American Politics

[Fugitive]

3 hours ago, polymerpunkah said:

It'd have to be a shotgun wedding.

 

Though it probably would be even if you were willing.

 

Crazy bitch.

 

 

America is one fucked up place. Imagine if that was a Family in Iraq posing for a picture. They would all be frothing at the mouth and accusing them of raising potential terrorists.

[Section_31]

[Bjornebye]

Jamaal Bowman says Marjorie Taylor Greene used racial ‘bullhorn’ after Capitol exchange | The Independent

 

Rep Jamaal Bowman accused Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene of using a racial “bullhorn” when she characterised him as threatening during a confrontation on the steps of the US Capitol.

The two had a heated exchange on Wednesday after the House voted to refer the expulsion of Representative George Santos to the House Ethics Committee.

 

At a press conference on Thursday, Ms Greene criticised the New York Democrat, an outspoken progressive, for calling her a white supremacist.

 

“That is like calling a person of colour the n-word,” she said. “Jamaal Bowman was down there cursing at me, telling me to get the eff out of there, right outside the vehicle I was sitting in.”

Mr Bowman had confronted Ms Greene following the vote to refer the expulsion of the embattled New York Republican representative to the House Ethics Committee rather than subject his expulsion to a full vote on the House floor.

 

“What is on video is Jamaal Bowman shouting at the top of his lungs, cursing,” she said. “Calling me a white supremacist, which I take great offence to. That is like calling a person of colour the N-word.”

 

Ms Greene accused Mr Bowman of “leading the mob” right outside a vehicle as she was prepared to leave the Capitol. She then noted that he confronted her after the vote.

“His physical mannerisms are aggressive,” she said, criticising his recent interaction with Rep Thomas Massie (R - Kentucky) and accusing him of shoving Mr Massie when discussing gun violence. “I am concerned. I feel threatened by him.”

 

But Mr Bowman called Ms Greene’s words “incredibly dangerous” and “incredibly reckless.”

“Unfortunately, this country has a history of characterising Black men who are outspoken, who stand their ground and who push back as being threatening or intimidating,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill. “So she’s not even using a dog whistle. She’s using a bullhorn to put a target on my back to the people she refers to as MAGA people out there who might want to cause harm.”

 

The Daily Beast’s Ursula Perano filmed the interaction as Mr Bowman admonished Ms Greene, who has promoted conspiracies such as QAnon, to fix the Republican Party.

 

 

Eventually, Mr Bowman’s friend Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D - New York) stepped in to tell him of Ms Greene: “She ain’t worth it, bro.”

During their back and forth, Mr Bowman told Ms Greene of Mr Santos: “Expel him. Save the party. The party is hanging by a thread.”

But Ms Greene deflected, saying: “We got to get rid of Biden to save the country,” before she tried to start a chant of “impeach Biden.”

Mr Bowman then said Ms Greene needed to stop promoting conspiracy theories.

“No more QAnon,” he said, to which Ms Greene replied: “No more CNN.”

“No more debt ceiling nonsense,” he said. “Come on, now. Save the party.”

Mr Bowman also called on Ms Greene to do something about guns.

“So close the border,” Ms Greene, which led Mr Bowman to scoff.

“The border is where Trump left it,” he said.

Mr Bowman ultimately moved on following the advice of Ms Ocasio-Cortez.

The confrontation came after Mr Bowman and Ms Ocasio-Cortez heckled Mr Santos outside of the Capitol building, imploring him to resign as he spoke to reporters.

 

Last week, Mr Santos was indicted on 13 counts of criminal charges related to wire fraud, money laundering, making false statements to the House of Representatives and theft of public funds.

 

 

 

She felt threatened by that exchange? The little fucking headcase

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pete]

Why the fuck does anyone need guns of that size and calibre in their own home???

[TD_LFC]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

[polymerpunkah]

And now the Republicans are doing the hokey pokey with the world's economy, pulling out of talks to raise the US debt ceiling before it all goes tits up.

 

Oh, no, they're back talking.

 

Sorry, sorry, now they've all gone home for the evening.

 

Idiots.

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

On 17/05/2023 at 02:32, Anubis said:

If any of you guys are interested, Lauren Boebert is getting divorced, so she’s back on the market.

Too late pal

 

[Kepler-186]

Utah school bans the bible. Kids get free CoD points instead. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65794363
 

 

[Fugitive]

1 hour ago, Kepler-186 said:

Utah school bans the bible. Kids get free CoD points instead. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65794363
 

 

Good, hopefully they won’t grow up to be brainwashed religious nut jobs.

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, Fugitive said:

Good, hopefully they won’t grow up to be brainwashed religious nut jobs.

 

Mate, they live in Utah.

[Kepler-186]

2 hours ago, Fugitive said:

Good, hopefully they won’t grow up to be brainwashed religious nut jobs.

Utah Saints! U U U Utah Latter Day Saints! 

[Anubis]

[Strontium]

And down comes the crumbling edifice of intersectionality. You'd have to have a heart of stone etc

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Why didn't you post this article? Aaaahhhh we know why. 

 

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article276447296.html

 

Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas has filed legislation that would prohibit the LGBTQ Pride flag from federal buildings after Republicans condemned President Joe Biden for displaying the flag at the White House. The GOP senator’s measure comes amid a larger movement among conservatives attacking transgender identity and seeking to regulate the lives of trans individuals. It has virtually no chance of passage in a Democratic-controlled Senate. The White House draped a rainbow-colored Pride flag over the center of the building’s south portico during an event over the weekend celebrating Pride Month, which is marked in June and commemorates the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Two U.S. flags flanked the Pride flag.

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article276447296.html#storylink=cpy

[Bjornebye]

Or this one

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/03/14/florida-gop-proposal-would-ban-pride-flag-but-let-confederate-flag-fly-at-state-buildings/

 

 

 

I sniff racists out for fun. 

[TheHowieLama]

Stig, the point he is making has to do with Muslims - not MAGA.

[Pidge]

He was making a point about intersectionality, I think. Fuck knows what though, or how it's relevant to the story. 

 

Maybe there's a gay muslim out there who really led the charge?

[Bjornebye]

30 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Stig, the point he is making has to do with Muslims - not MAGA.

 

Are white christians not religious? 

 

He knew what he was doing. The same shoe-horn "nobody will pick up on it" shite he does all the time.  

[Strontium]

What the actual fuck are you talking about?

 

Do try reading the article. It's about people initially celebrating a Muslim-majority council being elected in their city, in an aren't-we-awesome-and-diverse-and-tolerant-here way, but now being horrified that those Muslims are social conservatives who won't play nice with sexual minorities.

 

It only serves to highlight the inherent contradictions in this worldview, the idea that we can all hold hands and sing kum ba yah around the campfire and everything will be great. It's utter bollocks.

[TheHowieLama]

The messy feud between two of MAGA world’s biggest stars burst into public view on Wednesday, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) a “little bitch” to her face on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

 

 

[Kevin D]

 

 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

On 18/06/2023 at 18:10, Bjornebye said:

 

Are white christians not religious? 

 

He knew what he was doing. The same shoe-horn "nobody will pick up on it" shite he does all the time.  

I think you may have misjudged this one fella. 
 

We’ve all done it. 

[Bjornebye]

10 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

I think you may have misjudged this one fella. 
 

We’ve all done it. 

 

Thanks. You'd know fella. 

[Anubis]

 

[Bjornebye]

I don't believe a word that comes out of her hate filled stinking racist sewer