The Marjorie Taylor Greene thread.

[TurkeysGhost]

I still want to know what non confrontational protests are. Holding a sign up inside your own house maybe?

The kind that libs like. Permitted by the city and designed in such a way not to bother anyone. Probably involve "activists" hugging a cop for a photo-op and then the mayor reads off some empty platitudes. Everyone clears out 2 hrs before sundown.

You know, pointless.

 

[catsmate]

I am a litle scared that the US is starting to resemble Spain right before it's civil war.

The parallels are distinct and interesting.

 

[ponderingturtle]

We clearly need to totally reevaluate Stonewall as the criminal act it was and not view it as some kind of protest against police brutality. Anyone who commemorates is clearly supporting rioting because of its ties supporting gay rights means supporting rioting against the police.

And we can finally side with the right side of bloody sunday instead of those criminals blocking the road. The police should have been the heroes in the movie Selma and Stonewall.

 

[Craig4]

The kind that libs like. Permitted by the city and designed in such a way not to bother anyone. Probably involve "activists" hugging a cop for a photo-op and then the mayor reads off some empty platitudes. Everyone clears out 2 hrs before sundown.

You know, pointless.

But the Gravy SEALS showing up at a state house with their knock-off AR-15s, cool guy rigs and "tactical" sunglasses pissing and moaning about getting a hair cut is okay.

 

[Mumbles]

I still want to know what non confrontational protests are. Holding a sign up inside your own house maybe?

Well, looking at the roster of anti-protest bills that are being masqueraded as "anti-riot" legislation, I'd say it depends on whether or not the protest is in favor of black people (and presumably other marginalized groups), or gun-waving right wing rallies.

 

[kookbreaker]

After attacking the Green Deal for years and demanding AOC debate her on it, Greene effectively admits that she never read it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-aoc-debate-all-14_n_6080f556e4b0c1b89645039a

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

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I won't accuse dudalb of being racist or anything, but when it's Waters on one side, and the Jewish Orbital Laser conspiracy theory woman on the other...this isn't a "both sides" issue.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I still want to know what non confrontational protests are. Holding a sign up inside your own house maybe?

You don't think there is a continuum between protest and rioting?

 

[Stacyhs]

After attacking the Green Deal for years and demanding AOC debate her on it, Greene effectively admits that she never read it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-aoc-debate-all-14_n_6080f556e4b0c1b89645039a

MTG, Rick Perry, Louis Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert are all good reasons for why I want the side of the debate that argues in favor of "Voters should have a minimum IQ higher than a box of rocks to vote".

 

[The Don]

MTG, Rick Perry, Louis Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert are all good reasons for why I want the side of the debate that argues in favor of "Voters should have a minimum IQ higher than a box of rocks to vote".

Except those same arguments were used to suppress the black voters during Jim Crow.

 

[newyorkguy]

Greene apparently confronted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the floor of the House Wednesday. Someone took a photo and Greene used it in a Tweet [see below]. AOC has not responded -- its not clear Greene was actually challenging her to a debate in the photo -- and Thursday Greene went on the attack. In a Tweet Greene ranted that if AOC won't debate Greene it proves she (AOC) is 'a scared and stupid little girl.' Greene also said she had finally read the 14-page Green New Deal House resolution introduced by Ocasio-Cortez in 2019 and Tweeted it is a "communists[sic] manifesto." (Even some conservative news sources observed, the phrase Greene was looking for is "communist manifesto," it's not plural.)

Some observers have said, not entirely joking, Greene behaves more like someone from the world of professional wrestling than a member of Congress.

Huffington Post speclated on Greene's real motives.

Greene wants her proposed debate to be aired on pay-per-view TV and to split the profits. Critics view her debate request as a way for Greene to fundraise, get media attention and ride on the coattails of Ocasio-Cortez’s popularity. Huff link

 

[newyorkguy]

Below is a link to Greene's 47-second Tweet in which she accuses Ocasio-Cortez of being a scared stupid little girl, "exactly what she is."

Greene Tweet

 

[bruto]

Nice bit of right-wingery there. Before she read it it was, presumably, too big, its bigness and complexity its fault. Now, having read it, it's "little," its smallness and lack of complexity its fault.

 

[Belz...]

Some observers have said, not entirely joking, Greene behaves more like someone from the world of professional wrestling than a member of Congress.

Not only is it no joke, it's exactly what people like her and Gaetz operate, by design. It's self-promotion.

 

[dudalb]

Not only is it no joke, it's exactly what people like her and Gaetz operate, by design. It's self-promotion.

It's all about creating a brand, not about doing the hard work of legislating.
I blame Newt Gingrich. he is the one who started this .

 

[mgidm86]

Greene apparently confronted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the floor of the House Wednesday. Someone took a photo and Greene used it in a Tweet [see below]. AOC has not responded -- its not clear Greene was actually challenging her to a debate in the photo -- and Thursday Greene went on the attack. In a Tweet Greene ranted that if AOC won't debate Greene it proves she (AOC) is 'a scared and stupid little girl.' Greene also said she had finally read the 14-page Green New Deal House resolution introduced by Ocasio-Cortez in 2019 and Tweeted it is a "communists[sic] manifesto." (Even some conservative news sources observed, the phrase Greene was looking for is "communist manifesto," it's not plural.)

Some observers have said, not entirely joking, Greene behaves more like someone from the world of professional wrestling than a member of Congress.
Huffington Post speclated on Greene's real motives.

I said it before, it's the 'roids from all that crosstraining crap she does. Either that or she's a man in disguise. Looks like one to me. Sorry if it offends anyone here but I can't stand looking at her. She creeps me out.

 

[Stacyhs]

Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
MTG, Rick Perry, Louis Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert are all good reasons for why I want the side of the debate that argues in favor of "Voters should have a minimum IQ higher than a box of rocks to vote".

Except those same arguments were used to suppress the black voters during Jim Crow.

Have trouble recognizing snarky sarcasm, do ya?

 

[smartcooky]

I hope AOC does accept.

Occasio-Cortez comes prepared - armed with facts, figures, and a deep technical understanding of the ecology and the economics of the Green New Deal... MTG on the other hand took four days to read a 14-page document.

AOC will utterly demolish and humiliate Taylor-Greene... she will tear the "Jewish Space Lasers" idiot to shreds. MTG's only chance of coping will be to shout everything down and play pigeon chess. To that end, AOC will have to insist on some rules, for example a moderator who can turn off the debater's microphones if they won't shut up.

It reminds me somewhat of one of Dara O Briain's famous quips - AOC is the Professor of Dentistry, and MTG is the eejit who removes teeth with a string and a door.

 

[Lithrael]

I said it before, it's the 'roids from all that crosstraining crap she does. Either that or she's a man in disguise. Looks like one to me. Sorry if it offends anyone here but I can't stand looking at her. She creeps me out.

If someone is wrong and ugly too, I don’t see what skin it is off anyone’s nose to just say they are wrong and keep the other part to themselves.

They’re not wrong because they’re ugly or ugly because they’re wrong. Why, it’s almost like their looks are completely irrelevant.

 

[Stacyhs]

I hope AOC does accept.

Occasio-Cortez comes prepared - armed with facts, figures, and a deep technical understanding of the ecology and the economics of the Green New Deal... MTG on the other hand took four days to read a 14-page document.

AOC will utterly demolish and humiliate Taylor-Greene... she will tear the "Jewish Space Lasers" idiot to shreds. MTG's only chance of coping will be to shout everything down and play pigeon chess. To that end, AOC will have to insist on some rules, for example a moderator who can turn off the debater's microphones if they won't shut up.

It reminds me somewhat of one of Dara O Briain's famous quips - AOC is the Professor of Dentistry, and MTG is the eejit who removes teeth with a string and a door baseball bat .

Fixed that for you.