The Marjorie Taylor Greene thread.

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MRC_Hans said:
Basic problem being: How does the armed vigilante really know who is the bad guy? If everybody has guns, it's a big shoot-out. How do you know who are the bad guys?

In contrast, with gun regulations (severe ones), only criminals have guns, so the one with the gun is the criminal. (In fact even criminals will rarely be packing, as this alone will give them away.)

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You willnever get a ban on private gun ownership ....which is what you are talking about...in the US, Just will not happen.
 
Israel announced yesterday that it has successfully tested a new laser-based Iron Beam defense system. Reportedly, they can be used against mortars and missiles. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was quoted as saying, “This may sound like science-fiction, but it’s real. The Iron Beam’s interceptions are silent, they’re invisible and they only cost around $3.50 apiece."

When emptyg heard about it she tweeted:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG
The military technology coming out of Israel is just jaw dropping.

Very impressive!

Congratulations to our friends in Israel!

Looks like Jewish space lasers are real and they kick ass!

(Relax and take a joke, everyone!) Twitter link
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Yeah relax everyone. By the way, Marj, do you think these lasers could be deployed on New York City subway trains? Just askin' for a friend. ;)
 
dudalb said:
You willnever get a ban on private gun ownership ....which is what you are talking about...in the US, Just will not happen.
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Can't disagree, on the face of it.
It will be another 20, 30 years before we've moved back toward a national push for it.
By then, we'll either be a theocracy where they're locked in... or in The Purge, where everyone will need a few. :D

Besides... it could only happen with an OZ style buyback, for 10 or 20 billion dollars, and no one is gonna get that passed.
 
Jim_MDP said:
Can't disagree, on the face of it.
It will be another 20, 30 years before we've moved back toward a national push for it.
By then, we'll either be a theocracy where they're locked in... or in The Purge, where everyone will need a few. :D

Besides... it could only happen with an OZ style buyback, for 10 or 20 billion dollars, and no one is gonna get that passed.
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Rather than everyone get torqued over the dollar figure of a buyback, consider matters from the standpoint of the per capita cost. For instance, assume for the moment a similar gun-to-citizen ratio. If the payout per gun averaged the same, then the higher total payout in the more populous nation would be nicely amortized by the concomitantly higher GDP.

Anyway, for the foreseeable future it's all moot. Where Oz had a fire lit under its collective arse over Port Arthur, in the US even numerous school massacres--Sandy Hook most notably--did not move the populace. In the same way that a nation can be judged by how it treats its poor (the US is risible), it can be weighed by how it deals with instruments of death designed specifically to kill efficiently (the US is obscene to a pornographic degree.)
 
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Reports Her First Fundraising Loss

The campaign committee for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reported on Friday its first net loss since she was elected, posting a $314,000 deficit over the first three months of 2022 while additionally revising previous contribution totals down by more than $100,000.

About half of that loss is represented in fees to Donald Trump’s top Jan. 6 attorney and a security detail that protected Kyle Rittenhouse during his trial last year.

While Greene has always traded steep fees for slightly higher returns, she’s always managed to come out on top—until now.

Last quarter she sprung a hole in the bucket, as her campaign committee, Greene for Congress, spent about $1.38 million while taking in only $1.06 million in donations. Fundraising costs alone wiped out three-quarters of those receipts.

Greene, one of the top fundraisers in the House, has deployed expensive digital fundraising operations in the past, and reports have dinged her for it, pointing out that the fees give the lie to an inflated small-dollar contribution stream.

Last quarter, however, MAGAworld’s leading lady bet big on direct mail, sinking more than $400,000 into printing, postage, and associated expenses. When that money was added to consulting, list rental, and digital fees, Greene for Congress spent more than $735,000 on its fundraising efforts.

To make matters worse, the same day the campaign filed its new report, it also filed three amended versions of previous reports from last year, admitting that the committee had overstated contributions by more than $100,000. The campaign currently holds about $3 million in cash on hand, which represents a net gain of about $900,000 over the last 12 months.

Greene also spent big elsewhere this year, most specifically for personal security, racking up about $140,000 in expenses. Almost all of that went in three monthly payments to a Knoxville-based executive protection company called the KaJor Group, which also handled security for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse during his trial last year.
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So when idiots donate to her, 75% goes to fundraising costs. Aside from the political considerations, I would never give to charity that spends that much on fundraising. Morons!
 
bruto said:
I hope you have better taste than they do, since they appear to be aiming to clean their guns with American flags.
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I was thinking that her hair would make a good toilet scrubber. I don't own a flag.


Maybe I can use an RNC banner.
 
mgidm86 said:
I was thinking that her hair would make a good toilet scrubber. I don't own a flag.


Maybe I can use an RNC banner.
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On that last, I'm reminded of a comment by the late great (yeah, socialist too) Norman Thomas back in the 60's regarding student protests, that if you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
 
bruto said:
On that last, I'm reminded of a comment by the late great (yeah, socialist too) Norman Thomas back in the 60's regarding student protests, that if you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
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I wish we could "like" posts here.

In the fishing forum I attend we can do that. There's no negatives either. Just "like", thanks", "laugh".

There is no contest to see who can get the most or anything. It's mainly a convenient way to reply without actually needing to post, like I'm doing now. I think it's cool. Maybe this forum software is too old.
 
mgidm86 said:
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I wish we could "like" posts here.

In the fishing forum I attend we can do that. There's no negatives either. Just "like", thanks", "laugh".

There is no contest to see who can get the most or anything. It's mainly a convenient way to reply without actually needing to post, like I'm doing now. I think it's cool. Maybe this forum software is too old.
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This is true on some other forums I am on. But I think this issue has come up, and it might not work so well where contention is inherent, as it does on things like discussions of cameras and machine tools.
 
mgidm86 said:
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I wish we could "like" posts here.

In the fishing forum I attend we can do that. There's no negatives either. Just "like", thanks", "laugh".

There is no contest to see who can get the most or anything. It's mainly a convenient way to reply without actually needing to post, like I'm doing now. I think it's cool. Maybe this forum software is too old.
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The subject comes up from time to time but is usually "voted down" when it does.
I for one, wouldn't hate having a "like" button, and I think it's even been mentioned the forum software would support the function, but for now, it's a no go.
But hey, we do have that handy "nominate" button at our disposal, which is close.
 
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