Republicans Have A Terrorist House Member

There was a lot of information that came out about Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. 

In 2018, she liked a post that advocated executing Democratic elected officials including Nancy Pelosi. She promised in a 2019 video that Pelosi will suffer death or imprisonment for her treason.

Someone recorded a video of her following 20 feet behind David Hogg harassing him back in 2018. A lot of her social media posts from that timeframe indicate her obsession with the conspiracy theory that the Parkland shooting was a hoax and the victims were crisis actors. 

Today, Republican elected officials seem very reluctant to condemn her or punish her in any way. All that has been promised is that the House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, will give her a stern talking to.

Until Republicans condemn domestic terrorists and kick them out of the Republican party anybody that votes for a Republican candidate is supporting domestic terrorism. 

The CNN article I just read about her makes the point that the constituents of Georgia's 14th District did indeed elect this horrible scumbag---so she should be allowed to represent them. This means the real problem isn't Greene herself---it's the idiot cracker bigots who elected her. It's the Trump problem writ small.

Lauren Boebert, the gun nut uneducated former McDonald's employee from Rifle, CO who is now staining the House of Representatives with her presence, is quite similar to Greene. Both women fervently believe in QAnon and think that Democrats eat babies. But as with Greene, the problem isn't the nutjob herself but the nutjobs who elected her.

Ten years ago, could you have imagined that not one, but two complete wackadoodles who believe in bizarre conspiracy theories would be elected to Congress? This is how far we've sunk.

The statements that both of these women have made in the short time they've been in office have already caused a fair amount of talk about removing them from office somehow. It would be ironic if someone chose the "Second Amendment solution" to do that. After all, they both seem to love guns and violence.

But as I said, their constituents did elect them. The type of people who go into Boebert's restaurant, see all the waitresses packing heat, and don't immediately walk back out. The kind of people who think that GUNZ IS FUNZ. The type of people who aren't discouraged, in fact are titillated, by the fact that a rabid conspiracy theory-touting gun nut is representing them.

Silver lining: at least we know to avoid two particular areas of the country!

According to Tucker AOC is the real radical in the House with her Soviet inspired Green New Deal.    The lady who likes the idea of "putting a bullet in the House SPeaker's head"?   Well  shes fine.

Kevin Lewis opines those who support their "gun nut" Representative Boebert are titillated.  

Poor old DonDiego hasn't been titillated in quite some time.

I suggest the generation gap is at hand here more than partisanism.  I'm not familiar with either lady, but suspect they (and others) are young enough to have grown up in the age of social media obsession, and exposure to higher education, i.e. college, emphasizing the sins of the country and government in decades past, omitting any positive aspects of course, most importantly the democratic (lower case d) process.  Extremism makes the news now, and these gals are jumping on that train.  Us older guys and gals are shocked, shocked at their words and actions, but inertia, or hoping somebody else can do something about it is ruling the day.  JMHO.

Candy

Don, dig up a copy of the movie "Body Heat."  If that doesn't do it for you, you have 'aged out' and can be forgiven.  LOL.

Candy

I respectfully disagree.

The demographics of the Trump base are not younger, educated people.   Quite the oppositte.

For years Republicans have been telling their followers the media, teachers, scientists and medical experts are not to be trusted and are part of some elitist conspiracy designed to bring power to some undefined  oligarchy.

Thats why they ridicule things like the Associatted Press, Climate Scientists, Pandemic experts, and teachers.

And thats why they embrace faith-based conpsiracy theories with no basis or evidence.

Deeply religious people are much more prone to such beliefs as "faith in the unknown" is a prerequiste for being deeply religious.    There's your demographic.

And the people who feed them the radical BS leading up to the riot go far beyond Trump and Congresswoman Greene

I don't know about Greene, but Boebert has never been near a college. She was a high school dropout whose career resume includes a stint at McDonald's. She only got her GED last year, just before she started her campaign for the House.

She made a name for herself by defying the county's covid restrictions at her restaurant. She has had other run-ins with the law, including dozens of cases of food poisoning when her restaurant failed to observe food safety guidelines. She apparently believes that laws, especially health regulations, are for other people.

So is she an extremist? Not as such, I believe--I just think she's an irresponsible piece of shit who decided that wrapping herself in the QAnon banner is as good an excuse as any to ignore the rules. Similarly, I doubt that more than a small minority of the MAGA Moron Marchers really were all-in on the various wackadoodle conspiracy theories that supposedly fueled their violence. I think it was more just acting out--break into buildings, wave your GUNZ, scream a lot, beat up cops, and literally shit all over everything. That's FUN! for some people.

So whether it's gun-toting mamas who want to operate unsanitary restaurants or idiot yahoos in silly horned hats who want to act like angry toddlers, it's really nothing new. There have always been people who would rather be assholes. 

The two women should be expelled from the House for their remarks, especially those they've made about school shootings being faked (that is utterly reprehensible), but that's not the problem as such. Rather, it's the people who support them despite, or worse, because of the things they say who are the real problem. I mean, come on---if someone running for Congress (Greene) stated that the fires in California were caused by laser beams from space, shouldn't everyone walk out of the room laughing? Instead, they voted for her!!!

I grew up being subjected to brainwashing by nasty penguins (Dominican nuns, if you don't get the reference). They prattled the doctrine that faith is a virtue. I asked them then, and would ask them now, why faith is a desirable trait. After all, isn't believing something without evidence kind of dumb, and often, actively harmful? Yet, every time I would question a point of Christian doctrine or Christian mythology, they would just parrot (in lieu of an actual explanation) that I just had to have faith, or it's a mystery, blah blah.

I realized early on that this can be very appealing to some people. Stop thinking, it's too hard. Just have faith. It makes a complicated world seem more binary. And of course, Trumpism is a new faith--a bigly one at that. So, very attractive to those who don't wish to think. Plus, there's a bonus--the tenets of the Trump faith such as racism, sexism, and other aspects of bigotry can be used to reinforce one's own dark feelings and inclination to hate.

Mine was the first generation to grow up during a time when human rights were even discussed. In my father's time, it was just taken as a given that the world was meant to be dominated by white males---due to the belief that white males are supposedly inherently superior to the rest of humanity. The Trump pseudo-Presidency was one of the dying gasps of that generation. Unfortunately, due to medical advances, that generation is dying off more slowly than we would like, and still votes.

And as far as education goes--well, isn't education the antithesis of faith? That's why religion and science have always hated each other.

Ok, . . . so poor old DonDiego looked up 'Body Heat".

William Hurt just doesn't do it for poor old DonDiego.