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To: Sdgla who wrote (1376472)	10/9/2022 7:38:49 AM
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Straw woman arguments? Does this mean you want to rape me?

To: Sdgla who wrote (1376472)	10/9/2022 7:41:54 AM
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@TUmarov This year Xi Jinping did not congratulate his friend Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday. But two days ago Xi sent an official letter to Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon on his 70th birthday. Broken Cuck is in hiding, so I'm sending this Putin mockery to you instead.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1376472)	10/9/2022 7:43:04 AM
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WWIII: Trump says Earth will be destroyed if Ukraine does not negotiate with Vladimir Putin Bob Brigham October 09, 2022 Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Saturday with a campaign rally held in Minden, Nevada where he spoke for 88 minutes. Trump was campaigning for GOP Senate nominee Adam Laxalt, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, along with gubernatorial hopeful Joe Lombardo, who is taking on Gov. Steve Sisolak. Trump is also backing election denier Jim Marchant for secretary of state. "Biden and his Left-wing handlers are turning America into a police state," Trump warned. We have a weaponized Department of Justice and F.B.I." Trump also said the world will be destroyed if Ukraine doesn't agree to a deal with Russia. RELATED: 'I love Putin': First woman in line at Trump rally backs Russia's war in Ukraine "We must demand the immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in World War III and there will be nothing left of our planet all because stupid people didn't have a clue, they didn't have a clue," Trump said. "They don't understand, they really don't understand." Dark music played over the end of Trump's speech, as has occurred at his Sept. 3 rally in Pennsylvania, Sept. 17 rally in Ohio, Sept. 23 rally in North Carolina, and Oct. 1 rally in Michigan. Likewise, much of the rest of Trump's speech was the standard fare he has offered at the four other rallies he has held since the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. On Sunday, Trump will be hosting a rally in Arizona. rawstory.com

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10/9/2022 7:45:10 AM

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'She’s not bright and she’s a bully': Voters and GOP officials in Marjorie Taylor Greene's hometown have grown 'embarrassed' by her

Tom Boggioni
October 08, 2022

[ "Stop being mean to my Qanon Queen," says SI's Bill. "She warned us about the gazpacho police and the Jews space lasers" ]

Marjorue Taylor Greene (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)

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In a deep dive into the unlikely possibility that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will lose her seat in November, some voters in her highly conservative district expressed dismay that they have to admit that she is their representative in Congress.

According to the Guardian's David Smith, reporting from the controversial lawmaker's hometown of Rome, Georgia, MTG ---as the House member is commonly referred to -- is a heavy favorite to retain her seat in Congress in a district dotted with Confederate flags where "Three in four people are white and three in four voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election."

With one local voter offering faint praise of the first-term lawmaker while also acknowledging she is short on being an effective lawmaker ("She puts her foot down and stands on a situation. Not backbone because she’s accomplished anything but backbone because she’ll stand up face to face with people”) other are not as pleased.

According to two-term city commissioner Wendy Davis, Greene slipped into office because no one asked the hard questions.

"The runoff was basically who loves Trump more? Although the media and some people had dug into this QAnon mess that she was a part of, none of the other Republicans made that an issue in their primary. Nobody had said, ‘She’s a little out there.’ Nobody had said, ‘What do you mean September 11 was a fake inside job?’" she explained.
According to the Guardian's Smith, Taylor Greene is not overly popular with local GOP leadership either.

"Local Republican officials here are said to be privately dismayed by Greene’s antics since she took her seat in Congress, which have included calling for Joe Biden’s impeachment and prison visits to rioters arrested after the January 6 insurrection. Mirroring their national counterparts’ deference to Trump, however, they mostly remain silent in public," he wrote.

Julie Svardh, 49, a local insurance agent, didn't remain silent when asked about her representative in Congress.

“I’m embarrassed to be from her district. She’s a national laughingstock. The things that she says, she doesn’t know basic words. She couples off with the worst people in Washington and is very annoying. She’s not bright and she’s a bully. She’s definitely not somebody you want representing where you live," she lamented.

She elaborated, "People blindly supported Trump in this area and so anyone who supported that person just got lumped in. People didn’t read a lot or really look at the details and see what people stand for.”

John Bailey, the executive editor of the Rome News-Tribune is also not a fan and laid some of the blame for Taylor Greene's election on the voters in a district that has become known as a "hotbed of extremism."

“Do you have that? Yes. Is that the minority? I think so. Do you have reasonable people who don’t consume good information? A lot. I’m not saying these are dumb people, I’m just saying their information consumption is habitually bad," he explained. "I have friends who are intelligent people but their information consumption habits have been bad for a long time. They don’t intelligently consume media. Top that on decades of ‘those politicians don’t care about us’, top that on ‘the media is looking for an angle’.”

As for why voters in the district look the other way over Taylor Greene's harsh rhetoric, Bailey offered, "They’re very forgiving of gaffes and other things that they may not like because this person kind of speaks for them. The problem that you’re dealing with is rooted in apathy and rooted in this feeling of not being connected or not being important or not being represented.”

rawstory.com

To: Sdgla who wrote (1376472)	10/9/2022 7:46:03 AM
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