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I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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I like MTG almost as much as Lauren Bobert. I dig the crazy chicks.
I had not heard about the "Jewish Space Lasers" thing until this thread, and a very brief bit of Googlage suggests the only time she has mentioned the topic in the past six months was in response to a question from a reporter.Geislerminian Antinomian Kenotic Charispneumaticostal Gender Mutualist-Egalitarian.
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"Everybody is somebody's heretic."
Social Justice is usually the opposite of actual justice.
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Originally posted by NorrinRadd View PostI like MTG almost as much as Lauren Bobert. I dig the crazy chicks.
I had not heard about the "Jewish Space Lasers" thing until this thread, and a very brief bit of Googlage suggests the only time she has mentioned the topic in the past six months was in response to a question from a reporter.
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Originally posted by NorrinRadd View PostI like MTG almost as much as Lauren Bobert. I dig the crazy chicks.
I had not heard about the "Jewish Space Lasers" thing until this thread, and a very brief bit of Googlage suggests the only time she has mentioned the topic in the past six months was in response to a question from a reporter.
As with everything, a stupid thing was taken and spun wildly by opponents.
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Originally posted by CivilDiscourse View Post
Here's a bit of history.
As with everything, a stupid thing was taken and spun wildly by opponents.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostI don't think it can be argued that it wasn't a really stupid thing.
Not on par with claiming during a Congressional hearing that the island of Guam might capsize if we send more people to be positioned there, as one of her Democratic colleagues from Georgia claimed back in 2010, but still really stupid.
And that’s just talking about the public figures. Don’t get me started on these Jawjuns and their preternatural fear of being assigned a staff smiley.
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Originally posted by Juvenal View Post
Absolutely, other than the fact they’re coming out of the woodwork to support her, right here.
Squirrel!
And that’s just talking about the public figures. Don’t get me started on these Jawjuns and their preternatural fear of being assigned a staff smiley.
Got it.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostSo coming out of the woodwork to support a loon who thinks fires could have been started by "space lasers" is something to be concerned over in sharp and total contrast to continuing to reelect a loon who thinks an island can flip over if too many people are on it is merely a distraction.
Got it.
I’m not seeing a bunch of folks jumping up to defend Hank Johnson, who was roundly mocked at the time and walked the statement back as “humorous” and “metaphorical” in response, to little effect. He’s going to be famous forever for that one.
And yes, supporting a loon is a whole ‘nother realm of serious, including all attempts to minimize or distract from it — looking at you on the last. MTG didn’t walk hers back. She attacked the reporting.
Her affinity for crazy is legion, ranging from 9/11 hoaxing, to a muslim Obama, to Hillary hit squads, to the infamous Jewish space lasers. That’s before we look at the truly dark and vile.
.Ms. Greene has repeatedly claimed in multiple videos and social media posts that several school shooting massacres were “false flag” events perpetrated by government officials in an attempt to drum up support for gun control laws. In an October 2020 video surfaced on Friday by Mother Jones, she said that the “only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood.”
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She endorsed executing Democratic lawmakers, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She served as a prolific writer for a now-defunct conspiracy blog called “American Truth Seekers,” writing posts with headlines including “MUST READ — Democratic Party Involved With Child Sex, Satanism, and The Occult.” And she argued that the 2018 midterm elections — in which the first two Muslim women were elected to the House — were part of “an Islamic invasion of our government.”
Her support from fringe TWebbers is barely worth mentioning in view of her support from the most powerful Republican caucus in the House.
.Privately, according to a person familiar with their thinking, top Republicans hoped that outside groups would swoop into the primary race in support of Dr. Cowan and weaponize Ms. Greene’s incendiary comments against her, dooming her candidacy. But the outside effort never materialized.
Instead, Ms. Greene’s campaign received an important boost when the political arm of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus endorsed her, as did Representatives Andy Biggs of Arizona, the group’s chairman, and Jim Jordan of Ohio, a founder. She handily won the runoff in August and cruised to victory in November.
That left Republican leaders hoping that, once sworn in, Ms. Greene would clean up her act, disavowing her past comments and dialing back her outlandish rhetoric.
Instead, she charged into Congress and immediately faced scrutiny for her support of the “Stop the Steal” campaign that falsely claimed that Mr. Trump had won the 2020 presidential election.
She referred to Jan. 6, the day Congress was slated to formalize the election results, as Republicans’ “1776 moment” in the lead up to the violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters. After the rampage, she pledged that Mr. Trump would “remain in office” and that attempts to remove him from the White House constituted “an attack on every American who voted for him.”
I know plenty of marines, and I’d imagine you do too, who’d be on board for any attempt to tip Guam over into the ocean, but I don’t know any who’d make it a test for their support of a political candidate, because that would be crazy. But not as crazy, and dangerous, as supporting a candidate who’s bound to be campaigning in support of Trump’s attempt to steal the last election.
The laws of physics don’t need defending.
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Originally posted by Juvenal View Post
It was the smiley thing that gotcha, wasn’t it.
I’m not seeing a bunch of folks jumping up to defend Hank Johnson, who was roundly mocked at the time and walked the statement back as “humorous” and “metaphorical” in response, to little effect. He’s going to be famous forever for that one.
And yes, supporting a loon is a whole ‘nother realm of serious, including all attempts to minimize or distract from it — looking at you on the last. MTG didn’t walk hers back. She attacked the reporting.
Her affinity for crazy is legion, ranging from 9/11 hoaxing, to a muslim Obama, to Hillary hit squads, to the infamous Jewish space lasers. That’s before we look at the truly dark and vile.
.Ms. Greene has repeatedly claimed in multiple videos and social media posts that several school shooting massacres were “false flag” events perpetrated by government officials in an attempt to drum up support for gun control laws. In an October 2020 video surfaced on Friday by Mother Jones, she said that the “only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood.”
[…]
She endorsed executing Democratic lawmakers, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She served as a prolific writer for a now-defunct conspiracy blog called “American Truth Seekers,” writing posts with headlines including “MUST READ — Democratic Party Involved With Child Sex, Satanism, and The Occult.” And she argued that the 2018 midterm elections — in which the first two Muslim women were elected to the House — were part of “an Islamic invasion of our government.”
Her support from fringe TWebbers is barely worth mentioning in view of her support from the most powerful Republican caucus in the House.
.Privately, according to a person familiar with their thinking, top Republicans hoped that outside groups would swoop into the primary race in support of Dr. Cowan and weaponize Ms. Greene’s incendiary comments against her, dooming her candidacy. But the outside effort never materialized.
Instead, Ms. Greene’s campaign received an important boost when the political arm of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus endorsed her, as did Representatives Andy Biggs of Arizona, the group’s chairman, and Jim Jordan of Ohio, a founder. She handily won the runoff in August and cruised to victory in November.
That left Republican leaders hoping that, once sworn in, Ms. Greene would clean up her act, disavowing her past comments and dialing back her outlandish rhetoric.
Instead, she charged into Congress and immediately faced scrutiny for her support of the “Stop the Steal” campaign that falsely claimed that Mr. Trump had won the 2020 presidential election.
She referred to Jan. 6, the day Congress was slated to formalize the election results, as Republicans’ “1776 moment” in the lead up to the violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters. After the rampage, she pledged that Mr. Trump would “remain in office” and that attempts to remove him from the White House constituted “an attack on every American who voted for him.”
I know plenty of marines, and I’d imagine you do too, who’d be on board for any attempt to tip Guam over into the ocean, but I don’t know any who’d make it a test for their support of a political candidate, because that would be crazy. But not as crazy, and dangerous, as supporting a candidate who’s bound to be campaigning in support of Trump’s attempt to steal the last election.
The laws of physics don’t need defending.
But yeah, he definitely was still targeted for a lot of ribbing over it, as he should have been.
You're new to Jawja, so let me clue you in. While where you came from is notorious for its "Florida Man" incidents, up here we tend to put those sorta folks into office. We've had folks who ran commercials literally trying to hypnotize viewers to vote for them. We had someone seize control of the Governor's mansion insisting he was now Governor because his daddy held that position when he died. IOW, he declared it was an inheritable position. Wanna know something? He ended up being Governor.
So sit back and enjoy. This circus has still got a long way to go.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostSo coming out of the woodwork to support a loon who thinks fires could have been started by "space lasers" is something to be concerned over in sharp and total contrast to continuing to reelect a loon who thinks an island can flip over if too many people are on it is merely a distraction.
Got it.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-gigan...y-to-australia1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostYesterday's primary in Georgia was not a good day for the former president. Both of the candidates he heavily backed were defeated -- biggly.
Trump has been angry at both Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary Brad Raffensperger since the 2020 election and as retribution for their not going along with his effort to overturn his defeat here, he heavily backed opponents to unseat them.
In Kemp's case, Trump propped up former Senator David Perdue who was defeated in 2020. Perdue remained 20 points or more back the entire race and ended up getting virtually annihilated by a 73.7% to 21.8% margin. That's a +50 point blow out.
This marks the third candidate that Trump has backed for governor who has lost their primary.
As for Raffensperger, he also won quite handedly, defeating Trump-backed Jody Hice by just shy of 20 points -- 52.3% to 33.4%.
Still, his endorsement amounted to a sizeable boost for several candidates elsewhere during the primaries this year. Maybe Georgians haven't forgotten nor forgiven how his antics when he came here to ostensibly campaign for the two Republicans during run-offs for both Senate seats helped the Democrats win in 2021."If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it. No one wants to know about your faith or unbelief, your orders are to perform the act of obedience on the spot. Then you will find yourself in the situation where faith becomes possible and where faith exists in the true sense of the word." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
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Originally posted by tabibito View Post
Technically both are feasible. Of course, the island would have to be a floating island and small enough (Guam is neither), but it is feasible.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-gigan...y-to-australia
What's next, an island on the back of a humongous turtle?
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
And here I thought floating islands were the stuff of myths and legends.
What's next, an island on the back of a humongous turtle?
ETA:And here I thought floating islands were the stuff of myths and legends.Last edited by tabibito; 05-28-2022, 09:37 AM.1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
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Originally posted by myth View Post
One can only hope his influence is waning. He's the worst thing to happen to the Republican Party in decades.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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