JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

I know, f**e news...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter-suspension/index.html

Seriously, is she as stupid as Trump? Does she not know when to quit with BS? Fifth infraction????? Do her Republican colleagues not see what a flake she is?

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

Good to hear but she really needs to be removed from office.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

The GOPers don't care how dumb any of their colleagues are as long as they tow the Trump barge.

After chasing cars all morning, Gnarly Marge Greene started chasing Parkland massacre survivor David Hogg.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-parkland-david-hogg

Gnarly Marge has repeatedly said Parkland was a false f**g operation echoing false yet frequently spread conspiracy claims that mass shooting survivors and family members of victims are “crisis actors” and the attacks that k**led their loved ones were staged as a plot to pass gun control laws.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

At least she didn't claim that Guam would tip over and capsize as a Democrat congressman had claimed. lol

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

No dumber than Louie "Goober" Gohmert asking if we could change the orbit of the moon to reverse c*****e c****e.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

That's because you didn't get that Gohmert was being facetious, here is one persons take on it

Electrek‘s take
Gohmert’s question is utterly ridiculous, of course. Nobody has the power to move the moon, and he knows it.

So even though Gohmert comes across as a complete i***t, he probably isn’t. The committee he sits on gives him a platform – a speaker’s corner, if you will. He asked a stupid question as a distraction tactic, to make the completely legless point that fighting c*****e c****e is about as possible as moving the moon.

And it worked! The media – including Electrek – covered his question. Ridiculous comments and behavior attract media attention.

https://electrek.co/2021/06/10/why-a-texas-congressman-asked-the-forest-service-to-move-the-moon-to-fight-c*****e-c****e/

skylane5sp Loc: Puyallup, WA

Greene was suspended for "C***d misinformation". She posted information from the V***S database. I guess Twatter doesn't like actual t***h.

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

That's the standard excuse you guys use whenever some repugnant makes a gaffe.

You used it time and again every time the Orange One said something dumb...he was just kidding.

"We have nukes, why can't we use them?"

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Not so, there have been comments from Republican's that were actually stupid from stupid Republicans. Gohmert is not one of them, at least not in this case.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

She's a vicious Q***n pig not an unwitting boob.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Why lie? She's not associated with q***n.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Just kidding ... Louie Gohmert, Wiki

"Terror babies"
In a speech about national security on the House floor in June 2010,[81] Gohmert claimed that a retired FBI agent had told him that one of the things the FBI had been looking at were terrorist cells overseas sending young women to become pregnant so they would deliver the baby in the United States, and then take the baby with them back to be raised as a terrorist. When adult, this operative—a U.S. citizen by birth—could be easily infiltrated in the U.S. to carry out terrorist actions.[82] On August 12, 2010, Gohmert appeared on Anderson Cooper 360° to defend comments he had recently made on the House floor about "terror babies".[83]

On Fox Business News, Gohmert later claimed that an airline passenger with a relative in Hamas had a grandchild who was to be intentionally born in the United States.[84] In the interview, he said that pregnant women from the Middle East were traveling to the U.S. on tourist visas, planning to deliver children there.[85]

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that children born on U.S. soil are U.S. citizens at birth. Gohmert asserted that the children would then be returned to the mothers' home countries and undergo terrorist training. When repeatedly asked by the host for evidence of this, Gohmert did not provide substantiation for either the ex-FBI agent story or the airline passenger story, but he did refer to a Washington Post article that said Chinese tourists sometimes travel to the U.S. to give birth in the U.S.[86] Gohmert said this practice takes advantage of a "gaping hole in the security of our country".[87]

Muslim Brotherhood
On June 13, 2012, Gohmert was one of five Republican United States representatives (with Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Tom Rooney, and Lynn Westmoreland) to send letters to the Inspectors General[88] of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State outlining their "serious national security concerns" and asking for "answers to questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical groups' access to top Obama administration officials." In the letter, the lawmakers wrote about information they claimed "raises serious questions about Department of State policies and activities that appear to be a result of influence operations conducted by individuals and organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood."[89]

A letter to Ambassador Harold W. Geisel, the Deputy Inspector General of the United States Department of State, mentioned the Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, as an example of the undue influence. The letter said that Abedin, wife of former U.S. representative Anthony Weiner, who had access to sensitive national security and policy information, "has three family members–her late father, her mother and her brother–connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations", as backed up by a study by the Center for Security Policy.[90][91][92]

The letter and the Center for Security Policy's accusation were widely denounced as a smear, and achieved "near-universal condemnation", including from several prominent Republicans such as John McCain, John Boehner, Scott Brown, and Marco Rubio.[93][94][95]

Newt Gingrich praised Gohmert and his colleagues as the "National Security Five" in a Politico editorial. Gingrich wrote that he favored investigating the Muslim Brotherhood, and made clear his support for Gohmert and the other four representatives for raising concerns that improve national security.[96] Conservative columnist Cal Thomas replied, to accusations of "McCarthyism", that the real possibility of infiltration by Islamic extremists deserves to be investigated.[97]

Comparison of Obama to Hitler
In a 2010 speech before the House, Gohmert read into the record parts of an op-ed by conservative columnist Thomas Sowell that compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Gohmert quoted a portion of Sowell's op-ed that stated that Hitler "deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics". Gohmert introduced his reading by saying, "I didn’t v**e for Barack Obama in 2008, but I sure would have v**ed for Thomas Sowell".[98]

Comments on Robert Mueller
Gohmert was one of three Republicans who called for the resignation of Robert Mueller, the prosecutor investigating Russian interference in the 2016 p**********l e******n, on the grounds that they believed Mueller could not conduct his investigation fairly "because of his relationship with James Comey, his successor at the bureau".[99] As of March 2016, "[s]ix people connected to President Trump have been charged by the special counsel with an array of crimes, including financial fraud and lying to Congress and investigators. Five have been convicted or pleaded guilty. Twenty-eight others, including 26 Russians, also face charges."[100] Mueller did not exonerate Trump on the issue of obstruction, a fact he reiterated during the House Judiciary Committee hearing. In a June 2019 interview with Politico, Gohmert called Mueller an "anal opening."[101]

Renaming of Cesar Chavez Day
In early 2018, Gohmert announced that he had introduced a resolution (H. Res. 791) to change the name of Cesar Chavez Day to Border Control Day, saying, "Chavez spent his life addressing the harmful effects that illegal migration might have on this country and advocating for a legal immigration process."[102] The proposition was criticized by Arizona House Minority Leader Rebecca Rios and members of the Hispanic-American community, who felt it was disrespectful of Chavez's legacy.[103][104]

Comments on George Soros
In December 2018, Gohmert was a guest on Varney & Co., on Fox Business News discussing Google's work in China, when he digressed to say that it reminded him that "George Soros is supposed to be Jewish, but you wouldn't know it from the damage he's inflicted on Israel, and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews and helped take the property that they owned. This same kind of thing—Google coming from a free country and helping oppress." The allegation was criticized by NBC News for allegedly denigrating Soros's surviving the Holocaust.[105]

Within an hour, host Stuart Varney said on air, "In the last hour, one of our guests, Congressman Louie Gohmert, for some reason went out of his way to bring up George Soros, and made unsubstantiated and false allegations against him. I want to make clear those views are not shared by me, this program or anyone at Fox Business." Gohmert later responded that his words had not been anti-Jewish and were actually a "pro-Jewish statement on my part."[105]

Whistleblower outing
In an open impeachment hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Gohmert spoke the name of a man widely thought to be the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[106]

Texas v. Pennsylvania
In December 2020, Gohmert was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 p**********l e******n, in which Joe Biden defeated[107] Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an e******n held by another state.[108][109][110]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "e******n subversion." She also reprimanded Gohmert and the other House members who supported the lawsuit: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."[111][112] New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell, citing section three of the 14th Amendment, called for Pelosi to not seat Gohmert and the other Republicans who signed the brief supporting the suit, arguing that "the text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in r*******n against the United States. Trying to overturn a democratic e******n and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that."[113]

Gohmert v. Pence
On December 27, 2020, Gohmert filed a federal lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, authored by attorney Lawrence J. Joseph, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 United States p**********l e******n.[114][115] Gohmert's lawsuit alleged that the E*******l Count Act of 1887 was unconstitutional,[116] seeking to grant the Vice President the power to reject state-certified p**********l e*****rs in favor of "competing slates of e*****rs".[115] Gohmert was joined in his lawsuit by 11 Arizona Republicans who would have become p**********l e*****rs had Trump actually won Arizona.[116] The United States Department of Justice represented Pence in the case and argued for its dismissal.[116]

On January 1, 2021, Gohmert's lawsuit was dismissed by federal judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, because the plaintiffs lacked standing. Kernodle ruled that Gohmert lacked standing due to precedent set by the Supreme Court in 1997: alleging an "institutional injury to the House of Representatives" does not grant Gohmert standing to sue. Additionally, Kernodle ruled that the injury Gohmert was alleging depended on so many hypothetical and not yet realized events that it was "far too uncertain to support standing". Gohmert failed to make a case for how he was injured "as an individual", Kernodle said.[117][118] As for the other plaintiffs, Kernodle ruled that they lacked standing because the injury they alleged was "not fairly traceable" to Pence.[119]

Gohmert appealed the district court's ruling that day.[117] He also reacted to the dismissal by declaring that with "no remedy" provided, "in effect the ruling would be that you gotta go to the streets and be as violent as A****a and B*M."[117]

On January 2, a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit speedily and tersely rejected Gohmert's appeal; they "affirm the judgment" of the district court, "essentially for the reasons stated by the district court".[117] The judges who presided over the appeal were Andy Oldham (appointed by Trump), Patrick Higginbotham and Jerry Edwin Smith (both appointed by Ronald Reagan).[117]

Gohmert then appealed to the Supreme Court, which on January 7 also tersely rejected his petition as "denied".[120]

"Dumbest guy in congress"
In May 2021, Gohmert made a rambling speech in which he touched on several issues, including claiming he had very high SAT scores, and added, "I’m sure that shocks people that think I’m the dumbest guy in Congress” before going on to blame the United States Department of Education for the trend of lower SAT scores. The speech itself was mocked for inaccurate statements.[121][122] Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt had previously called Gohmert "America's craziest and dumbest congressman."[123]

Gohmert was also noted for asking a senior official with the United States Forest Service whether their agency or the Bureau of Land Management was capable of altering the orbit of the earth's moon, or the earth's orbit around the sun, as part of efforts to reduce the impacts of c*****e c****e.[124][125] Scientific American pointed out the practical and theoretical problems involved in Gohmert’s proposal.[126]

U.S. C*****l P****e
In June 2021, Gohmert was one of 21 House Republicans to v**e against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on J****** 6.[127]

Storming of the Capitol
In July 2021, Gohmert suggested the J****** 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol was a conspiracy possibly set up by Democrats.[128]

E*******l history
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Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

[quote=Texcaster]Just kidding ... Louie Gohmert, Wiki



Good Lord, nobody is going to read all that nonsense. You take this attic way too seriously.

mwalsh Loc: Houston

LoL

Yeah, right!

She prolly is Q.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Naww, she probably isn't, but ya never really know.