So I heard Majorie Taylor Greene

[samplegirl]

Refer to democrats that just want to be basket-weavers
And expect people like her to subsidize them.

I lost my shit when I heard her say this on tv the other day.

Considering she has no idea how hard it is to pull yourself back up after you lose a job of 31 years like my husband at age 55

Then myself at age 59

We sure are not basket weaving. Struggling day in day out pay to pay until we can retire in two years.

At age 65 alarm call at 5:00 am each day is hell!

[vanlassie]

1. She's a feces thrower. Pay her no mind.

Hang in there 💛

[rainin]

39. If our media were like the right-wing media, we'd be following her around asking "So, how do you

respond to the people out there who are calling you a 'feces thrower'?" lol In this instance, I wish we were!

[mnhtnbb]

2. That's also code for her racism.

[samplegirl]

5. She's a monster

What education does she have?

[geardaddy]

32. I think she has a Bachelor degree in Phys Ed.

[RocRizzo55]

36. Nope, she has a PhD

in bovine fecal matter.
So she's Piled High and deep in bullshit!

[Celerity]

45. Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia

[underpants]

3. Underwater basket weaving - it's an old thinly veiled racist joke

about college athletes who skate by academically. It started with some football players suing the California college system because they were passed along and some of them couldn’t read.

[samplegirl]

4. Thanks for explaining that

I wondered what she was implying.

[Walleye]

7. I remember that. It's an oldie.

[samplegirl]

8. I'm and oldie but

I don’t remember that.

[Walleye]

9. I was in college in California in the 70s maybe it was a thing there

[Harker]

22. I hadn't thought of the racist angle.

I heard it when in high school in the mid-70s, usually used as a snotty disapproval of the available array of elective courses, mostly from older people who never had fun in school.

[Walleye]

6. Wait, I believe, last I checked, we were subsidizing her

We are paying her a very good salary to insult us and accuse us of crimes every day. And she resents every penny of taxes she has to pay

[samplegirl]

10. Some of us people

actually have to work for a living.

[Beachnutt]

11. I never understood why congress people say they "served"

hell they get served by our tax dollars and very well.

[Walleye]

12. Large expense accounts as well for their staff

[plimsoll]

15. The Republicans are self serving.

Not what they're implying, my bad.

[Rebl2]

16. Exactly

A lot of them-republicans-do not serve us well at all. Some republicans in congress I consider grifters. MTG is a good example.

[William Seger]

34. And her constituents aren't even getting their reactionary money's worth

Since she was kicked off all committees and doesn't really do anything resembling work now, basket weaving would be a huge increase in her usefulness and productivity.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

52. Elected officials should be paid the median income of their constituents.

It would be an incentive to improve the lot of their constituents.

[Walleye]

54. But they should be required to live on it, not get outside income

[Hermit-The-Prog]

57. Exactly. It's obvious that the high salaries and benefits do not prevent corruption.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Well, she wants you to lose your shit.

Why do you think she spews all that garbage constantly? She's not there to legislate. She's there to sow hate and chaos and "own the libs." Mission accomplished.

[plimsoll]

17. Pure troll.

We just either ignore her or get her to say more stupid shit. It depends on whether you want her to shut up or provide more entertainment. Frankly she was effectively neutered as a legislator when she had her committee appointments removed. At this point the only thing she's providing her constituents is "owning the libs." She's not even very good at that, she's a knock off jim jordan without any rhetorical ability.

[Fredfon]

19. And sell t-shirts.

And sell t-shirts.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. looking for space on me for that label.

id just would love to see her loose her fancy medical insurance /federal credit cards . esp her fancy salary that WE THE PEOPLE , pay her.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Ask her if she repaid her PPP

$182,300 she and her husband received courtesy of the US taxpayer.

[James48]

20. for the record- I am a former basket weaver.

Last edited Wed Sep 21, 2022, 11:30 AM - Edit history (1)

I PROUDLY SPENT FIVE YEARS ACTUALLY WEAVING BASKETS FOR A MAJOR HOT AIR BALLOON MANUFACTURER.

I HAVE MADE SOME REALLY REALLY NICE BASKETS, AND i DID NOT TAKE A PENNY IN TAXPAYER MONEY WHILST DOING SO.


JUST SAYING- BASKET WEAVING IS A VERY SKILLED ART.

AND IT'S NOT EASY. IT IS VERY HARD ON YOUR HANDS.

[geardaddy]

33. I was going to say

basket weaving ain't easy!

[jmbar2]

38. WOW! Very impressive!

[mercuryblues]

21. She has also not met any basket weavers

They aren't cheap. But they are stunning

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Charleston - Sweetgrass Basket 15 Inch with Braided Edge 15 inch $695.00

[mercuryblues]

24. Longaberger baskets are also made by hand

A 10" trivet

SMALL LIGHT TAUPE IKAZE TRIVET
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[samplegirl]

27. Beautiful.

I’ve only weaved one basket in my life.

But I caned and entire seat and back for a friends grandfathers rocker.

[llmart]

40. I have one of those I bought in Charleston, SC.

The work these women do is amazing. Yes, they are usually African American women.

MTG is as useless as tits on a bull.

[YoshidaYui]

23. You know what?

Marjorie Taylor Green can go to hell!

[samplegirl]

28. I wish I could just spit on her

[YoshidaYui]

30. That would be a waste of good Spit

[Marcuse]

44. Not if she were on fire!

[bronxiteforever]

25. I am so sick of creepy clowns like her

Her Congressional District must be chock full of the biggest dirt balls in the Country.

[MissMillie]

26. It'd be really something if she'd just lose her job now (n/t)

.

[Warpy]

29. Clueless, cruel, and proud uvvit

She's got a voice that shatters tempered glass and has a backpfeifengesicht if I ever saw one.

I'm also glad she's in office and won't shut up. She is exposing very clearly what the Republicans have become and it's not pretty.

So as much as I want her gone from public view and out of Congress, I realize she's doing a damned good job of making people despise what that party stands for these days, turning us into a fascist hellscape.

[Ford_Prefect]

31. May she discover the laws of Gravity and Momentum in due course, and the sooner the better.

Of course she'll have to remove at least one hoof from her mouth to see it coming.

[samnsara]

35. i weave baskets and they are not easy to do. takes me about 40 hours of uninterrupted

work to complete one piece. They sell very well at the art galleries.

[samplegirl]

42. I've only woven one basket in my life

I know it’s hard work. As I mentioned in this post.
I did cane a rocker seat and back and that was hard as well.

I’m sure Marjorie Taylor Greene probably don’t even cook a meal!

[overleft]

37. Our business closed when I was 59 years of age.

I had an impressive resume and I got several interviews. When they saw my greying hair that was the end of it. Corporate America will not hire you after a certain age.

[samplegirl]

41. Your absolutely right

Just my husband working and one income is rough.

[dchill]

43. I think we can all agree that any basket weaver...

...is engaged in more useful output than a thousand MTGs. Nay, a million.

[The Jungle 1]

46. You guys just don't understand.

Only republicans work and love America. The rest of us are just out for the hand outs.
Remember corporate welfare far outstrips all social welfare.
So when this horse face puke ends all corporate welfare I will listen to how we should starve kids!

[JT45242]

47. Huge amounts of PPP -- typical rethug "OK for me, but for thee"

When we give corporate welfare it's OK.

When congress critters benefits, it's Ok.

If it goes to others, nope.

[Sogo]

48. Someone needs to remind her that the blue states

are the ones who by far are supporting those being subsidized in the red states....

[samplegirl]

49. Thank you everyone here in D.U.

You are family that help me get through week by week.

[Skittles]

55. someone is always here on DU

[ck4829]

50. A basket is useful, but what exactly does a hedge fund do?

[samplegirl]

51. Exactly

I need to vent some days

[Skittles]

53. fuck that vile POS

I served in the military and have worked full time for over FOUR FUCKING DECADES, no basket-weaving for me

I hear you samplegal, I am so fucking sick of these repukes who love spending trillions on senseless wars but HEAVEN FORBID we spend any money actually HELPING people.

[samplegirl]

56. I get so disgusted

and wondering if this country will ever come to its senses.

[Mopar151]

60. We did better when we had pride in our work.

A well woven basket, an excellent stamping die, an automation line that makes perfect little widgets or cheesy comestibles! This whole idea that rich dick salesmen and shysters talked this country into being is ludicrous!

[LudwigPastorius]

58. Marjo's an idiot, full of sound and fury.

...just a Queef in the wind.

[mountain grammy]

59. She insults all of us working people

Even her voters but they’re too stupid to realize it.. the woman is pure trash.

[Blue Owl]

61. Let's weave a big handbasket and send her to hell in it

[eppur_se_muova]

62. "Basket weaving" is RW code for "people are unemployed because they chose the wrong college majors".

So, see, you chose to major in Third World Feminist Deconstruction, making it your own fault you are unemployed, because who did you think was ever going to hire you ?

The fact that most people are unemployed because of the vagaries of foreign trade, Uglican legislation which empowers corps over people, rapidly changing technologies, and mergers and acqusitions -- i.e. factors all outside the individual's control -- is brushed aside, and replaced by the simple-minded RW mantra of "it's their own fault they don't have jobs", which excuses doing nothing to help the unemployed, or to address the many real-world root causes of unemployment, either of which might slightly decrease the profit margins of their big donors.