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Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes Paul Pelosi for irresponsibly getting hit in head with a hammer [1]
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Date: 2022-11-04
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x goodness -- Marjorie Taylor Greene goads the audience at the Sioux Falls Trump rally into booing Paul Pelosi pic.twitter.com/K0ugAyhJp9 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 3, 2022
GREENE: “Americans are robbed, stabbed, raped, kidnapped, carjacked, and murdered, but the only crime victim you hear about from Democrats and the media is Paul Pelosi. [crowd boos] Paul Pelosi was brutally attacked by a drugged-out illegal alien that should have been deported, and Paul Pelosi should have been a gun owner and shot his attacker.”
So how exactly will Greene address crime, which is demonstrably worse in traditionally red states like Georgia than in progressive redoubts like California and New York?
Since foreign-born immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the native-born population, letting more of them settle here would likely help lower our crime rate (while also taking a bite out of inflation). But you’ll never hear that common-sense policy prescription from these sad clowns. Stronger gun regulations would also go a long way toward ending gun violence, but that’s clearly a nonstarter with this lot.
Meanwhile, the idea that crime is being driven by newly introduced progressive policies is clearly a canard, as a recent Atlantic essay by Ronald Brownstein made clear:
These [Republican] attacks assume that the changes in criminal-justice policies that some states and many cities have pursued over the past few years are undermining public safety and fueling higher crime rates. But an exhaustive new study released [Oct. 20] by the Center for American Progress refutes that allegation. Conducted by a team of seven academic researchers, the study compares cities that have elected so-called progressive prosecutors with places whose district attorneys continue to pursue more traditional approaches. Countering conventional wisdom, the study found that homicides over recent years increased less rapidly in cities with progressive prosecutors than in those with more traditional district attorneys. It also found no meaningful differences between cities with progressive or traditional DAs in the trends for larceny and robbery.
So what’s MTG’s solution? Paul Pelosi should sleep with a Colt .45 under his pillow. Problem solved!
Of course, expecting anything but nonsense from Greene is like hoping Trump reads a thorough post-mortem of the 2020 presidential election in Penthouse Forum and finally concedes his loss. It won’t happen. But we can help mute these meatheads by, you know, voting on Tuesday!
Republicans can only make crime worse—especially in the halls of Congress and the teevee room at the White House. We’re all tired of the screeching from this flaxen-haired fugazi, so let’s do what we can to make her irrelevant. And to keep denying her those coveted committee assignments. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Let’s roll!
We’re deep in the homestretch before the all-important midterm elections, but it’s not too late to Get Out the Vote. Let’s do this, people!
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