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The MAGA Republicans in Congress Share Their Wisdom

It's frightening to think there are people like this out there roaming the streets, let alone elected to Congress.

Labeling Democrats “Socialists”

Back in the 1950s and 60s, conservatives labeled liberals “communists,” but now they accuse Democrats of being “socialists.”

The Democrats are the party of division, hate, critical race theory (pure racism), discrimination, totalitarianism, socialism, globalism, gender destruction, BDS, defunding our police, and ANTIFA / BLM terrorists. I'm sorry some of my words make people uncomfortable, but this is what the American left is all about. And they are America last in every single way. (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, GA)

How much bullshit will Marjorie spout in order to raise money? She’s totally ignorant and has no idea what she’s talking about, so she throws everything against the wall and hopes something sticks. You are what makes people uncomfortable, Marjorie. Among all MAGA Republicans, you are the greatest disgrace to Congress, your constituents, and the country. 

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Speaker Pelosi is putting this country on a highway to socialism to achieve her sweeping change and once-in-a-century moment to fundamentally change America. . . This is where this scheme leads: blackouts, unaffordable electricity bills, tax hikes, jobs destroyed, no hope to cure diseases, long lines of the sick begging the government for lifesaving treatments, and weak American defenses against our adversaries like China and Russia. (Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, WA)

 

What?!? Presumably Representative Rogers is referring to the Speaker’s efforts to pass the “Build Back Better” bill, legislation which, in reality, includes the following:

  • Child tax credit expansion
  • Childcare subsidies
  • Free universal preschool
  • Increased federal health care subsidies
  • Paid family leave
  • Reduced prescription drug costs
  • Medicare hearing coverage

And

  • Raising taxes for the wealthy and corporations—a 15% minimum tax on the profits of big companies and a 5% surtax on people making over $10 million a year.

What the representative is most concerned about, of course, is that last bullet point, raising taxes for the wealthy and corporations, her primary benefactors as Republican Leader on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

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True Patriots must call out these fake politicians.  We are in a fight against communism that is threatening to take over our nation.  We must unify.  Liz Cheney is fracturing this movement and allowing the roots of socialism to take hold in the fabric of this Republic.  She must go.

Madison takes the novel approach of mixing “socialism” and “communism” however he chooses, most likely because he doesn’t know the difference and just throws anything against the wall hoping it will make sense and stick.  Presumably the “movement” he is referring to is the far-right MAGA wing of the Republican Party, which to her credit, Liz Cheney, who has shown herself to be a true patriot, thankfully wants no part of.

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Click on the flag icons for sterling MAGA wisdom about socialism.

“Sadly, many MAGAs are so estranged and alienated from today’s economy, so unsuited to economic success in today’s world, that they had best pray for socialism.

Creating Hysteria Over Critical Race Theory

If anything has replaced screaming about “socialism" as the ultimate boogeyman for MAGA Republicans, it’s Critical Race Theory (CRT).

CRT is a perfect fit for the Republican playbook and its authors’ insatiable need to placate their “base.” Most MAGA constituents don’t know what “Critical Race Theory” is, but it sounds awfully threatening to a lot of white people who fear their privilege is slipping away. At the risk of oversimplifying matters, CRT “Critical Race Theory” got its start back in the 1970s and 80s when a number of legal scholars theorized that racial and other cultural biases are deeply ingrained in our society and its systems, thus challenging the good ol’ Reagan Republican ideal of individualism, the almost sacred Republican notion that any American can prosper based on their own hard work and initiative.

 

Critical Race Theory is based on Marxism, an evil plague that threatens freedom and liberty! Marxism stokes division by fanning the flames of class, race, and gender resentment. Critical Race Theory was dreamt up by Marxists as a tool with which to sell Marxism in America. (Rep. Mo Brooks, AL)

 

Critical Race Theory has nothing to do with Marxism, and it wasn’t “dreamt up by Marxists” as a tool to sell Marxism in America. When MAGAs like Brooks realize they’ve overused “socialism,” they start using “Marxism” instead.

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The Democrats continue to push critical race theory onto our elementary children, our college students, and now onto our military. Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together. CRT divides and spews hatred. It’s racist to teach children to treat other children differently because of their skin color. Our tax dollars should not be funding these racist ideologies. (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, GA)

 

Again, Critical Race Theory is definitely not being taught in our K-12 schools, and there is no reason to “push it” into the military.  Like many MAGA Republican’s, Representative Greene hasn’t a clue what Critical Race Theory is, but seemingly wants to use it as code for anything that honestly confronts racism or America’s racist past. 

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Click on the icons for sterling MAGA wisdom about Critical Race Theory.

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What’s downright amazing is that, unlike Miss Marjorie, these Republican Senators are highly educated . . .
      Tom Cotton Harvard University Harvard Law School
      Ted Cruz Princeton UniversityHarvard Law School
      Josh Hawley Stanford University Yale Law School

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. . . but they might as well be trying to outdo each other when it comes to Critical Race Theory.

This is about a very specific kind of anti-American indoctrination that is seeping into some parts of our military based on the whistleblower complaints we have received. Soldiers have come forward to tell us they are being forced to watch videos about systemic racism and documentaries that rewrite America’s history as a fundamentally racist and evil nation.  (Senator Tom Cotton, AR)

 

It is highly unlikely that the videos in question had anything to do with Critical Race Theory.  Anything that begins to tell the truth about America’s past—that doesn’t pander to their ignorant constituents’ comfortable old myths—is summarily rejected by these MAGAs.

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Critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as the Klansman in white sheets. Critical race theory says every white person is a racist. Critical race theory says America is fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical race theory seeks to turn us against each other. As a Christian and as an American, I love my brothers and sisters whatever skin color you are. (Senator Ted Cruz, TX)

 

Like so many others, Senator Cruz wants to use CRT as code for any subject matter that confronts racism or America’s racist past. CRT doesn’t say that any individual white person is a racist. Again, the primary tenant of CRT is that racial and other cultural biases are deeply ingrained in our society and its systems, thus challenging the Reagan Republican ideal of individualism, the almost sacred Republican notion that any American can prosper based on their own hard work and initiative, despite a good deal of evidence to the contrary.    

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We heard that we are systemically racist. You heard that once or twice? We heard that the real founding of the country wasn’t in 1776, it was in 1619 or whatever. We heard that America is founded in lies and evil. That’s what we’ve been told. All of that is false. All of that is a lie. Part of standing up to the oligarchs in tech and in the media and in the liberals is reclaiming our history and saying it is good and we are proud to be Americans. We’re proud to have lived in a country that started with nothing and became the greatest country on the face of the earth. We’re proud to be in a country that liberated slaves. (Senator Josh Hawley, MO)

 

Where does one even begin?  Marjorie Taylor Greene couldn’t come up with this statement if she stayed up nights!  Was he drunk? If we didn’t enslave Africans to begin with, we couldn’t have liberated them, now could we?  No one ever said the country was founded in 1619; that’s the year it is believed the first enslaved Africans arrived in what is now the United States.  The “lies and evil” in question seemingly refer to a slaveholding nation declaring its independence based on the contention that “all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights”—just so long as they were white.

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The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the emancipation of African American slaves following the Civil War and was voted into law almost unanimously by Congress, except for 14 MAGA Republicans. Only MAGA Republicans seem to think there’s a connection between Juneteenth and Critical Race Theory.

Juneteenth is more debunked Critical Race Theory in action. I reject racism. I reject the racial division people are promoting. I voted no because this proposed holiday does not bring us together, it tears us apart. I cannot support efforts that further racial divisions in this country. We have one Independence Day, and it applies equally to all people of all races. (Rep. Paul Gozar, AZ)

 

The Juneteenth holiday has absolutely nothing to do with Critical Race Theory.  Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the slaves following the Civil War, something all Americans should celebrate.  It in no way promotes racial division; if anything, it promotes unity.  Unfortunately, the Independence Day we celebrate on July 4th did NOT apply to all citizens, given African Americans were still enslaved in 1776.  The man is clueless.  

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Defending Confederate Monuments

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If there’s anything MAGA Republicans hold dear, it’s preservation of Confederate monuments and statues, symbols of a mythical “lost cause” that was created to help justify injustice in the Jim Crow South.

H.R. 3005 required removing all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America from display in the United States Capitol.

 

The 1864 law that establishes the National Statuary Collection defers to states the power to determine who they wish to honor with a Capitol statue. And that makes perfect sense. Just as it would be wrong for Alabama and other states to dictate to New York and California who they must honor, it is similarly wrong and repulsive for New York, California, or other states to dictate to Alabama who we must honor. Yet, H.R. 3005 seeks to do exactly that by empowering other states to dictate to a single state who that state can, or cannot, honor. . .

No, Congressman Brooks, what’s repulsive is who and what your state is choosing to honor over 150 years after the Civil War.  It’s high time to stop propping up the “lost cause” fantasy.  

. . . Cancel culture and historical revisionism are precursors to dictatorial government and the destruction of individual liberty and freedom by elitists who claim they know more than regular citizens and, hence, should be empowered to dictate what regular citizens can and cannot think or do.  Ultimately, it’s all about political power in the hands of a dictatorial few coupled with a loss of freedom and liberty for the masses. 

 (Rep. Mo Brooks, AL)

 

No congressman, the “historical revisionism” took place following Reconstruction when Southerners tried to pretend that the Civil War (they preferred to call it the “War Between the States”) was about state’s rights, liberty, and the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution  rather than the creation of a slaveholding Republic. 

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This is being done to try to erase history. You will not be successful at erasing history by removing monuments and statues. If we fail to remember history, we will be doomed to repeat it. (Rep. Andy Biggs, AZ)

 

This gives the impression that he is totally ignorant of the history in question and merely reached for the first cliche he could think of.  Again, the erasing of history occurred when the statues, along with Confederate monuments all across the South, were erected, not when they were taken down.

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Click on the outdated statues for sterling MAGA wisdom about Confederate monuments.

Distorting and Denying the January 6 Capitol Insurrection

The MAGA Republicans continue to play down the events of January 6, pretending it didn’t happen, wasn’t what it appeared, and was really the work of antifa, Black Lives Matter, and even the FBI. It doesn’t seem to phase them that dozens of videos and personal accounts prove otherwise. These people continue to discount what they see with their own eyes and expect the rest of us to do the same.

There was no insurrection, and to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold-faced lie. Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes taking videos and pictures. You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from Jan. 6, you’d actually think it was a normal tourist visit. (Rep. Andrew Clyde, GA)    

 

I realize many have said it before me, but the man is delusional.

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I don't know if the reports are true, but The Washington Times has just reported some pretty compelling evidence from a facial recognition company that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters — they were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa. (Rep. Matt Gaetz, FL)

 

Anyone who would even entertain the notion these reports were true is a raving imbecile, end of story.

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I believe that this was agitators strategically placed inside of this group—you can call them Antifa, you can call them people paid by the Democratic machine. (Rep. Madison Cawthorn, NC)          

 

Another raving imbecile. More than six months after the Capitol insurrection, there is no evidence the perpetrators were anything other than what they appeared to be—Trump Supporters fighting on behalf of the “big lie.”

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The FBI clearly doesn't have objections to selected releases of video and images from these days, but it begs the question: why is there not more transparency? What did the FBI know? And when did they know it? The question of whether or not the FBI animated some of the criminal conduct is one that is far more grave. (Rep. Matt Gaetz, FL)

 

As with the attempt to blame Antifa for the insurrection, there is no evidence to support this claim.

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There's no evidence, as has been said on January 7, that this was an armed insurrection. Armed meaning with firearms. There were no firearms. There have been things worse than people without any firearms coming into a building. (Rep. Louie Gohmert, TX)

 

The Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol had things like pipes and clubs and flagpoles, along with bear spray and mace, and attacked the police in what has been described as medieval-style hand-to-hand combat.

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Even though those thousands of people that were marching to the Capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, I knew those were people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, and so I wasn’t concerned. Now, had the tables been turned—Joe, this could get me in trouble—had the tables been turned, and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned. (Senator Ron Johnson, WI)

 

Truly respect law enforcement?  Would never do anything to break a law? Is he serious? How delusional is he? The rampaging mob, filled with white supremacists, injured 140 police officers, one later died, and five have committed suicide. Yet for some reason this didn’t “concern” him.  No matter their actions, he assumes that white people pose no danger because they “love this country,” while the mere presence of Black people would inherently concern him. In Senator Johnson’s mind, whiteness is synonymous with all that is good about America, while blackness is the country’s enemy, intrinsically evil and frightening. As racist and moronic as this statement is, it does a wonderful job of exposing the attitudes of an old white guard that truly believes it’s under siege by the browning of America. 

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Click on the domes for sterling MAGA wisdom about the events of 1.6.21.


Surely I’m not the only one who is sick and tired of MAGA Republicans equating the violence that grew out of the protests against George Floyd’s murder with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol!

Opposition to Gun Control

Despite overwhelming evidence that guns and gun culture are out of control in the U.S.— we have nearly half of all the civilian-owned guns worldwide, more than twice the number per capita of any country—MAGA Republicans continue to defend gun rights religiously.

“I’m a five-foot-tall, 100-pound woman. The only way I’m safe to walk around any dangerous liberal city is with an equalizer. Gun control is anti-woman.” (Rep. Lauren Boebert, CO)  

 

If there’s any MAGA Republican bullshit that gets in my craw, it’s their contention that the problems with America’s cities are the result of “liberal” leadership. Elected officials are faced with insoluble challenges that are a direct result of our country’s ever-growing inequality and an economic system that’s totally unjust and out of wack.   

 

Gun control advocates should acknowledge that many people, oftentimes women, require guns for personal protection, but it’s a pretty big leap to contend that gun control is “anti-woman.” Gun control is anti-gun violence, anti-mass shootings, anti-suicide by firearm, not anti-woman.

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We have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it. [The Second Amendment] is about maintaining within the citizenry the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary. (Rep. Matt Gaetz, FL)

 

Representative Gaetz makes no secret of his sympathy and support for the folks January 6 Capitol insurrectionists. To his way of thinking, when election results aren’t what he and his fellow MAGA Republicans want them to be, armed rebellion is the preferred option. Can you imagine a stronger case for gun control than the existence of people like Matt Gaetz?

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And who can forget Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas talking about high capacity gun magazines and giving “a slippery slope” a whole new spin?

. . . once you make it ten, then why would you draw the line at ten? What’s wrong with nine? Or eleven? And the problem is once you draw that limit; it’s kind of like marriage when you say it’s not a man and a woman anymore, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal? There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

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Click the icons for sterling MAGA wisdom about gun violence.

Prolonging the COVID Pandemic

I would like to ask all the MAGA Republican elected officials, a couple of governors in particular, but also a few extra moronic and obnoxious House members, why they are so anxious to have their constituents die of COVID? How can they win their primaries or steal the 2022 election if their “base” has long-since died ?

You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.  (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, GA) 

 

Biden pushing a vaccine that is NOT FDA approved shows covid is a political tool used to control people. People have a choice, they don’t need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations. You can’t force people to be part of the human experiment. (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, GA)

 

Marjorie just loves those Nazi analogies. I don’t know what more is to be said about equating wearing a mask to prevent the spread of COVID with Nazis marking Jews with yellow stars. It’s a real tragedy that Marjorie and her MAGA base obviously feel like “second class” citizens in their own country.

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Now they’re talking about going door-to-door to take vaccines to the people. Then think about what those mechanisms could be used for. They could then go door-to-door to take your guns. They could then go door-to-door to take your Bibles. (Rep. Madison Cawthorn, NC)

 

Does Madison deliberately dream up anything he can to pander to the basest of his base?  The notion of government operatives working on behalf of liberal, undoubtedly socialist, Democrats, coming to take people’s Bibles approaches self-parody. 

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And there’s nothing like a little wit and levity when it comes to a deadly virus:

 

You've had all the experts say look out for the Delta variant or the Lambda variant. Well next it'll be the Chi Omega variant or the Pi Kappa Psi variant. I got the Florida variant. I got the freedom variant. It affects the brain. It gets you to think for yourself where you don't just surrender to the truth that they're trying to create in corrupt big media. (Rep. Matt Gaetz, FL)

 

It would appear Representative Gaetz’s brain has been affected by a whole lot more than that!

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Click on the COVID molecules for sterling MAGA wisdom about COVID.

And how would any discussion of the COVID pandemic be complete without including two of the most obnoxious, misguided governors in the country – Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida.

Joe Biden has the nerve to tell me to get out of the way on COVID while he lets COVID-infected migrants pour over our southern border by the hundreds of thousands. No elected official is doing more to enable the transmission of COVID in America than Joe Biden with his open borders policies. . . You have over 100 different countries where people are pouring through. Not only are they letting them through — they’re then farming them out all across our communities across this country, putting them on planes, putting them on buses. (Governor Ron DeSantis, FL)

Contrary to the previous statement, all the evidence indicates the problem is low vaccination rates among existing American citizens, and this is borne out by the fact that our country’s worst coronavirus hot spots aren’t located along the border with Mexico.  In addition, those coming across the border have lower positivity rates than currently found in many areas of the country.

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Then there are the statements that go in circles, contradicting themselves and not making any sense whatsoever:

 

. . . one thing that we learned along the way is lockdowns are wrong during the course of a pandemic. Going forward, in Texas there will not be any government-imposed shutdowns or mask mandates. Everyone already knows what to do. Everyone can voluntarily implement the mandates that are safest for them, their families, and their businesses. (Governor Greg Abbott, TX)

 

The problem, of course, is that most people didn’t know what to do.  If something is a “mandate,” how can it be voluntarily implemented?  

 

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Abbott is also an expert on women’s reproductive health, or at least so he thinks.

 

. . .  rape is a crime, and Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.

 

Apparently Abbott doesn’t think a woman should have an abortion unless she is raped, meaning that if you put all the rapists in jail you can eliminate the need for women’s reproductive health.  Does he realize that over 90%* of women know their attacker?  Maybe it’s a “dog whistle” to the base, but dredging up the old racist myth of black and brown men assaulting innocent white women should be irrelevant to the laws governing women’s reproductive rights in the twenty first century.   *  According to the national Sexual Violence Resource Center

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Click on the PPE masks for sterling MAGA wisdom about COVID.

DeSantis opposes mask mandates on the grounds that its government overreach, but dictates what schoolboards and communities can and can’t do to protect their own citizens. Abbott, meanwhile, along with his Republican legislature, thinks government has the right to tell a woman what she can and can’t do with her own body, but insists that government has no right to tell its citizens to get vaccinated or wear a mask.
In addition to blocking local schoolboards from mandating their students wear masks in order to win points among his MAGA base, DeSantis has been circulating the ridiculous, xenophobic lie that immigrants coming across the southern border are a major source of COVID.

Claiming Climate Change is a Hoax

The MAGA Republicans are inevitably climate change deniers, none of them ever having met a fossil fuel industry lobbyist they didn’t like.

I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they have found that the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth’s orbit around the sun. And we know there’s been significant solar flare activity. And so is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have profound effects on our climate. (Rep. Louie Gohmert, TX)

 

Presumably this is the man’s explanation for climate change.  People have been committed for less.  It’s frightening to think there is someone like this out their roaming the streets, let alone serving in Congress!  And what in holly hell does Black Lives Matter have to do with the earth’s orbit around the sun!?!  Maybe this attests to the incredible irrational fear that Gohmert and other MAGA Republicans have of Black Lives Matter and what they represent—a challenge to white privilege.

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When responding to a young person’s question, Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona said the following: 

Unfortunately, you haven’t been taught about photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is when plants take carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. That’s a problem in today’s world. We haven’t taught kids exactly what’s going on in America and in Science.

 

No, Representative Gozar, the problem is that YOU don’t know what’s going on in America and in science. The issue isn’t photosynthesis. Humans are putting more carbon dioxide into the air than the plants can process.

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Click on the overheated globes for sterling MAGA wisdom about climate change.

Their obsession with “Wokeness”

One of the MAGA Republicans’ favorite distractions from issues that really matter in this country, such as economic and social equality, climate change, infrastructure and health care, is “wokeness.”

Now, we see the woke-kification of the Department of Defense and the reason why is because the leftists have long since taken control of the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department of State, and the Department of Defense was this last bastion where conservatives maintained a substantial amount of influence and they’re trying to strangle out right-leaning folks who are in the military by monitoring their social media. And what troubles me is that this discussion in Congress is gaslighting exactly what the Biden administration is doing. They’re worried about wokeness not winning and our country deserves better and our military deserves better. (Rep. Matt Gaetz, FL)

                                         

I don’t know about folks in the military, but there’s no denying I would like to “strangle out” Representative Gaetz!

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Click on the icon for sterling MAGA wisdom about wokeness.

And, of course, MAGA Republicans are always careful to maintain a professional demeanor and show respect for their Democratic colleagues:

“ALL House Democrats are evil and will kill unborn babies all the way up to birth and then celebrate.”

(Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, GA)

Yes, It’s frightening to think there are people like this out there!

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