.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Yeah, I'd beat the crap out them when they'd use "infer" incorrectly, too. Sent more than one to the hospital when they said "I could care less". I won't even mention what happened when they misused "then" and "than". But it wasn't pretty.

Ah... memories of parochial school.
Good times. [emoji15]

[emoji1]

 

[Jim_MDP]

Nm

 

[newyorkguy]

Her family owns a construction company.

This is from a New Yorker article published last October.

Her father, Robert Taylor, is the founder of Taylor Commercial, a successful construction company, which he sold to his daughter and her husband in 2002. Since then, according to Greene, the company has “managed a quarter of a billion dollars in construction projects.” (Greene held several leadership roles at the company; she was listed as its C.F.O. from 2007 until 2011, when company filings cease to show her as an officer.) Greene gave roughly a million dollars to her campaign—and also got crucial support from the House Freedom Fund, which has ties to Jim Jordan, one of Trump’s most prominent allies in Congress, and to Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff.

“There’s nothing she can do to lose my vote, unless she murdered a baby or something,” a local Republican official said. “Nothing.”...The conservative commentator Erick Erickson, who lives in central Georgia but ran a campaign in the state’s northwest in the early two-thousands—and who is known for making his own inflammatory remarks—told me the same thing. “She’s bat-**** crazy,” he said, referring to Greene. “But she’s going to Congress.” New Yorker link

A wealthy white woman who inherited a business from her family wants to represent...what? She's got the hypocrite thing down cold, anyway. The New Yorker writer interviewed Jim Chambers, former owner of CrossFit gym where Greene began working as a part time coach in 2011. That's the same year the construction company stopped listing her as an official and the same year Greene became 'born again.'

When former gym owner, Jim Chambers, first met Greene [in 2011], he told me, “She had a lot of time and a lot of money,” he said, and also a vague ambition, as he saw it, “to run a gym.” When, eight years later, it looked like she might be headed to Congress, Chambers got on social media and told the world that, back when he knew Greene, she was having “multiple, blatant extramarital affairs in front of all of us.” He added, “I don’t even judge that, until you say the kind of **** she does and claim the Jesus about it.” (Greene, who was baptized at an evangelical church in a suburb just north of Atlanta, in 2011, and speaks frequently about being Christian, has said that she wants to bring “my faith and my family values to Washington.”)

When the New Yorker writer Charles Bethea contacted Greene to ask about the extramarital affairs allegation she texted back, "Let me be clear with you. Writing defamatory articles about me is a very bad choice." She then suggested he contact her attorney.

 

[Bob001]

.... (Greene, who was baptized at an evangelical church in a suburb just north of Atlanta, in 2011, and speaks frequently about being Christian, has said that she wants to bring “my faith and my family values to Washington.”)

I wonder if someone who becomes a born-again as an adult, as opposed to being raise in the religion, is especially prone to mystical, anti-rational thinking and theories across the board.

 

[Babbylonian]

I wonder if someone who becomes a born-again as an adult, as opposed to being raise in the religion, is especially prone to mystical, anti-rational thinking and theories across the board.

Why creationism bears all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory

 

[Stacyhs]

Oh, I thought that was a US American thing.

Except for the "erb vs herb" thing coming from the people who insist on putting the stress on the first syllable of every French word they can mangle when it should go on the last. I mean really, Brits, is it so hard to say garAGE instead of GARage or vaLAY instead of VALet?

 

[newyorkguy]

I wonder if someone who becomes a born-again as an adult, as opposed to being raise in the religion, is especially prone to mystical, anti-rational thinking and theories across the board.

Based on the comments I've read from just about everyone who has known Marjorie Taylor Greene or had to deal with her, this is NOT a normal person.

 

[Stacyhs]

Quote:
When former gym owner, Jim Chambers, first met Greene [in 2011], he told me, “She had a lot of time and a lot of money,” he said, and also a vague ambition, as he saw it, “to run a gym.” When, eight years later, it looked like she might be headed to Congress, Chambers got on social media and told the world that, back when he knew Greene, she was having “multiple, blatant extramarital affairs in front of all of us.” He added, “I don’t even judge that, until you say the kind of **** she does and claim the Jesus about it.” (Greene, who was baptized at an evangelical church in a suburb just north of Atlanta, in 2011, and speaks frequently about being Christian, has said that she wants to bring “my faith and my family values to Washington.”)

Gee...I'm just totally shocked by the hypocrisy. Totally. Completely. Left speechless by it. Knocked to my knees by it.

 

[MRC_Hans]

Gee...I'm just totally shocked by the hypocrisy. Totally. Completely. Left speechless by it. Knocked to my knees by it.

Yes, who'd have expected such a thing ... ?

Hans

 

[kookbreaker]

Yes, who'd have expected such a thing ... ?

Hans

Just following her idol, the great Christian Trump.

 

[trustbutverify]

Gee...I'm just totally shocked by the hypocrisy. Totally. Completely. Left speechless by it. Knocked to my knees by it.

I wonder if any baby killing was involved.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I wonder if any baby killing was involved.

Isn't there an expression that It Takes One to Know One?

 

[trustbutverify]

Isn't there an expression that It Takes One to Know One?

I believe there was a TV series called "It Takes A Thief".

 

[newyorkguy]

More on Marj:
In March 2019, Greene happened to visit Capitol Hill on the same day members of Moms Demand Action were there. Greene later posted a Facebook video about her visit in which she derided Moms Demand Action. She's taken it down -- in it she says school shootings are the fault of "the morons in charge who still have schools as gun-free zones" -- but you can see it here.

Greene stated of the group: “All these moms that demand action -- moms that demand action: You need to grow some balls. And the problem is you don't have balls. We need dads. Because most dads, unless they're a bunch of beta male, wussy, feminized men, are going to say, ‘Yeah, put guys, put good guys, good women with guns at our kids’ schools and protect our kids and stop these damn school shootings.’ Media Matters link

But you say, hasn't she alleged at least some of the school shootings are hoaxes? Actors playing wounded children and or grieving parents? How can she have it both ways? There's an explanation for that, too.

Greene has emerged from the same mold as Donald Trump, starring in her own always-rolling kind of reality show meant to convert attention into influence, vengeance into votes. Link to New Republic

Vengeance into votes but how can anyone take someone like this seriously? Apparently, if you're from a certain demographic, it's easy. For the rest of us? It's scary.

 

[newyorkguy]

It's pure reaction. No thought process. No reflection. No questioning one's opinions. She (they) just react and spout whatever easy answer pops into their hesd.

Problems have simple solutions. The experts don't know what they're talking about. They never get past that. And for the most part they have no need to. They're living the good life, insulated from most of these problems.

 

[wareyin]

I tried to get it back on track. This is about Greene, a born-again, a nut-bag, and a total gun-worshipper. How on Earth she got voted into a position of power is amazing to most non-Americans.

I live in her district, and how she got voted into a position of power is amazing to me, as well. That she beat a candidate that unofficially withdrew before the election is understandable, but that she got almost twice the votes as the next highest candidate in a primary field of 9 Republicans really surprised me.

 

[Norman Alexander]

I live in her district, and how she got voted into a position of power is amazing to me, as well. That she beat a candidate that unofficially withdrew before the election is understandable, but that she got almost twice the votes as the next highest candidate in a primary field of 9 Republicans really surprised me.

Rigged election perhaps...? What if someone actually looked into that.

 

[Darat]

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