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Deuxcents

(19,785 posts)
1. Have we always had this degree of stupidity in congress
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 02:38 PM
Oct 2023

And I’ve never noticed before?! She’s not the only one but it seems like it’s rampant these days.

DFW

(56,585 posts)
3. Isn't she supposed to read it first?
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 02:58 PM
Oct 2023

Or is it enough that she take the word of a few rich televangelist donors as to what it really says?

I‘m not even going to bother to raise the question as to whether or not she can read ancient Greek or Aramaïc. I have a Jewish friend over in Sprout City that DID learn Aramaïc. From what he told me about it, there is less likelihood that MTG has (or could have) learned Aramaïc than there is that she has figured out how to turn lead into gold in her kitchen.

appleannie1

(5,203 posts)
4. I must have read the wrong Bible and as for illegals entering the country
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 03:32 PM
Oct 2023

What in the H does climate have to do with illegal immigrants? And yes Margie baby, S. America does have a winter. It is during our summer. And they do have storms and earthquakes and tsunamis etc. And yes the crime rate is high here and violent crime is climbing just as fast as every Tom, Dick and Harry can get their hands on every weapon imaginable. It makes it so much easier to make people put their hands in the air if you have a gun when you say "Stick em up". She should get educated on subjects before she gives speeches on said subjects.

TexasTowelie

(116,875 posts)
6. I'll address your first comment about climate.
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 03:46 PM
Oct 2023

Due to climate change, the theory is that a wave of immigration will spread to more temperate regions of the world from the equatorial regions as they become uninhabitable due to the heat. Those trends in immigration already exist in the Americas and Europe, although it is questionable whether political strife or climate change will have the most important role regarding immigration.

I agree that MTG is ignorant and creates conspiracies purely for the shock value.

appleannie1

(5,203 posts)
7. The immigrants I know came here either because of extreme poverty or because of violence in
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 04:18 PM
Oct 2023

their country of origin. The first it is usual a male or two from the family that arrives, gets a job and sends money back so the family can live a little better. But they did not cross the border in the west. They arrived in the east. They are all hard workers and either do heavy labor or agricultural work or work as domestics etc.

TexasTowelie

(116,875 posts)
8. One of the effects of climate change will be the poverty experienced by families
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 04:44 PM
Oct 2023

not being able to raise or sell crops/livestock which will drive immigration. Climate change may rank behind economics and political violence as a reason to immigrate, but understanding that in some manners it is also a subset of the economic arguments will make it more prominent.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
5. Half heard Baptist babble study from her youth, filtered through that cesspit
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 03:46 PM
Oct 2023

she calls a brain, percolating up with the rest of the stupidity that pours out of her mouth, why are people surprised?

All this feamel had going for her were looks and that southern belle surface charm, and her looks are going fast.

When they're gone, she'll follow them.

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