Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Memorial Day Message Has A Massive Mistake. I Say 2.Read The Last Paragraph.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Memorial Day Message Has A Massive Mistake

Ed Mazza

~2 minutes

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sent out a Memorial Day message on Twitter ― but it was undermined by a very visible mistake.

Greene’s message contained a version of the U.S. flag with just 18 stars.

PatriotTakes, which monitors right-wing media, and several other critics spotted the error of the conspiracy theorist lawmaker, who has called for a “national divorce” and spoke last year at a white nationalist event:

No official U.S. flag had 18 stars.

It had 15 stars and 15 stripes at the end of the 18th and start of the 19th centuries. The addition of five states between 1797 and 1817 led to a flag with 20 stars and 13 stripes in 1818, which was quickly replaced by a succession of new flags as more states were admitted.

Antique American flag dealer Jeff Bridgman notes that “a tiny handful of 18 star flags exist,” which were created later to commemorate Louisiana’s statehood, given that it was the 18th state to join the union.

Others, however, offered criticisms of Greene beyond the flag ― such as her vote against legislation to expand federal aid for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, as well as other actions and comments she’s made over the years:

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1 hour ago, aubiefifty said:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Memorial Day Message Has A Massive Mistake

Ed Mazza

~2 minutes

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sent out a Memorial Day message on Twitter ― but it was undermined by a very visible mistake.

Greene’s message contained a version of the U.S. flag with just 18 stars.

PatriotTakes, which monitors right-wing media, and several other critics spotted the error of the conspiracy theorist lawmaker, who has called for a “national divorce” and spoke last year at a white nationalist event:

No official U.S. flag had 18 stars.

It had 15 stars and 15 stripes at the end of the 18th and start of the 19th centuries. The addition of five states between 1797 and 1817 led to a flag with 20 stars and 13 stripes in 1818, which was quickly replaced by a succession of new flags as more states were admitted.

Antique American flag dealer Jeff Bridgman notes that “a tiny handful of 18 star flags exist,” which were created later to commemorate Louisiana’s statehood, given that it was the 18th state to join the union.

Others, however, offered criticisms of Greene beyond the flag ― such as her vote against legislation to expand federal aid for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, as well as other actions and comments she’s made over the years:

Oh no, what an embarrassing mistake on an otherwise impeccable career. 

 

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4 minutes ago, Mims44 said:

Oh no, what an embarrassing mistake on an otherwise impeccable career. 

 

\sarcasm

yes i am still trying to figure you out. i might be an ornery a**hole but the thing about the vets really hacks my lily. they can hug and wave the flag and then vote to overturn burn victims stuff. it is sad.

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5 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

yes i am still trying to figure you out.

Just take off your red/blue shades fifty.

When I make fun of reds you are all about it.

When I make fun of goofy stuff a blue does you start to dislike me.

 

I've been sick of both parties for awhile. Reds get control and they do nothing with it that I want them to, and usually do s*** I absolutely abhor. Blues get control and it's more or less the same. And afterwards both of them just point at each other as the true cause that's holding back the country. We are a country of damn near 350MILLION people.... and our last election was between Trump and Biden? and before that Trump and Clinton? I refuse to believe these people represent the best of what America has to offer.

We are all given different textures of turds and told to pick whichever is easier to swallow.

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i am sick of the fookin crazies on the right trying to take over the gov and shooting up folks and dragging us back in the past. there is a huge difference mims. dems are rare indeed to go pick up an assault weapon unlike the right. so no they are not the same. yes i agreed with most of what you said niy yjr violence against color or people who find love with other people we do not aprove of. screw all that. then i agree with  the rest of what you said.

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14 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

dems are rare indeed to go pick up an assault weapon unlike the right

The Louisville shooter that bought an AR-15 and shot up the bank where he worked just to push a ban on guns and the Nashville LGBTQdfdk follower that shot up a school and kissed 3 kids and 3 adults defy your statement.  All of these have been in the last 3 months.

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ok  lets keep score. so far it is what three against three hundred? i never said in my life dems do not have crazies just not as many and not near as violent as the right. nice try tho................let me know when we catch up with yall. and how many dems are out there calling for violence like the right? hhhmmmmm?

19 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

The Louisville shooter that bought an AR-15 and shot up the bank where he worked just to push a ban on guns and the Nashville LGBTQdfdk follower that shot up a school and kissed 3 kids and 3 adults defy your statement.  All of these have been in the last 3 months.

 

19 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

The Louisville shooter that bought an AR-15 and shot up the bank where he worked just to push a ban on guns and the Nashville LGBTQdfdk follower that shot up a school and kissed 3 kids and 3 adults defy your statement.  All of these have been in the last 3 months.

 

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8 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

 

ok  lets keep score. so far it is what three against three hundred? i never said in my life dems do not have crazies just not as many and not near as violent as the right. nice try tho................let me know when we catch up with yall. and how many dems are out there calling for violence like the right? hhhmmmmm?

 

 

I’m just saying it is trending to the left recently.   Target is getting violent threats and it’s coming from the left, the intolerant left.

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4 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

I’m just saying it is trending to the left recently.   Target is getting violent threats and it’s coming from the left, the intolerant left.

here is intolerance dude.................

 

Target is being held hostage by an anti-LGBTQ campaign

New York CNN  — 

During every Pride Month in June for the past decade, Target has sold merchandise for LGBTQ customers, employees and allies. But this year, Target faced an anti-LGBTQ campaign that went viral on social media.

Fueled by far-right personalities and on social media platforms, the anti-trans campaign spread misleading information about the company’s Pride Month products and its business practices.

Hurting brands’ sales and reputations was the stated goal of the campaign: “The goal is to make ‘pride’ toxic for brands,” said right-wing commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter. “If they decide to shove this garbage in our face, they should know that they’ll pay a price. It won’t be worth whatever they think they’ll gain.”

The campaign became hostile, with threats levied against Target employees and instances of damaged products and displays in stores.

 

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That effectively held Target hostage: The company was forced to make an impossible choice to either safeguard its employees and stores or continue to support customers who wanted to buy the products it was selling.

In the end, Target opted to protect employee safety by removing certain items that it said caused the most “volatile” reaction from opponents.

But Target’s response angered LGBTQ advocates and led to criticism that it was caving to extreme elements of American society.

“Target should put the products back on the shelves and ensure their Pride displays are visible on the floors, not pushed into the proverbial closet. That’s what the bullies want,” said Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights group. “Target must be better.”

Like Bud Light before it, Target ended up alienating just about everyone in the process with its response.

Meeting demand

Target became the focus of the anti-LGBTQ campaign’s ire for its Pride Month merchandise, but the campaign misrepresented Target’s ambitions.

Target, one of the largest retailers in the country, was selling Pride-themed merchandise to customers who wanted to buy them. It’s capitalism and ultimately a business decision in the interest of enriching Target’s shareholders.

Yoram Wind, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said Target was trying to reach a growing LGBTQ market of customers and employees. Around 7% of Americans identified as LGBTQ in 2021, according to Gallup, up from 3.5% in 2012.

“It’s helping us drive sales, it’s building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests, and those are just the right things for our business today,” Target CEO Brian Cornell told Fortune last month of the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.

The campaign made other false claims, including that Target was marketing one product for transgender adults to children. Target sold a women’s swimsuit that was described as “tuck friendly” for its ability to conceal male genitalia. The bathing suit was available for adults only, according to screenshots of the items taken when they were available online.

 

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Opponents also highlighted Target’s products made by trans designer Erik Carnell, who has designed merchandise with images of horned skulls and symbols of Satan. Target did not sell any of these products. For Target, the UK designer said on Instagram he created a bag, tote and sweatshirt for adults with messages such as “We Belong Everywhere,” “Too Queer for Here,” and “Cure Transphobia.” Misinformation spread that his Target collection was for children.

Those products were just a handful of the approximately 2,000 in Target’s Pride Month collection, such as shirts, coffee mugs and stationary.

Target on Wednesday said in a statement it was removing “items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.” The company said it experienced threats that impacted employees’ sense of safety and well-being.

The company told the Wall Street Journal that people have confronted workers in stores, knocked down Pride merchandise displays and put threatening posts on social media with video from inside stores.

“Our focus now is on moving forward with our continuing commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community and standing with them as we celebrate Pride Month and throughout the year,” Target said in its statement.

But Target’s response has frustrated supporters of gay and transgender rights, who argued the company caved to bigoted pressure.

“CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday.

Sarah Kate Ellis, the president of advocacy group GLAAD, said that corporate leaders must step up for their LGBTQ employees and consumers and “not cave to fringe activists calling for censorship.”

Pressure on brands

More brands are being caught in cultural issues in part because of social media.

“It’s always been best practice in my view for brands to stay away from super controversial issues that are not directly related to their business,” said Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. “The problem is that today there are many issues that are controversial.”

The campaign against Target comes amid a record number of anti-LBGT bills introduced in statehouses this year and escalating political attacks on transgender people by leading Republican candidates for president.

Companies such as Bud Light and Nike have also been targeted over promotional campaigns featuring transgender people.

Disney has also been caught in a protracted fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stemming from legislation he signed that prohibits teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in class, known by critics as “Don’t Say Gay.”

And the Los Angeles Dodgers this week also reversed course and extended a new invitation to a drag group after earlier disinviting them from the team’s upcoming Pride Night at Dodger Stadium.

Although Target was acting to protect employees, some corporate marketing experts say the company’s response could embolden gay and transgender rights opponents to target other brands.

They questioned why Target couldn’t attempt other solutions, such as beefing up store security or trying to educate customers and employees, before pulling the products altogether.

“It does seem like you’re caving into a bully,” said Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communication at Dartmouth University’s Tuck School of Business. “It sets a dangerous precedent.”

 

 

the trans folks might or might not be doing ot but you guys have never slowed down. i mean not a little. how mant more you want

 

 

 

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14 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

I’m just saying it is trending to the left recently.   Target is getting violent threats and it’s coming from the left, the intolerant left.

again what news are you getting this from chum? let me clue you in on something.......

 

Target Bomb Threat From LGBTQ+ Ally Angry Over Pride Moves Deemed Hoax

TMZ Staff

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Target Pride Controversy Bomb Threat from Angry LGBTQ+ Ally ... Deemed a Hoax

5/27/2023 10:48 AM PT

Reports of bomb threats made to several Target stores over three different states have now been classified as a hoax -- and it seems someone was trying to plant a false flag.

Target locations in Utah, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- spanning the greater Cleveland, Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh areas -- reportedly received correspondence Friday threatening to blow up several sites ... and all the emails sent referenced the Pride Month display controversy.

At first, it seemed the threats were coming from folks boycotting Target for supporting Pride Month -- but, Cleveland 19 News published a screenshot of the email in question, and it actually appeared to come from an LGBTQ+ ally angry about Target's decision to back down.

The note -- which was sent by someone named Alsan Akhmedov -- reads in part, "Target is full of cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to the homophobic right wing redneck bigots who protested and vandalized their store."

It continues, "We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down. We are sending you a message, we placed a bomb in the following targets." Four Targets in OH and one in PA were referenced ... the Utah stores were not mentioned in this specific message.

All of those stores -- plus some in Utah, which also received bomb threats -- were evacuated ... but after preliminary investigations, cops are now saying this whole thing is fake.

Some law enforcement agencies have reportedly said the email looks to have originated from overseas, and that there was no credible threat upon inspection at the Targets mentioned. Cops in Utah -- where the stores also appear to have been sent a similar email -- said the same thing ... calling the bomb threats "bogus." In other words, disinformation.

As you know, Target has opted to yank some of its Pride merch amid the ongoing backlash.

 

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35 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

I’m just saying it is trending to the left recently.   Target is getting violent threats and it’s coming from the left, the intolerant left.

cat got your tongue? it is almost as bad as lying to post stuff not true and then not acknowledge you screwed up which you are too prideful to do. the left will mostly admit when they are wrong but you guys? nope. damn near non existant............

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31 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

During every Pride Month in June for the past decade, Target has sold merchandise for LGBTQ customers, employees and allies. But this year, Target faced an anti-LGBTQ campaign that went viral on social media.

Do you know why this year is so much worse?  I’m sure you don’t so I’ll let you know.  This year they started targeting kids with their *tuck friendly* swim suits, prided onesies, and specifically targeting youth.  Sell that junk to adults, but the LGBTQweirowe coalition can’t help themselves, they have to come after the kids.  Parents don’t necessarily like that especially mama bear.

So target will have to decide which people they don’t want to have as customers, the one percent + all the virtue signalers or families.  There is a way around it and that is stop marketing to kids.

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Just now, I_M4_AU said:

Do you know why this year is so much worse?  I’m sure you don’t so I’ll let you know.  This year they started targeting kids with their *tuck friendly* swim suits, prided onesies, and specifically targeting youth.  Sell that junk to adults, but the LGBTQweirowe coalition can’t help themselves, they have to come after the kids.  Parents don’t necessarily like that especially mama bear.

So target will have to decide which people they don’t want to have as customers, the one percent + all the virtue signalers or families.  There is a way around it and that is stop marketing to kids.

answer the fookin question and quit deflecting. good lord you are a hard head.

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32 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

again what news are you getting this from chum? let me clue you in on something.......

Well, it definitely isn’t TMZ.

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11 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

answer the fookin question

Was there a question?  I must have missed it

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2 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

Some law enforcement agencies have reportedly said the email looks to have originated from overseas, and that there was no credible threat upon inspection at the Targets mentioned.

This is from the TMZ article and it states that the threat was not a credible one.  It also mentioned it originated from an LGBTlfoaiwfo ally which means the terrorist threat originated from the intolerant left.  So, I guess I was right even though it turned out not to be a bomb.

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3 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

again what news are you getting this from chum? let me clue you in on something.......

 

Target Bomb Threat From LGBTQ+ Ally Angry Over Pride Moves Deemed Hoax

TMZ Staff

4–5 minutes

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Target Pride Controversy Bomb Threat from Angry LGBTQ+ Ally ... Deemed a Hoax

5/27/2023 10:48 AM PT

Reports of bomb threats made to several Target stores over three different states have now been classified as a hoax -- and it seems someone was trying to plant a false flag.

Target locations in Utah, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- spanning the greater Cleveland, Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh areas -- reportedly received correspondence Friday threatening to blow up several sites ... and all the emails sent referenced the Pride Month display controversy.

At first, it seemed the threats were coming from folks boycotting Target for supporting Pride Month -- but, Cleveland 19 News published a screenshot of the email in question, and it actually appeared to come from an LGBTQ+ ally angry about Target's decision to back down.

The note -- which was sent by someone named Alsan Akhmedov -- reads in part, "Target is full of cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to the homophobic right wing redneck bigots who protested and vandalized their store."

It continues, "We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down. We are sending you a message, we placed a bomb in the following targets." Four Targets in OH and one in PA were referenced ... the Utah stores were not mentioned in this specific message.

All of those stores -- plus some in Utah, which also received bomb threats -- were evacuated ... but after preliminary investigations, cops are now saying this whole thing is fake.

Some law enforcement agencies have reportedly said the email looks to have originated from overseas, and that there was no credible threat upon inspection at the Targets mentioned. Cops in Utah -- where the stores also appear to have been sent a similar email -- said the same thing ... calling the bomb threats "bogus." In other words, disinformation.

As you know, Target has opted to yank some of its Pride merch amid the ongoing backlash.

38 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

This is from the TMZ article and it states that the threat was not a credible one.  It also mentioned it originated from an LGBTlfoaiwfo ally which means the terrorist threat originated from the intolerant left.  So, I guess I was right even though it turned out not to be a bomb.

Actually it came from overseas.

If it's like the crap we get, it's about a 99% chance from India.

The trolls there are.... very troll-like.

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2 hours ago, Mims44 said:

Actually it came from overseas.

If it's like the crap we get, it's about a 99% chance from India.

The trolls there are.... very troll-like.

Like any threat, the police are obligated to check it out.  It is an unfortunate reality that trolls know and take advantage of.  People used to call in a bomb threat to the airlines because they were late and didn’t want to miss their flight.  A weird world we live in.