The level of deception or confusion here is ridiculous. The amendment failed. The amendment was to a bill which hasn't been passed by the house yet. And once it passes the house, of course it then has to be passed by the Senate and signed by the president.
The problem with MTG is you can never figure out if she's stupid, deceptive, or trolling.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-amendment-flops-only-13-republicans-back-her-1776965
She’s stupid but thinks her constituents are dumber so she can be as deceptive as she likes and if anyone calls her on it she’ll just say she’s trolling and FoxNews will not even mention it
And she’d be right
How she got a degree from U of GA is beyond me
I think that was yesterday, right? Was about how whoever decides to show it in theatres didn't want to show it because of how it made fun of brands that would usually pay for brand placement. Idk, my memory is bad. Too much Brawndo™.
Heeeey, I just learned that Costco actually has a scholarship for their employees seeking higher education and they regularly work around the school schedules of their student employees.
(I know this isn’t what you’re referencing but I was pleased to learn this and felt like passing it on.)
Edit: You’re.
One of my Extra Kids had a Costco scholarship. They bent over backwards to accommodate his school schedule and when he turned in his notice 3 months after graduation to take a position with an engineering firm here, they threw him a party.
Makes me happy every time I shop there.
They also offer the same benefits to part time and full time employees.
My dad has worked for Costco for over 15 years now. My health insurance is amazing. 10/10 recommend.
Well, she was busy trying to marry the guy who exposed his penis to underage her and her underage friends at a bowling alley, remember? She had stuff to do!
I declare it should be illegal for political representatives to say they were just “trolling” or were just “making a joke” by doing something so time wasteful and should immediately be taken out of office. It’s a serious job to be in seats of power and should be treated as such. I know I certainly wouldn’t be told to come back to my own job if I just fucked around with our customers and “trolled” them instead of doing my damn job….
The politics of Republicans is now:
The bigger the lie, the bigger the donations they get.
Simple as that. Republican voters dont even care if they are being lied to, they say stupid shit like "I feel its true and thats my alternative facts!". They have reached new levels of willful ignorance that they can be shown proof and they would still rather believe the lie than accept the proof. Because their addiction to hate is more important than the lives of their children.
This isn't new.
Ronald Reagan: "A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67CH-qhXJs&t=203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67CH-qhXJs&t=203s)
Literally had that discussion with my MiL on Thanksgiving. She *feels* as though the 2020 election "wasn't right". Doesn't matter that there's still no evidence, doesn't matter that I laid out how the tactics changed as they failed and the goal posts kept moving. Her barely educated, never lived outside of Missouri ass says it "didn't feel right" so therefore the Democrats stole the election.
It's really simple, but YOU wouldn't get it. If they're right (which, of course they are), and the data doesn't agree with their claim, the data is OBVIOUSLY false. It's fake. YOU made it up.
More like: "Let's just stop talking about this one point. I won't admit I am wrong because I don't want to give you the satisfaction. Even if you are right about it, I am right about 99 other things." ... but they are in fact wrong about those 99 other things too. You have to talk to them at the gut level... tell them they are being scammed, but you can't debunk the thousands of lies they have in their head... Fox news can plant 10-20 different lies a day... you have to go for their motivation.
>The problem with MTG is you can never figure out if she's stupid, deceptive, or trolling.
You don't have to figure it out. She is a fascist. Fascists play with words. They claim the right to play, where everyone else has to be held to a standard. Fascists invest nothing into the verifiability of what they say, they are only committed to its effect.
Just claiming a win for those who will believe her either way. Generally her people dont know a damn thing about govt, or theyd actually expect more or vote someone else in. Its been her whole success thus far, relying on ignorance. The problem is bigger than one wants to admit.
I mean, we always know she's stupid. She's awake, so she's being deceptive. I am not sure she is smart enough to be a troll, but she definitely works with some.
None of them will go through. They won't even be brought to the Senate floor for a vote\*, let alone pass both chambers and get signed by Biden.
\*I guess if the House passed a national abortion ban or some other incredibly unpopular bill, the Senate might force a vote to get everyone on record and create some campaign ads.
A female VP? Sounds pretty woke. Not sure the republicans would go for that. After all, they're openly more misogynistic than they were in 2016 when they were saying the presidency isn't a job for a woman.
Katie Porter is deeply underrated. She deserves way more press. Her chart and visual representation game is ON POINT.
Honestly I feel like democrats NOT leaning in on popular anger about how the rich are screwing all of us (like Bernie, AOC and Porter do) is massive self inflicted wound. How many more seats could they have won last election if they did this?
I think she think amend means declare and I think she thinks she has the power regardless of the votes
I bet she tries to lock Biden up for breaking said law later
She has been spending a lot of time with George Santos. Not that she told the truth about anything before, but claiming your amendment passed when in fact it failed miserably sounds very much like something he would do too.
Joe Biden is simply following the law passed by a Republican Congress that forces him to sell oil on the open market to anyone who will buy it, including the Chinese.
See but her followers won’t know that. They take her word for face value. She didn’t even have to present this bill. She can tweet that she’s doing all these things and people will believe they’re happening, because they won’t look into it.
The amendment did not fail. She is referencing amendment #147 to HR21 which passed by voice vote.
You are referencing another amendment she submitted, Amendment #2, which failed by recorded vote.
It’s a very confusing and arcane process, but you can monitor it in real time on the Minority Whip’s amendment tracker website.
>An amendment, offered by Ms. Greene (GA), numbered 147 printed in the Congressional Record to add a new section to the end of the bill that nothing in this Act may be construed to authorize the President to make a determination under section 161(d) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6241(d)) that an emergency situation exists in order for the Secretary of Energy to draw down and sell petroleum products under such subsection for political, non-emergency purposes.
All in all, "stop Joe Biden from selling our oil to China to score political points" still seems a rather generous description of Ms. Greene's contribution to the bill.
Convenient how her ammendment would help Russia who at this point can only really sell oil to China and India but they have basically reached capacity. Taking US oil out of the equation would be very beneficial to them.
It’s also horribly misinformed. The SPR is auctioned in batches, not sold. The buyer is whoever offers the most lmao, as long as they’re not under sanctions anyone can bid on it. Who cares if that’s a Chinese company that just means we traded them oil at above market value.
All the conservative voters know is "gasoline costs too much." They reason out that gas probably costs too much because oil costs too much. They then reason out that oil probably costs too much because 1) it isn't being produced and/or 2) the government is messing with the oil supply somehow. They probably won't blame corporate greed; but if they do, then it will be called "corporate socialism" and will somehow also be the government's fault (but only the Democrats).
They're skeptical of claims that oil reserves are drying up, so they won't accept that oil is simply harder to profitably produce now then it used to be. They don't know the industry, so they reject any discussion that doesn't treat all crude oil as fungible. They're primed to hate Democrats, so they will gladly accept any theory that faults Biden. And they don't understand the legal system, so any action of Biden is necessarily an act of malice in their minds.
Given these primers, they are super eager to blame gas prices on even just rumors of a drilling moratorium, refusal to make available U.S. oil reserves, or decisions to export oil reserves abroad instead of giving it to U.S. refineries. These spectres are labelled as Biden's fault, socialism, the green new deal, AOC's pet project, and the reason M&M's can't be sexy anymore.
It’s really funny how uninformed some peoples opinions are.
**IT’S A GLOBAL FUCKING MARKET!**
People don’t know what that means, and then they start talking about shit they don’t know anything about, make themselves idiots, and then they say they’re being persecuted when everyone rightfully so calls them idiots.
https://preview.redd.it/cb4b9muvpnea1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0fa2fd0d4cdaaf9f3a400aa0e8eb4891e516f19
Let’s not let facts get in the way of these geniuses feelings lol
There's an Obama Era clip Paul Ryan was sending out.
It was supposed to be Ryan destroying Obama by asking some long complicated question, that was supposed to leave Obama stunned.
What Ryan didn't include was Obama's ten minute rebuttal, where he showed all the misconceptions the question included.
Not so much that all levels are identical, but that every level no matter how deep you go is wrong. Wrong built on wrong built on wrong. You can make a wrong statement that only has one flaw. It can be something that is based on true premise after true premise, but incorrectly makes some subtle logical fallacy in drawing a conclusion from those true premises. Or you can make a series of correct logical inferences that would all be fine if not for one single basic premise that is incorrect.
But to be fractally wrong is where not only is your conclusion wrong, but it's wrong because all of your base premises are wrong. And even if we granted all your base premises to be true, then the next step in the argument would still be wrong. And even if we granted your next step to be true, then the next step after would still be wrong, and so on. The more you look at the argument, the more wrong things you find. And you could go on forever picking apart the logical fallacies and contradictions of fact, but it would never end, because not a single thing about any of it is correct.
Smart and has a very good grasp on reality. Perfect? No. Nobody is, but I really believe he gave a shit and tried his best with what he had to work with.
I remember years ago I watched a good portion of Obamas speech at the memorial service to Nelson Mandela. Beautiful speech.
Then YouTube recommended to me a FoxBusiness clip that was 10 seconds of something Obama said in the speech, taken out of context ofcourse, followed by about 3 minutes or a commentator spewing some incredibly hateful nonsense.
*sigh* My country makes me tired a lot….
I thought the “Time for healing” speech Biden did right after he won was pretty good, made me actually feel Pride in our country and leader. But that could have also been because I saw literally nothing of the sort the previous 4 years so it seemed a lot better than it was
**I'm literally stealing this and posting up above. Thanks.** Within the first 30 seconds, President Obama recognizes Ryan's 'crew' and graciously Obama smiles as Ryan introduces them. What a chill dude. Charming.
When Obama did this Q&A session with congress, I thought it was fantastic but then they never did it again. I was hoping he was going to do this monthly. I think it would have been very effective. For those who really wanted to understand, it cut through all the BS. It might even have prevented or at least reduced the tea party craziness that eventually led us to trump and the insurrection.
I’ve always wondered if the republicans refused to do it again because it made Obama look good. They had hoped it was going to be a big gotcha session.
I think your last part was key. Obama had the balls to go into a Republican lair knowing it was a "trap" and owned the place. It made him seem knowledgeable and he called out a lot of their BS, which they didn't like. When has a Republican done the same thing Obama did?
I wasn't interested in politics during Obamas time, but man does he know how to present himself and speak not to mention being a class act at the same time.
I need an actual flag version, please.... A lot of them. So I can innocently hand them out to family members, "Oh! Uncle Dave, I found one of those yellow snake flags you like! When I saw it, I knew I just had to get it for you!"
I would love, love, love that flag but around here it would be dangerous. As it is, we keep a crisp American flag outside at all times. My husband calls it camouflage.
https://preview.redd.it/d0rmeyfycoea1.jpeg?width=811&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bf98f15d84e49fe09f4a6b3d62a813a8c81d43f
I will use this meme to take over the entire Tri-state Area
The GOP is financed by the fossil fuel industry, and they've been pushing for greater exports to Europe and China for over a decade. Coal exporting ports on the west coat, pipelines to West Coast, LNG facilities on the Gulf coast, anything to capture the generally higher prices elsewhere in the global market.
MTG's proposed amendment is a textbook example of an empty gesture.
Nope, her proposal to impeach Biden did worse 😂 She just does this bullshit to grift more money from donors.
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/08/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-tries-to-impeach-biden-again/?sh=19d9f0206d03](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/08/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-tries-to-impeach-biden-again/?sh=19d9f0206d03)
Good grief. That is insane. And seriously, how can they possible pass or fail by voice vote when the margins are so slim? (Dems need to learn to yodel or something.) Voice votes are all ayes at once then all the nays at once and the loudest wins, right? Individual voice votes are called roster votes, yes? My understanding of this could be wrong. But we saw in the Speaker votes that they can fairly quickly do electronic individual votes anonymously. It would be accurate instead of subjective perception of volume.
That's not the same amendment, though. The amendment that failed would have prevented Biden from being able to use the strategic petroleum reserve. This amendment just says he can't use it for strictly political purposes. It doesn't do anything but sound good.
Which is why it is an astute point to have a more refined and reinforced education system, and David Pakman emphasizes a need to teach media literacy so that so many people won’t be fooled by nonsense like this.
They brought it up again for vote today and it passed by voice.
https://repcloakroom.house.gov/amendment/amendments-to-h-r-21-strategic-production-response-act/
Did this voice vote happen at lunch? How did the Amendment fail by 400 votes then easily pass a Voice Vote???
Also, the idea that the President should be barred from *being the Executive* lest it look like he's playing politics is insane. By that logic, since everything the President does is inherently political, we simply should not have a President, and change over to a Parliamentary system.
Her amendment that passed just affirms it doesn't change *existing* laws about selling for political reasons, I think? So it does literally nothing? Seems like shitty political theater she did just to feel special/tweet about
Dear EmptyG. Biden sold oil from the reserves to the energy companies who have been exporting oil since the Republicans pushed a law to allow the US to export oil in 2015.
And full of capitalists. Once again the real issue here is "private corporations do something MTG no likey"
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/07/u-s-selling-oil-from-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-the-highest-bidding-companies/
It’s also auctioned, so it’s not like we choose where it goes it’s just whoever pays the most for it.
Edit: i also promise you that we’ve been exporting oil since before 2015…this is the United States we’re talking about here oil is and has been going in and out on the daily
The Trumps do as much business with [China](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtKx2jk40U) as anyone, by the way.
e: isn't it weird how the throwaway comments are the ones that take off?
It's too late for that, we have to call up Mr. Bill and get him over there immediately so he can explain it to her in person. Several times, if necessary.
Twitter has turned into this rat trap where serious political discourse goes to die. Politicians like MTG don’t really care if their bills actually pass as long as it gets her social media attention and her follows don’t know or care if it passes as long as the content is engaging. We’ve turned politics into professional wrestling and our country suffers for it.
This is really the answer here. She did pass everything she needed to with this tweet.
Her people didn’t know there was a problem, but now they know that there is a problem, that the problem was Joe Biden selling out to China, and that she stopped it.
Nobody will check up on it but it will get repeated, and if you do check up on it you’re likely to find sources repeating what she said and you’ll consider it real. You’ll never hear about it being a problem in the future, so you’ll credit her with the win subconsciously.
Even if you find a small problem with the facts in the future, she’ll still get credit for having her heart in the right place.
The Twitter post is the win. Passing actual laws doesn’t matter. She barely needs to even file things - just claim she does - and it’s nearly the same win.
LOL. My wife and I have also introduced legislation in our home to eliminate big oil subsidies. We’re hoping our daughter provides the crucial swing vote. 🤣🤣🤣
Yes this is the republican strategy for the next two years:
they will just lie to their supporters and tell them they are accomplishing things, It also serves as a form of slander via legislation.
"I passed a bill to stop Joe Biden from Killing citizens for fun" is a way of accusing Biden of killing citizens for fun without a need to prove it in any way
Just like the idiot in Tx who has sponsored a bill to require that any food product that has any aborted fetal tissue in it be labeled with a clear warning. Well that clearly implies that food products have fetal tissue in them. He wasn't required to bring any evidence. Due to legislative immunity, yout can put pretty much anything into a bill and you cannot be sued or go to jail to it. It may not be constitutional and so it may not be enforceable, but you can't get sued and since nothing that passes the house is going to pass the senate it won't even come to a question of whether or not it is constitutional.
I won't be surprised if we see bills with outright conspiracy theories in them.
The Stop Soros form replacing white people in American Act is coming just wait and see
Northwest GA is another world. It has a high concentration of carpet and textile mills from back when cotton was big, now it's all synthetic fibers. I personally would never drink the water around there, and definitely would not eat any locally caught fish. EPA has some superfund cleanup sites there.
But they don't see it. That's why she publishes fictitious victory laps like this. Because it works. Her constituents are too stupid to question her, they just take her at her word, and then the next time she's up for reelection, they remember all the times she said she did amazing things, and they feel like of course she's doing an awesome job.
Step 1) invent horrible sounding thing
Step 2) blame opponent for thing
Step 3) claim to have stopped the thing
Step 4) when called out thing doesn’t exist, say it’s because you stopped it so hard it worked retroactively.
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The level of deception or confusion here is ridiculous. The amendment failed. The amendment was to a bill which hasn't been passed by the house yet. And once it passes the house, of course it then has to be passed by the Senate and signed by the president. The problem with MTG is you can never figure out if she's stupid, deceptive, or trolling. https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-amendment-flops-only-13-republicans-back-her-1776965
She’s stupid but thinks her constituents are dumber so she can be as deceptive as she likes and if anyone calls her on it she’ll just say she’s trolling and FoxNews will not even mention it And she’d be right How she got a degree from U of GA is beyond me
Was she in Herschel Walker's graduating class?
Hershey Walker had to tutor her
My dad attended Costco University
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
This is the 3rd idocracy thread ive found on the popular tab today. I love it
A post about it made it to the front page
I think that was yesterday, right? Was about how whoever decides to show it in theatres didn't want to show it because of how it made fun of brands that would usually pay for brand placement. Idk, my memory is bad. Too much Brawndo™.
Heeeey, I just learned that Costco actually has a scholarship for their employees seeking higher education and they regularly work around the school schedules of their student employees. (I know this isn’t what you’re referencing but I was pleased to learn this and felt like passing it on.) Edit: You’re.
One of my Extra Kids had a Costco scholarship. They bent over backwards to accommodate his school schedule and when he turned in his notice 3 months after graduation to take a position with an engineering firm here, they threw him a party. Makes me happy every time I shop there.
They also offer the same benefits to part time and full time employees. My dad has worked for Costco for over 15 years now. My health insurance is amazing. 10/10 recommend.
They also ratio pay to ensure the lowest stays in line with thr highest
They also pay their employees a decent wage unlike their nearest competitor, Sam's Club.
Aka Walmart
Must have had a lot of connections.
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Wanna go and get a latte at Starbucks?
i don't want a handjob right now
George Santos was the professor.
No Herschel graduated. She was in Boebert class.
Boebert didn't even graduate high school..
She didn't even get her GED until just before she ran
Well, she was busy trying to marry the guy who exposed his penis to underage her and her underage friends at a bowling alley, remember? She had stuff to do!
I declare it should be illegal for political representatives to say they were just “trolling” or were just “making a joke” by doing something so time wasteful and should immediately be taken out of office. It’s a serious job to be in seats of power and should be treated as such. I know I certainly wouldn’t be told to come back to my own job if I just fucked around with our customers and “trolled” them instead of doing my damn job….
Give you one guess
$$$$$? I mean she could sleep her way to a…high C, maybe
>I mean she could sleep her way to a…high C, maybe Hep C? That's why she so yellow. Fast Edit Edit: should read "so" not "do".
The D's get you the C's and the C's get degrees.
perhaps a "fast" edit was the wrong choice? lol
C’s get degrees
GEDs get committees
Sadly
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Too much of column a and b to make c possible.
The politics of Republicans is now: The bigger the lie, the bigger the donations they get. Simple as that. Republican voters dont even care if they are being lied to, they say stupid shit like "I feel its true and thats my alternative facts!". They have reached new levels of willful ignorance that they can be shown proof and they would still rather believe the lie than accept the proof. Because their addiction to hate is more important than the lives of their children.
This isn't new. Ronald Reagan: "A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67CH-qhXJs&t=203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67CH-qhXJs&t=203s)
Literally had that discussion with my MiL on Thanksgiving. She *feels* as though the 2020 election "wasn't right". Doesn't matter that there's still no evidence, doesn't matter that I laid out how the tactics changed as they failed and the goal posts kept moving. Her barely educated, never lived outside of Missouri ass says it "didn't feel right" so therefore the Democrats stole the election.
It's really simple, but YOU wouldn't get it. If they're right (which, of course they are), and the data doesn't agree with their claim, the data is OBVIOUSLY false. It's fake. YOU made it up.
More like: "Let's just stop talking about this one point. I won't admit I am wrong because I don't want to give you the satisfaction. Even if you are right about it, I am right about 99 other things." ... but they are in fact wrong about those 99 other things too. You have to talk to them at the gut level... tell them they are being scammed, but you can't debunk the thousands of lies they have in their head... Fox news can plant 10-20 different lies a day... you have to go for their motivation.
They’ve essentially created a legion of morons who work 9-5s who will donate their cash to them in order to “fight” a problem that they’ve created
She knows her audience. Too stupid to understand how legislation works.
"Don't be a sheep, do your own research!" *researches nothing ever* "Yay MTG!"
All three. MTG is an STD.
An STD with only 8 toes…..👀
Why the fuck aren’t we Marjorie Taylor Gangrene?
>The problem with MTG is you can never figure out if she's stupid, deceptive, or trolling. You don't have to figure it out. She is a fascist. Fascists play with words. They claim the right to play, where everyone else has to be held to a standard. Fascists invest nothing into the verifiability of what they say, they are only committed to its effect.
Just claiming a win for those who will believe her either way. Generally her people dont know a damn thing about govt, or theyd actually expect more or vote someone else in. Its been her whole success thus far, relying on ignorance. The problem is bigger than one wants to admit.
I mean, we always know she's stupid. She's awake, so she's being deceptive. I am not sure she is smart enough to be a troll, but she definitely works with some.
I would not be upset if they spent 2 years thinking they're actually passing laws and none of them go through
They can pass laws by just thinking about them.
You can declassify documents by just thinking it; why not pass laws while you’re at it?
None of them will go through. They won't even be brought to the Senate floor for a vote\*, let alone pass both chambers and get signed by Biden. \*I guess if the House passed a national abortion ban or some other incredibly unpopular bill, the Senate might force a vote to get everyone on record and create some campaign ads.
I saw this as well, she’s a just plodding along until the tangerine tyrant taps her for VP
A female VP? Sounds pretty woke. Not sure the republicans would go for that. After all, they're openly more misogynistic than they were in 2016 when they were saying the presidency isn't a job for a woman.
A fuck the lot of them B I’m hoping for a Dem ticket of AOC/Porter lol so I probably don’t count anyways
Katie Porter is deeply underrated. She deserves way more press. Her chart and visual representation game is ON POINT. Honestly I feel like democrats NOT leaning in on popular anger about how the rich are screwing all of us (like Bernie, AOC and Porter do) is massive self inflicted wound. How many more seats could they have won last election if they did this?
I think she think amend means declare and I think she thinks she has the power regardless of the votes I bet she tries to lock Biden up for breaking said law later
I. Declare. BANKRUPTCYYYYYYYYYYYYY
She has been spending a lot of time with George Santos. Not that she told the truth about anything before, but claiming your amendment passed when in fact it failed miserably sounds very much like something he would do too.
Joe Biden is simply following the law passed by a Republican Congress that forces him to sell oil on the open market to anyone who will buy it, including the Chinese.
See but her followers won’t know that. They take her word for face value. She didn’t even have to present this bill. She can tweet that she’s doing all these things and people will believe they’re happening, because they won’t look into it.
The amendment did not fail. She is referencing amendment #147 to HR21 which passed by voice vote. You are referencing another amendment she submitted, Amendment #2, which failed by recorded vote. It’s a very confusing and arcane process, but you can monitor it in real time on the Minority Whip’s amendment tracker website.
>An amendment, offered by Ms. Greene (GA), numbered 147 printed in the Congressional Record to add a new section to the end of the bill that nothing in this Act may be construed to authorize the President to make a determination under section 161(d) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6241(d)) that an emergency situation exists in order for the Secretary of Energy to draw down and sell petroleum products under such subsection for political, non-emergency purposes. All in all, "stop Joe Biden from selling our oil to China to score political points" still seems a rather generous description of Ms. Greene's contribution to the bill.
Convenient how her ammendment would help Russia who at this point can only really sell oil to China and India but they have basically reached capacity. Taking US oil out of the equation would be very beneficial to them.
Didn't her amendment fail horribly and embarrassingly?
It’s also horribly misinformed. The SPR is auctioned in batches, not sold. The buyer is whoever offers the most lmao, as long as they’re not under sanctions anyone can bid on it. Who cares if that’s a Chinese company that just means we traded them oil at above market value.
With the particular batch sold to China, it was super sour crude (high sulfur content). There are no American refineries capable of taking that stuff.
All the conservative voters know is "gasoline costs too much." They reason out that gas probably costs too much because oil costs too much. They then reason out that oil probably costs too much because 1) it isn't being produced and/or 2) the government is messing with the oil supply somehow. They probably won't blame corporate greed; but if they do, then it will be called "corporate socialism" and will somehow also be the government's fault (but only the Democrats). They're skeptical of claims that oil reserves are drying up, so they won't accept that oil is simply harder to profitably produce now then it used to be. They don't know the industry, so they reject any discussion that doesn't treat all crude oil as fungible. They're primed to hate Democrats, so they will gladly accept any theory that faults Biden. And they don't understand the legal system, so any action of Biden is necessarily an act of malice in their minds. Given these primers, they are super eager to blame gas prices on even just rumors of a drilling moratorium, refusal to make available U.S. oil reserves, or decisions to export oil reserves abroad instead of giving it to U.S. refineries. These spectres are labelled as Biden's fault, socialism, the green new deal, AOC's pet project, and the reason M&M's can't be sexy anymore.
It’s really funny how uninformed some peoples opinions are. **IT’S A GLOBAL FUCKING MARKET!** People don’t know what that means, and then they start talking about shit they don’t know anything about, make themselves idiots, and then they say they’re being persecuted when everyone rightfully so calls them idiots.
https://preview.redd.it/cb4b9muvpnea1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0fa2fd0d4cdaaf9f3a400aa0e8eb4891e516f19 Let’s not let facts get in the way of these geniuses feelings lol
There's an Obama Era clip Paul Ryan was sending out. It was supposed to be Ryan destroying Obama by asking some long complicated question, that was supposed to leave Obama stunned. What Ryan didn't include was Obama's ten minute rebuttal, where he showed all the misconceptions the question included.
I too get stunned for a moment when a right winger drops a fractally wrong load of nonsense out his gob.
"Motherfucker, you're wrong outside the boundaries of space and time."
No lie, I thought it was a typo, but after reading your interpretation, and then the actual definition of “fractal” I think it’s accurate.
"Fractally wrong" is one of my favorite phrases.
Fractally wrong: an endless series of wrong premises or statements that, when observed at any level, all prove to be identical in nature. I like it
Not so much that all levels are identical, but that every level no matter how deep you go is wrong. Wrong built on wrong built on wrong. You can make a wrong statement that only has one flaw. It can be something that is based on true premise after true premise, but incorrectly makes some subtle logical fallacy in drawing a conclusion from those true premises. Or you can make a series of correct logical inferences that would all be fine if not for one single basic premise that is incorrect. But to be fractally wrong is where not only is your conclusion wrong, but it's wrong because all of your base premises are wrong. And even if we granted all your base premises to be true, then the next step in the argument would still be wrong. And even if we granted your next step to be true, then the next step after would still be wrong, and so on. The more you look at the argument, the more wrong things you find. And you could go on forever picking apart the logical fallacies and contradictions of fact, but it would never end, because not a single thing about any of it is correct.
"Fractally wrong". When the shit hits the fan, and makes interesting patterns on the wall.
Wow, it just goes on forever!
President Obama may have been some things, but jfc, stupid was NOT among them.
Smart and has a very good grasp on reality. Perfect? No. Nobody is, but I really believe he gave a shit and tried his best with what he had to work with.
Truly.
I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you fall on.. there is no denying that Obama is just an absolutely endlessly fucking *cool* guy.
I remember years ago I watched a good portion of Obamas speech at the memorial service to Nelson Mandela. Beautiful speech. Then YouTube recommended to me a FoxBusiness clip that was 10 seconds of something Obama said in the speech, taken out of context ofcourse, followed by about 3 minutes or a commentator spewing some incredibly hateful nonsense. *sigh* My country makes me tired a lot….
I miss a serious, well thought out speech. Haven’t had one since Obama
I thought the “Time for healing” speech Biden did right after he won was pretty good, made me actually feel Pride in our country and leader. But that could have also been because I saw literally nothing of the sort the previous 4 years so it seemed a lot better than it was
Link please
[I think I found it.](https://youtu.be/SJ_QshAn2Gs)
**I'm literally stealing this and posting up above. Thanks.** Within the first 30 seconds, President Obama recognizes Ryan's 'crew' and graciously Obama smiles as Ryan introduces them. What a chill dude. Charming.
When Obama did this Q&A session with congress, I thought it was fantastic but then they never did it again. I was hoping he was going to do this monthly. I think it would have been very effective. For those who really wanted to understand, it cut through all the BS. It might even have prevented or at least reduced the tea party craziness that eventually led us to trump and the insurrection. I’ve always wondered if the republicans refused to do it again because it made Obama look good. They had hoped it was going to be a big gotcha session.
I think your last part was key. Obama had the balls to go into a Republican lair knowing it was a "trap" and owned the place. It made him seem knowledgeable and he called out a lot of their BS, which they didn't like. When has a Republican done the same thing Obama did?
I wasn't interested in politics during Obamas time, but man does he know how to present himself and speak not to mention being a class act at the same time.
stealing that
Not if I get to it first
Stealing this
I'm stealing you
Ass
Booty? Like a pirate?
https://preview.redd.it/q87w2bk9coea1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1df5860ce91f7503cfa1efdf5384014b2478716a
Yup, that one is going in my folder
Direct me to the T-shirt version, STAT.
I need an actual flag version, please.... A lot of them. So I can innocently hand them out to family members, "Oh! Uncle Dave, I found one of those yellow snake flags you like! When I saw it, I knew I just had to get it for you!"
I would love, love, love that flag but around here it would be dangerous. As it is, we keep a crisp American flag outside at all times. My husband calls it camouflage.
https://preview.redd.it/d0rmeyfycoea1.jpeg?width=811&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bf98f15d84e49fe09f4a6b3d62a813a8c81d43f I will use this meme to take over the entire Tri-state Area
Why yes, it did! https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-amendment-flops-only-13-republicans-back-her-1776965
The GOP is financed by the fossil fuel industry, and they've been pushing for greater exports to Europe and China for over a decade. Coal exporting ports on the west coat, pipelines to West Coast, LNG facilities on the Gulf coast, anything to capture the generally higher prices elsewhere in the global market. MTG's proposed amendment is a textbook example of an empty gesture.
from empty minds come empty gestures
It's why Empty-G is the best nickname for her.
Holy shit, 202 Republicans voted against her. Makes me wonder if this is the most voted against House proposal in history lol
She forgets China’s dollars are green and that’s the only “Greene” her counterparts care about.
Mr. Greene divorced her, so Marjorie doesn't even have the Greene any more. She just uses it to spite him.
Nope, her proposal to impeach Biden did worse 😂 She just does this bullshit to grift more money from donors. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/08/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-tries-to-impeach-biden-again/?sh=19d9f0206d03](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/08/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-tries-to-impeach-biden-again/?sh=19d9f0206d03)
She got a new vote. https://repcloakroom.house.gov/amendment/amendments-to-h-r-21-strategic-production-response-act/
Good grief. That is insane. And seriously, how can they possible pass or fail by voice vote when the margins are so slim? (Dems need to learn to yodel or something.) Voice votes are all ayes at once then all the nays at once and the loudest wins, right? Individual voice votes are called roster votes, yes? My understanding of this could be wrong. But we saw in the Speaker votes that they can fairly quickly do electronic individual votes anonymously. It would be accurate instead of subjective perception of volume.
Any member can request an actual vote count if they don't like the voice vote result.
That's not the same amendment, though. The amendment that failed would have prevented Biden from being able to use the strategic petroleum reserve. This amendment just says he can't use it for strictly political purposes. It doesn't do anything but sound good.
She, and many republican seats, count on their base to not pay attention or be too dumb to tell any difference.
The sad part is that counting on their followers to be idiots has actually been a winning strategy so far.
Which is why it is an astute point to have a more refined and reinforced education system, and David Pakman emphasizes a need to teach media literacy so that so many people won’t be fooled by nonsense like this.
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They brought it up again for vote today and it passed by voice. https://repcloakroom.house.gov/amendment/amendments-to-h-r-21-strategic-production-response-act/
Did this voice vote happen at lunch? How did the Amendment fail by 400 votes then easily pass a Voice Vote??? Also, the idea that the President should be barred from *being the Executive* lest it look like he's playing politics is insane. By that logic, since everything the President does is inherently political, we simply should not have a President, and change over to a Parliamentary system.
Her amendment that passed just affirms it doesn't change *existing* laws about selling for political reasons, I think? So it does literally nothing? Seems like shitty political theater she did just to feel special/tweet about
Because nothing can be heard over MTGs screeching.
Dear EmptyG. Biden sold oil from the reserves to the energy companies who have been exporting oil since the Republicans pushed a law to allow the US to export oil in 2015.
We export oil because 100% of our available refinery capacity is in use. Every extra barrel we product is going to be exported; that’s a certainty.
Oil is also a global market.
And full of capitalists. Once again the real issue here is "private corporations do something MTG no likey" https://www.factcheck.org/2022/07/u-s-selling-oil-from-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-the-highest-bidding-companies/
Not even that. She just wants to post buzzwords that trigger her base like "oil" and "china." This is literally just bait.
It's incredible how oil is the basis of modern life and yet so few people understand how it's bought and sold. It's not even complicated.
It’s wild that when it comes oil repubs are a bunch of commies who want to nationalize the energy sector.
"EmptyG" I cannot tell you how much I love this. I'd give you an award if I were able to.
It’s also auctioned, so it’s not like we choose where it goes it’s just whoever pays the most for it. Edit: i also promise you that we’ve been exporting oil since before 2015…this is the United States we’re talking about here oil is and has been going in and out on the daily
The mouth breathers who vote for her don’t know the difference. They’ll actually believe he should be impeached over violating this new “law”.
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She really doesn't know how any of this works, does she?
she knows her constituents well enough. This is what weaponized stupidity looks like.
The Trumps do as much business with [China](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtKx2jk40U) as anyone, by the way. e: isn't it weird how the throwaway comments are the ones that take off?
Just about everything with Trump on it is made there.
And Ivanka and her shitty clothes.
Pretty sure like 90% of conservative merch is made there, where else will make "Let's go Brandon" merch within hours of it going viral.
Even the MAGA hats and T-shirts, LOL.
Last I saw, he owes them about $200m
Trump's taxes paid to China are 266 times as much as he paid to the USA.
School House Rock needs to be playing 24/7 outside her office at volume 11.
I’m just a schill, I’m just a schill, sittin’ on Capitol Hill…
Now I need a remix of the entire song
Oh it’s a long, long way to make the capitol shitty It’s a long, long wait, but now I’m on committee
“ you can pass bills in your living room , kids!” Jfc, are they all this stupid?
Ask, and [you will find](https://soundcloud.com/sgtrain/im-just-a-bill-schoolhouse-rock-remix).
It's too late for that, we have to call up Mr. Bill and get him over there immediately so he can explain it to her in person. Several times, if necessary.
Twitter has turned into this rat trap where serious political discourse goes to die. Politicians like MTG don’t really care if their bills actually pass as long as it gets her social media attention and her follows don’t know or care if it passes as long as the content is engaging. We’ve turned politics into professional wrestling and our country suffers for it.
“President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho” doesn’t sound crazy enough anymore.
Plus Camacho employed experts and listened to their advice.
Jesus. You’re right. Even went as far as seeking out the smartest man on earth to help with Americas troubles.
This is really the answer here. She did pass everything she needed to with this tweet. Her people didn’t know there was a problem, but now they know that there is a problem, that the problem was Joe Biden selling out to China, and that she stopped it. Nobody will check up on it but it will get repeated, and if you do check up on it you’re likely to find sources repeating what she said and you’ll consider it real. You’ll never hear about it being a problem in the future, so you’ll credit her with the win subconsciously. Even if you find a small problem with the facts in the future, she’ll still get credit for having her heart in the right place. The Twitter post is the win. Passing actual laws doesn’t matter. She barely needs to even file things - just claim she does - and it’s nearly the same win.
We need to embargo all of America's enemies, also everyone in the world is America's enemy
Long live Juche!
***except Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
She’s just outright lying now? It failed, miserably. Furthermore this twat goblin needs to watch Schoolhouse Rock. Again
Apparently. Just blatant lies and not even a cartoon-level knowledge of our Country's 3 ring circus. 
I wish a journalist would ask her to explain what a fungible commodity is.
"No thank you, I've never liked mushrooms."
LOL. My wife and I have also introduced legislation in our home to eliminate big oil subsidies. We’re hoping our daughter provides the crucial swing vote. 🤣🤣🤣
Yes this is the republican strategy for the next two years: they will just lie to their supporters and tell them they are accomplishing things, It also serves as a form of slander via legislation. "I passed a bill to stop Joe Biden from Killing citizens for fun" is a way of accusing Biden of killing citizens for fun without a need to prove it in any way Just like the idiot in Tx who has sponsored a bill to require that any food product that has any aborted fetal tissue in it be labeled with a clear warning. Well that clearly implies that food products have fetal tissue in them. He wasn't required to bring any evidence. Due to legislative immunity, yout can put pretty much anything into a bill and you cannot be sued or go to jail to it. It may not be constitutional and so it may not be enforceable, but you can't get sued and since nothing that passes the house is going to pass the senate it won't even come to a question of whether or not it is constitutional. I won't be surprised if we see bills with outright conspiracy theories in them. The Stop Soros form replacing white people in American Act is coming just wait and see
Oh my god, you aren't kidding. This congress is going down in history as one big shitshow.
Pea brain thinks she did a thing
She did a thing, it got voted down by a landslide, and now she's lying about it passing.
Ironically, she supports the Keystone Pipeline. Guess where the oil from that pipeline goes?
Into a river in Kansas, about 25 miles south of my house.
Good thing you're up river!
Didn't her mentor Trump literally have Chinese bank accounts he dealt with?
Mehmet Oz literally votes in Turkey but wanted to be a U.S. Senator.
Still does. The President should not be allowed to have a bank account outside the US regardless of county
And paid more taxes in China than America.
JzFknXst how does this dumbass keep getting elected?
Her constituents are literally stupider than she is.
I can't even imagine that constituency...
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Northwest GA is another world. It has a high concentration of carpet and textile mills from back when cotton was big, now it's all synthetic fibers. I personally would never drink the water around there, and definitely would not eat any locally caught fish. EPA has some superfund cleanup sites there.
Agreed, but they do make 5 star meth!
As George Carlin once said “think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that”
George Carlin was way ahead of his time...a true prophet...
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But they don't see it. That's why she publishes fictitious victory laps like this. Because it works. Her constituents are too stupid to question her, they just take her at her word, and then the next time she's up for reelection, they remember all the times she said she did amazing things, and they feel like of course she's doing an awesome job.
So POTUS Joe sold oil at a high price, and bought it back at a low price, and that made confederate trumpublicans head explode. End of times indeed.
POTUS can't sell oil to China. The House cant prevent something that's already impossible. Damn, shes pandering to some serious dumb fucks
Did her dinosaur juice sugar daddies approve this?
Republicans are America's enemy.
Step 1) invent horrible sounding thing Step 2) blame opponent for thing Step 3) claim to have stopped the thing Step 4) when called out thing doesn’t exist, say it’s because you stopped it so hard it worked retroactively.
One whole amendment eh?
Well, not even one whole amendment.
LOL Russian asset says what?
Dumbest person in politics. She should’ve tried harder to get Hershel elected then she would’ve second dumbest
It failed lol. She is something else.
She is lying. Her amendment literally failed.
I just passed a law that MTG has to eat dog shit forever.