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brooklynite

(94,302 posts)
Sat May 8, 2021, 11:12 AM May 2021

Gaetz and Greene Rile Up the MAGA Faithful With Talk of Guns and Election Lies at Florida Rally

Source: Daily Beast

THE VILLAGES— Supporters of Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene descended on the Brownwood Hotel and Spa in The Villages, Florida, on Friday night to hear two of the most controversial Republican members of Congress speak—and to presumably find some solace in the fact that even though Donald Trump is out of the White House, his two most zealous disciples are still determined to spread the MAGA gospel.

Ahead of the event, some supporters were turned away after the venue reached capacity. Outside, near a side entrance to the hotel, a group of six people decked out in Make America Great Again regalia chanted “USA! USA!” and “All Lives Matter! All Lives Matter!” They followed up by shouting, “Stop the steal! Stop the steal!”

Inside, a trio of police officers turned away latecomers trying to enter a ballroom where a standing-room-only crowd of about 1,000 people arrived almost an hour earlier to hear Gaetz and Greene speak.

Nancy Formisano, a snow-haired 73-year-old wearing a tag that read “The Villages for Trump VIP member,” held a red placard with Greene’s name near the rear of the ballroom. “It only holds 400 people,” the maskless Trumper told The Daily Beast. “But they crammed in as many as they could. I’m just so glad so many people showed up.”



Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetz-and-marjorie-greene-rile-up-the-maga-faithful-with-talk-of-guns-and-election-lies-at-florida-rally
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Gaetz and Greene Rile Up the MAGA Faithful With Talk of Guns and Election Lies at Florida Rally (Original Post) brooklynite May 2021 OP
Racism, check, Big Lie, check, no masks, check hibbing May 2021 #1
All aboard the Quasy Twain. . . DinahMoeHum May 2021 #2
Good on 1,000 in a 400 venue. They'll be filling up the graveyard right next door STAT! machoneman May 2021 #10
GQP llashram May 2021 #3
"It only holds 400 people, but they crammed in as many as they could" forgotmylogin May 2021 #4
+1 2naSalit May 2021 #5
Villages was vaccinating 60+ early, thanks to DeSantis. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2021 #7
You'd be dead wrong pal! I do know that most R's at the Villages did not get vacc'ed. machoneman May 2021 #11
Almost too much crazy in one place. LiberatedUSA May 2021 #6
welcome to DU gopiscrap May 2021 #24
When will that fucking Gaetz bluestarone May 2021 #8
Do those two ever do any legislating? keithbvadu2 May 2021 #9
My exact thoughts. The only things they are good for is lying and trolling. Prof. Toru Tanaka May 2021 #22
The country cannot surrender to thugs and thuggery bucolic_frolic May 2021 #12
Gross Deep State Witch May 2021 #13
The Women in The Villages Deep State Witch May 2021 #14
White Hair, Brownshirts. kairos12 May 2021 #15
"It only holds 400 people," ... "a standing-room-only crowd of about 1,000 people" ... Jopin Klobe May 2021 #16
Here is the same thing in 1939 AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #17
I live on the west coast of FL, not far enough away from that swamp. But yeah, FL feels like a ancianita May 2021 #18
Unvaxxed unmasked supporters can breathe deep because MAGA. IronLionZion May 2021 #19
Even if you'd never seen or heard him, you'd know trump is a total asshole. Paladin May 2021 #20
The Perv and Kook Show Mysterian May 2021 #21
It seems like Gaetz must be skating through Legal Woes? msfiddlestix May 2021 #23

machoneman

(3,994 posts)
10. Good on 1,000 in a 400 venue. They'll be filling up the graveyard right next door STAT!
Sat May 8, 2021, 12:18 PM
May 2021

And yes there is a graveyard right nearby. Sounds cruel but hey, they deserve to die....of gross stupidity. The country will be better off.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
3. GQP
Sat May 8, 2021, 11:30 AM
May 2021

hit squad, crowd agitators keep them chewing on bloody red meat...then send them out to civil society as rabid beasts...for what end?

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,315 posts)
7. Villages was vaccinating 60+ early, thanks to DeSantis.
Sat May 8, 2021, 12:08 PM
May 2021

If any of those retirees is not vaccinated, it's by their own choice.

I'd bet most of the residents of the Villages has been vaccinated. Even the ones who loudly talk anti-vax.

machoneman

(3,994 posts)
11. You'd be dead wrong pal! I do know that most R's at the Villages did not get vacc'ed.
Sat May 8, 2021, 12:20 PM
May 2021

Why? Both De Satan and Trump said not to do so.

keithbvadu2

(36,640 posts)
9. Do those two ever do any legislating?
Sat May 8, 2021, 12:11 PM
May 2021

Do those two ever do any legislating?

Beyond purely partisan agenda?

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,943 posts)
22. My exact thoughts. The only things they are good for is lying and trolling.
Sat May 8, 2021, 06:51 PM
May 2021

Gaetz and Greene- two absolutely worthless pieces of shit.

bucolic_frolic

(43,027 posts)
12. The country cannot surrender to thugs and thuggery
Sat May 8, 2021, 12:22 PM
May 2021

but surely it's been done in other ways throughout history. Those who immigrated to the US in the 1800s - German, Irish, European, Russian, the Quebec Diaspora - were fleeing oppression of various kinds.

Jopin Klobe

(779 posts)
16. "It only holds 400 people," ... "a standing-room-only crowd of about 1,000 people" ...
Sat May 8, 2021, 03:15 PM
May 2021

... "a (maskless) snow-haired 73-year-old" ...

... Paging Mr. Darwin ... Mr. Charles Darwin ...

ancianita

(35,926 posts)
18. I live on the west coast of FL, not far enough away from that swamp. But yeah, FL feels like a
Sat May 8, 2021, 04:44 PM
May 2021

backwater with infrastructure. The secret to surviving FL is to be in it and not of it.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
19. Unvaxxed unmasked supporters can breathe deep because MAGA.
Sat May 8, 2021, 04:46 PM
May 2021

Freedom loving patriots don't have time for your liberal COVID guidelines.

Paladin

(28,243 posts)
20. Even if you'd never seen or heard him, you'd know trump is a total asshole.
Sat May 8, 2021, 04:47 PM
May 2021

Just take a gander at the sub-human pieces of shit who are pimping for him.

msfiddlestix

(7,270 posts)
23. It seems like Gaetz must be skating through Legal Woes?
Sun May 9, 2021, 02:21 PM
May 2021

Seems like he's going to be able to freely grift from Trump supporters in order to pay for his legal expenses, protecting him from facing justice, just like any other wealthy fraudster criminal.

I just love our so called "justice system". Anybody else would be detained while awaiting trial.

Oh. Wait. he hasn't even been arrested yet, you say?

Well, just put a check mark on the "anyone else would have been arrested and detained" list of class and white privilege.

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