All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

11 Republicans joined the Democrats to remove Greene from her Committee positions.

[babyblob]

Pressuring people and holding them for accountable does produce results...who'da thunk?

The Dems should still remove her from comittees though.

I am just wondering how much of her speech is legit and how much is her just backsliding and saying what people want her to say?

[Revolutionary_Jack]

I am just wondering how much of her speech is legit and how much is her just backsliding and saying what people want her to say?

It doesn't matter. Her speech has no real remorse. It does have a whiff more reality compared to everything else she's said and done until now but she still equivocates and dodges true responsibility.

11 Republicans joined the Democrats to remove Greene from her Committee positions.

One more than the number who voted for the Second Trumpeachment.

[kidfresh512]

I am just wondering how much of her speech is legit and how much is her just backsliding and saying what people want her to say?

If it was legit she had ample opportunity to address it publicly. It's bs, she was fundraising off "cancel culture". And saying she wasn't going to back down.

She finally makes public backtracking when the vote was locked in. Not genuine at all. Her apology wasn't even contrition. She blamed the media for being just as bad. And acted like people made her believe in Q.

[Kirby101]

She said "I was allowed to believe". How does that happen? Who allowed her? What happened to the Party of personal responsibility?

[Jack Dracula]

Let's not give her cool-abbreviations. Those (RBG, AOC) get to be earned.

Marjorie Taylor Greene...three names just like Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Alternatively you can just call her Greene.

I could just use the letter C.

[Tami]

.@BenSasse to Nebraska GOP State Central Committee before it censures him: "You are welcome to censure me again – but let’s be clear about why: It’s because I still believe (as you used to) that politics is not about the weird worship of one dude.”

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[Jack Dracula]

Never mind.

[MajorHoy]

I think it's a real estate thing where he makes his signature odd and squiggly to avoid stuff.

Messy signatures are neither here nor there. Many decent people I know in life have messy signatures and it's just incidental.

Once I started having to sign my name a lot to paperwork, it was amazing how letters began disappearing from name . . .

[DrNewGod]

I could just use the letter C.

Still too cool. I like Jack's idea. All three names, like most deranged assassins.

[Wildling]

Still too cool. I like Jack's idea. All three names, like most deranged assassins.

Even Jack the Ripper (his name never came out right)!

[Revolutionary_Jack]

The gunman with three names was perpetuated to ensure that you have as little confusion as possible between common names.

John Booth for instance could lead to many people being suspected and targeted and accused by mistake. John Wilkes Booth though narrowed stuff down.

So it has a practical police function. Occassionally it does lead to distortions, like for instance Oswald was called Lee Oswald by most everyone who knew him at the time. But after Dallas, he became known and will remain forever known as Lee Harvey Oswald, immortalized by his little used middle name.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

11 Republicans joined the Democrats to remove Greene from her Committee positions.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I am just wondering how much of her speech is legit and how much is her just backsliding and saying what people want her to say?

I'd say it was all bullshit. Greene was doing nothing more than covering her ass.

Still too cool. I like Jack's idea. All three names, like most deranged assassins.

Jack forgot Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer.

[Amadeus Arkham]

[PwrdOn]

Any country would rightly fear what secrets a spy would reveal to a foreign power when faced with imprisonment. Pretty sure the threat of going to extended stay at Gitmo would make most people sing soprano in a heartbeat.

Is there any evidence that any useful intelligence was obtained through all those years of "enhanced interrogation" in Gitmo?