Calls to expel Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene after speech at white nationalist event

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Calls to expel Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene after speech at white nationalist event

Republican leadership condemned for failing to discipline Georgia congresswoman for speaking at far-right summit

David Smith in Orlando, Florida
@smithinamerica
Sat 26 Feb 2022 18.48 GMT

Republican leaders are facing fresh demands to expel the Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she spoke at a conference of white nationalists and sympathisers with Vladimir Putin.

The event in Orlando, Florida, on Friday night was organised by the far-right extremist Nick Fuentes, who told attendees: “Now they’re going on about Russia and Vladimir Putin is Hitler – they say that’s not a good thing.”

He burst into laughter as he added: “I shouldn’t have said that!”

Fuentes, recently subpoenaed for his involvement in the January 6 insurrection, proudly introduced Taylor Greene at the third annual America First Political Action Conference, or AFPAC.

The Georgia congresswoman told the gathering they were “canceled Americans” ...

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/26/republican-congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-cpac

[niyad]

1. May they all receive everything they deserve.

[tanyev]

3. Yes indeedy.

[underpants]

2. She needs to go

I’m being objective about that too.

[PortTack]

4. Agree+++ this is no longer just words...but she's too stupid to know that

[maxsolomon]

12. She's going nowhere until November - at least

The mechanisms for removing her are toothless.

[lapfog_1]

5. i hope someday we round up all these traitors

and put their asses in prison.

[leftieNanner]

6. Kevin McCarthy doesn't have the guts

He is a coward and he will never stand up to her.

[durablend]

7. Deport her

She can go back to her homeland with Pooty

[SergeStorms]

8. What can be said about this foul, traitorous.....

disgusting person that hasn't already been said.

She's the absolute worst.

[PatSeg]

9. These people are brazen and shameless

They have to be held accountable.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. Sorry Marjie, Kevin. Nick, and GOP Putin -lovers...

Hell doesn't even want you.

[kimbutgar]

11. Sadly she is untouchable

The fascists are making money off of her.

[smirkymonkey]

25. Nobody is untouchable.

Putin is proving that by the second. Her fortunes can turn around in an instant.

[kimbutgar]

27. You got a good point there

It just seems these awful people can get away with so much hate and get re elected.

[smirkymonkey]

28. Yes. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but in order to preserve my sanity, I have to believe

that sooner or later, these people are going to hit a wall. Too many of them have pushed their luck far beyond the point where it is time that there are consequences. I can't honestly believe that they have ALL made a pact with the devil.

[kimbutgar]

29. +1

[peggysue2]

13. She's a disgrace

Unfortunately, I think the only way to get rid of her is through the voting booth. If her constituents refuse to act responsibly, she'll probably be around for a while. Unless, there's evidence that she participated in the January 6th attack. Then like Cawthorne she might be deemed ineligible to run or hold office.

We can hope. But then I don't understand why the roof hasn't fallen on Gosar who is equally bad.

[BlueIdaho]

14. Marjorie Traitor Green

Enough said.

[MacKasey]

15. America first is also associated with the KKK

See link from snopes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/america-first-ku-klux-klan-slogan/

[spanone]

16. Kick her ass out the door.

[FloridaBlues]

17. The only thing that will stop her are the voters. The Republicans won't do anything

Many of them believe the same trash.
Would like to hear more elected dems voice their outrage.

[Midnight Writer]

18. Isn't Gosar there as well?

[crickets]

19. Gosar sent in a video. Disgusting. (edited)

Both Gosar and Greene should get their leashes yanked for this, but I'm not holding my breath.

eta - Apparently AZ Senator Wendy Rogers promoted the event, though she didn't participate. Also, Gosar spoke in person at AFPAC last year. Ugh, they're all terrible.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-state-senator-wendy-rogers-promotes-far-right-event-featuring-hanukkah-basher-baked-alaska

But the fringe conference is also playing footsie with elected officials, this year with Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers, who promoted the event on Telegram. It’s the second year in a row that an Arizona politician has backed the conference, putting them in league with Gionet and other legally challenged extremists. [snip]

The post was far from Rogers’ first in support of Fuentes, an open bigot. (“This is going to be the most racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying speech in all of Dallas this weekend,” Fuentes boasted of one of his upcoming speeches after he was kicked out of CPAC in 2021.) Rogers has authored at least two dozen fawning posts about Fuentes, according to Left Coast Right Watch. [snip]

Rogers’ involvement with AFPAC, outside her work as its hypewoman, is unclear. But she wouldn’t be the first Arizona politician to align with the far-right conference. Last year, U.S. Rep Paul Gosar (R-AZ) delivered the event’s keynote address. Gosar, a 2020 election denialist who just this week retweeted a different white nationalist, later posed with Fuentes at a restaurant. (A Gosar spokesperson did not return a request for comment on whether Gosar would attend the conference this year.)

Both Gosar and Rogers have well-documented ties to the militant right, particularly the paramilitary group the Oath Keepers. Rogers announced her membership to the group several years ago and gave a speech for members in March 2021, while Gosar allegedly told an Arizona Oath Keepers leader that the U.S. was already in a civil war, “we just haven’t started shooting yet.”

[Midnight Writer]

22. Thanks.

[ibegurpard]

20. CPAC? But isn't that pactically the entire Party?

[Chellee]

26. No, AFPAC.

They were kicked out of CPAC. Which tells you just how bad they are.

[hippywife]

21. Why, oh why, does anyone even talk to her?

It would be so much more effective just to ignore her, Maybe even tease her by standing off to the side in a huddle, where she can see them, but make it clear they have no interest in talking to her.

[bullwinkle428]

23. She's literally their biggest fundraiser. They're not killing that golden goose.

[uponit7771]

24. After Putler I don't know why would put up with this shit here, they're all violent and dangerous

[Polybius]

30. The way to do it is to vote on November 8th of this year

Not a fan of kicking extremists out, unless they break the law.