"Communist Blogger" is my favorite Neutral Milk Hotel song

Anyway, here are some of the "communist" blog posts about the Qongresswoman from Georgia (thread)
In 2018, she agreed with someone who said that 9/11 was an inside job and argued that the school shooting in Parkland, FL was a false flag. https://t.co/vFPWjcZJHy
And then there's another time she said that the Parkland shooting was fake https://t.co/XbwpEotSon
She claimed that there was "never any evidence" that a plane was flown into the Pentagon on 9/11 https://t.co/lYpm0niPZo
She once recorded herself going on a deranged rant arguing that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are illegitimate members of congress because they didn't take their oaths on the Bible (you do not need to take your oath on the Bible, but MTG is a goddamn moron)
https://t.co/W4Ci35ZgNy
In December 2018, she posted a video that claimed that Jewish people were trying to destroy Europe through immigration. https://t.co/No2ZwtsQPK
When a Trump supporter mailed pipe bombs to Democratic politicians, Greene called it a "hoax," arguing that Dems mailed them to themselves. (It was not a hoax. The man who did it pleaded guilty. 20 year sentence.) https://t.co/405TWigo58
She posted a video (she posted a LOT of videos) making the absolutely bonkers claim that Obama hired MS-13 to assassinate DNC staffer Seth Rich https://t.co/ALhGdJ5MAH
Also in 2018, she posted a video claiming that Obama was a Muslim, and that he "opened up our borders to an invasion by Muslims" (she *really* does not like Muslims) https://t.co/lYpm0niPZo
In a 2018 speech, she praised the militia movement: "Because when our government gets to a place where it’s a tyrannical government, we’re guaranteed the right to bear arms and make a state militia so that they do not run us over" https://t.co/gi5LKsUWJm
And then some stuff that other places reported:
Last year, Green posted an image of her holding a gun next to images of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib, saying that it was time to go on "offense against these socialists" https://t.co/ph0OiLPKoa
And she once wrote that she believed the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was an "inside job." https://t.co/t1dhS3Od7I
NBC reported that she wrote "dozens of articles" for the conspiracy theory site American Truth Seekers that spread all sorts of conspiracy theories (a belief that Hillary Clinton murders her enemies, mass shootings are fake, etc.) https://t.co/i0UstN3715
Politico reported that she said Muslims don't belong in government, said that black people "are held slaves to the Democratic Party," called George Soros a Nazi, and added that if she were black (she is not), she'd be proud to see confederate monuments.

https://t.co/BTsb4Uie03
If this thread is getting a bit unwieldy, fear note. Here's a lot of that stuff all in one place: https://t.co/iI6fAmlYkl
The Qongresswoman is Qrazy, but not Qommunist, I guess

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The tl;dr is that for years right-wing media have been excusing Trump's violent rhetoric by going, "Yes, but THE DEMOCRATS..." and then bending themselves into knots to pretend that Dems were calling for violence when they very, very clearly weren't.

And in fact, this predates Trump.

In 2008, Obama was talking about not backing down in the face of an ugly campaign. He said "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

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That quote was from the movie The Untouchables. And there's no way anybody reading that quote in good faith could conclude that he was talking about actual guns and knives. But it became a big talking point on the

In 2018, Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder was speaking to a group of Georgia Democrats about GOP voter suppression. He riffed on Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" line from the 2016 DNC.
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The GOP got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster so they could jam through three fringy right-wing Alito clones, including one right before the election, but sure thing, bud.

“Uh, actually, they got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster because Harry Reid did it first for something totally different! I am very smart!”

No. Knock it off.

Here’s the thing about the “But Harry Reid...” excuse:

1. McConnell was holding up Obama nominees, some *for literal years* without a vote.

2. Had he *not* done that, Trump would have inherited *even more* vacant seats.
There are a number of reasons bills like these are wrongheaded. One is that it tries to implement the same kind of one-size-fits-all solution that opponents of trans inclusion claim to oppose.

But let’s get nuanced for a minute...


Do trans women and girls have an advantage in sports over other women and girls?

I’m here to provide a very unsatisfying answer: It depends.

What sport are we talking about?

How old are people competing in it?

What sort of hormone treatment has the person in question had and for how long?

Those are all factors that play into the fairness question.

Trying to implement broad policies in the name of ensuring fairness can actually have the opposite of the intended effect.

Take the case of Mack Beggs.

A few years back, Beggs was a high school student in Texas. He was a wrestler, and wanted to do it at the college level.

Beggs is a trans man, meaning his birth certificate said female on it. Like many trans guys, he takes testosterone as part of his medical transition.

He wanted to wrestle. Specifically, he wanted a spot on his school’s boys team.

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