February 03, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
I know you were waiting for it. After 4 long, cold years we finally get to see Newt Gingrich make a pig of himself again.
Here he is thinking it’s a fantastic idea to call a black woman a “lynch mob” if she criticizes a white supremacist.
Damn. It’s the first time I’ve seen him use the term lynch mob and make it a negative thing.
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Gingrich should read Wilkes’ bio before quoting. This rake, who was a distant relative of John Wilkes Booth, later rejected his populist fans and turned hard right when he defended the Bank of England and Prime Minister. He died a lonely and rejected conservative man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes
1Well, I certainly wasn’t expecting this! What a wondrous imagination! I guess now that he’s not having to hang around the Vatican, he’s going back to smear fiction!
2I’m sure that Gingrich enjoyed using the term “Lynch mob” to remind Maxine Waters that people of her race have been targeted in this manner in the past. He is just such a despicable person at every level.
3Thank the little baby jeebus Newt (eye of) is defending Rep. Greene (R-Wackoville) instead of AOC or Maxine. With his rank wind at her back, Majorly (White)Greene’s ship of state will swamp on the first shoal.
4Of course Rep Greene is totally unfit to serve on either committee (ED and Labor), due her looney toons understanding of the finer points of Q-ville, but when has her stupidity ever stopped Rethuglicans from seeking equal treatment for a somewhat controversial Democrat?
I would like to think that we as a nation are better than this, but be prepared for the long haul. Q-ville is currently enamored with Trump, and it will be awhile before he fades away…
5The Wilkes case should control representation but there are exceptions, and Greene easily qualifies.
But go ahead, Republicans, brand yourself as the anti-semitic party.
6Lyin’ Newt the lyin’ Pewt is back? Again? Why? He has nothing to say that any sane person would want to hear. He got the Bewt years ago for good reasons.
7Newt helped make the repugnican party repugnant, so it only makes sense he’d want Taylor greene to continue on unabated. But in their minds, they think they’re making the repugnican party great.
8As for all those votes greene got, just shows how deep the shit is in her part of Georgia. Cult country.
He’s still a slimy little amphibian that hides under rocks
9So if as Newt says, the people’s vote matters more than parliament, where was he when that dictum was applicable for President Al Gore and President Hillary Clinton?
Down in Gingrich Swamp the crickets are all of a sudden louder than the Newts.
10Jimmy T, I am cautiously hopeful this afternoon that change can come. My neighbor across the street (when I sit in my favorite recliner, I look straight out at his front door) has been flying the loser’s flag for the past year or so, but it hasn’t been up so far this week. (I wanted to barf every time I looked at it until mid-November, when I felt comfortable laughing at it and calling it a loser flag. Today I feel even better!)
11Kevin McCarthy (Q-CA)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA)
The label describes the new Republican party.
12Rick, good point.
Gingrich must have been one of the worst history teachers of all time. (I did a paper on Hastings in an English constitutional history class 55 years ago. I didn’t expect it to be useful this year.)
13Newt’s counting can use a bit of context.
AOC and Maxine Waters had opponents, and still won more than 70% of the votes in their districts.
MTG had a name on the ballot, someone who tried to get the name off when he moved out of Georgia, and did not campaign or have a surrogate campaigning for him. Even so, 77,798 voters (about 25%) voted for him.
14Wouldn’t 304,933 votes beat 229,827 votes?
15Newt, newt, eye of…..He is trying to fire up the trumpian base to keep hisself relevant. Had his tiny little feelings hurt after General Austen removed him from his last minute Trump appointment to the Pentagon Defense Policy Board.
16Really? Really? The peoples vote count. Tell that to Trump who twice did not get the majority vote of the People
17John @ 14:
18Thanks for that resource. I knew about greene running basically unopposed, but not the other numbers. And it really is a bit of resource to me. Even though the numbers are probably readily available, I didn’t have to look for them individually myself. I believe that that’s one of thousands of types of resources produced for the right by their vast infrastructure by the ton. Constantly. Researched, put into larger context and organized into menu choices on a phone app, rated in descending order by the douchebaggery scale. newt didn’t have to do the work for that tweet. It was probably done by folks employed by some think tank who get paid to do nothing but that. newt probably just glanced at his phone, picked one, and tapped a tab that tweeted it for him, making him look clever as hell to magas everywhere.
IMHO that’s one result of the right’s massive infrastructure investment Lakoff’s talked about for years. In the article lex linked to on the 31st he warned about it, and that was 17 years ago.
We need more of that kind of resource. Not the misinformation like they get.
The truth that’s not being talked about, put into perspective, like you did. And not the tweeting part, just ammunition of facts that are so easily forgotten in the constant avalanche of bullshit from the evil empire.
The Berkeley article lex linked to.
19“George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics” https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml
They need to make an addendum to the film 13th.
https://www.vox.com/2016/10/7/13057508/13th-movie-review-ava-duvernay-mass-incarceration
I was shocked to see him in this film and amazed that he played nice. But that’s all it was. Playing.
Twit.
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