Whiplash, wicked whiplash, oh my gawd, there we were, sailing right down the great GOP highway, looking at the white line, and we do mean white, and then screeeeeeechhhhh!!! SLAM!!! One day after it was announced, the America First Caucus, aka the Anglo Saxon Political Traditions Caucus, aka the Ku Klux Kaucus went kaput. Mercy. They’re hauling it off the highway now, scrapped for salvage. CNN:
Conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is scrapping the planned launch of her “America First” caucus after receiving blowback from leaders in her own party, despite confirming through a spokesperson on Friday that the caucus would launch.
Nick Dyer, Greene’s spokesperson, told CNN in an email on Saturday afternoon the Georgia Republican is not “launching anything.”–“The Congresswoman wants to make clear that she is not launching anything. This was an early planning proposal and nothing was agreed to or approved,” he said in an email to CNN, referring to a flier promoting the caucus, obtained by Punchbowl News, that used inflammatory rhetoric.–He added that “she didn’t approve that language and has no plans to launch anything.”
I think it was Ken Buck’s thumbs down that did it. If you’re so crazy that the likes of Ken Buck says you’ve gone too far, you have gone too far.
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So now Louie Gohmert is going to have to find a new hobby and what is poor Paul Gosar to do? Nick Fuentes is going to eat his face off, when he finds out. Fuentes is the right-winger who was at Charlottesville, helped organize the Stop the Steal action in Michigan (you remember when thugs with AR-15s showed up at the state capitol threatening Gretchen Whitmer) and then encouraged the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. He headlined with Gosar at a far-right event held the same weekend as CPAC this year. This is a real set back for him.
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The America First caucus was going to be a one stop shopping kind of a deal, racial hatred and the Big Lie, all tied up with a bow.Â
The American First Caucus also parroted election conspiracy talking points, claiming that the 2020 election was riddled with systemic fraud. “Across the country federal elections have been undermined by using voting machines that are readily compromised and illegally accessed whereby results appear manipulated, voters are disenfranchised, and faith in our system eroded,” it alleges. “Mail-in voting, long recognized as subject to fraud, has become normalized. We will work towards an end to mail-in voting, implementation of national voter ID and substantive investigations into mass voter fraud perpetrated during the 2020 election.” However, a cursory investigation made clear that the 2020 election was the least vulnerable to fraud in the entire history of the country.–
One small step for sanity, one giant set back for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The DNC should send her a thank you note for giving them free oppo research material for next year.
yes, this is a good thing!!
It’s whack-a-mole time … she’ll pop up somewhere else next week. You can’t keep a good fascist down.
Nothing good or even competent about her fascism. She’s just another failed attempt at cloning Trump.
Jarvis has it, she can’t stop being what she is! She’ll come up with something equally crazy.
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