A resort in Kissimmee, Florida, was booked to host a book signing by Marjorie Taylor Greene. She was going to sell signed books for $45 and to offer a personal meeting for $1,000.
But the resort canceled the event when it discovered that it was also a celebration of the sacking of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The event organizers neglected to tell the resort owners that MJT planned to commemorate the siege of the Capitol.
A fundraiser and book signing at a sprawling Central Florida resort featuring U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been canceled after the resort’s owners discovered the event was also a commemoration of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“Please be advised that Westgate was not made aware of the purpose of this event when we were approached to host a book signing,” Westgate Vacation Villas Resorts said. “This event has been canceled and is no longer taking place at our resort.”
Requests for further comment were not immediately answered.
First reported by NBC News, the event hosted by the Republican Party of Osceola County invited residents to meet Greene, a Republican from Georgia, Trump supporter and self-described “firebrand,” and get a signed copy of her memoir, “MTG” at the Westgate Convention Center in Kissimmee.
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Maybe Guttermouth Greene will hold her insurrection celebration at Mar a Lago with Traitor Trump by her side.
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Of course!
Mar-a-Lago is the perfect setting for MTG to celebrate 1/6 insurrection.
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Makes one wonder what else they’ve got planned.
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Christine,
It would be great, as someone suggested, if a TV network re-ran the events of the day as they unfolded.
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That was me!
😉
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I incorrectly stated somewhere on this blog today that Arkansas refused federal aid to the poorest of its children. But it wasn’t Arkansas. It was Oklahoma. Oklahoma has one of the highest child poverty rates and a lot of kids suffering from food insecurity. But the governor just turned down an extra $40 a month that the federal government offered to send to the poorest of these families.
What a cruel, evil creep. He claims to be a Christian and that his job in Oklahoma is “to join in with what God is doing” there.
Does this include ensuring that children starve? I guess it does.
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Arkansas changed its child labor law to allow young children to work in dangerous jobs.
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Yeah, Newt Gingrich suggested that this would be a great idea for the entire country. It seems so appropriate that this lowlife was named after an amphibian.
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Kevin Stitt
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It’s the only way she can get rid of her books.
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What an oxymoron! “Readers of Marjorie Taylor Greene.” That’s kinda like “mute singer” or “square circle” or “Trump’s education” or “Congressional Ethics Committee.” Trump, as dim-witted as he is, realized that if he had someone write his memoir after he left office, his followers wouldn’t be able to read it, so he issued a big photobook instead.
And one wonders who MTG’s ghostwriter was. Not sure that they teach kids to read in the hillbilly holler she grew up in.
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to read and write
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Good. So nice to see a corporation with the willingness and wherewithal to stand for something more than just money. I’m all about the power of boycotting! One of our few and finest options to proactively message our disapproval of pariah corporations, organizations, and nation states. Especially rare for a corporation, so, again, I say, “Huzzah!”
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YES!!!
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Diane,
Have you seen the report that NJ Senators are giving themselves a 65% pay increase? Was going to try to send you the article but didn’t have your email.
Retired Teachers in TX have had to struggle for years to get a cost of living increase. I’m supposed to get an extra $25 a month Woop Woop and then this?
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Mary, that’s disgusting.
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And the Social Security COLA this year was 3.2 percent. A bad joke.
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I hear Four-Seasons Landscaping is unbooked…
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HAAAAA!!!!! And afterward, the Moms for Libertinism can visit the porno store next door! It’s a win-win!
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BSR, wonderful idea! Four Seasons Total Landscaping! Next to the adult bookstore and the crematorium. The place where Rudy’s hair dye ran down his face.
Treasured moments.
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Worth half an hour of your time to watch Joe Biden use his bully pulpit at Valley Forge this afternoon.
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YES!!!
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This is one of the greatest speeches ever.
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I take back anything the slightest bit negative I have ever said about Joe Biden. He is the statesman our time demands.
Biden 2024
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Bob,
WOW.
I loved it too.
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The more I think about this, the more I believe that it is one of the two greatest and most important political speeches of my lifetime. There’s this, and there is Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream Speech.
Joe knocked it out of the park.
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Yes, indeed. AGREE with you Bob!
You wrote:
“The more I think about this, the more I believe that it is one of the two greatest and most important political speeches of my lifetime. There’s this, and there is Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream Speech.
Joe knocked it out of the park.
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Christine,
Thank you for posting.
Biden was wonderful.
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Go Biden! Biden’s speech was GREAT.
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Somehow I missed the Rodney King commemoration. Events commemorating riots are, uh, rare. Yes, let’s say rare. Trying to be respectful. Trying. Sometimes, it’s not easy.
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So, I have a story.
In the days before the Rodney King verdict, the Washington, DC newspapers had been full of dire predictions that if the verdict went the wrong way, there would be devastating riots in the city. I lived there at the time and was in the process of packing up my home for a move to New Hampshire. I had rented a car and driven toward the White House with a friend who had been helping me pack because I wanted to take him to an outstanding Middle Eastern restaurant there. I didn’t know that there was some sort of stupid ordinance there that cars could be rented with very little gas in the tank. So, I got right in the middle of a very poor African-American neighborhood north of the White House and ran out of gas. Two white guys in suits and ties.
Well, an elderly man was sitting out on his stoop. He took a look at us and shook his head and said, “You boys know you are where you shouldn’t oughta be right now, don’t you?”
I said, “Yes sir, I think that’s about right.”
“Come on,” he said, and motioned us into his apartment. He went back to the kitchen and got a milk jug and rinsed it and told us that he would be back in a bit. Then he walked several blocks to a gas station and got us a gallon of gas to get us out of there.
Remembering him, with gratitude and love, right now.
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He was looking out for the common good.
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LOL. Maybe so.
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I want to reiterate or emphasize that commemorating Jan 6 is looney.
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If two white guys — in suits no less — encounter problems in a Black neighborhood, it’s nothing but trouble for the neighborhood.
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At that very moment, the received opinion was that on that evening, the city would burn because of the acquittal of the officers who so brutally beat him. So, the timing was not particularly good. LOL. And it was night.
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Bob, wonderful story. Thanks.
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Bob,
I went to a restaurant tonight to celebrate Mary’s birthday, and as we walked in, the older gentleman at the piano was playing “The House I live In.” Made popular by Frank Sinatra in 1945. Halfway through the meal, I asked the maitre’d to ask him to play it again. He did. When I finished, I went over to thank him. A Black man with gray hair, he said he loves the song, but no one seems to recognize it. I did. Google it.
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Found it. Beautiful song.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=the+house+i+live+in&&mid=778854016A4CE1F568D4778854016A4CE1F568D4&&FORM=VRDGAR
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How appropriate, that song, on this day, and how wonderful that someone who knew it and could appreciate it was there. And, Happy Birthday, Mary!!!! xoxoxoxox!!!!
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Thank you. Check my Twitter feed. (I will never say or write X.)
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Bob, try this version, recorded in 1945.
https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=the%20house%20i%20live%20in%20frank%20sinatra&tbm=&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fdbd38e7,vid:Gfm2l3GcVXw,st:0
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I can’t open it.
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Darn. Maybe you need to sign in to Youtube.
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SCOTUS will decide if Trump should be on the state ballots.
My prediction since right wing SCOTUS is owned by Charles Koch- if the jurists decide in favor of Trump, it means the Koch/right wing Catholic political apparatus will be backing Trump. The PR that says otherwise will be aimed at misdirection.
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Koch has made it clear that he is no fan of Mr. Trump. He raised 70 million to fight against his nomination.
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Koch doesn’t raise money. He’s worth $60-80 billion.
$70 million is pocket change.
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Nikki Haley and others may not be attacking Trump because of fear of Charles Koch. What if the role that Trump’s base plays in the candidates’ decision to avoid confrontation with Trump isn’t the main nor the secondary concern?
The GOP candidates know their careers and opportunities have to live another day
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1-5-2024
“Ohio Gov. Dewine (right wing Catholic) bans all gender-affirming surgeries for minors, also creates barriers for trans adults”
The pretense that right wing religionists in power aren’t behind the bans that attack the rights of LGBTQ and women contributes to less and less democracy.
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Good Morning Diane, Why would anyone pay money to listen to this election denier, & someone who is totally ignorant of government policies and procedures, the Constitution, and we won’t mention being in compliance with the law!!! She is a disgrace to our country and should have been removed from Congress with Santos!!! Thanks………….I feel better now…………………..Connie Born
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Connie Born,
Thank you. I feel exactly the same way. Why would anyone pay to meet this malicious woman? Read “her” book?
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