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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,509 posts)
Sat May 29, 2021, 07:42 PM May 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene exposes GOP establishment's lack of power

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was blasted for antisemitic comments by her party's top congressional leaders earlier this week.

Two days later, she was celebrating her birthday in front of adoring fans at an event in Georgia.

The split-screen contrast says a lot about where the Republican Party finds itself. And Greene's rise underlines the GOP establishment's impotence when it comes to restraining her - even if it wants to.

The latest furor began when the first-term congresswoman drew a parallel between the treatment of Jews at the hands of the Nazis and a supermarket's decision to add a special logo to the name-badge of vaccinated employees.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-memo-marjorie-taylor-greene-exposes-gop-establishments-lack-of-power/ar-AAKw3mC

Because that's what your base is today Republicans, racists and anti Semites.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene exposes GOP establishment's lack of power (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
Keep in mind, the Reeps were always racist bigots. ananda May 2021 #1
repugs have no power to police themselves so it's ridiculous to think that Democratic party leaders SWBTATTReg May 2021 #2
She is the very essence of the current Trump Republican Party. LiberatedUSA May 2021 #3
They thought they were so clever, in the lab, yonder May 2021 #4
Colorful, spot on way of putting it . nt crickets May 2021 #6
"We're gutless wonders!" struggle4progress May 2021 #5

ananda

(28,923 posts)
1. Keep in mind, the Reeps were always racist bigots.
Sat May 29, 2021, 07:44 PM
May 2021

But now they are open and egregious about it.

Perhaps the establishment doesn't want to look that bad
even though they have always actually been that bad.

SWBTATTReg

(22,226 posts)
2. repugs have no power to police themselves so it's ridiculous to think that Democratic party leaders
Sat May 29, 2021, 08:02 PM
May 2021

in attempting to pass legislation can do so, w/ republican help (since republicans don't have their act together). Moscow 'no neck' Mitch has no teeth to enforce anything in his conference. Zero.

yonder

(9,687 posts)
4. They thought they were so clever, in the lab,
Sat May 29, 2021, 09:52 PM
May 2021

sewing on a foot here, a hand there till they had transformed that corpse into something they thought could pass for a party. Then the storm came and charged their ill-thought creation into something much more sinister and entirely out of their control.

Yep.

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