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'Looks Like the Crazy Lady Has Logged On': Rep. Ilhan Omar Welcomes QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Friday welcomed to Congress Marjorie Taylor Greenea Republican businesswoman who supports the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon, has a history of racist comments, and won a House seat in Georgia earlier this monthby offering some advice.
In response to Greene dragging up the unfounded Internet rumor that Omar married her brother, the congresswoman said, "Looks like the crazy lady has logged on."
"I know things might be different where you come from," Omar added to Taylor, "but you have to get off the looney train now that you are in Congress."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/20/looks-crazy-lady-has-logged-rep-ilhan-omar-welcomes-qanon-conspiracy-th
Omar is not playing nice with the lunatic fringe of Republicans.
rainin
(3,011 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,871 posts)She will make sure people know about this looney toon from Georgia.
Chainfire
(17,718 posts)I say that we light into them like a swarm of hornets when they begin their silly shit. That goes double for the Traitor in Chief.
OneBro
(1,159 posts)If they want to act like kooky goofballs, call them kooky goofballs.
SunSeeker
(51,787 posts)Their rube followers believethat shit, and have shot up a pizza parlor over this nonsense. They almost shot up the Philly counting center, but were intercepted just a block away.
Biophilic
(3,723 posts)No more playing nice with these people. Nice doesn't work to either change their minds or get them to work with us. All it does is give me a stomach ache and I'm tired of it. These are awful people and they need to be treated as such. No more playing nice!
it's like half the country has to walk on eggshells around these loons or they'll be set off.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I've seen nothing but angry screaming yelling demanding threatening behavior from trump supporters. and he encourages that.
Part of the problem is the same behavior is on daytime tv shows....The View, for example, and whatever are the
Jerry Springer shows where people are encouraged to yell at each other.
Fox. of course, is THE hate pipeline, it's the network of the South. It's on 24/7 in a lot of homes.
You've got angry screaming over the top emotional tv, and angry screaming over the top parents, no wonder the kids grow up to think it's normal behavior.
they couldn't spell, much less act with, decorum.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)TNNurse
(6,931 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,734 posts)But.
mitch96
(13,941 posts)Good, she ain't messing around.. Call them on all their bullshit and make them prove it with, you know, like FACTS!!
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tazmaniac
(114 posts)call them immediately on every false thing they say. No more sitting quietly and politely-there has to be an immediate public response to all this crap they are spewing. I love the high road but it's not working----let's level the field!!
mitch96
(13,941 posts)he would have shit him self..
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CrispyQ
(36,556 posts)If our side had been responding like this to the right's outrageous claims for the last 40 years we wouldn't be in this clusterfuck now.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)Can't stop them from spewing their bullshit, but there's not reason to treat them as anything but the partisan crackpot assholes they act like.
iluvtennis
(19,900 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)KY....... .......
Botany
(70,635 posts)It never works out for them because once on social media they are out of their "right wing Fox bubble"
and they get crushed.
Lonestarblue
(10,148 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,804 posts)mjvpi
(1,404 posts)Botany
(70,635 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)ancianita
(36,207 posts)It's not even about Omar not playing nice. It's about reality based governance. That simple.
bucolic_frolic
(43,455 posts)and go silent on the sane. It's the only approach to separate these insane split personalities.
TheBlackAdder
(28,246 posts)japple
(9,847 posts)Uncle Daddy were just talking the other day about how happy we are to finally have someone that thinks like us. We had to go out and fire off a few rounds just to celebrate how proud we are! (and lest anyone reading this thinks I'm serious, I'll just post the )
Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)alfredo
(60,078 posts)It also attracts little lobbyist money
calimary
(81,566 posts)barbtries
(28,817 posts)an entirely appropriate response imo
Evolve Dammit
(16,804 posts)barbtries
(28,817 posts)that the response was appropriate for the Qidiot's spreading that noxious bullshit.
Evolve Dammit
(16,804 posts)There's your real fake news. All over the blather-sphere. I just can't believe that anyone believes it.
barbtries
(28,817 posts)there's nothing too ridiculous for them to believe. and there's so many of them. jeez
Evolve Dammit
(16,804 posts)Thanks Barb. Hope you have a good Thanksgiving however it looks this year.
barbtries
(28,817 posts)i hope we all come out of this on the other side.
birdographer
(1,371 posts)is that we are cannibals. I have tried to find the source for that but haven't had much luck. But it keeps coming up. I mean really, cannibals??? Do they know what the word means? Maybe they think it's someone who smokes a lot of weed.
barbtries
(28,817 posts)considering that their belief apparently is that we eat babies. sigh.
birdographer
(1,371 posts)This is rhetorical, but why exactly would we eat babies? The mind reels.
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)after we molest them! Didn't they teach you anything at the Democratic Party Sabbat?
birdographer
(1,371 posts)do we roast them, or is it a grilling thing? Or a sushi thing? I'm so confused about how we eat the babies. What kind of a side goes best with babies? Have they mentioned ANY of this to help me???? Could they specify a little better than just "babies"? Sheesh.
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)I could write a book on Democrats and Satan worship and child molesting and cannibalism. A big, thick, book. There's a book with a lot of this information at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Mass. They keep it under lock and key along with the Necronomicon. Then there's the Book of Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, but all those copies are in collectors' hands. Start sending monthly checks to the DNC and more will be revealed.
Kali
(55,027 posts)all about "othering"
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,742 posts)We would really like two Senators from that state.
Focus the spotlight where the spot is - the looney lady.
BainsBane
(53,112 posts)Since when?
liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)stopdiggin
(11,404 posts)I'll point to a whole party full of people who don't believe in such things as evolution and global warming ...... (or wearing masks)
Evolve Dammit
(16,804 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,575 posts)Pretty long, I would imagine. It's hard to come back from QAnon, I hear. From any extreme cult, in fact.
dustyscamp
(2,228 posts)Paladin
(28,282 posts)Treat them like the filth they so obviously are. No prisoners.
Beartracks
(12,834 posts)"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" ― Isaac Asimov
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BComplex
(8,082 posts)The brothers, too!
The white reps in congress ALSO need to tear that Qidiot a new one! There needs to be a whole shit storm against this kind of racism everywhere....but most ESPECIALLY in the people's house!!!
(gan)Greene needs to start wishing she had never run for office.
Blue Owl
(50,549 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)she should have stayed in Georgia to fight the problem there. Georgia is 2nd only to Kentucky on that score.
maxrandb
(15,378 posts)The House has the power to do so, and I dare one fucking Retrumplican to scream about how "unprecedented" it would be.
Seriously, the mentally ill, the racist, the fascists, the Nazis, the "Q" dipshits SHOULD NOT BE SEATED.
LudwigPastorius
(9,240 posts)to try and slap some sense into one of those bubble headed twits.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,544 posts)Upthevibe
(8,102 posts)This Marjorie Taylor Greene is a real piece of work....