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struggle4progress

(118,379 posts)
Sat May 4, 2024, 11:42 AM May 4

Greene clown show just the thing to unite divided America

JAY BOOKMAN
MAY 3, 2024 4:30 AM

... nothing brings people together faster than having a common enemy, and Americans of both parties now seem to have found one in Georgia’s own ... Marjorie Taylor Greene ...

... Greene now sees herself as a foreign policy expert, as the arbiter and enforcer of what Republicans are allowed to believe, and even as vice presidential material ...

... Her insistence that all aid to Ukraine be ended has earned her the title of “Moscow Marjorie” from the Murdoch-owned New York Post ...

... The GOP has forfeited so much power to the clowns among them – including at the very top – that on its own it is incapable of performing the basic functions of self-government. Thanks to the leeway they’ve given to Greene and others, the party that famously rejects compromise as betrayal now needs Democratic help just to keep its own speaker in place ...

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/05/03/bookman-marjorie-taylor-greene-clown-show-just-the-thing-to-unite-a-divided-america/

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Greene clown show just the thing to unite divided America (Original Post) struggle4progress May 4 OP
She is the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect ActRaiser May 4 #1
we Dems may be living in perilous times but agingdem May 4 #2
Thank our lucky stars that this crew of ReThugs,.... magicarpet May 4 #4
Not likely Fudster May 4 #3

ActRaiser

(39 posts)
1. She is the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect
Sat May 4, 2024, 11:48 AM
May 4

I can't recall ever witnessing a politician of such profound, galaxy-spanning emptiness try to hold forth as an expert on basically anything and everything the way she does. At least Trump understands gangster tactics and how to whip up mobs of idiots.

magicarpet

(14,255 posts)
4. Thank our lucky stars that this crew of ReThugs,....
Sat May 4, 2024, 01:24 PM
May 4

..... has no one with an IQ above 50 points.

When the next generation of Nazis takes power like JD Vance, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Stefanik, Mace, and Noem - the dumb dumb dummies will look like child's play.

Then Fascism will really flourish in astounding ways absent any limitations and/or restraints.

Fudster

(10 posts)
3. Not likely
Sat May 4, 2024, 01:17 PM
May 4

The idea that a few magats having a disagreements with the cave woman is going to unite them with us pedafiles is a fantasy.

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