Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene: The QAnon Lady From GA-14

[Ozlsn]

2 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Yeah Eric Swalwell said that as a former prosecutor he convicted people of stalking for a lot less than some of the shit Major Failure Greene is doing now.  And he's tired of the shit from her and her staffers.

Out of interest how much (if any) immunity does being in Congress give you, legally speaking? If the FBI start finding that she hypothetically speaking gave tours and showed certain people where specific offices were prior to Jan 6th can they turn up, arrest her and perp walk her out of Congress in handcuffs?

[fraurosena]

In case perp walking her out of Congress isn’t a legal option:

 

Edited May 16, 2021 by fraurosena
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[WiseGirl]

Well maybe there needs to be another secret vote or AOC can file an injunction for stalking, this one will violate it because she likes the attention and then bam! Off to jail for mgt.  *let me have my dreams* 

 

[fraurosena]

If more reasons to get rid of her are needed:

 

[Alisamer]

How surprising. A Trump-supporting Republican has broken the law. Again.

Are there any who haven't? Shouldn't there be some sort of minimum level of respectability (or at least the ability to pass a background check) to run for congress or president? You'd think that's something the Republicans would be all over, considering how easy it'd be to twist it into disqualifying people of color. 

Instead, it's apparently easier to run for office as a Republican than it is to vote as a person of color.

[fraurosena]

How... unsurprising. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene defends ‘abused’ Capitol rioters and Ashli Babbitt in House floor speech

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Far-right US Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined GOP opposition to a bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection.

In a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, the congresswoman asked a series of “what about” questions to deflect from an investigation into the attack, fuelled by former president Donald Trump’s false “stolen” election narrative amplified by his GOP allies like Ms Greene.

She said: “The question that comes to mind is this: What about all the riots that happened during the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd? What about the damage caused to federal buildings, churches, people’s businesses and innocent people that were killed? ... Is that not an insurrection?”

She also claimed that Capitol rioters have been “abused” in jail and “held for 23 hours a day in solitary confinement.”

She also called for “justice” for the killing of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a US Capitol Police officer as a mob attempted to break through the House chamber doors on 6 January.

“And lastly, when will the witch hunt of Donald J Trump come to an end and all of those who support him?” she said.

Her defence on Tuesday follows a statement from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to oppose an effort led by Republican congressman and Democrats to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly assault on the Capitol.

He claimed that “the renewed focus by Democrats to now stand up an additional commission ignores the political violence that has struck American cities” in 2020.

The House Republican leader also accused Nancy Pelosi of refusing to “negotiate in good faith on basic parameters” for the committee, despite the House Speaker agreeing to all GOP demands, including equal representation and shared subpoena power among both parties.

Four months after the assault, Republican lawmakers have aligned behind efforts to deflect responsibility by alleging Democrat complicity in protest violence in the wake of antiracist uprisings

Republicans have sought to downplay the attack, which saw 150 injured police officers, and two officers who assisted in the response died by suicide in the days that followed. One officer died after suffering two strokes and injuries from the riot.

US Rep Paul Gosar – who supported “Stop the Steal” campaigns that preceded the riot – claimed during a congressional hearing on 12 May that “outright propaganda and lies are being used to unleash the national security state against law abiding US citizens, especially Trump voters.”

Mr Gosar described rioters as “peaceful patriots” and Ms Babbitt as a “veteran wrapped in the American flag” and “executed.”

“You would think it was a normal tourist visit,” Republican US Rep Andrew Clyde said at the hearing. “There was no insurrection. To call it an insurrection is a bold-faced lie.”

The “real” insurrection, he claimed, was the FBI’s investigation into “Russia, Russia, Russia” following the 2016 elections.

 

[fraurosena]

This just made me angry enough that I’d like to put her in front of a screen and make her, and that idiotic reporter who lets her say this shite without push back, to watch actual footage from the nazi death camps. But then I remember she’s probably so stupid and evil that she’ll still deny it’s real. And stubbornly keep on equating having to wear a mask during a pandemic to being murdered in a gas chamber. 

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Shaking my head:

[GreyhoundFan]

I'm not sure she has one to break:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Truly a horrible being:

 

She's like the former guy, laughing at her own nasty "jokes".

[GreyhoundFan]

Too bad that McCarthy won't do a damned thing about her. It would be nice if he'd grow a backbone. Or a pair of balls. "House GOP leader McCarthy calls Greene’s comparison of coronavirus masking policies to the Holocaust ‘appalling’"

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday compared coronavirus masking policies to Nazi Germany, drawing condemnation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

In a morning tweet, Greene linked to a news story about a Knoxville, Tenn., grocery store at which fully vaccinated employees will have a vaccination logo displayed on their name badge and be allowed to go maskless.

“Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star,” Greene wrote. “Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.”

Greene’s comments came in the wake of an uproar in recent days over her comparing the continuing coronavirus restrictions in the U.S. Capitol to what Jewish people suffered during the Holocaust.

In a statement, McCarthy said, “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling.”

“Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.”

Greene has remained defiant, ignoring the earlier criticism from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) who decried the comparison as “evil lunacy.” Her tweet Tuesday prompted a fresh round of condemnation, including from Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

“Please educate yourself so that you can realize how absolutely wrong and inappropriate it is to compare proof of vaccination with the 6million Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis,” Brooks said in a tweet directed at Greene. “You’re an embarrassment to yourself and the GOP.”

Republican leaders have been reluctant to take action against Greene.

In a recent appearance on Real America’s Voice network’s “The Water Cooler with David Brody,” a conservative show, Greene complained about the decision of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to keep a mask mandate on the House floor over concerns that many Republican lawmakers might not be vaccinated.

Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was recently ousted from Republican leadership for her criticism of former president Donald Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), another Trump critic, lambasted Greene.

In February, the House voted largely along party lines to remove Greene from her two committee assignments, a precedent-shattering move by Democrats to rebuke a Republican who has espoused extremist beliefs that she publicly renounced in part just hours before the vote.

As recently as last year, Greene had been an open adherent of the QAnon ideology, a sprawling and violent web of false claims that played a role in inspiring the Capitol attack. In addition, she had made comments on social media suggesting that some mass shootings were staged by supporters of gun control, that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by government forces and that a Jewish cabal had sparked a deadly wildfire with a space beam.

Earlier this month, Greene aggressively confronted Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely accused her of supporting “terrorists,” leading the New York congresswoman’s office to call on leadership to ensure that Congress remains “a safe, civil place for all Members and staff.”

 

[GreyhoundFan]

But McCarthy won't do a thing about her:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I'm glad she wore her formal booty shorts to make an appearance as a political candidate:

 

[Cartmann99]

I can't wait until these two start fighting over which one Daddy Trump loves best:

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[Shrubbery]

I can’t help but think that Magda Taylor Goebbels is on a good way to metamorphosis into Fuckface in a female body:

- Loves to polarise 

- attacks opponents with personal, vindictive slurs

- tells unfunny jokes 

- not nearly as smart as she’d like to think she is

- shouting hateful BS non-stop

- utilised by GOP leadership to spout base-appealing, „non-PC“ rhetoric 

- paranoid AF

- ugly blonde dye job

- often misses the point by a really wide margin 

All she needs is a mobile tanning bed and a keg of coke lite and Mitch McConnell will be dying to get her elected POTUS.

[Cartmann99]

No big surprise...

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Rep. Greene apologizes for comparing face masks to Holocaust, but stands by comparison of Democrats to Nazi party"

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday visited the Holocaust Museum and apologized for previously comparing coronavirus face-mask policies to the Nazi practice of labeling Jews with Star of David badges.

But the Georgia Republican declined to walk back other controversial statements she has made, including one in which she compared the Democratic Party to Hitler’s party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Greene’s latest remarks come days before a fellow House member, Rep. Bradley Schneider (D-Ill.), is set to introduce a resolution to censure her over the Holocaust comparison.

At a Monday afternoon press conference outside the Capitol, Greene acknowledged she had made a mistake and told reporters, “One of the best lessons that my father always taught me was, when you make a mistake, you should own it.”

“This afternoon, I visited the Holocaust Museum,” Greene said. “The Holocaust is — there’s nothing comparable to it. It’s — it happened, and, you know, over six million Jewish people were murdered. More than that, there were not just Jewish people — Black people, Christians, all kinds of groups. Children. People that the Nazis didn’t believe were good enough or perfect enough.”

She added: “But there is no comparison to the Holocaust. And there are words that I have said, remarks that I have made, that I know are offensive, and for that, I want to apologize.”

In an interview and in tweets last month, Greene repeatedly used Holocaust comparisons to criticize face-mask mandates that have been enacted amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“We can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about,” Greene said in an interview with the online right-wing news outlet Real America’s Voice.

Days later, she compared a supermarket’s face-mask policy to the Nazi practice of labeling Jews with Star of David badges.

“Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star,” Greene tweeted late last month, linking to a news story on a Tennessee supermarket chain’s decision to include a special logo on the name badges of vaccinated employees. (The Nazi badges were yellow.)

Greene’s remarks last month prompted a swift denunciation by the top congressional leaders in both parties and the American Jewish Congress, among others.

At an “America First” rally around the same time, Greene also compared the Democratic Party to the Nazi party, which went by the full name Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Despite the name, the Nazi party was not a socialist party; it was a right-wing, ultranationalist party. Even so, Greene told attendees at the rally in May: “You know, Nazis were the National Socialist Party. Just like the Democrats are now a national socialist party.”

Asked Monday about that statement, Greene declined to disavow it and instead renewed her criticism of Democrats.

“You know, socialism is extremely dangerous, and so is communism,” she told reporters. “And anytime a government moves into policies where there’s more control and there’s freedoms taken away, yes, that’s a danger for everyone. And I think that’s something that we should all be wary of. ... I’ll never stop saying we have to save America and stop socialism.”

Earlier this year, the House voted to remove Greene from her committee assignments over her promotion of violence against prominent Democratic politicians. But her own party’s leadership has taken no action against her beyond condemning her Holocaust comparison.

Schneider, the Democrat who is spearheading the resolution to censure Greene, sharply criticized her remarks last month. He did so again Monday morning.

“When @RepMTG repeatedly compared the US Covid-response to Hitler and the Holocaust, she dishonored the millions of lives lost in WWII and the Shoah,” Schneider tweeted, hours before the Georgia Republican apologized at her press conference. “She has forgotten America’s fight against the Nazi menace. On Wednesday, we’re introducing our resolution to censure her.”

I've been to the Holocaust Museum in DC. It's a heartbreaking experience. To fully experience the museum takes a good half-day. I imagine she breezed through some of the more challenging areas. It's nice that she walked back a few of her earlier repulsive statements, but I imagine she'll be back to her normal ugliness in a day or two.

[fraurosena]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Rep. Greene apologizes for comparing face masks to Holocaust, but stands by comparison of Democrats to Nazi party"

I've been to the Holocaust Museum in DC. It's a heartbreaking experience. To fully experience the museum takes a good half-day. I imagine she breezed through some of the more challenging areas. It's nice that she walked back a few of her earlier repulsive statements, but I imagine she'll be back to her normal ugliness in a day or two.

Sheesh, she's so transparent. The only reason she's apologizing is because she doesn't want to be censured. I wouldn't be surprised if she never visited the Holocaust Museum at all. The platitudes she's airing about the holocaust are so commonplace that they are virtually meaningless in voicing any emotional (or rational) impact she might have had from that confrontation-- if she went. Which seriously makes me doubt if she did.

[GreyhoundFan]

I love Aaron's take:

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

She needs to crawl back to GA and shut up:

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[WiseGirl]

I love AOC

 

[Cartmann99]