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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

'Stop electing stupid people': Rage as Marjorie Taylor Greene flunks American history test

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'Stop electing stupid people': Rage as Marjorie Taylor Greene flunks American history test

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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is in hot water for getting two out of eight people correct when listing individuals who signed the Declaration of Independence. Greene, who earlier in the day was hit with a flurry of criticism for falsely claiming that Donald Trump won her state of Georgia in...
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    I dunno… in a way, that’s representation in its purest form - angry, stupid Republicans have one of their own in office.

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      I wouldn’t mind that as much if it were actual proportional representation.

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      🇷🇺 Russian representation

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    People no say Marge smart. MARGE SMASH

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    Bet you she claims that the history books have been changed by the Demoncrats

    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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      Or the Jewish space lasers

      • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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        Firecracker

      • JoShmoe@ani.social
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        I see your shwartz is as big as mine. Touché.

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      Her flowchart must be Charlie from It’s Always Sunny.

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    The killer bit is apparently she looked up their ages in 1776 and just didn’t bother confirming who signed.

    From here:

    https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/signers-factsheet

    Yeah, average age was 44.51.
    56 people signed it.
    Oldest was Ben Franklin at 70.
    Youngest were Thomas Lynch Jr. and Edward Ruteledge, both 26.
    28 people were under the age of 45.

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    I thought she just got caught with a live question. But no, she hand crafted this claim with all the time in the world and utterly biffed it. What a joke.

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      biffed it

      Damn, haven’t heard that one in a long time

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    Yeah, she does strike me as a “Herby Hancock” kind of person.

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        I just hear Chameleon start playing in my head.

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    You guys have to look at it in context. She IS representing her district. She’s actually above average around those parts. It’s sad and off putting when viewed through your eyes but in her district she is a towering intellect, the likes of which will rarely be repeated in the future. We should all celebrate her efforts to participate in representative government.

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    It’s going to be an awkward conversation but she is officially off the trivia team. If she thinks I’m switching trains to get to Capital Hill just to lose, she’s got another fact to learn.

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      She has, conservatively (ahem), several facts to learn

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    Every presidential election in my lifetime has had a candidate that has been attacked as “the dumb one” and another that has been attacked as “the smart evil one” (note: the might not be this, but they were attacked as if they were this)

    The “dumb one” has won every time.

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      I concur, except I didn’t get those vibes during Obama v Romney. Who was who then?

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        There wasn’t a “dumb” one in that one. But there was massive hypocrisy from the GOP because Romney is the embodiment of the Elite, while they tirelessly touted Bush Jr as an everydayman (“dumb”) while villifying the Elite.

        This was just 4 years later.

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    Who do they think is doing the voting ???

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    I would if any smart people ever ran for office.

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    Any better cases for projection, guys? Politicians, amirite?

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    When you’re right you’re right, I guess.

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