On 2/28/2022 9:16 AM, Frank Howell wrote:
Rep. Lauren Boebert Says Canada And U.S. 'Need To Be Liberated' Like
Ukraine.
Someone liberate her and all her voters. Free at last.....
https://newrepublic.com/article/165527/marjorie-taylor-greene-cpac-gop
"Sorry, Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Part of the Republican Establishment Now
What the Georgia congresswoman’s appearance at two conferences—one conservative, one far right—says about the state of the GOP."
"Marjorie Taylor Greene, the lunatic Georgia MAGA congresswoman who only recently stopped loving QAnon and thinks that Jewish space lasers might
be starting wildfires out West, is one of the right’s biggest stars.
Stripped of her committee assignments and banned from Twitter for
spreading Covid-19 misinformation, Greene is a completely ineffectual, downright useless—even by congressional standards—representative. But
that only adds to her wide appeal on the American right: Here is someone
who only wants to own the libs—even if the whole Twitter ban has made
that a bit harder.
"Greene’s centrality to Republican politics was on full display last
weekend. On Friday, she appeared as a surprise speaker at the far-right
America First Political Action Conference, or AFPAC. Founded in 2020 by
white nationalist Nick Fuentes as an alternative to the more buttoned-up
(but often still batshit) Conservative Political Action Committee, or
CPAC, the conference featured a slew of controversial figures, from
fellow Representatives Paul Gosar and Steve King to Gavin McInnes and
Milo Yiannopoulos. During this year’s conference, Fuentes asked
attendees to applaud Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and heaped
praise on the January 6, 2021, insurrectionists—he was there and called
the storming of the Capitol “awesome”—as well as Adolf Hitler. Yes, Hitler. “And now they’re going on about Russia and ‘Vladimir Putin is Hitler’—they say that’s not a good thing,” Fuentes said with a grin. Greene was introduced at the conference not long after Fuentes made
these remarks.
The following day, Greene appeared at CPAC. Speaking on a panel at the country’s preeminent conservative conference about cancel culture—itself something of an oxymoron—Greene lashed out at social media companies for silencing her. “As Americans, we can no longer stay silent, we can no
longer shut up,” she said. “Big Tech has aligned with the government, they’ve aligned with the Democrat Communists, and what they want to do
is, they want to silence Americans who are willing to speak the truth,”
she continued. “If there’s anything worth fighting for, it’s our freedom of speech and all of our rights.”
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TB
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