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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 08:53 AM Aug 2020

Republicans called her videos 'appalling' and 'disgusting.' But they're doing little to stop her.

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Now, Republicans could be days away from adding their most controversial member yet to the conference in a runoff election in Georgia on Tuesday — a scenario that some lawmakers say should have been entirely avoided.

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POLITICO reported in June that Greene had posted hours of Facebook videos in which made a trove of racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic comments — including an assertion that Black people “are held slaves to the Democratic Party,” and that George Soros, a Jewish Democratic megadonor, is a Nazi.

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The lack of intervention from national Republicans — despite their public rebukes of Greene — has frustrated and baffled GOP lawmakers, strategists and donors, who worry Greene’s victory would be a black eye for the party at a time when they are still grappling with a national reckoning over racial inequality.

And it would diminish the impact of the party’s successful efforts in June to oust GOP Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a member with a long history of racist remarks. If Greene, a vocal QAnon conspiracy theorist and businesswoman, earns the party’s nomination in the deeply conservative district in northwest Georgia, she is almost guaranteed to win a seat in the House.

Politico
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/08/09/republicans-marjorie-taylor-greene-392735

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Republicans called her videos 'appalling' and 'disgusting.' But they're doing little to stop her. (Original Post) JonLP24 Aug 2020 OP
Ya think??????????????????????? n/t MFGsunny Aug 2020 #1
She is just voicing what her "constituency" believes in their hearts... Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #2
They get more worked up over Sarah Cooper's videos than these StarfishSaver Aug 2020 #3
Thanks for showing Joe where the first federal troops need to go. maxrandb Aug 2020 #4
IOW, she's saying things that RWers have been saying online for 20 years. bullwinkle428 Aug 2020 #5
There are no lows for Republicans dalton99a Aug 2020 #6

maxrandb

(15,334 posts)
4. Thanks for showing Joe where the first federal troops need to go.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 09:22 AM
Aug 2020

You might think I'm joking, but why should BLM and Progressive folks be the only ones that know what tear gas tastes like?

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