Defund police, increase spending for services needed by the community like housing.
The police are funded. The communities are not.
Cortlin, a leader at the first unionized Starbucks store, on why he joined the movement… pic.twitter.com/U8OwOWWkJR
— Starbucks Workers United (@SBWorkersUnited) March 1, 2022
Look, corporate profits are at near record levels. Of course these massive corporations could absorb cost increases. They’re not raising prices because they have to. They’re doing it because they can. And they can because many of them have killed off all of their competition. pic.twitter.com/xNEtdjI8bT
Memo to the Fed: A better alternative to raising interest rates and slowing the economy would be a windfall profits tax on big corporations who have been raising prices despite making record profits. https://t.co/Z4VBrkn8zz
Because they’re too distracted by the imaginary scary caravan
Progressive policies are common sense.
If a million people tune into every episode of your commentary on current events, whining about "the media" is equivalent to a sitting representative whining about "the government." If you hate the field in which you work that much, GTFO and let someone who likes it have a try.
Please take note of how dramatically Twitter has changed since the freezing of Russian assets. Suddenly all those anti-Biden “American patriots” have disappeared.
— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) March 1, 2022
BREAKING: The Jan. 6 select committee says it believes Donald Trump violated multiple laws in his quest to overturn the 2020 election — including obstruction of Congress and defrauding the United States.https://t.co/xfJ5jYQDom
#Russia's state TV again showcases @FoxNews clips as part of their war propaganda, seeking to demoralize the Ukrainian troops with dire predictions from retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor (who gave multiple interviews to Russian state media in the past). pic.twitter.com/wmBwUrnKHB
Please remember that when you're angry at a country, you're angry at its government– not its people, who suffer under that government. This is truest when that government most closely resembles a dictatorship, which is typically why we're angry at countries.
Here’s the smoking gun email, where Eastman actually says to Pence’s lawyer that he’s aware he’s asking Pence to violate the law. “I implore you to consider on more minor violation [of the electoral count act]” pic.twitter.com/1lB1WJdHgN
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 3, 2022
Just a reminder that multiple states are moving bills to criminalize health care for trans youth this week. Hearings scheduled in Alabama, Idaho and Tennessee (on a civil prohibition that reaches adult care as well).
UPDATE: The Travis County District Court has GRANTED a temporary restraining order to BLOCK the state from investigating the parents of a trans teenager for providing essential, life-saving health care or taking any action against the mandatory reporter in our case.
🚨Alabama had passed HB266 and SB184 out of House committee. SB184 has passed the Senate already. A felony ban on health care for trans people up to 19 is now close to passage. They are trying to eradicate us. 🚨
Thread about how transphobic detrans activism is about restricting or even eliminating trans people's access to healthcare, rather than trying to create more resources for people who detransition and/or are harmed by medical transition. https://t.co/mYACQCCDCp
— Ky Schevers @reclaimingtrans@kolektiva.social (@reclaimingtrans) February 25, 2022
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Far right cartoonist Rivers is trying to sell the don’t stop Putin stupid idea. The refrain from the right is don’t stand up to Putin or it will make him run right to China. China the country Putin was kissing up to long before he went into Ukraine is the reason the right says not to appose the invasion. But the lives of the Ukrainians are worth far more the right wings fear mongering.
The destruction of cities like funding infrastructure. The devastating assault on livelihoods like a record employment increase. We have more jobs than workers right now. We are finally tackling crumbling infrastructure.
Because petroleum is an international commodity. The USA imports as much oil as they export. If Europe will pay more for Texan oil, that’s who they will sell it to. If Russian oil is cheaper than Texan oil, that’s who refineries will buy from. January saw virtually zero U.S. imports of Russian crude, with some volumes slated to arrive in February and March purchased before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. So far, there haven’t been any signs of fresh bookings as buyers look elsewhere for supply.
So, the federal government is forcing women to abort up to birth? There’s no comparison of governmental policy. The right of privacy INCLUDES the right to carry to birth. QUESTIONABLE COMPARISON. No one is fighting for abortions up to birth. That is one of the most idiotic lies out there. The only exception would be if the baby was already dead and needed to be removed to save the life of the mother. If the baby is already dead it is not actually an abortion. Those that would have the mother die to birth a dead baby are dead inside. Frankly, it’s ridiculous to be bothered with this nonsense when Ukraine is currently on the front line fighting for their freedom and quite possibly the world’s.
Inflation is actually price gouging. The border and crime are basically as they’ve been for decades. Energy is a front on which the Democrats, and ONLY the Democrats, want to make progress. Inflation is a global problem. Biden is way superior to Trump on foreign policy. It is the GOP that strives to keep American dependent on fossil fuel energy. Trump was Putin’s baby. The border is incredibly exaggerated. Crime is no more a problem than it has ever been, and a lot better than it was just 30 years ago.
We can only hope the people will rise up and remove Vlad.
At first Rivers was hitting Biden as weak, but because public opinion is so pro-Biden and anti-Putin Rivers had to switch his target.
Russia is not communist and Putin doesn’t want that part of the USSR back. He has stole far too much of the countries wealth for that. But he is sending untrained kids and uninformed military into Ukraine to fight.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The right wing can not help themselves. They are racists and they know how that label hurts themselves, so they want to assign that label to those they hate also. They want to turn people off from Planned Parenthood so they claim the organization is racist. Even thought it is a big help women of all colors and economic levels.
Sanger’s birth control movement did have support in black neighborhoods, beginning in the ’20s when there were leagues in Harlem started by African-Americans. Sanger also worked closely with NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois on a “Negro Project,” which she viewed as a way to get safe contraception to African-Americans.
In 1946, Sanger wrote about the importance of giving “Negro” parents a choice in how many children they would have. “The Negro race has reached a place in its history when every possible effort should be made to have every Negro child count as a valuable contribution to the future of America,” she wrote. “Negro parents, like all parents, must create the next generation from strength, not from weakness; from health, not from despair.”
Her attitude toward African-Americans can certainly be viewed as paternalistic, but there is no evidence she subscribed to the more racist ideas of the time or that she coerced black women into using birth control. In fact, for her time, as the Washington Post noted, “she would likely be considered to have advanced views on race relations.”
Why does the right right wing think the president can only work on one thing at a time? The President has staff, a lot of staff. The president has a cabinet to work on things for them. The right seems to think the president does all the work himself, but the president has a team to get a lot done at the same time. So yes it is all on the front burner. And the US is not a low rated show.
Another example of ramirez playing fast and loose with the truth. the assailant was a right wing nutjob, not a democrat, and he was attacking the governor’s wife, too…
The state of the country is strong. The US bounced back from the destruction of the pandemic faster than any other country. We had the most vaccinated. We had the highest growth compared to the rest of the world. Our nation under the leadership of Joe Biden has brought the rest of the world together against Putin / Russia and applied the toughest sanction ever put against Russia for its aggression. Despite the right wing media trying to tear the country down, the borders are secure and the country is still a mass exporter of oil & gas just like we were a year ago. In fact the US has increased its oil exports. The right wing doesn’t like that fact, because it shows not only are we still oil independent but that the oil companies prefer to sell over seas to increase their profits rather than sell that oil domestically at a cheaper price. It is about the profit for the oil companies, not what is good for the US. This cartoon is just a bunch of lies and false statements designed to get praise from the cult who never bother to look up the facts, the numbers, the real situation but instead champions the misinformation and misdirection the wright wing media puts out to sway the base.
These trolls are what passes for Republican congress people. These are the role models for your kids? These two are what Republicans are today. Joe Wilson, a confirmed racist, shouted you lie at President Obama during one of his SOTU addresses. The Republicans loved it. The Democrats don’t do this, they are adults that respect the chamber, the position of president, and what law makers use to be.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., repeatedly interrupted and interjected during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Greene was heard grumbling through the entire part of Biden’s speech about Covid policy before she shouted a remark about women’s sports when Biden mentioned new laws targeting transgender Americans and their families.
Boebert and Greene tried to start a “build the wall” chant — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s calls to construct a wall across the U.S. southern border — when Biden referred to securing the border and reforming immigration law.
Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert heckled President Biden during his State of the Union speech as he was describing the death of his son Beau Biden, an Iraq War veteran who succumbed to brain cancer.
Biden outlined the severe medical symptoms that U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan endured from breathing in toxic fumes from “burn pits,” saying many of the troops developed “a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin.”
“You put them in. Thirteen of them,” Boebert then yelled, referring to the terrorist attack at a gate outside the Kabul airport last summer that killed 13 U.S. service members. The outburst drew immediate and loud boos inside the chamber.
As President Biden spoke of veterans developing cancers and his dead son Beau, Rep. Lauren Boebert shouted "13 of them" — referencing U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan. https://t.co/ndEsiXgm6g
Here's the moment where Lauren Boebert was booed for shouting that Biden put soldiers in flag-draped coffins — all while the president was talking about his veteran son dying of cancer and how it potentially could have been due to burn pits. pic.twitter.com/fJzsPwkQza
As someone that lived next to a burn pit I don’t appreciate @RepMTG and @laurenboebert Had to interrupt the first time ever burn pits are mentioned in a State Union of address to score a political partisan point. #trashpic.twitter.com/cuJh2gkVQs
The underlying problem is not inflation. It’s corporate power. The entire American economy is concentrated into the hands of a few greedy, corporate giants with the power to raise prices. pic.twitter.com/QnWHKNoWOH
Entire Republican Party is weak and compromised. Their fealty toward Putin is manifest.
The Russian troll farms can still depend on Congressional Republicans.
Thank you, President Biden.
Reagan wouldn’t be wearing a halo, he also would have horns and a pitchfork.
The weakest POS in the world: Trump
Putin has been playing the long game with Republicans. Using them. Bigly.
Republican voters, ‘doing their research’ and definitely not sheeple, have no fcuking clue.
The whole thing rots.
Republicans carry so much water for Russia. Their politicians adore Putin. Their campaigns are stuffed with Russian donations. Their media is in lockstep with Russian state media. Their base/voters have no idea their emotions/politics have been played the entire time.
It’s one massive cesspool of whiteness looking to achieve a synthetic nostalgia that will never happen.
Putin is evil, never to be trusted. No mystery that indoctrinated Republicans and their base adore him. The Right can not stand up to objective evil. They can only cower in shame, hoping the bully will save them.
#Russia's state TV again showcases @FoxNews clips as part of their war propaganda, seeking to demoralize the Ukrainian troops with dire predictions from retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor (who gave multiple interviews to Russian state media in the past). pic.twitter.com/wmBwUrnKHB
If we have been looking for something that might unify polarized, divided democracies, defending Ukraine (and by extension, freedom) from Russian shock troops might fit the bill.https://t.co/CdUmAje5LK
Again the right wing distorts everything. The vaccines have different effective rates against the different variants. Vaccines need to deal with the virus circulating in the population, not the one from last year or the start of the pandemic. But they can not wait to demonize Dr. Fauci even though as the science data changes so does the advice Dr. Fauci gives.
The news is bad for Republicans, quick say something about Hillary to get the base foaming at the mouth again. Distract and misinform is the goal. All the things they have accused Hillary of has been soundly debunked yet they keep repeating it. Look at what they are bringing up: Benghazi, Whitewater, Uranium One which is a Canadian company, spy on tRump which e en Durham said was never in his filing and did not happen. The right wing media just makes up stuff and the base believes it and loves it.
This is the talking point the right wing loves to throw out all the time about Ukraine and tRump. See how much tougher the Republicans are against Putin, they sent lethal weapons to Ukraine. But it ignores the truth.
While the Obama administration was criticized for its refusal to provide lethal assistance to Ukraine, it did provide more than $100 million in security assistance, as well as a significant amount of defense and military equipment.
By March 2015, the US had committed more than $120 million in security assistance for Ukraine and had pledged an additional $75 million worth of equipment including UAVs, counter-mortar radars, night vision devices and medical supplies, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
That assistance also included some 230 armored Humvee vehicles.
Trump appears to be echoing a critique leveled at the Obama administration by the late Republican Sen. John McCain. “The Ukrainians are being slaughtered and we’re sending blankets and meals,” McCain said in 2015. “Blankets don’t do well against Russian tanks.”
While it never provided lethal aid, many of the items that the Obama administration did provide were seen as critical to Ukraine’s military. Part of the $250 million assistance package that the Trump administration announced (then froze and later unfroze) included many of the same items that were provided under Obama, including medical equipment, night vision gear and counter-artillery radar.
It also seems to forget that tRump froze US aid to Ukraine as he extorted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find dirt on Hunter Biden.
Also it forgets that for a year Biden has been arming Ukraine. Obama is not president and has not been for 6 years. Biden is president and he has been sending the lethal aid Ukraine wants.
Biden is not controlling the price of oil or gas, nor is he stopping US energy production. However, based on the right wing assumption that he can control the price, I would suggest the US government start regulation gas prices as a necessary item. I think $1.25/gallon would be a fair price for the consumer and still have massive profits for the oil company CEO’s to split. Payne follows the right-wing insinuation and false accusation that Biden cut oil production when the fact is that Biden went to the U.S. oil companies and asked them to increase production to bring prices down. Biden went to the Saudis as well, as they are the ones who started this bout of inflation. Inflation → Price gouging and record profits.
A year ago in February of 2021 is when the Saudis announced they were raising their prices to make up for the 40% loss in profit due to COVID-19 in 2020. That is when gas prices went up. Other industries followed their lead making today’s inflation. The Saudis should have taken the hit, like the rest of us did, suffering on their yachts.
This inflation is world wide, not just the U.S.
Any praise for Romney’s Russia stance is incomplete unless it acknowledges his track record of being an opportunist with a seemingly ever-shifting sense of morality. Romney’s 2012 comments warning about the threat posed by Russia conveniently ignores Romney’s own role in empowering the Russian government. He initially fawned over then-President-elect Donald Trump, who demonstrated incomparable servility to the Kremlin. In 2016, as Romney sought to become Trump’s secretary of state, he was extremely complimentary toward Trump when the two met for dinner during the presidential transition. After the meeting, Romney said that Trump shared a “message of inclusion and bringing people together,” that he’d been “impressed” by Trump’s transition effort, and that America’s “best days are ahead of us.” And all of that praise came months after Trump had openly called on Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
this piece of shit just emptied an unhoused person's tent of all their belongings and threw it all away. when i asked what they were doing they said cleaning up trash. when i said it was someone's stuff they called me a fucking weirdo, threatened me, and told me to back off. pic.twitter.com/hvHSvOEHtJ
Robots and automation in general eat up jobs. That should be a good thing. People do not exist just to work. Other countries know this. Living should be more than a daily grind to make wealth for the wealthy and trying to survive.
Since JK Rowling has blocked any reply to this litany of half-truths and transphobic dogwhistles, I thought I'd catalogue them properly here: https://t.co/vo3AsrZJLz
— 🤦♂️ Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ) June 10, 2020
FOX is complicit. They parrot Russian active measures reflexively.
Republican rhetoric is meaningless.
Who pays an artist to take someone else's existing painting and repaint the figures and faces to depict yourself standing with a heroic sword-wielding Jeffrey Epstein? https://t.co/0lxj5cHwbW
— Please follow my new X/Tw1tter: @BarryIsVery (@barrydeutsch) February 28, 2022
— Please follow my new X/Tw1tter: @BarryIsVery (@barrydeutsch) February 28, 2022
This is perhaps the most horrifying move. Shrier outs a trans minor in national press, virtually ensuring harassment and threats. https://t.co/GIJl7sZdE3
Alternate title: Transphobic father, Ted Hadacko, loses custody of his transgender kid after expressing his transphobic views and abusing his family.
This is more misinformation laundering by the NY Post for Abigail Shrier who outed the trans kid of the judge in this case. pic.twitter.com/h7Pf4jIFOj
— Alejandra Caraballo is on Threads/Bluesky (@Esqueer_) February 27, 2022
The amount of right-wing takes about the Russian army not using woke pronouns… nukes could be raining from the sky and these people would be saying “GUESS YOU DONT NEED GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS NOW!!” Deranged, psychosexual obsession pic.twitter.com/uBuj2JDhDc
Since JK Rowling has blocked any reply to this litany of half-truths and transphobic dogwhistles, I thought I'd catalogue them properly here: https://t.co/vo3AsrZJLz
— 🤦♂️ Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ) June 10, 2020
John Kerry is a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran who risked his life to save others and was injured in battle and also came home to speak out against an unjust war. He has more understanding of life, death, energy and, yes, fighting for freedom than CHICKEN HAWK Mike Ramirez who has never served.
John Kerry’s current position is to seek solutions to the climate crisis and, in that capacity, he has called for greater energy independence, including the user of electric vehicles.
This is an important issue, but it has little direct relevance to the Ukrainian war of self-defense against the aggression by Russia and its dictator who receives worshipful praise from Trump, Pompeo and Tucker Carlson.
Trying to tie the two together by someone like Michael Ramirez, who understands neither demonstrates the desperation and intellectual vapidity we are dealing with.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends.
If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.
Oil and gas are top products of both Russia and Ukraine, whose energy Russia covets.
Perhaps if we listened to John Kerry and plugged our electric vehicles into solar panels (as my wife and I do), we would disempower Putin and reduce the need to fight over energy which can be produced by sun, wind and other renewable sources.
Perhaps if the president from 2017 to 2021 had not been busy doing everything he could to weaken Ukraine, weaken NATO, threaten to pull out of NATO, threaten to pull our troops out of Europe, invite Putin to gatherings other world leaders kicked him out of and so many more actions designed to strengthen Russia then Russia wouldn’t be a major threat to world peace now. It is all perspective isn’t it. At the time Romney said it Russia was not a major threat or a large problem. It grew into one with the help of tRump.
You’d think that a major global tragedy like Russia invading Ukraine could tear him away from taking pot shots at Democrats for a couple of seconds. He’s taking gratuitous shots at the President during what amounts to a proxy war. Politics used to stop at the water’s edge. Whatever you think of him, by exposing Putin’s lies and tactics well before he invaded Ukraine, Biden led the free world in a more United front than Putin thought possible. Biden and his team have done a good job of wrangling a fractious alliance and putting together some very tough economic sanctions. Their decision to telegraph the intelligence that the invasion was coming took guts as well — because if Russia had pulled back they would have been accused of either lying or being hysterical. As it was, Biden and his team prepared the world for what was coming and laid the groundwork for a unified response.
I hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars. There would be no NATO if I didn’t act strongly and swiftly. Also, it was me that got Ukraine the very effective anti-tank busters (Javelins) when the previous Administration was sending blankets. Let History so note!
Trump, who discussed pulling the US from NATO takes credit for NATO’s existence in a new statement. Trump, who threatened to withhold weapons funding from Ukraine to get dirt on Biden, takes credit for Ukrainian weapons in same statement. pic.twitter.com/OvyorRtHmh
-Works to get weapons to Ukraine to defend from Russia off GOP platform -Illegally withholds military aid from Ukraine -Announces plan to pull US troops from Europe -Floats leaving NATO -Praises Putin's invasion of Ukraine -Criticize US action against Russia
The events of the past week makes it clear why Donald Trump worked tirelessly to undermine NATO. When supported by the United States, the organization is the greatest bulwark against Putin’s tyranny just as it was against Soviet tyranny.
“I wanted to hamstring NATO when I was president. I tried extorting political favors from Zelensky before I would give Ukraine military aid. Anyway: I now want you to know that NATO wouldn’t exist without me and I always looked after Ukraine’s national security.” – Trump pic.twitter.com/w12eBtpI22
Congresswoman says ‘our neighbors to the north need to be liberated’, prompting widespread condemnation
Lauren Boebert said: ‘We have neighbors to the north who need freedom and you need to be liberated and we need that right here at home.’ Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
The Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert was condemned for comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the clearing of a truckers’ protest in Ottawa, saying: “We also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated.”
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A former US ambassador to Canada called the comments “reckless” and “dangerous”.
A protest in imitation of the Canadian truckers has been making its away across the US. It is expected in Washington this week.
Anthony Housefather, a Liberal member of the Canadian parliament, told Boebert that “while it’s good that you are not following the Trump line and are standing with Ukraine instead of Putin, it is sad to hear you compare free and democratic Canada to the invasion of Ukraine.
“If you would like to learn about Canada please reach out.”
That seems unlikely. Boebert, from Colorado, is a far-right controversialist and conspiracy theorist who since being elected in 2018 has consistently sought attention through confrontation.
She was discussing the Ukraine invasion at CPAC, the conservative event in Florida, in an interview with Fox Nation hosts Pete Hegseth and Kayleigh McEnany, the latter a former White House press secretary under Donald Trump.
Trump has condemned the invasion but repeatedly praised Putin.
Boebert said: “I pray for Ukraine and I wish them the best.”
She also praised the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose response to an evacuation offer was widely reported.
“They have a great president right now who really said, clearly, ‘Live free or die’,” Boebert said, reaching for the New Hampshire state motto before paraphrasing Zelenskiy, saying: “I don’t need a ride, give me ammunition. The fight is right here.”
She continued, saying: “But we also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and you need to be liberated and we need that right here at home.”
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It was a reference to the “Freedom Convoy”, a truckers’ protest which choked downtown Ottawa this month. The protest began against vaccine mandates but morphed into a protest against the government of Justin Trudeau.
The prime minister used emergency powers to aid the effort to end the protest, which saw police and protesters clash in the snowy streets of the Canadian capital.
Many in Canada and the US reacted to Boebert’s comments with anger.
Bruce Heyman, who was US ambassador to Canada under Barack Obama, said the congresswoman’s remarks were “reckless, dangerous and [crossed] every line of diplomacy and decency. Boebert would have been expelled from the Republican party before Trump but [is] now the darling of CPAC.
“Canada is our best friend, best trading partner, closest ally and should be treated as such.”
Reckless, dangerous and crosses every line of diplomacy and decency. Boebert would have been expelled from the @GOP before Trump but now the darling of CPAC. Canada is our best friend-best trading partner- closest ally and should be treated as such. https://t.co/W4VJhE1ENO
As Ukrainians fight for their lives during the Russian invasion, the extremist lawmaker used their plight to nonsensically push her ideology. https://t.co/nGQCNtMoF9
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.
Calls to expel Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene after speech at white nationalist event
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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
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Inflation is actually price gouging. The border and crime are basically as they’ve been for decades. Energy is a front on which the Democrats, and ONLY the Democrats, want to make progress. Inflation is a global problem. Biden is way superior to Trump on foreign policy. It is the GOP that strives to keep American dependent on fossil fuel energy. Trump was Putin’s baby. The border is incredibly exaggerated. Crime is no more a problem than it has ever been, and a lot better than it was just 30 years ago.