Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene denounced Kwanzaa as a “fake religion” just as millions of Black people start to celebrate the weeklong holiday.
The far-right Georgia lawmaker berated the national College Republicans for “pandering and BS” after the GOP group tweeted a seemingly innocuous happy holiday message.
“Stop. It’s a fake religion created by a psychopath,” Greene said. “People are tired of pandering and BS.”
She was apparently deriding Kwanzaa founder Prof. Maulana Karenga, who was convicted of felony assault in the 1960s in what he says was a politically motivated prosecution spurred by his involvement in Black nationalist politics.
Greene suggested that the College Republicans should avoid political correctness if it wants to galvanize the conservative base of the GOP.
“You aren’t bringing in new voters, you are turning them away,” she added.
The College Republicans, which bills itself as a home for young conservatives, did not directly respond to Greene’s criticism about the tweet, which misspelled the name of the holiday as “Kwanza.”
On Monday, the GOP group instead retweeted a “happy Kwanzaa to all those celebrating” message from her fellow right-wing Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida.
It also sought to show that other Republicans feel the same by retweeting past Kwanzaa messages from the national GOP and state parties in Ohio and Texas — as well as former President Donald Trump’s tweet of his own “Happy Kwanzaa” message early in his administration.
Greene notably did not criticize her political hero for the greeting despite finding fault with others.
Some Republican groups seek to highlight putative Republican values like personal responsibility, faith and prosperity to reach out to traditionally GOP-skeptical groups like Blacks, Latinos, gays and Jews.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
But hardcore white Christian conservatives like Greene consider such outreach amounts to the watering down of their message to the base of GOP voters.
Kwanzaaa, which lasts for seven days, is a holiday festival, not a religion as Greene claims.
It was created in 1966 as a way to allow Black people worldwide to celebrate their common African roots. It includes days to celebrate concepts like unity, responsibility and self-determination.
Millions celebrate it alongside other end-of-year holidays like Christmas and Chanukah.
Hard core white Christian conservatives that want everyone to worship the same god they do, want to force everyone to follow the same church doctrines they do. Why not simply way she is a white Christian nationalist who wants to overthrow the US democratic system for a theocracy of her own kind. Scottie
So do we have a secular country, or one ruled by a theocracy? I was just reading in the story before this one of an anti-LGBTQ+ Televangelist Accused Of Sexual Misconduct. Yet the real issue is kids having positive LGBTQ+ role models.
“We had the land, and they had the Bible. Then they said, ‘Let us pray,’ and we closed our eyes. When we opened them again, they had the land and we had the Bible,” ~Desmond Tutu RIP 🙏🏽🤎
In local jails all over the US, people are locked up for inability to pay fines & fees.
“This is not a sustainable way to raise revenue," said @JuliaCarmel__, sponsor of New York's End Predatory Court Fees Act. "It's simply wealth-based detention."https://t.co/gsGLd0mqHU
This anecdote in a public defender’s LTE about an Uber driver telling his passenger, an undercover informant, about his financial troubles and winding up with a prison sentence is such a stunning display of needless cruelty pic.twitter.com/D0JA61Datb
We just want what’s best for our country and save democracy
Classic conservative loser response.
We outnumber you.
On the one hand there’s a political party that attempted to maintain power through violently ransacking the US capitol. But on the other hand the smugness of liberals annoys me.
We can only wonder how much conservatism is not because someone is conservative but that some progressive, somewhere, somehow hurt their feelings. https://t.co/wNBuXZCv5d
FWIW, Cawthorn is exactly the kind of person a hostile intelligence agency would target. He’s a known serial liar, so there’s plenty of blackmail opportunity just in the public record. He’s also young, decidedly *not* smart, and easy to manipulate.
The US ICE / border patrol department of the government sent females to hospitals to be sterilized with out there consent under the tRump presidency. This is a recorded fact. This is a crime against humanity. But because it is the US against poor POC then it is not acknowledged nor given much thought, just like when those same departments under tRump’s orders ripped kids from parents and deported the parents. That is child trafficking. But again it is the US so must not be questioned. What is it was a different country? Scottie
This conveniently gives one side all of the power (they get to determine the cultural significance of the mask) and the other side all of the responsibility (it's their fault that the other side determined the way that they did). https://t.co/7MMDLLCHD8
I love arguments like this. The premise is that conservatives are mere brutes incapable of rational decision-making, so weak-minded and emotionally-driven that they bear no responsibility for obviously illogical decisions like refusing to get vaccinated. https://t.co/X0yNRhFIhs
Covidiots made it political, replacing loyalty to party over humanity.
A crack in the armor? Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Qanon are pissed off with Trump for uttering a scintilla of truth. Could the lunatic rats be deserting the Lunatic’s sinking ship? Here’s hope for the New Year.
There is no doubt what Fox News Corp has been doing. They make money by keeping their viewers as agitated as possible. When after Fox called the election for Biden they lost a lot of viewers to the more farther right media who spouted even worst lies. Fox soon we full big lie to win those viewers back. I can see their point, they are in it for the money. But they also are in it from the beginning to enable the channel to manipulate politics and the people to benefit the wealthy by changing laws to help the wealthy. The thing the viewers of these channels don’t realize is their being played. The lawyers for Fox have argued in court they are entertainment hosts, and their opinion should be taken as fact or news. Sad but the ones depending on Fox for their medical information don’t know that. Scottie
This is one of the most far right die in the wool hard Republican cartoonist. He makes not just misleading claims but out right lies. His cartoons are based in right wing media talking points not real events. Like the one above. We know Fauci simply looks at the data / evidence and gives his best educated recommendations based on his 30 plus years doing his job very well. Fauci don’t make any rules, laws, or mandates himself. He doesn’t have that authority, he recommends. The elected officials do the rule making. But the right has vilified him. I can tell you why. The right has over the last five years started to terrorize anyone who they disagree with until that person gives up in fear. Many left leaning politicians and bureaucrats are quitting their jobs in fear of the harassment / death threats they get to themselves and their families. Fauci enrages them because he did not give up nor give in, he stood up to their lord tRump. Think about what Fauci has advocated that makes the right so angry, protection from decease and deadly illness. That is it. That is what makes him suck a beast to them, he is a good communicator and he wont bow his had and spout their lies. So he must be destroyed in their universe. Scottie
The Q-publicans will block and obstruct any and all bills that Democrats try to pass if it will help the County and its citizens, but if it passes anyway, they will tout it as their own in the next election.
Michael Ramirez continues to demonstrate how fact-challenged, math-challenged, honesty-challenged, democracy-challenged or all-of-the-above challenged he is if he does not understand that the Senate is NOT a democratic institution.
And no, 51 votes from conservative senators does NOT equal a majority, when a state like Montana or Wyoming, with 1/18 the number of people as California has the same number of senators.
No, it is not a majority. 24% of the people represented are able to block the will of 76% of the people.
Even without the filibuster, the red state conservative failed, impoverished taker-welfare states would be far over represented compared with the successful, prosperous donor states. Add in the fact that just 40 senators from the smallest states with the fewest people (representing land [dirt], not people; conservative believe PEOPLE are worth less than DIRT) can use the corrupt, RACIST filibuster (begun to obstruct civil rights reforms and perpetuated to obstruct civil rights reforms) such that senators representing 24% of the population can overrule the will of senators representing 76% of the population.
That is NOT a majority.
That is NOT a democracy.
And if Michael Ramirez does not understand that, he is ignorant and uneducated and unqualified to comment. And if Michael Ramirez DOES understand it, he is immoral and dishonest.
This is a great video to explain why some of the maga / conspiracy / fox viewer types believed and acted as they do. I know some of my viewers don’t enjoy Beau’s videos, but the reasoning I thought was sound.
Rep Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, holds a press conference supporting Build Back Better investments in home care, childcare, paid leave and expanded child tax credit payments. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for MomsRising Together)
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning to describe the toxicity in Congress that exploded during Donald Trump’s four years as president, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) shared a recording of a vile death threat against her and her family.
With CNN host Dana Bash warning the audience about what was to follow, her producers play the audio where an unidentified man called the member of Congress a multitude of obscene names before stating, “I hope your family dies in front of you. I pray to God, if you got any children, they die in your face.”
As for comment afterward by host Bash, Dingell sat in silence for a moment before explaining the recording was one of many threats she has received since being singled out by the former president.
“I’ve been getting those for a couple of years ever since Christmastime, the Christmas, right after [husband] John had died,” she recalled.
“John was my late husband and it — you know, once you’re in that Trump hate tunnel, you kind of don’t escape it,” she continued. “There are a lot of people that are good, wonderful to meet, et cetera, but we average several of those a week and we’re used to it. My friends look at me, it’s almost like therapy, and say, ‘How can you do this?’ But you have to — we’ve got to be careful not to normalize it, but I’m not going to not do my job. I’m not going to go out and not be with people. I’m not going to go out and not listen to them. I want the American people to think about what’s happening in our country, that this kind of hate, this fear is happening in communities across the country.”
Watch below:
"It's pretty toxic, there's no question about it," GOP Rep. Fred Upton discusses the hostility on Capitol Hill with Democratic colleague Rep. Debbie Dingell.
It's insane how we still have to buy tiny toothpaste and take our shoes off to board a plane 20 years after 9/11, but 800,000 Covid deaths couldn't get us a temporary vaccine/test requirement to fly.
They were transgender, male reindeer do have antlers but they fall off in the winter.
Brought to you by the same idea that atheists are killing Christmas, gays are destroying the country, same sex marriage is killing opposite sex marriages, Lesbians are killing feminism, feminism is destroying traditional women’s roles, and so on. This is simply the traditionalist refusing to accept new ideas and understandings. Why can’t it stay the way it was, even though when our idea was new some people fought against it also with these same words. I have never found a feminist against transgender who can deny this or answer why their using the same words against others that were used against them is not wrong. Accept that things change with growth and enlightenment causing greater understanding. Scottie
Barely out of Christmas and back to the stupid. Everything is projection with the right. Toss out RW tropes until something sticks. It never does. Factually, the GOP is the group on the road to extinction and they know it, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to try and maintain their dwindling hold on power through gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and praying the judges the last occupant put in help them.
The right elects a fascist dictator wannabe, pampers the wealthy with tax cuts, screws the blue collar worker over time and again (and somehow gets them to thank them for it), inspires an insurrection, destroys democracy daily, and is so close to party-fracture that you need white supremacists and Nazis to survive and you think the left is near extinction?
The right hasn’t won a majority of votes in a presidential election in the 21st century.
Manchin betrayal is obvious. He must redeem himself.
US politicians will be like “We are falling behind, we need to compete with China“ then refuse to build infrastructure, expand social programs, or do literally anything other than expand the military.
But he is magic, not limited to the physical problems of supply and demand plus his workers are a branch of elves and they love their jobs because Santa treats them great.
I hope this is photo shopped, but this is the goal of some people who are convinced they need this arsenal to protect themselves from their own government. Hugs
Only the US forces you to give birth while forcing you to pay tens of thousands of dollars to give birth while not letting you have time off to give birth.
Scottie's Playtime 
Michael Ramirez continues to demonstrate how fact-challenged, math-challenged, honesty-challenged, democracy-challenged or all-of-the-above challenged he is if he does not understand that the Senate is NOT a democratic institution.
And no, 51 votes from conservative senators does NOT equal a majority, when a state like Montana or Wyoming, with 1/18 the number of people as California has the same number of senators.
No, it is not a majority. 24% of the people represented are able to block the will of 76% of the people.
Even without the filibuster, the red state conservative failed, impoverished taker-welfare states would be far over represented compared with the successful, prosperous donor states. Add in the fact that just 40 senators from the smallest states with the fewest people (representing land [dirt], not people; conservative believe PEOPLE are worth less than DIRT) can use the corrupt, RACIST filibuster (begun to obstruct civil rights reforms and perpetuated to obstruct civil rights reforms) such that senators representing 24% of the population can overrule the will of senators representing 76% of the population.
That is NOT a majority.
That is NOT a democracy.
And if Michael Ramirez does not understand that, he is ignorant and uneducated and unqualified to comment. And if Michael Ramirez DOES understand it, he is immoral and dishonest.
And the two are not mutually exclusive. Scottie