Paul Gosar also spoke at far-right conference, as calls for the censure of the two Republicans ring out again
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, members of Congress who spoke at a white nationalist event in Florida this week, are “morons” with no place in the Republican party, Mitt Romney said on Sunday.
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“I’m reminded of that old line from the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie,” the Utah senator and 2012 presidential nominee told CNN’s State of the Union.
“One character says, ‘Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.’ I have to think anybody that would sit down with white nationalists and speak at their conference was certainly missing a few IQ points.”
Greene, from Georgia, and Gosar, from Arizona, spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, or AFPAC, organised by the far-right activist Nick Fuentes. Greene defended her attendance, saying she did not know Fuentes or endorse his views.
Calls for the censure of the two Republicans, familiar from previous instances of extreme behaviour, rang out again on Saturday.
Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, said: “In any other world, Greene speaking at a white supremacist conference where attendees have defended Vladimir Putin and praised Adolf Hitler would warrant expulsion from the caucus, to say nothing of her advocacy for violence and consistent antisemitism is disgusting.
“Quite simply, the longer [House Republican leader] Kevin McCarthy gives Marjorie Taylor Greene an unfettered platform and promises to elevate her, the more complicit he is.”
The Republican party chair, Ronna McDaniel, said: “White supremacy, neo-Nazism, hate speech and bigotry are disgusting and do not have a home in the Republican party.”
But McDaniel and McCarthy lead a party in which the far right is strong, former president Donald Trump its figurehead.
McDaniel is Romney’s niece, though she reportedly stopped using his name at Trump’s request. On CNN, Romney mentioned McDaniel’s statement about Greene and Gosar as well as strong words from Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican congresswoman and Trump critic.
“Talking about how repugnant these white nationalists are,” Romney said, “look, there’s no place in either political party for this white nationalism or racism. it’s simply wrong.
“Speaking of evil, it’s evil as well. And, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, I don’t know them.”
Cheney is a stringent conservative but remains at odds with her party. She was not invited to CPAC, the larger conservative event in Florida at which Trump and Greene appeared.
In video posted online, Vaughn Hillyard, a reporter for NBC, asked CPAC organizer Matt Schlapp why Greene had been invited despite her long record of extremist behavior and her participation in the white nationalist event.
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“I think it’s great that Marjorie Taylor Greene was on this stage because she was elected by her constituents to have a vote in Congress,” Schlapp said.
“[House speaker] Nancy Pelosi decided to strip her of her rights as a congressperson to serve on these committees and Twitter has decided to shut her down.”
Hillyard said: “But you’re inviting legitimacy to that white nationalist movement that was just down the road when a member of Congress from the Republican party appears at that event and you bring her here.”
Schlapp said: “I’m providing legitimacy to you and your network by being allowed to be in this room. It’s called the first amendment and you are a member of the press and you have a right to be in this room. If I had said you couldn’t come into this room, how would that make America better?”
Hillyard asked: “Did you extend an invite to Liz Cheney?”
Schlapp said: “No.”
Romney: "Marjorie Taylor Greene & Gosar, I don't know them. But I'm reminded of the old line from Butch Cassidy where one character says, 'Morons, I have morons on my team.' I think anybody who would sit down w/ white nationalists at their conference is missing a few IQ points." pic.twitter.com/sCEM2rSaxl
This is an audio only post. It does have CC and I watched it with the CC on for a while and it tracks well. The host is former Senator Al Franken. The subject is on how the right when batshit and got everything they wanted. It is how the Republican party became the tRump party. It is an important subject.
BREAKING: Amazon told union organizers at JFK8 today that they were calling the police after they delivered a pasta & grilled chicken lunch to break room.
Here is the video of NYPD showing up and arresting 3 union organizers, 2 are current employees.https://t.co/v07oFCZFKo
As I told Congress last week, Medicare for All is inevitable because current healthcare trends are unsustainable. The only real question is how much unnecessary pain, suffering, and cost Americans will have to endure before we get there. https://t.co/M1dPuZCBBL
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Imagine a supremely qualified SCOTUS nominee with two Harvard degrees with honors, a SCOTUS clerkship for the justice they'd replace, and two years as a federal judge.
(That's Chief Justice John Roberts.)
Ketanji Brown Jackson has all of that, plus seven more years as a judge.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. This is what a leader looks like. This is what courage looks like. He didn’t fake bone spurs or flee to Poland to leave his people to die. 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/2Lhk6ZBGRo
Anyone who questions why Ukraine decided to become a sovereign nation and why they don’t want to go back to being under the thumb of Russia should read this thread. @cspanwj#IStandWithUkrainehttps://t.co/nQPUd7iUhL
Kyiv now. Continuous rocket shelling. And three convoys of tanks – almost 500 in total – approaching the city from different directions. It will be hellish tonight. pic.twitter.com/pgkjvSnVT1
Russian military is bombing hospitals in Ukraine, health minister Viktor Liashko said. "This is a violation of Geneva convention, a shameful and cowardly act. Such actions by the occupiers put civilian lives in danger and contradict principles of international humanitarian law'
Thinking back on Tucker Carlson's "Has Putin ever called me a racist?" comment-it's wild how so much of the conservative culture war is just driven by being afraid of getting called bigoted.
Franklin Graham is the son of Billy Graham. Both are/were idiot charlatans.
Five Texas district attorneys pushed back on Gov. Greg Abbott's directive in which he called gender-transitioning and affirming procedures as "child abuse." https://t.co/PXLfcmaBcl
The governor of Texas wants parents who support their trans kids to be prosecuted for "child abuse."
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Attorney general Paxton's opinion and Governor Abbott's letter have no legal effect, can't change Texas law, and can't override the constitutional rights of Texas families.
No court anywhere in the country has ever found that gender-affirming care can be considered child abuse. https://t.co/D8F7rfELdV
Getting a little worrisome how much the right wing is embracing "the West was weakened by our failure to oppress trans people" as a narrative right now pic.twitter.com/Q0HlozOalo
It is 100% repackaged homophobia by the way. When gay marriage was the big culture war issue the reactionary talking point was all about how men and women procreate and same sex couples don't so homosexuality isn't "scientifically justified".
Right wing media is split with some praising Putin and others are mocking the invasion to slam Biden. None of them seem to care about the people of Ukraine.
SKelley thinks Biden is responsible for the global rise in gas prices.
Notice that the US isn’t even near the middle of the list.
Also, another cheap shot at the polls, when he hasn’t even gotten close to the Last Occupant yet.
Rising petroleum prices are simply an inevitable consequence of dependence on a finite commodity. Every bit of oil taken out of the ground is that much less oil left in the ground. Duh.
Hopefully it becomes inevitable that nowadays any country invading another one, even if it’s next door, it turns into a quagmire that the invader loses. Problem with “explosions in Moscow” is that those would be followed by “explosions in New York and Washington D.C. “. Anybody really want that?
Gab CEO Andrew Torba, slated to speak at AFPAC alongside Fuentes- "Putin is brilliant"; "I hope the Globalist American Empire gets humiliated from all angles"; "Ukraine needs to be liberated & cleansed from the degeneracy of the secular western globalist empire" pic.twitter.com/18HJa8kRH9
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Republican campaign arm, dodged questioning on Saturday regarding whether former President Trump should condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a brief interview with CBS News’s Robert Costa at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Scott was asked if Trump, who is scheduled to speak later Saturday, should condemn Putin.
“Well, clearly, we all ought to be condemning what’s going on in Ukraine. I mean, Putin is a thug. We need to hold him accountable. I hope the Biden administration, hope everybody, you know, holds — does everything they can to hold the Biden administration —” Scott said before Costa interjected to ask if that included Trump.
Scott said that was a decision Trump needed to make.
“Putin is a thug. It’s despicable. My heart goes out to the people of Ukraine. I’m gonna do everything I can to help the Ukraine citizens. We need to make sure we provide all the resources we can,” Scott continued.
“So it’s up to him whether he condemns Putin or not?” Costa asked Scott.
“Of course, it’s always up to him,” the Florida senator answered.
Costa pressed the Florida Republican again, asking if wanted to hear the former president issue a “strong message” against the Russian invasion.
“Well, I talked to President Trump. I talked to Republicans all over the country. We’re all focused on making sure we get the Senate back,” Scott answered.
Trump has faced criticism for remarks he made earlier this week on the “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” in which he said that Putin’s recognition of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine was “pretty savvy” and “smart.”
“I went in yesterday, and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius,'” Trump said during the interview. “Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), a frequent critic of Trump and one of a group of House Republicans who voted to impeach him last year, said his praise for Putin “aids our enemies.”
“Former President Trump’s adulation of Putin today — including calling him a ‘genius’ — aids our enemies,” the Wyoming Republican tweeted. “Trump’s interests don’t seem to align with the interests of the United States of America.”
“He is certainly not someone to be praised, and I think what we ought to be encouraged by is the reaction across the free world. Really what Putin wants more than anything is disunity, because disunity will lead to an ineffective response,” McMaster said during an interview on CNN.
The Hill has reached out to Scott’s office for further comment.
Should Trump condemn the Russian invasion when he speaks at CPAC tonight? Even out of power, he remains a central figure in many GOP races nationwide.
@CBSNews asked Sen. Rick Scott, head of Sen Rs’ campaign arm.
Just Saying: Very few American journalists are connecting the dots between Paul Manafort's work in Ukraine, the Trump campaign's change to the GOP platform in 2015, Trump's withholding of support and attempted blackmail of Zelensky, and this invasion.
For those wondering what this is about last night I had finally had it. After weeks of patience mine was gone with the rabid right wingers. Two in particular, who simply ignore any evidence, lie, misinform, misdirect, and When backed into a corner move the goal post. Everything they disagree with is fake news and what ever they want to believe is fact. They are pushing conspiracies about everything and there is no nuance or shades of grey with them. They feel that all Democrats are one block out to destroy the country, rape the kids, and do all the evil. Republicans in their view are both the strongest people in the world and being cancelled while being pushed around by the tyrannical left. They make no sense and when I point that out that they have conflicted themself I am an evil liar out to destroy the US. Putin is right yet Biden is a weak doddering fool for not stopping him. Yes that was in the same paragraph. I told them both off, not that it did any good and now I am simply refusing to engage with them. While I am busy it seems all they do is spend time in the right wing comic sections picking fight non-stop. So denying them engagement is the best thing to hurt them.
Failed humans think wage suppression and labor exploitation are acceptable.
News has become clickbait for ratings.
Fascists of a feather.
Trump’s sycophantic idolatry is pathetic.
Trump has been on Team Russia for decades.
The weakest POS in the world: Trump
Russian owns the Republican Party.
Republicans are spineless swine, cemented minds.
Russia owns the Republican cowards.
People who attack Ukraine and people who attack the Capitol share the same leader.
We need an education revolution. We need more solidarity with our teachers. We need to counter reactionary parents and their cowardly agenda.
The sad thing is, for two years, we have been watching people crying and saying goodbye to loved ones that they will not see again… because someone didn’t wear a mask.
There’s no debate: FOX is a sister station for Russian state media.
NYPD does not need that much money. Defund and redistribute. Lower poverty. Lower crime.
Fascism is central to Republican politics.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Russia invades Ukraine and we get this. Takes a special kind of ass to post this “toon” today as scores of lives are lost to Putin’s evil. He is so much worse than Putin. What’s next making restaurant workers wash their hands? How can we let this happen, we should attack Canada now to protect those poor truckers.
A few truckers, many antivax, QAnon conspiracy mongers and some funding from a foreign country (USA) were blocking major infrastructure / economy and major cities. The vast majority of Canadians did NOT support the idiots. The idiots brought 18 wheelers and were having a party. THis was NOT lawful protests. They were warned, warned again and then they were removed.
Oh…by the way, where are your Russian v Ukranian strips? Tell us the truth about a real situation of WAR!!!!
I can’t tell you the current sanctions regime will succeed, the the Trumpservative insistence that economic sanctions can’t work is ridiculous. The 1970s Arab oil embargo was nothing more of less than a regime of economic sanctions against the U.S. For its support of Israel in the 1973 war. It crippled the U.S. economy for nearly a decade and forced permanent policy changes.
Uneducated ignoramus Lisa Benson’s minimizing extremely severe sanctions as a “ding in a credit score” smacks of the same ignorant aid to our enemies as Trump praising his puppet master Putin’s war crimes as “savvy genius” for just “walking in” and taking over a “whole country” for the price of a “two dollar sanction.”
How ignorant does someone have to be not to understand the unprecedented step of massive sanctions on an unprecedented scale, going far beyond what any president has dared to impose in the past, and coordinated with virtually all European nations as well as many others, including international assets frozen (how will Mar-a-Lago make payroll?) for Russia as a nation, all the top OILigarchs as well as Putin himself (an unprecedented move), cutting off access to the international banking system, and further restrictions to trade and technology as well as direct sanctions on Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and the top OILigarchs?
Trump basically reduces war crimes to a real estate deal and both he and Lisa completely misrepresent these severe, unprecedented sanctions that will impose real pain.
The real question is, why are these people peddling such perverse misinformation for the purpose of supporting our enemies over our own government and our allies?
This was a cartoon on the misleading right wing media today. Gas prices were low because the demand for gas was very low with the world closed down and the factories not running. Now the world is opened up again. That is much better for the world to be up and running. The economy was slowing down and showing signs or regression in early 2019 as the fuel from the 2017 tax give away to the wealthy was burned through. Rather than invest that money in the country or more capacity the corporations spent it on stock buy backs and raising dividends. The US is as energy independent as it ever has been. That situation has not changed just the price of fuel has risen. Do you think US oil doesn’t rise when the rest of the worlds oil cost is rising? The US is still a net exporter. The borders are secure. Nothing has changed at the southern border. Those coming across it illegally are apprehended and deported. Those seeking asylum are being housed illegally in Mexico, and those seeking asylum with families are vetted given, court dates, and monitored in the country. tRump praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and called Putin a genius for doing it. China is still in check , nothing has changed.
The congresswoman from Georgia spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, organized by white nationalist “groyper” leader Nick Fuentes.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks at a white nationalist conference Friday night in Orlando, Florida.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) spoke at a white nationalist conference in Florida on Friday evening.
Greene, a QAnon conspiracist and rabidly anti-trans Republican, was the surprise speaker at the third annual America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, organized by white nationalist figurehead Nick Fuentes.
Fuentes, an antisemite and racist who attended the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and who was recently subpoenaed for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, excitedly introduced Greene as the featured speaker from behind a lectern inside the Marriott Orlando World Center, according to a livestream of the event. (HuffPost was denied entrance to AFPAC.)
In her speech, Greene referred to the assembled AFPAC crowd — among them prominent right-wing extremists who have been photographed giving the Nazi salute and reciting the infamous “14 words,” a white supremacist slogan — as “canceled Americans.”
“You’ve been handed the responsibility to fight for our Constitution and stand for our freedoms, and stop the Democrats who are the communist party of the United States of America,” Greene said.
She also took time to attack transgender people, claiming Democrats have destroyed “gender” and “pronouns.”
Her speech was immediately followed by a series of virulently racist and homophobic diatribes from prominent extremists.
“They want to replace you,” said Vincent James Foxx, a former propagandist for the white supremacist street-fighting club Rise Above Movement. “Western white culture is the majority culture, to which even non-whites assimilate into today — and they’re better off for it.”
Then far-right podcaster Stew Peters called for the execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whom he falsely blamed for causing the coronavirus pandemic.
“Tony Fauci literally unleashed a bio weapon on the world. Why is this man running around free instead of hanging on the end of a noose somewhere?”
The crowd roared.
Greene’s presence at AFPAC underscores the thin line separating the Republican Party from the white nationalist extremist movement in America. Greene, after all, was not the only public official who spoke at AFPAC on Friday night.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who spoke at last year’s AFPAC, made an appearance via a pre-recorded video, as did Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers and Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, both Republicans.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) poses for a picture with a Donald Trump supporter at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Friday. Greene later spoke at AFPAC.
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Greene is also scheduled to speak Saturday morning from the main stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the pre-eminent annual gathering of the conservative movement in America, a few hours before former President Donald Trump is set to speak from the same stage.
HuffPost also spotted Greene at CPAC on Friday — only a few miles from the site of AFPAC — where she was treated like a celebrity, posing for photos and conducting interviews with right-wing media outlets.
Last year, Greene was stripped of her committee assignments for promoting violence against Democrats.
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SKelley thinks Biden is responsible for the global rise in gas prices.
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
Notice that the US isn’t even near the middle of the list.
Also, another cheap shot at the polls, when he hasn’t even gotten close to the Last Occupant yet.