The House Republican conference just indulged in a sick joke: It assigned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the House Education and Labor Committee. Rep. Greene has identified with the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theorists who believe that Democrats and large sectors of the federal government are controlled by a Satanic ring of pedophiles. She has endorsed the vile claim that the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, were staged or “false flag” operations, intended to build political support for gun control.
Andrew Ujifusa of Education Week reports:
A Washington Post story on Jan. 22 highlighted how, in response to a 2018 comment on Facebook that recent school shootings weren’t real, now-U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “That’s all true.” She expressed a similar sentiment about the 2018 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Facebook in a separate comment that year that the social-media site later removed.
Several advocacy groups that support robust gun-control measures, including March For Our Lives-Parkland, Moms Demand Action, and Everytown for Gun Safety have called on Greene to resign in light of those comments, the Post reported.
Greene also has made national headlines for months due to her support for QAnon, the name used for a range of conspiracy theories that have been termed a domestic terrorist threat by the FBI.
In response to questions from Education Week about Rep. Greene’s education priorities and concerns about her past comments on school shootings, spokesman Nick Dyer did not address her comments on the shootings.
“Congresswoman Greene is excited to join the House Education and Labor Committee. Rep. Greene is ready to get to work to reopen every school in America, expand school choice, protect homeschooling, champion religious freedom for student and teachers, and prevent men and boys from unfairly competing with women and girls in sports,” Dyer said in an email.
Earlier this month, Greene announced her support for legislation that would require schools to prevent “biological males” from competing in women’s sports, in order to demonstrate compliance with federal Title IX law...
A relatively large share of the Republicans slated to join the committee are freshmen. In fact, out of 24 total GOP members due to join the committee, 11 just started their first terms in Congress; go here for the list of new members about to join the panel. (Republicans announced new appointments to the committee on Monday, but technically they won’t be official until the GOP conference and full House approves them.)
Another prominent GOP freshman on the list is Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., who spoke at Trump’s Jan. 6 rally in front of the White House shortly before a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were voting to certify the presidential election results.
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Wow. Thanks for the heads up.
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If the WE of our country’s civilized consciousness have to put up with this SICK GOP pretending to be normal for much longer, it won’t last . . . but then, that’s what they want . . . because racism and bloated pride trump civilization every time. CBK
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Diane The more I hear on the news . . . straight from the mouths of those involved and not interpreted yet by news people . . . the more I think many of the GOP Trump supporters are working out of existential FEAR for themselves and for their families, rather than out of a loss o character or ethical grounding.
Do any of us already feel a bit sickened by fear whenever we speak out about Trump and the insurrection, even on this blog . . . the more public the forum, the more fearful we become? . . . Terror works? CBK
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About being terrorized. . . for me, it’s been like a cloud passing over my thinking and then disappearing on the horizon . . . not always, but at times. Imagine Pelosi and AOC. What courage. CBK
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CBK. to be frank. i have occasionally thought that I am putting my life in danger when I speak out against armed terrorists.
No one is safe. Our names and addresses and everything about us is out on the web or the dark web.
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Diane Exactly that. Me too. CBK
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The weirdos are coming out from the cracks in society. [Cockroaches come out when it’s dark and scramble back when the light comes on.]
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Shows you what contempt the Republican party has for public education.
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Trump must be locked up and in prison for the rest of his life.
[NWI Times] US domestic terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the potential for lingering violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after President Joe Biden’s election.
The department did not cite a specific threat, but pointed to “a heightened threat environment across the United States” that it believes “will persist” in the weeks since Biden took office. DHS said it consulted with law enforcement and intelligence agencies before issuing the alert about the potential for homegrown violent extremism.
“Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence,” the bulletin said.
With the warning, the Biden administration is effectively stepping into the politically charged debate over how to describe or characterize acts motivated by political ideology, suggesting that it sees violence aimed at overturning the election as akin to terrorism.
The alert comes at a tense time after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump who were seeking to overturn the presidential election. Some domestic violent extremists “may be emboldened” by that siege, according to the bulletin…
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/national/us-d
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to the education committee!?!?!?!?!?!
How about my 7-year-old granddaughter for chair of the physics department at Cal Tech?
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Perhaps they feel they can keep her somewhat contained as a member of the committee, rather than dealing with her asinine statements from outside.
Has global warming fueled an ill wind blowing across this country?
What desperation are the adoption of such idiotic beliefs in response to?
Do values they learn early at home override any ability to learn critical thinking?
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Darrell “Perhaps they feel they can keep her somewhat contained as a member of the committee, rather than dealing with her asinine statements from outside.”
. . . . my candidate for entry into a book on “Famous Last Words.” CBK
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Does that mean you are answering ‘yes’ to my last paragraph?
“Do values they learn early at home override any ability to learn critical thinking?”
By containing her, I was hoping to see other members of the committee talking her out of some of her weird ideas and conspiracy theories.
But I will keep a space on my book shelf for “Famous Last Words.”
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Darrell Thanks for taking it like I meant it . . . with a little tongue in cheek. CBK
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When I ask about values they learn at home Catherine, I imply extremist values, should have expressed that.
Too, I’m hoping there will be a Socrates or two on that committee.
And, you’re welcome.
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Darrell I knew what you meant about the home values. In my experience, negative or positive, and in philosophical field jargon, we can learn (or fail to learn); but then, as we grow, we can be trained into harboring a dogmatic attitude that then surrounds and closes off our present state of internal affairs and potential further development. By definition, then, our dogmatic attitude closes around whatever values we may have learned. Also, early absences are like holes in the soul, so to speak; but where they are NOT intellectually, morally, or socially benign, on principle. In that case, where dogmatism occurs, it’s doubly difficult to develop further, though I’ve seen it occur. . . this is where some kind of “breakthrough” is needed.
My own thought is that there is the original need to develop in those areas in all of us; an area which can be reached, but it is not necessarily so in every case. (You didn’t mean to get me started . . . sorry.)
At any rate, I thought you meant that . . . CBK
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Catherine, Is “harboring a dogmatic attitude” the same as a susceptibility to cleave onto conspiracist theories? Dogmatic attitude can apply, I assume, to good values as well as bad.
Repetition, in any case, correct me if I’m wrong,. is necessary to lodge values into our psyche, any values, similar to habit forming..
If that be the case, if I tell you that something is true 10 times, can some one come along and tell you it’s false 15 times, and false will win?
What causes one’s ability to change from false to true to shut down, lodged on false forever, seemingly?
What causes what appears to be an automatic response to a conversational stimulus, let’s say.
Would it be similar to the automatic response of the fully trained warrior, or well coached athlete?.
You started it.
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Darrell Dogmatism (in technical terms) is philosophical and has to do with judgments of truth or falsity, yes/or/no.
But our judgments are always around some kind of meaning . . . Yes or no X. ANY meaning and in ANY realm of thought; for instance, I can live with a dogmatic judgment about the (meaningful) beliefs my parents passed down to me, e.g., religious, social, political, or ethical/moral, but be completely non-judgmental or open-minded about my profession or scientific field, for instance . . . . as long as those meaning fields do not conflict, or my judgments are not challenged in other ways, they will hold sway.
But that’s why education is so important–it tends to help us break out of our youthful or forced-on-us dogmatism to hopefully learn to least put off our judgments, if we have to make them, until we have thought through WHAT (meaning) those judgments are about, and instead of merely believing what was passed down to us, working through those beliefs to keep what is right and acceptable about them, and discarding what is not. It’s what we all did with Santa Clause.
But I’m sure you will find that making judgments is a necessary part of living . . . it’s whether they are dogmatic and unthought-out, or reasonably made, that makes them appropriate to both making long term guardrails for ourselves (identifying with thought-out moral principles, even though we still need to work them into the details of our lives) and specific instances (like not stealing when you shop).
Hard dogmatic closure (judgments) around an unwillingness to suffer through a good thinking process about meaning, is one way to define what these right-wingers are involved in . . . and it has morphed into a GROUP of similar thinking, which makes it even more difficult to find ways to break through it. (There is an academic paper on this if you want to link for it.)
I did read this morning that something like 30 percent of registered Republican voters formally left the party . . . just after January 6. Sometimes violence, bloodshed, and obvious heroism will be the catalyst for breakthrough? CBK
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Darrell Addendum regarding dogmatism: A dogmatic person CANNOT be wrong, and showing their wrongness to them can often be like lighting a fuse. I had an uncle . . .
But sometimes, in the case of myself and my students (and others I will not mention), I realize and admit to myself LATER that I MIGHT be wrong, or not have seen something that I needed to see.
The more I taught, however, the more I realized how important it was to be as genuine as I could with my students and to ignore my own IMMEDIATE feelings if I was corrected. I could tell you stories . . . . Reading Plato’s dialogues, my content sometimes, was extremely helpful. :o)
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Catherine. It is education’s influence on dogmatic judgments in which I am interested.
Why have so many potential domestic terrorists made it through our educational process still carrying what seem to be unconscious, dogmatic judgments Or did they learn these judgments in and from their education.
Or if they were introduced to them after their formal education–mostly high school graduates–what about their education they could not bring to bear on the mental processes needed to dissuade them from this new beguiling information?
Are some family values taught to children-unconscious behavior prompts during puberty and early adolescence–so automatic, they color all future judgments.
It is why I spoke of repetition before. Early values are repeated and repeated, until synaptic connections become so strong they will not relinquish their hold. Some parents teach them, others let them be learned.
The power of circumstance also comes involved. What caused this family of unacceptable behaviors to erupt? Trump tapped into it.
What caused them to accept the lie about his being robbed in the election. By his continually repeating that the only way he could lose was if Democrats stole it from him. Repeated, repeated, and repeated.
So when he told them he was robbed, they all expected that to be the case if he lost. Trump could not be wrong, in any case.(Your addendum)
I guess if I have a point at this juncture, Catherine, is if bad values can be transmitted by repetition, we can transmit good values by using the same brain mechanisms at which Trump aimed his repetitive appeal .
As far as education’s contribution,, timing is essential, as well as course content. It makes solid full year courses more appealing at an earlier age, than the ones students dabble in to see whether or not they would like that full year of it.
My goal here is to discuss how we keep another batch of screwballs from erupting onto our public landscape.
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Darrell Well, in my view, that’s the right set of questions. Let me take a little time and get back with you. CBK
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Darrell: My brother and I grew up in the same household and went to the public schools in Boise. While still in high school, he became attached to listening to some preachers. He would bring home tapes of what these preachers said and would listen to them over and over again. He tried to tell my parents what they should think and tried to convert me. My father was annoyed by his continuing passions and was happy one time when I told my brother not to tell me what to think. [I’m 7 years older than him.] All of this started way before the internet arrived to influence people.
Here we are many years later. My brother is about as conservative as anyone can be. I still don’t have any idea of where he gets his ideas. Obama is the anti-Christ who will destroy the United States. Obama was killing people in FEMA camps. Gay people are going against God and it says so in the bible. The military is saving up canned goods and will one day come out killing Americans. Pope Francis is being controlled by Satan. Satan is working to have a one world order and control the world. God controls the weather so there is no global warming. God is unhappy with us humans and is punishing us. Jesus will come and people who think like him will be saved and I will spend the rest of eternity in hell. Trump is the greatest president this country has ever had. MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post, NYT and any media that criticizes Trump is fake news.
There are now many influences which create how people think. Education, in my experience, isn’t enough to go against the troubling ideas that some people pick up. My brother and I are completely different. I graduated from college, was in the Peace Corps and after having taught in Illinois went overseas to teach in Bolivia and Malaysia. My world experiences and a lot of overseas traveling helped me develop my opinions. My brother has never traveled much and, as I said, I have no idea where he gets his ideas. I believe the internet now puts like people together and they bond and share their weird thoughts. They live in a bubble.
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carolmalaysia My experience was similar in some respects. An older close relative went through a similar experience as your brother, and she tried her best FOR DECADES to tell me how ruined my life was because I didn’t follow her way of doing things with regard to religion. (Going to hell.) When I went to college and studied philosophy, she thought it was I who was going through being brainwashed by my professors; when, in fact, I was trying to recover an authentic, thoughtful, faithful life from having to peel off her religious junk, and my horrified reactions to it as a young teenager at the time. When I joined the Catholic Church in my 30’s (for VERY different reasons than she did her own religious affiliation) she didn’t even know Catholics were Christian and that the Catholic Church existed centuries before her brand of evangelicalism and, in some sense, parented “protestant” movements. She was offended when I said so.
Obviously, the philosophical attitude of dogmatism is, at once, simple to understand, and complex in its applications and, in some sense, it emerges from very different psychologies where, even in the same households with the same parents, children develop differently Ask those same people if they are open-minded, and guess what you get.
I hope Diane doesn’t think we’ve strayed too far here, but I do think we are skirting the limits of blog communications? . . . though it is about education insofar as openness to understanding and the good, and to making thoughtful judgments, is certainly key to it. As my Aunt used to say, however, and it applies to blogs, it’s a blivit situation . . . two pounds of stuff in a one-pound bag. CBK
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Carolmalaysia. Soldiers train after high school or college. They are trained incessantly, day after day, until a particular skill set has been achieved. In battle they move or react automatically, driven by brain mechanisms that recorded those procedural skills, and can respond to stimuli much quicker than if said warrior tried to think his reaction through, in which case he would probably be dead.
Professional athletes experience similar training. Ask one to describe his play in a particular frenzied part of the game, and he won’t be able to, because his response had been automatic.
The key to your brother’s adoption of his conservative views, those you list, was that the initial base was, as you describe, repeated and repeated and repeated. They became a part of his unconscious from where they influence his every thought and move. They took precedent over less repeated lessons he learned during his public education in high school.
What does he do for employment? What has been his work experience, in general terms?
You, on the the other hand learned through the years many skills from foreign languages to adapting to the peace corps to learning the many subjects you were called upon to teach.
Consequently a balanced set of neural networks occupy those parts of the brain from where adaptive responses react.
Each procedural skill you mastered led to additional declarative knowledge, which in turn you were able to use in learning another procedural skill.
As you describe, your world travels, your college education, your interpersonal experiences, all contribute to your differing mental view of the world than your brother’s limited view.
Yes, the internet keeps alive any number of weird world views.
My question is can we build an educational curriculum which if taught early enough, repeated often enough, approved by policy drivers, government officials, and parents enough to head off the adoption of conspiracy theories, and unacceptable beliefs, without being accused of brainwashing ourselves?
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Darrell: What does he do for employment? What has been his work experience, in general terms?
He has retired from being a delivery person for the U.S. Postal Service. He got that job early in life after having worked a few other jobs.
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Darrell You write: “My question is can we build an educational curriculum based pm training and repetition . . . “ then you refer in your note to neurons, unconscious influence, and specific instances in lives that reflect those aspects in one’s background.
My too-brief response is that, though I know we are limited in space, what you have described sounds robotic to me, more like brain-washing than educational development?
I think you have isolated important pieces in the educational “picture,” namely, training and repetition, and brain-based aspects of learning. However, without the entire picture at hand (a well-developed cognitional theory that includes how questions and insights occur, how we come to increase our understanding, become responsible thinkers, etc.), a curriculum based on those pieces alone, if it “worked,” would not produce thoughtful, open-minded, reasonable and responsible people . . . but rather exactly the kind of children, then presumably adults, that we are trying to get away from.
I think you are right, however, that curriculum is key, though it doesn’t come with a fix-all guarantee like rich capitalists want.
In the context of this blog’s interests, in my view, even if we could finally turn around neo-liberalism and the reformer movement as discussed in many threads here, education still is in need of REAL reforming . . .
. . . as is inferred in the other thread that came in this morning about the SAT history and scoring. They really “screwed the pooch” on that one from the get-go. It probably also led to the idea that bigger classes are a-okay . . . a piece of the “picture” that, if fixed, would by itself be incredibly “influential.” CBK
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Thank you, Catherine, for you thoughtful comments. We will have more discussions, I’m sure. Preadolescent education didn’t change much after The Industrial revolution, it should have.
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I bet your grand daughter knows more about strings than Greene knows about education.
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Taylor Greene.
Not the string theorist Brian Greene.
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LOL!
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Well, given that my freshman Republican representative, who wasted no time in joining the Sedition Caucus is a CalTech graduate…your 7-year-old granddaughter might be an improvement to the school! Somehow, I don’t think that my representative is on the level of Richard Feynmann…
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Hmmm. I see your reasoning!
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Trump shoved his mouth in the door once it was opened for him, shattered the locks and hinges with his lies, and now other mentally unstable freaks worse or equal to Trump are slipping through the permanent gap Trump created, and no one but voters can stop them.
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Lloyd ,
Do you remember this post about how QANon drove Taylor’s opponent out of Georgia and ruined his life?
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I remember!!!
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I hope there are several sane members on the House Education and Labor Committee to override the radical, renegade Republican agenda.
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retired “Override?” They need to EXPELL her. CBK
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Exactly
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My former representative who was on video as saying all things scienrific are lies from the depths of Hell was on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
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Which one was that? Did he retire or did he lose the election?
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I just heard on the news that the science position has been filled by . . . wait for it . . . AN EXPERIENCED SCIENTIST! CBK
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H-m-m-m. One of those “man walked around with dinosaurs” people, huh? Incredible…
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Greene makes Louie Gohmert look sane. These GOP reactionary far right wing fascistic zombies are a curse and a roadblock to any half way sensible and beneficial legislation. They have declared war on our government, democracy, science, logic and basic sanity.
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Sitting in as a minority for the minority she has no powers. This appointment is merely a way to give her a bump in salary for sitting on a committee. If anything we need to use this to our advantage by showcasing that this is what the GOP has become. Call out every statement she makes.
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There are but a handful of Republicans left. The rest are captives of Trump’s lies and many are members of the 188th congress.
Virginia Foxx will give these newbies jobs that will undermine public education and attack Biden’s plans. Here is a link to see who the newbies are.
https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=407149
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Laura Thank you for the link. Is it my imagination to link this committee appointment to Education and Labor with the prior appointment of Betsy Devos to the Department of Education? That is, both the committee and the department are about education . . . to them, the dregs . . . er . . . the most unimportant of posts? CBK
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This is disturbing. How many members serve on the education/labor committee? I am so tired of Congress stacking the deck against public schools.
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Check it out ..‘I Carry a Gun’: Video Shows QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Bullying and Harassing Parkland Survivor David Hogg https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/01/i-carry-a-gun-video-shows-marjorie-taylor-greene-bullying-and-harassing-parkland-survivor-david-hogg/?fbclid=IwAR19qYg9VifOt4Vp028aiadqjgvugxaw_f3pKFJKz0bnggn8dS7aFwd4fmw#.YBGepFVbb2U.facebook
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What a disgrace to the Congress!
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Guns, guns, guns, that’s all these far right neo-Nazis think about. They mistakenly believe that the 2nd amendment gives them carte blanche to buy whatever gun they want, in limitless quantities and thousands of rounds of ammo to go with their sickening gun fetishism. They are a clear and present danger to our democracy.
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Joe Jersey That’s what Neanderthal’s do . . . it’s has little to do with guns. It’s just that they NEED to fight someone . . . anyone . . . to the death. All more civilized persons can do is burry the dead and supply bandages for the winners’ knuckles, injured from dragging, not fighting. CBK
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Good grief…we just got rid of DeVoss and now we get this paranoid, devoid of reality conspiracy theory spreader. She should be thrown out of Congress, post haste.
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As I understand it, there’s quite a bit more in the weeds of govt regs on gender & sports [Title IX I guess?], & it doesn’t boil down simply to “biological males can compete in women’s sports,” regardless of what DeVos or Biden have said. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that males undergoing cross-sex hormone therapy have neither the figure nor the muscle mass to compete with cis males (ever see Roger Plante over the years?)
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Not 188th congress. Should be 118th. The link names the newbies who will need tutoring on what to say and do and when. You can bet they will have “mentors’ who are unfriendly to public education.
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Yes, they are shameful. But, all along, the Republicans in Congress enabled a fascist to attempt to remain in the Presidency, by promoting Donald Trump’s BIG LIE: “Stop The Steal.”
These enablers PUSHED a false narrative — a phrase I am hearing often these day — to describe the disinformation campaign promoted by the GOP aligned media… and the voices of anarchy that the internet made possible. This ERA of information technology — the AGE OF SCREENS — brought an unintended consequence… as do ALL transformational eras. It shouted to our people lies and conspiracy theories. REPEATING OVER AND OVER FALSE NARRATIVES.
Let me speak to you about stories. You see, I am a storyteller. But I do not write narratives (stories) I write plays. When I tell a ‘story’, the characters are laid bare by what they utter or do. I merely create the plot for them to do whatever it is they will do — dictated by their personalities.
Behavior and dialogue tell the story, because in a play there is no narrative to describe the intentions of the characters!
Dear friends… a story is about to unfold in this trial… and it is going to mesmerize a population that this pandemic has placed in front of their 42 inch HD screens, and their iPhones and laptops, and I pads.
Stranded at home, this trial — an incredible story will unfold! No media spin will be necessary as the EVIDENCE of the main character’s motives and intentions are revealed my his own voice and actions… no try media, but by authentic authorities — revealed in our our genuine American Institution — CONGRESS –where the law rules.
The Congress is that place where THIS STORY will play out, and although there are political voices that will still play politics, (because they have no real agenda, and no real leaders) the finger of history is going to point to this moment, when our democracy was at stake, and shame will shroud these sycophants* forever! Hawley’s name will be remembered for his participation in the acts sedition that tried to end fair and free elections.
* Yesterday, Hakeem Jeffries (in an interview with Rachel Maddow) used the word ‘sycophants’ to describe the congressional enablers who PUSHED the false narrative. He actually created an adjective, and called them ‘sycophantic.’
Vocabulary words: false narrative, sycophants, insurrection and the STORY that will use them.
So, to sum up, this is NOT about whether 17 blind stupid sycophants will tell all future Presidents that they can NEVER so this again. It is about the truth as defined as ‘observable reality’– as reveled in the story!
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I am doubting that Trump will be convicted in the Senate. There simply aren’t enough Republicans with the courage to do what is right. Trump is still their leader.
Trump must be locked up and in prison for the rest of his life.
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[NWI Times] US domestic terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the potential for lingering violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after President Joe Biden’s election.
The department did not cite a specific threat, but pointed to “a heightened threat environment across the United States” that it believes “will persist” in the weeks since Biden took office. DHS said it consulted with law enforcement and intelligence agencies before issuing the alert about the potential for homegrown violent extremism.
“Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence,” the bulletin said.
With the warning, the Biden administration is effectively stepping into the politically charged debate over how to describe or characterize acts motivated by political ideology, suggesting that it sees violence aimed at overturning the election as akin to terrorism.
The alert comes at a tense time after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump who were seeking to overturn the presidential election. Some domestic violent extremists “may be emboldened” by that siege, according to the bulletin…
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/national/us-domestic-terrorism-alert-warns-of-politically-motivated-violence/article_dffeec36-4b21-569b-b863-bdc6252b2b40.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
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Just when one might think it could not possibly get more inane.
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Inane in the membrane.
Hot off the presses, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) will introduce resolution to expel Greene.
https://gomez.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2222
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Excellent. Pistol packing Lauren Boebert should be next. Does it require more than a majority vote?
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This is downright freaky. Now it’s okay to to threaten to arrest journalists and possibly charge them with trespassing to keep them from asking questions.
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A reporter tried to ask Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about her false claims. The journalist was threatened with arrest.
Jan. 28, 2021 at 4:40 a.m. CST
At a town hall meeting on Wednesday, WRCB reporter Meredith Aldis wanted to ask Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) a question about the fierce blowback she has faced this week over old social media posts that promoted baseless claims and endorsed violence.
But when Aldis tried to ask her question at the meeting in Dalton, Ga., Greene rebuffed her.
“I’m talking to my constituents,” Greene said, refusing to listen to the reporter’s question or offer any response.
Then, staffers from Greene’s office told the reporter she had “caused a disturbance” and demanded that she and her team leave, WRCB reported Wednesday night. A sheriff’s deputy threatened to arrest Aldis and her crew for trespassing at the public town hall, which reporters had been invited to attend, the station reported.
The incident capped off days of fiery criticism of the freshman congresswoman, who is the first member of Congress to openly endorse the QAnon extremist ideology that the FBI has deemed a domestic terrorism threat…
Greene has dismissed criticism from her colleagues and has called reporting about her past posts “fake news.” Her office also defended the decision on Wednesday to kick Aldis out of the town hall…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-reporter-arrest/
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Carol, the reporter was lucky that Greene didn’t pull out her gun and threaten to shoot her.
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Green might as well have said: “Leave me and my bubble alone.” CBK
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The election of Greene, and others like her, is finally coming back to bite the GOP on its rump.
Has the GOP’s 2010 Red Map project to gerrymander Republicans into a permanent Congressional majority finally hit the skids?
As long as the GOP continues with their hyper-gerrymandering, it increases the risk of electing dangerous, unstable individuals like Green and Boebert to Congress.
Who knows? The GOP SCOTUS majority may even come to rue the day they decided to take a hands-off approach to gerrymandering.
I don’t know if this country can afford to let this play out.
It will be interesting to watch the remaps, especially in Wisconsin.
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She should be expelled from Congress immediately. We are better than having this person in Congress.
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Billionaire Uihlein of the Club for Growth PAC – what he wrought.
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From TheHill.com:
Pelosi slams GOP on Greene: ‘The enemy is within’
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday hammered House GOP leaders for putting Rep. Marjorie Greene on the Education Committee, just as revelations have emerged that the Georgia Republican has questioned the veracity of deadly school shootings around the country.
“It is absolutely appalling, and I think that the focus has to be on the Republican leadership of this House of Representatives for the disregard that they have for the death of those children,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.
Pelosi said it’s “beyond the pale” that GOP leaders would place Greene on the Education panel.
“What could they be thinking? Or is thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing?” she asked.
“You’re just going to have to ask them why they thought that that raised itself to the level of something appropriate to do in the Congress of the United States,” she added.
Aside from her comments on school shootings, Greene has also come under criticism this week for past statements threatening violence against Democrats.
Pelosi at one point said “the enemy is within” the House…
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/536310-pelosi-slams-gop-on-greene-the-enemy-is-within
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carolmalaysia What I am thinking is unspeakable, so I won’t write it down; but I AM waiting for it to happen. CBK
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Trump needs to be brought before the court regardless . . . but as long as the Republican consciousness remains the same, the narratives and arguments will be just like throwing pearls before swine . . . again. CBK
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David Hogg (He / Him) (@davidhogg111) Tweeted:
.@GOPLeader you need to something about @mtgreenee she basically has threatened to kill and intimidated the survivors of Gun violence trying to trigger our PTSD.
https://t.co/G8KaNSEBcT
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Parkland shooting survivor calls for House GOP leader to denounce Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Washington (CNN)Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg called on Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Thursday to denounce Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has faced intense criticism this week over incendiary remarks she made in recent years as well as a viral video in which she harasses Hogg.
“My message to Kevin McCarthy is, take all of her committee assignments away … also, don’t support her when she runs for re-election again and try to get her primaried. If you say this is not your party, actually call it out and hold her accountable,” Hogg told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.”
He continued, “Republicans always act as if they’re the party of decency and respect. But would the party of decency and respect question whether or not school shootings happened? Would they harass the survivors of these shootings for having different opinions than them? I don’t think so. And if Kevin McCarthy doesn’t think so either, he needs to actually stand up and do something about this congresswoman.”
Greene, who has been assigned to the House Education and Labor Committee, has faced calls to resign after reports she agreed with comments calling the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School a “false flag” operation, which refers to acts that are designed by perpetrators to be made to look like they were carried out by other individuals or groups. Hogg survived the shooting and has since become a vocal proponent of stricter gun regulation, co-founding March for Our Lives.
“He’s a coward,” Greene says at the end of the video as Hogg walks away, claiming his activism was funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who is often the subject of far-right conspiracy theories, and other liberals. “He can’t say one word because he can’t defend his stance.”
Greene did not apologize in a statement to CNN, saying the video was taken while she was in Washington, “going from office to office in the Senate to oppose the radical gun control agenda that David Hogg was pushing.”
The renewed scrutiny came after CNN’s KFile reported controversial comments she made in 2018 and 2019. A video from March 2019 has also surfaced of Greene, who has previously called Hogg “#littleHitler,” confronting him in Washington before she was elected to Congress.
In the video, Greene follows Hogg, 18 at the time, as he walks toward the US Capitol and is heard making baseless claims as she asks him questions about gun rights and how he was able to meet with senators. Hogg continues to walk without addressing Greene…
Hogg reflected on his encounter with Greene on Thursday, telling Camerota he was trying to “keep a straight face” and practice mindfulness meditation that helps him cope with PTSD and ADHD.
“Sometimes it’s just, you know, as I was told growing up, it’s just better not to respond to bullies and just walk away,” Hogg said.
He also said he “absolutely” felt it was a threat when Greene said in the video that she carried a gun, but told himself “if they shoot me, they prove my point.”
“And the reality is, they can’t kill a movement,” he told Camerota.
Republicans have remained mostly silent about Greene in the wake of this week’s controversies.
Mark Bednar, a spokesman for McCarthy, told CNN in a statement Wednesday that her comments are “deeply disturbing” and that the California Republican “plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them.”
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Yes, Kevin McCarthy will “have a conversation” with the Congresswoman who said that Nancy Pelosi should get a bullet in her head. Good idea.
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In a statement to TIME, Greene cast herself as a victim.
“Democrats and their spokesmen in the Fake News Media will stop at nothing to defeat conservative Republicans. They are coming after me because I’m a threat to their goal of Socialism. They are coming after me because they know I represent the people, not the politicians. They are coming after me because like President Trump, I will always defend conservative values,” Greene said. “They want to take me out because I represent the people. And they absolutely hate it.“
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Greene represents the people in this country who aren’t ready to live in a democracy but rather belong in jail. CBK
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This is the type of person Trump likes. Abominable.
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Pelosi slams GOP leaders on Greene
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi intensified pressure Thursday on House Republican leaders for their handling of a controversial GOP freshman, denouncing them for placing a lawmaker who Pelosi says has “mocked the killing of little children” on the chamber’s education committee.
Pelosi’s comments focused on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., whose views were in the spotlight even before she joined the House this month. Greene supported Facebook posts that advocated violence against Democrats and the FBI. One suggested shooting Pelosi in the head. In response to a post raising the prospect of hanging former President Barack Obama, Greene responded that the “stage is being set.”
On Thursday, Pelosi referred to social media posts reported by Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, in which Greene pushed conspiracy theories or “liked” posts that challenged the veracity of mass shootings at schools in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.
“Assigning her to the education committee, when she has mocked the killing of little children” at those schools, “what could they be thinking, or is thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing,” Pelosi said of Republican leaders. “It’s absolutely appalling.”…
Pelosi’s remarks came as the acting chief of the Capitol Police said separately that “vast improvements” are needed to protect the Capitol and adjacent office buildings, including permanent fencing. Such barricades have ringed the complex since the deadly Jan. 6 riot, but many lawmakers have long resisted giving the nation’s symbol of democracy the look of a besieged compound, and leaders were noncommittal about the idea.
Regarding security, Pelosi focused her comments on the anxiety and partisan frictions that have persisted in Congress since Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, which led to five deaths. She told reporters she thinks Congress will need to provide money “for more security for members, when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about.”…
The Georgia Republican has expressed support for QAnon conspiracy theories, which focus on the debunked belief that top Democrats are involved in child sex trafficking, Satan worship and cannibalism. Facebook videos surfaced last year showing she’d expressed racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim views. Top Republicans denounced her at the time, hoping to block her from capturing the GOP nomination for her reliably red congressional district in northwest Georgia.
The opposition faded, however, when Greene won the primary and was essentially guaranteed a seat in Congress. By the time she was sworn into office, Greene had ridden with Trump on Air Force One during his final days in office….Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel called Greene’s posts “disgusting,” adding that they have “no place in our party” and “should be looked into.”
http://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=14428235-cd18-4c55-b003-504884cf3472
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I LOVE Borowitz. Remember this is satire. Borowitz is a comedian.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Making Americans Nostalgic for Wisdom of Sarah Palin
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The emergence of Marjorie Taylor Greene is making Americans nostalgic for the wisdom and erudition of Sarah Palin, new polling shows.
In focus groups conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, participants revealed that they were suddenly revising their earlier negative opinions of the former Alaska governor, and were now grateful for her incisive commentary and geopolitical acumen.
In light of recent developments, Palin’s inability to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with or a periodical she read, along with her controversial claims about the visibility of Russia, seem like “no big deal,” one member of the focus group said…
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/marjorie-taylor-greene-making-americans-nostalgic-for-wisdom-of-sarah-palin?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker
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AFL-CIO is opposed to this bill. Indiana’s minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and it is a Right to Work for nothing state. This bill provides protection for nursing homes and schools against COVID-19 liability lawsuits.
Business organizations have made the legislation a top priority, citing concerns of potential lawsuits from individuals who could claim they caught COVID-19 while working for or patronizing that business.
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Indiana Senate passes COVID-19 liability protection bill – Indianapolis Business Journal
January 28, 2021 | Lindsey Erdody
The Indiana Senate on Thursday passed legislation that would give businesses, not-for-profits, schools and religious institutions immunity from COVID-19 civil liability lawsuits.
Senate Bill 1, authored by Republican Sen. Mark Messmer of Jasper, would shield businesses and individuals from coronavirus civil liability lawsuits unless there was gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct that could be proven with “clear and convincing evidence.”
The Senate approved the bill 40-8. Only Democrats voted against it.
The bill would specifically protect individuals, associations, institutions, corporations, companies, trusts, limited liability companies, partnerships, political subdivisions, government entities and “any other organization or entity.”
It would also shield businesses that produce pandemic-related materials, such as personal protective equipment, and provide immunity for medical providers who were required to delay non-emergency procedures at several points throughout the year due to executive orders from Gov. Eric Holcomb.
It would not affect worker’s compensation claims.
The legislation would be retroactive to March 1 and in effect through Dec. 31, 2024.
Business organizations have made the legislation a top priority, citing concerns of potential lawsuits from individuals who could claim they caught COVID-19 while working for or patronizing that business. For example, someone who was at a restaurant could test positive for COVID-19 days later and try to sue that establishment to pay medical expenses.
Companies say defending against such suits—even if they are baseless—would be a costly burden.
The Indiana AFL-CIO is opposed to the bill. And some Democrats have raised concerns about whether nursing home residents would be allowed to file lawsuits, because the bill would provide protection to those facilities.
Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, also questioned how legitimate the threat of lawsuits actually is for businesses before voting against the bill.
“Are we really protecting the small businesses, the not-for-profits, the educational institutions?” Lanane said. “Or are we protecting insurance companies in this case?”
Messmer argued the threat is real.
“Anyone who thinks we don’t live in a litigious society isn’t paying close attention these days,” Messmer said. “We won’t get back to normal as long as this looming cloud of uncertainty hangs over our society.”
SB 1 is similar to House Bill 1002, which could be voted on in the House on Monday.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/indiana-senate-passes-covid-19-liability-protection-bill
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Greene is bad, but the appointment of Madison Cawthorn is also a thumb in the eye of the Education committee. Firstly, the callow fellow is a serial liar.
Cawthorn became disabled after a 2014 car crash left him paralyzed from the waist down. By Cawthorn’s own telling, he was a successful business owner headed to the Naval Academy before his injury tragically reordered his life. As it turns out, neither claim is true. The Asheville Watchdog reported that Cawthorn had already been rejected from the Naval Academy before his accident. And Cawthorn’s real-estate investment firm, SPQR Holdings LLC, which he only formed in August 2019, reported no income on its tax documents, and Cawthorn was the sole employee.
But he has not only styled himself as Naval Academy material with a head for real estate. Multiple outlets reported that before he ran for office, Cawthorn was training for the 2020 Paralympic Games. There is little detail, but according to Micah Bock, Cawthorn’s campaign communications director, he intended to compete in the 400-meter dash at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. It would have been an incredible footnote in a politician’s biography: Paralympians are celebrated and accomplished athletes. But his hopes for the Paralympic Games, now slated for summer 2021, were allegedly dashed by his worsening disability.
Cawthorn frequently said on social media that he was “training” for the Paralympic Games. Technically, such a statement could be true—but only in the sense that I could be training for the Olympic Games. “It’s like a kid saying they want to play in the NBA when they’re on their fourth-grade basketball team,” said Amanda McGrory, a three-time Paralympian who has earned seven medals in track and field. Cawthorn stated on the Christian inspirational podcast The Heal, “I had an opportunity for the Paralympics for track and field.” He did not have that opportunity, nor does it appear he took any meaningful steps that would have led him there.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/madison-cawthorn-paralympics/
He appeared at the Trump rally on January 6 in an outfit that echoed a Nazi uniform. Also, he was, you guessed it, homeschooled.
The Republicans are demonstrating that they have no interest in governing. They want to impose an undemocratic, illiberal regime on the rest of us in order to stay in power.
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Marjorie Green is mentally ill.
Aliens caused California fires in 2018 by using laser beams. She and Trump get along well. Now we have a Space Force to combat the aliens.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene penned conspiracy theory that a laser beam from space started deadly 2018 California wildfire
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has done little to stop Greene’s ascension in the Republican Party
WRITTEN BY ERIC HANANOKI
PUBLISHED 01/28/21 1:15 PM EST
In November 2018, California was hit with the worst wildfire in the state’s history. At the time, future Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote a bizarre Facebook post that echoed QAnon conspiracy theorists and falsely claimed that the real and hidden culprit behind the disaster was a laser from space triggered by some nefarious group of people…
The Camp Fire was a horrific California wildfire that started on November 8, 2018, and, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, “burned a total of 153,336 acres, destroying 18,804 structures and resulting in 85 civilian fatalities and several firefighter injuries. The Camp Fire is the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history.” After an investigation, the department “determined that the Camp Fire was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electricity (PG&E) located in the Pulga area.” Scientists have noted that climate change has worsened wildfires in places like California.
Conspiracy theorists have pushed other explanations for the Camp Fire, especially on social media. One theory, which has been promoted by QAnon followers, falselyposits that a nefarious entity used laser beams or a similar instrument to start the fire for financial profit or to clear space for California’s high-speed rail system.
Rep. Greene is a proponent of the Camp Fire laser beam conspiracy theory. She wrote a November 17, 2018, Facebook post — which is no longer available online — in which she said that she was speculating “because there are too many coincidences to ignore” regarding the fire, including that then-California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) wanted to build the high-speed rail project and “oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires.” She also speculated that a vice chairman at “Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm” was somehow involved, and suggested the fire was caused by a beam from “space solar generators.”
Greene added: “If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not! That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E.”…
https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018
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Opps. It isn’t aliens who sent the beams, it was wealthy Jewish bankers.
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On Thursday, it was reported that freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had endorsed a theory that wealthy Jewish bankers had started California’s 2018 Camp Fire by firing a laser from space in order to benefit themselves financially.
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This proves just how SICK this country is. Politicians who want Trump to be impeached are being treated badly in their home states. Here’s hoping NY starts getting Trump’s attention. Those attorneys are going to be getting serious death threats.
BIden is doing most of his work virtually because he can’t safely leave the WH.
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State, local GOP committees form firewall around Trump
Former President Donald Trump has mused about forming a third party. But it’s unclear why he needs one.
As he faces an impeachment trial for inciting insurrection, state and county Republican Party committees have rushed to Trump’s defense — highlighting the former president’s firm control of the GOP machinery.
In swing states and GOP bastions, state and local Republican committees are stocked with Trump supporters who remain loyal. Trump critics have been pushed out or marginalized. Party committees from Washington state to South Carolina have moved to punish many of the 10 House Republicans who supported Trump’s impeachment for egging on the deadly Jan. 6 raid of the U.S. Capitol.
Trump’s lock on the party apparatus is the result of a yearslong takeover of an institution he only loosely affiliated with before taking office. The effect amounts to a firewall protecting him and his far-right, nationalist politics from Republicans who argue the party needs a new direction if it wants to win elections.
“It’s come to the point where you have to be with him 100 percent of the time, or you’re the enemy,” said Dave Millage, a former Iowa lawmaker who was pushed out as Scott County GOP chairman after calling for Trump’s impeachment.
On Saturday, the South Carolina GOP will decide whether to censure Republican Rep. Tom Rice for his vote to impeach the former president. It’s a move meant to scar the five-term congressman for what many of his constituents considered a betrayal, said GOP chairwoman Dreama Perdue in Rice’s home Horry County.
In some cases, the state parties’ defense of Trump has exposed the extent to which disinformation, conspiracy theories and views once considered fringe have been normalized in the GOP.
In Oregon, the state party this month released a resolution passed by its executive committee that in part falsely alleged the Capitol attack was a “false flag” designed to embarrass Trump supporters.
State parties in Hawaii and Texas have recently tweeted references to the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims Trump is waging a secret battle against the “deep state” and a sect of powerful devil-worshipping pedophiles including top Democrats.
In other states, the rapid defense of Trump is notable for Republicans’ willingness to double down on Trumpism even after voters rejected it.
This month, the Arizona state party reelected Trump loyalist Chairwoman Kelli Ward and censured Trump critics Cindy McCain, former Sen. Jeff Flake and Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican Trump supporter who offended the party leadership by certifying Trump’s loss in the state.
In Washington state, several county party committees have called for the removal of the two House members who voted for Trump’s impeachment. Primary challengers have begun lining up to take on all 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Trump.
Trump’s hold on state parties reflects the ex-president’s continued popularity with the base and the work his political operation has done to plant loyalists in the typically obscure local GOP apparatus.
His reelection campaign focused heavily on packing state and county committees with devotees to avoid the spectacle of 2016, when many in the party’s machinery fought Trump’s nomination.
Chuck Coughlin, a Republican strategist in Arizona, said he is troubled by what Ward’s victory says about the party’s inability to shake Trump, the first Republican presidential candidate to lose the state since 1996.
“The party as it’s currently defined today, as the party of Trump, cannot win statewide elections in Arizona,” he said. “A smart party would try to figure out how to be more inclusive and not exclusive.”
http://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=a8d2612d-a654-4a60-8cb8-f86526820038
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These IDIOTS never give up. Now Trump should be President of the World. This comes from Patriots Daily Post.
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President of the World Donald Trump?… Sound Crazy?… Not to Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy…
By – January 30, 2021
Roughly 75-million American citizens voted to keep Donald Trump in the Oval Office. With the fairness of the election falling under intense scrutiny, the figure may have been higher, but we’ll never know. For good reason, the Democrats were too eager to push ahead before the truth could be uncovered.
And now, if Trump’s second impeachment trial should prove successful, he will be barred from ever holding public office again in any capacity. The Dems are trying their hardest to drive a stake through his heart and their guns are blazing.
One by one, Republican Senators are beginning to stand and voice their objections to the trial. Not wanting to jeopardize their own careers some of them needed to mull things over, but all but five have now decided to do the right thing by trying to stop the nonsense.
But lets for one brief moment assume that the liberals end up pounding their oversized gavel while squealing with delight. They may be under the false assumption they’ve won, but not so fast…
Do you remember when Trump first introduced his cockamamy southern border wall idea? America gasped. But as he kept talking about it the idea started sinking in and making better sense and we went with it.
But that’s just Trump. He’s an outlandish thinker and sometimes a person needs a moment to grasp his concepts.
Well, here’s another outlandish thought to consider should the Dems get their way. This isn’t even Trumps’ idea, though it does belong to his longtime friend, associate, and highly-prized confidant, Christopher Ruddy, the outspoken CEO of Newsmax.
Ruddy said this will free his friend up from the restrictions that the American political system would place on him, and in his eyes, it’s no big deal. There are much bigger fish to toss in the skillet. Trump could then run for “president of the world.” And why not?
In a recent interview with Greg Kelly on his own station, Ruddy was asked what Trump meant by saying he would return “in some form.” It sounded sort of eerie.
Ruddy answered with, “I see him staying very active, politically being a great political and media force. My view on Donald Trump is he was president of the United States, now he can be president of the world. He can really go all over the world.” He was deadly serious, and Ruddy isn’t just some drunk in a bar spouting nonsense.
As if the majority of clear-thinking patriots are not already aware, Ruddy harped on how the former president never received proper credit for the role he and his administration played in enacting peace agreements with and between foreign nations.
“He could be a valuable resource to the United States as a peacemaker around the world,” Ruddy said. He also added that even if Trump were allowed to, it is highly unlikely he will ever run for the presidency again.
“I certainly would support him running again in 2024, I’m not sure he’s gonna be quick to pull the switch on that,” he said. “You know one of those things I think he’s gonna realize when you’re post-president you got a lot of the perks of being president, you have the access to the media stage, not only in the U.S., but around the whole world, and he’s gonna have no restrictions.”
The megaphone is certainly there should Trump choose to pick it up, and there isn’t one single worldwide news source that won’t be scrambling to get in on the action. Clever. Don’t you think?
“I mean every time he said boo someone in Congress was opening an investigation against this guy,” Ruddy said. “He was one of the most monumental single-term presidents in history.”
Ruddy struck a point by saying how many Biden voters are going to experience buyer’s remorse when their taxes start going through the roof. He also drove home the fact that there would be no coronavirus vaccine had it not been for Trump investing billions of dollars in research.
Is Ruddy correct? Does he know something that we don’t? Many might view his thoughts as a hallucinogenic pipe-dream, but to them, we must ask. Remember the insane wall idea?
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Green is a certifiable nutcase.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene video: Obama secretly a Muslim, Clintons killed JFK Jr., Pentagon attack on 9/11 is questionable
By CATIE EDMONDSON
THE NEW YORK TIMES |
JAN 30, 2021 AT 10:36 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene had just finished questioning whether a plane really flew into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, and flatly stating that President Barack Obama was secretly Muslim when she paused to offer an aside implicating another former president in a crime.
“That’s another one of those Clinton murders,” Greene said, referring to John F. Kennedy Jr.’s death in a 1999 plane crash, suggesting that he had been assassinated because he was a potential rival to Hillary Clinton for a New York Senate seat…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-marjorie-taylor-greene-conspiracies-20210130-as4fmrrzd5hzzfc5hsjmlknz2e-story.html
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Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut asked to have her office in the House Office Building moved, as her staff was uncomfortable being next door to the armed Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Cori Bush did as well.
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And in 2019, she wandered the halls of Congress in search of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to make them swear their oaths on a Bible. She insisted they could not swear on a Quran.
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After teaching my students over the years about our Civil War, I always found it difficult to understand how “brother could fight brother” and how so much bloodshed could have happened in our nation.
Current events are unfortunately making that crystal clear for me these days.
Our nation is falling once again into the weeds of tribalism and if we don’t stand up and pull these weeds out by the roots we will be in for more bloodshed.
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rratto The other point is that Trump has already proven he will keep doing the same corrupt things, and influencing violence and even a takeover, if the Republicans do not stop him, and if Biden doesn’t understand what’s at stake in placating recalcitrant Republicans. Unity, like clapping, takes two both sides. CBK
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Subject: Send a letter: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene does not belong on the education committee
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has harassed school shooting survivors, made racist comments, traded in anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bigotry, and embraced dangerous conspiracy theories. Tell your lawmaker: She doesn’t belong on the House education committee.
Can you join me and write a letter? Click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ea12097d681f14c6d2c11f9cbc46b0949f3898c5?source=email&
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Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) Tweeted:
Trump is getting warm welcome from the skies near Mar-a-lago today https://t.co/S6uUFx3t30
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Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) Tweeted:
https://t.co/bX11gSDIms
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That’s very attractive signage in the sky!
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Good News!
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The Washington Post
News Alert
Feb. 3, 12:30 p.m. EST
House to vote Thursday on removing GOP Rep. Greene from two committees over past statements on school shootings, violent extremism
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said in a statement that Democrats would move forward with the vote after discussions with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made clear that the GOP would not unilaterally move to strip Greene (Ga.) of her posts on the Education and Labor and Budget committees.
Democrats had demanded her removal after videos of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene emerged questioning the veracity of school shootings.
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Carol, this one is for you. A Christian prophet in Florida says that Trump is still the President and God will soon be putting him back in the White House.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-loving-prophet/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6491
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Yep, the worms are coming out from under their rocks. A friend of mine in England said she couldn’t believe that people would say such things.
Maybe Green should be kicked out of the House for having a really bad memory. HA. She supports the DEMENTED ONE. Two peas in a pod.
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IBT Newsletter
Blue Greene: Someone claiming to be Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — perhaps a clone beamed down by Q using Jewish lasers? — took to the House floor Thursday to disavow her well-documented conspiratorial views, but Democrats didn’t buy into the false flag.
After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy refused to take action against her for promoting misinformation and political violence, Dems took matters into their own hands and put her removal from the education and budget committees to a vote. Greene was stripped of her seats by a 230-199 vote — if you believe in math.
Greene addressed the chamber in her own defense by dismissing her previously stated positions as ideas she experimented with in her younger days, you know, like last week. She denied the QAnon conspiracy, the 9/11 inside job theory, and the false-flag school shootings, but she did not apologize for her “loony” comments.
“These were words of the past, and these things… do not represent my values,” Greene told House members. “… I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them. And that is absolutely what I regret.”
Only 11 House Republicans crossed the aisle amid what appears to be an internal battle for the GOP’s soul. Within a 24-hour period, more House Republicans wanted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from leadership for supporting a second impeachment than voted to punish Greene for supporting calls for violence against Democrats.
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