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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 02:00 PM Jul 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes Full Kook With Mass Shooting Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claimed this week’s mass shooting at a parade in Illinois could have been a secret operation carried out by gun control advocates.

“Two shootings on July 4th, one in a rich, white neighborhood and the other at a fireworks display,” she said in a clip posted on Twitter by Patriot Takes, which monitors right-wing media.

Greene was referring to the parade shooting in Highland Park, which left seven people dead, and likely an incident in Philadelphia that left two police officers wounded.

“It almost sounds like it’s designed to persuade Republicans to go along with more gun control,” she said. “I mean, after all, remember, we didn’t see that happen at all the Pride parades in the month of June.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-goes-full-044736875.html

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes Full Kook With Mass Shooting Conspiracy Theory (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
Critical thinking is not one of MTG's strong suits. ARPad95 Jul 2022 #1
+1 H2O Man Jul 2022 #3
You beat me to it. 3catwoman3 Jul 2022 #8
I knew I had to H2O Man Jul 2022 #15
No she lets Alex Jones and Steve Bannon do her thinking for her. Initech Jul 2022 #4
It's not thinking. It's a mental tic... dchill Jul 2022 #9
reality based thinking is not one of MTG's strong suits DBoon Jul 2022 #11
She is pathetic. H2O Man Jul 2022 #2
She must have missed her assignment PCIntern Jul 2022 #5
Reverse False Flag IggleDuer Jul 2022 #6
If Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann had a baby by Louie Gohmert... LoisB Jul 2022 #7
She needs to be kicked out of Congress for that statement alone. SunSeeker Jul 2022 #10
Is Alex Jones still hiding assets after the lawsuit? Maybe Traitor Greene should lawyer up. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2022 #12
What is she going to do once she hears of the latest, that he belonged to a Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #13
Or maybe it was enabled by her fellow co-conspirator... AntiFascist Jul 2022 #14
I don't know, Marjorie, maybe this will sound like a conspiracy theory... jmowreader Jul 2022 #16
This lady is a nut case LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #17
Margie is deflecting and distracting. GoCubsGo Jul 2022 #18
She hasn't been at the *full* level all along? UTUSN Jul 2022 #19

H2O Man

(73,559 posts)
15. I knew I had to
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 02:54 PM
Jul 2022

get that in mighty fast!

And you are right about her gills working without conscious thought.

DBoon

(22,370 posts)
11. reality based thinking is not one of MTG's strong suits
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 02:35 PM
Jul 2022

it isn't a lack of logic here, it is making things up out of cuckoo-land delusions

IggleDuer

(964 posts)
6. Reverse False Flag
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 02:05 PM
Jul 2022

Perhaps it could be that some NRA advocates and gun-humpers carried off this massacre and others, so that they could claim their whack-a-doodle theories.

SunSeeker

(51,574 posts)
10. She needs to be kicked out of Congress for that statement alone.
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 02:32 PM
Jul 2022

The idiot who did this shooting was a MAGA Republican from a Republican pro-gun family. Ask his dad, who ran for mayor of Highland Park in 2019 and was defeated by a pro-gun control Democrat. https://www.newsweek.com/robert-crimo-father-lost-highland-park-mayor-race-gun-control-democrat-1721775

She is pushing a blatantly false conspiracy theory, that is right up there with accusing Sandy Hook kids of being "crisis actors."

AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
14. Or maybe it was enabled by her fellow co-conspirator...
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 02:48 PM
Jul 2022

Lauren "I am the militia" Boebert. That would make a little more sense.


jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
16. I don't know, Marjorie, maybe this will sound like a conspiracy theory...
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 02:56 PM
Jul 2022

...but is it just slightly possible that there WAS going to be a mass shooting incident at the Pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, but the police arrested the nazis and put them in jail before they could accomplish it?

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
18. Margie is deflecting and distracting.
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 04:29 PM
Jul 2022

Another massacre by a young, white male Trumpster using a semi-automatic gun... Look! Squirrel!!!!

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