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Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests 'Second Amendment Rights' Should Be Used Against Democrats
I won't quote the insanity.
I will just make a couple comments.
First, this is the kind of intellectual exchange of political ideas that the founders intended. Even at my town's city commission meetings they're having to tell anti maskers and vaxers that if they can't calmly express their views without yelling, they will be ejected and the commission will vote without hearing further comments. Why can't some people control their emotions any better than a 3 year old tantrum?
Second, I would inform Marjorie Taylor Greene that one day, someone might pass a law that would give Democrats second amendment rights too, and then what is she gonna do?
See Also:
Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests using “Second Amendment rights” against Democrats
Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘Tyrannical’ Democrats are ‘exactly’ why the 2nd Amendment exists
Yep, the viewpoints of your political opponents are why the 2A exists.
But . . . I thought from reading SN that when you don't like the outcome of an election because you disagree with the majority that THAT is why the 2A exists. It's all so confusing.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @01:12AM (2 children)
She's still pissed about Appomattox.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:34AM (1 child)
maybe auntie Etam?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:58AM
Doesn't she work a Vic's Burger?
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @01:24AM (13 children)
National Divorce is rhetorical strategy [substack.com] and Stacey Abrams is a moron! [realclearpolitics.com]
MTG was on Tim Pool's show last week. [youtube.com] She doesn't seem mentally ill like Abrams, Occasional-Cortex or Ilwed Bromar.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @01:35AM
BS, MTG is barely smarter than Runaway.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:33AM (3 children)
Someone sure is mad the smart beautiful women are liberals. Keep dreaming of dem feet Shappiboy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @05:04AM
Nancy Pelosi?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:56PM (1 child)
Yeah and AOC is currently dating covid but at least she qualifies for the horse dewormer!
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @09:10PM
Saw the conservative freakout about that, cracks me up. Should have used her trip to Florida to play up the not-a-big-deal that you always wanted to pretend COVID is. Show me pics of AOC and her BF going around maskless where they'd normally be masked in their home state and you have a case to call her out. Maskless while sitting at a restaurant, that is normal just about everywhere in the US, getting COVID is now almost a guarantee, but you set aside your stupidity when it is convenient to attack your chosen enemy. Everything you say cements how terrible you are, but that doesn't have to be the case. Drop your hatred, realize people like AOC are actually trying to help you despite your hatred (see the Texas winter disaster and AOC's fundraising) so get over your partisan hatred fed to you by douchebags like Tucker Carlson and lets make the US a better place.
(Score: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:35AM (7 children)
Right, Ari, I mean, Runaway! Time for some brownshirt solutions to Weimar democracy!
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @04:12AM (4 children)
They're wearing black shirts this time around, and calling themselves 'antifa'. Try to keep up.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @04:17AM
I heard they were behind the insurrection last year, but then a lot of angry white racists got upset someone was denying it wasn't trumpers insurrecting.
(Score: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday January 13 2022, @04:34AM
White Polos and Khaki slacks: Prep school fascists. Or, yellow, so the stains and bellys do not show.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:29PM
The brownshorts are the give away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @02:43AM
"Black Shirts" were the Italian Fascists. Brown Shirts were the German ones. American Fascists like to do military cosplay.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @03:01AM (1 child)
Caution: That Prius driver may be armed.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-florida-state-board-of-administration-official-killed-in-shooting-20220112-oymwwcbgpbej5b3lizkupfz7di-story.html [orlandosentinel.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @03:07AM
Guns don't kill people, Priuses kill people. It's a trap!
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/toyota-prius-falls-on-man-killing-him-during-attempted-catalytic-converter-theft-sheriff-says/ [wfla.com]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 13 2022, @01:34AM (19 children)
I've been struggling to understand what the heck is going on with America in recent years. And, perhaps more to the point, what to do about it. There are a dozen or two especially obnoxious, bratty Republican politicians who should be kicked out of Congress. Greene is certainly one of them. Also Gaetz, Gosar, Cawthorn, Boebert, Hawley, Jordan, and Cruz.
But I see them as only symptoms. The problem is their supporters. And the likes of Fox Propaganda. There too, what will work? Shut Fox down? Rush Limbaugh finally died, and it hardly made any difference. His audience merely tuned in to other propaganda outlets.
It's going to be a long game. Perhaps better mental health will eventually restore sanity. Do things like remove all the lead. No more lead in our gasoline, paint, or plumbing. We've been at that for decades, and even today we're still improving on that. We'll be collecting dividends for years yet.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @01:37AM
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one." ― Charles MacKay
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @01:56AM (3 children)
Speaking of Cuckoo ...
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-claims-he-has-election-fraud-evidence-jail-millions-life-1668743 [newsweek.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:21PM
Maybe one half of the population could jail the other half of the population for life.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 13 2022, @06:38PM
It's way more worser than half the population.
So maybe we could imprison 300 million people, and leave 32 million people free. Now if there is a wall separating the "free" from the "imprisoned", I wonder which side of the wall an outside observer would consider to be the "free" people?
But we're talking about a political party of people who are unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. Unable to disceern obvious lies for what they are. Seeking out "alternate" facts because real facts are too unpleasant.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 2) by drussell on Tuesday January 18 2022, @04:21PM
Mr. Pillow has been claiming that he has evidence of massive voter fraud for well over a year, but has yet to actually provide any of this supposed evidence.
The main issue is that the old "repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it" method of propaganda, misinformation and misdirection has been incredibly effective, even now that it is not even being thinly veiled! It is blatantly obvious, right there, directly in the open, yet a surprisingly large number of people have still fallen for it hook, line and sinker!
Scary stuff! VERY scary stuff!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:31AM (3 children)
Roughly the same thing as in Europe in the 1920s and 30s.
TFFI: One Year After January 6: The State of the Right and the Re-Legitimization of the State [leftvoice.org]
DSA (nationalist): When American democracy crumbles, it won’t be televised [theguardian.com] - Bernie Wants Democrats to Fight for the Working Class. They Won’t. [jacobinmag.com]
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: A modest proposal by Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara to help Democrats restore faith in two-party system [wsws.org] - Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky [wsws.org]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:41AM (2 children)
So, you're saying that the US lost a war, had it's entire military wasted, had arms limitations put on it, and the population had to submit to near-slave labor conditions to supply iron and coal to the victors, when a bunch of socialists moved and took over?
Yeah, well, I can see the socialists in the Dem party, but I don't see any of the rest of that shit.
In short, you're an idiot.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:47AM
It sounds like the Republican Party is full of whiny spoilt little snowflakes.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Thursday January 13 2022, @05:07AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:31AM (2 children)
jus lissen to dat mouf on you boy an you wonder what rong wid dis cuntry
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:37AM
I just love when Runaway speaks native Arkansasian!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:39AM
Racist cunts with a love for genocide, Republicans are the worst! Doing the Devil's work while fancying themselves righteous, strange fucking times. But I'm sure some a very fine people . . . .
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:55AM (1 child)
The Democrats became the client-state creating party of the elite, pushing vacuous luxury beliefs onto working people who reject their religious nutjobbery. [spiked-online.com]
Quite the turnaround isn't it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @04:32AM
Hillary didn't plead the 5th.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday January 13 2022, @04:09PM (3 children)
I hear ya. I have no clue what if anything will fix any of it, and never thought I'd live to see something as fucked up as what's going on the current GOP.
What I find scarier than the nutjobs like MTG, as you pointed out, are their supports...people who would vote for someone for Congress whose only credentials are literally "professional crazy Internet troll". And what I also find scarier than the nutjobs are the somewhat-less-crazy Republicans in the house and senate that all quietly accept all this shit, just like the quietly accept Trump's Big Lie that's literally threatening democracy itself. I just read that Kevin McCarthy refused to cooperate with the 1/6 commission. Fuck me anyway. Unimaginable times these are.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 13 2022, @06:57PM (1 child)
The Party of Lincoln has done a 180. I can get on board with Eisenhower Republicans. But not these current extreme far right, science, fact, and reason denying, tantrum throwing childish barbarians, who would blow the nation's resources on fighting fake problems with bad ideas that will not work, while ignoring real problems. You know, like one of the all time stupidest ideas: the border wall. True, the original stupid idea was that our nation's resources would not be spent on that, because Mexico would pay. That Mexico could blow that demand off, if there was ever any seriousness behind it in the first place, and would not cower back from the laughably feeble US bullying to go along with it, was somehow put out of mind.
Another stupid idea was making a lot of noise over voter fraud. It was all fake. And worse, totally disingenuous, hoked up to provide excuses for what the perps really want to do, which is to rig the elections themselves, all in the name of election integrity. One effect is it allows the craziest among them to spin a totally false narrative that the Democrats are actually the biggest crooks and enemies of the nation, and that they may have to be shot.
What we should do is take a chainsaw to military spending, and put that money towards dealing with Climate Change. Bullets will not stop the ocean from invading our shores! But it is as Eisenhower warned, the military industrial complex is not about to let all that spending on them be cut.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @07:22PM
These are "descendants" of the old dixiecrats that flipped and joined the party in the mid 60s. And that's when the GOP started with their Southern Strategy that has morphed into today's racism. Unfortunately, we do not have an opposition party in place. Democrats run weak candidates to avoid a lopsided congress that would kill the blame shifting game
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Friday January 14 2022, @06:50PM
It really speaks volumes that someone modded this -1 Troll...seriously? Aside from the fact that what I said is correct, I'd say I put it all rather politely when you look at the insane, and frankly terrifying, bullshit going on right now.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Friday January 14 2022, @04:38PM
Rand Paul Seen on Video Telling Students 'Misinformation Works' and 'Is a Great Tactic' [newsweek.com]
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:26AM (6 children)
It's past time to start shooting carpetbaggers from California, New York, Colorado, and Vermont. Sherman wasn't as bad as a bunch of Democrats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:29AM (1 child)
I never thought of that, actually. Sherman didn't steal an election!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:37AM
Blame the McMichaels. They voted Democrat, then lynched that not-white guy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:47AM
Uncle Billy missed a few in her district.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @02:11AM (2 children)
Carpetbagger is an interesting term. Why do you begrudge hard-working bootstrappy Northern industriousness and the Yankee can-do attitude? There must be something deficient about Southern culture. Southerners could change their culture, work harder, and become better educated, but if they continue being lazy and ignorant, they deserve their plight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @02:50AM (1 child)
Not so much that as it was sanitation based parasites [pbs.org] that sapped southern intelligence and vigor, causing them for a while to rely on the labor of people more resistant to such infections. Now, mostly, they still take horse dewormer, not because they have to but because it is part of their Southern Cultural Heritage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @03:54AM
It all makes a kind of bizarre sense when you put it that way.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:31AM
To follow their attempted insurrection. Nothing to see here, just the party of racist terrorists doing what they do best.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 13 2022, @02:45PM (7 children)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/field-of-blood_article-180970043/ [smithsonianmag.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:02PM (6 children)
Also, duels were a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congress_members_killed_or_wounded_in_office [wikipedia.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:34PM
Forgot the source for the second quotation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_duels#American_duels [wikipedia.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 13 2022, @07:18PM (1 child)
1983?! I rather think the most recent deaths are self-inflicted, due to COVID in combination with vaccine and mask refusal. For instance, Ron Wright (2021) and Luke Letlow (2020).
And let's all remember Gabby Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2012 that most certainly was inspired by her opposition. Though she survived, she is now disabled and retired.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 13 2022, @08:38PM
Ah, well, no one said Wikipedia was perfect. They're nuts, if they did. Just a good first stab at a subject.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @07:37PM (2 children)
next election should be proceeded by a duel:
- incumbent will quickdoze so fast, as if to have not moved at all,
- recumbants drawl will be fumbled and fired from a throne of sorts.
the crowd will again be left to wonder who really won.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @12:41AM (1 child)
Actually, I'm kind of looking forward to seeing Sens. McConnell and Cruz duel out in front of the Capitol. The Turtle vs the Snake at ten paces!!! The next few years are going to be hilarious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @01:56AM
RPGs at ten paces.