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Despite stiff competition, QAnon clown Marjorie Taylor Greene clinches the Worst Person In Congress title with revelations she stays busy urging that leading Dems be executed, stalking survivors of school shootings she says were staged, arguing a laser beam from space caused California's wildfires and threatening to arrest reporters who ask her questions. Normal people say she must be expelled. The GOP leader plans to "have a conversation" with her. We suspect he'll leave his backbone at home.
Taking her oath of office to protect electoral democracy. Getty Image
Despite admittedly stiff competition, QAnon clown and domestic terrorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene definitively clinched the title of Most Ghastly and Inappropriate Person In Congress this week with a flood of revelations she's spent the last few years trying to get Democratic leaders executed, stalking survivors of school shootings she claims were staged, and proving, says Hillary Clinton, "This woman should be on a watch list. Not in Congress." Before she "won" her seat in Georgia's solid red 14th Congressional District when her Dem opponent dropped out, Greene had made a crackpot name for herself as an Internet provocateur boosting QAnon conspiracy theories about the cannibal/pedophile cabal run by elites - ie Democrats - that only god/king/Fuhrer Donald Trump could stop. She argued 9/11 was an inside job, Hillary had secretly killed a child in a Satanic ritual, an Islamic invasion would follow the 2018 mid-terms, ActBlue funded "Antifa/BLM terrorism," a random montage of angry black people in the streets proved "this is the Democrat (sic) party." In 2019, her White House petition sought to impeach Nancy Pelosi for "crimes of treason" for her support of sanctuary policies "serving illegals and not United States citizens," arguing Pelosi "gives aid and comfort to our enemies who illegally invade our land" and "It's, uh, it's a crime punishable by death is what treason is"; in another broadcast, she said the House speaker will "suffer death or she'll be in prison" for her "treason," ditto Rep. Maxine Waters. She also filmed herself roaming the halls of Congress to make Muslim Reps. Omar and Tlaib retake their oaths of office on a Bible, not a Quran, "so they're following our laws," which don't exist.
The GOP, meanwhile, has mindlessly called for "unity" and done its complicit best to distance themselves from Greene, along with the "Nazi hat trick" of other far-right-wingers - Nazi-enamored, spelling-challenged Rep. Madison Cawthorn and gun-toting rioters-tour-guide Rep. Lauren Boebert - that have "found a home" with an increasingly cowardly, extremist - "Okay now one with the hoods off" - GOP. Today's Congress: The only place where you can not just advocate for killing your peers and not get arrested, but as a bonus get elected. Among many others, AOC has excoriated a GOP caucus where "there are no consequences" for violence, racism, misogyny, insurrection: "That silence is acceptance." She especially singled out craven House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for refusing to hold his members accountable for their complicity in the Capitol riot, charging him with "fealty to white supremacist organizations." Pathetically, McCarthy already had a "you're a Congresswoman now!" talk with Greene's fellow nutjob Boebert, defending them and asking the press to "give them an opportunity before you claim what you believe they have done and what they will do." He'd also gone bravely out on a limb by saying he found Greene's earlier comments "appalling." After CNN's revelations, he amplified his displeasure, troubled-Susan-Collins-like, by calling Greene's murderous impulses "deeply disturbing," and said he "plans to have a conversation" with her about them. Still, he went ahead and gave Greene - mad denier of America's most infamous school shootings, proud stalker of their survivors - a seat on the House Education and Labor Committee, where Greene says she is "ready to get to work" to reopen every school in America, champion religious freedom, protect homeschooling, and harass trans kids. Pelosi: "The enemy is within the House."
Amidst multiple calls for Greene to resign, California Rep. Jimmy Gomez introduced a resolution to expel Greene from office in light of "her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence." "I don't need to explain why @RepMTG is a clear and present danger to Congress and our democracy," he wrote. "She did it herself. And she must go." Alas, she's evidently, rabidly intent on staying, unaware "it's not ok to threaten to kill a political rival" and uninterested in dialing it down. When Sen. Ralphael Warnock (!!) criticized her, she called him a "heretic." She told U.K. white supremacist Katie Hopkins the riot was cool. At a sparse town hall - COVID's raging in her district - she slammed a media that "makes me sound like a monster" and threatened to arrest a reporter who tried to ask her a question; her "communications director" said the reporter "caused a scene" (not). Her Twitter posts still alternate between dumb and vicious. She's been reposting benign older posts that don't call for assassinating colleagues - She has many kinds of friends! It's great when scientists discover something God writes about like water deep in the earth! - and why aren't they breaking news? She wants to "diligently continue to work on impeaching President Biden for abuse of power," also Kamala Harris and Pelosi. Responses suggest she is unhinged and "staggeringly unqualified" - "Who gets to tell her Pelosi can't be impeached?...I feel like she doesn't have a firm grasp on how government works...There is something wrong with this woman" - though, given she used to want them executed, she may be mellowing. It's all so relative: In a now-erased Facebook post, Greene proposed, based on her "research," that the deadly 2018 California wildfires were caused by a Jewish laser beam from space. "I really hope they have very good aim beaming the sun's power down to earth," she mused. We really hope, after she's booted from Congress, she gets some help.
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Taking her oath of office to protect electoral democracy. Getty Image
Despite admittedly stiff competition, QAnon clown and domestic terrorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene definitively clinched the title of Most Ghastly and Inappropriate Person In Congress this week with a flood of revelations she's spent the last few years trying to get Democratic leaders executed, stalking survivors of school shootings she claims were staged, and proving, says Hillary Clinton, "This woman should be on a watch list. Not in Congress." Before she "won" her seat in Georgia's solid red 14th Congressional District when her Dem opponent dropped out, Greene had made a crackpot name for herself as an Internet provocateur boosting QAnon conspiracy theories about the cannibal/pedophile cabal run by elites - ie Democrats - that only god/king/Fuhrer Donald Trump could stop. She argued 9/11 was an inside job, Hillary had secretly killed a child in a Satanic ritual, an Islamic invasion would follow the 2018 mid-terms, ActBlue funded "Antifa/BLM terrorism," a random montage of angry black people in the streets proved "this is the Democrat (sic) party." In 2019, her White House petition sought to impeach Nancy Pelosi for "crimes of treason" for her support of sanctuary policies "serving illegals and not United States citizens," arguing Pelosi "gives aid and comfort to our enemies who illegally invade our land" and "It's, uh, it's a crime punishable by death is what treason is"; in another broadcast, she said the House speaker will "suffer death or she'll be in prison" for her "treason," ditto Rep. Maxine Waters. She also filmed herself roaming the halls of Congress to make Muslim Reps. Omar and Tlaib retake their oaths of office on a Bible, not a Quran, "so they're following our laws," which don't exist.
The GOP, meanwhile, has mindlessly called for "unity" and done its complicit best to distance themselves from Greene, along with the "Nazi hat trick" of other far-right-wingers - Nazi-enamored, spelling-challenged Rep. Madison Cawthorn and gun-toting rioters-tour-guide Rep. Lauren Boebert - that have "found a home" with an increasingly cowardly, extremist - "Okay now one with the hoods off" - GOP. Today's Congress: The only place where you can not just advocate for killing your peers and not get arrested, but as a bonus get elected. Among many others, AOC has excoriated a GOP caucus where "there are no consequences" for violence, racism, misogyny, insurrection: "That silence is acceptance." She especially singled out craven House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for refusing to hold his members accountable for their complicity in the Capitol riot, charging him with "fealty to white supremacist organizations." Pathetically, McCarthy already had a "you're a Congresswoman now!" talk with Greene's fellow nutjob Boebert, defending them and asking the press to "give them an opportunity before you claim what you believe they have done and what they will do." He'd also gone bravely out on a limb by saying he found Greene's earlier comments "appalling." After CNN's revelations, he amplified his displeasure, troubled-Susan-Collins-like, by calling Greene's murderous impulses "deeply disturbing," and said he "plans to have a conversation" with her about them. Still, he went ahead and gave Greene - mad denier of America's most infamous school shootings, proud stalker of their survivors - a seat on the House Education and Labor Committee, where Greene says she is "ready to get to work" to reopen every school in America, champion religious freedom, protect homeschooling, and harass trans kids. Pelosi: "The enemy is within the House."
Amidst multiple calls for Greene to resign, California Rep. Jimmy Gomez introduced a resolution to expel Greene from office in light of "her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence." "I don't need to explain why @RepMTG is a clear and present danger to Congress and our democracy," he wrote. "She did it herself. And she must go." Alas, she's evidently, rabidly intent on staying, unaware "it's not ok to threaten to kill a political rival" and uninterested in dialing it down. When Sen. Ralphael Warnock (!!) criticized her, she called him a "heretic." She told U.K. white supremacist Katie Hopkins the riot was cool. At a sparse town hall - COVID's raging in her district - she slammed a media that "makes me sound like a monster" and threatened to arrest a reporter who tried to ask her a question; her "communications director" said the reporter "caused a scene" (not). Her Twitter posts still alternate between dumb and vicious. She's been reposting benign older posts that don't call for assassinating colleagues - She has many kinds of friends! It's great when scientists discover something God writes about like water deep in the earth! - and why aren't they breaking news? She wants to "diligently continue to work on impeaching President Biden for abuse of power," also Kamala Harris and Pelosi. Responses suggest she is unhinged and "staggeringly unqualified" - "Who gets to tell her Pelosi can't be impeached?...I feel like she doesn't have a firm grasp on how government works...There is something wrong with this woman" - though, given she used to want them executed, she may be mellowing. It's all so relative: In a now-erased Facebook post, Greene proposed, based on her "research," that the deadly 2018 California wildfires were caused by a Jewish laser beam from space. "I really hope they have very good aim beaming the sun's power down to earth," she mused. We really hope, after she's booted from Congress, she gets some help.
Taking her oath of office to protect electoral democracy. Getty Image
Despite admittedly stiff competition, QAnon clown and domestic terrorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene definitively clinched the title of Most Ghastly and Inappropriate Person In Congress this week with a flood of revelations she's spent the last few years trying to get Democratic leaders executed, stalking survivors of school shootings she claims were staged, and proving, says Hillary Clinton, "This woman should be on a watch list. Not in Congress." Before she "won" her seat in Georgia's solid red 14th Congressional District when her Dem opponent dropped out, Greene had made a crackpot name for herself as an Internet provocateur boosting QAnon conspiracy theories about the cannibal/pedophile cabal run by elites - ie Democrats - that only god/king/Fuhrer Donald Trump could stop. She argued 9/11 was an inside job, Hillary had secretly killed a child in a Satanic ritual, an Islamic invasion would follow the 2018 mid-terms, ActBlue funded "Antifa/BLM terrorism," a random montage of angry black people in the streets proved "this is the Democrat (sic) party." In 2019, her White House petition sought to impeach Nancy Pelosi for "crimes of treason" for her support of sanctuary policies "serving illegals and not United States citizens," arguing Pelosi "gives aid and comfort to our enemies who illegally invade our land" and "It's, uh, it's a crime punishable by death is what treason is"; in another broadcast, she said the House speaker will "suffer death or she'll be in prison" for her "treason," ditto Rep. Maxine Waters. She also filmed herself roaming the halls of Congress to make Muslim Reps. Omar and Tlaib retake their oaths of office on a Bible, not a Quran, "so they're following our laws," which don't exist.
The GOP, meanwhile, has mindlessly called for "unity" and done its complicit best to distance themselves from Greene, along with the "Nazi hat trick" of other far-right-wingers - Nazi-enamored, spelling-challenged Rep. Madison Cawthorn and gun-toting rioters-tour-guide Rep. Lauren Boebert - that have "found a home" with an increasingly cowardly, extremist - "Okay now one with the hoods off" - GOP. Today's Congress: The only place where you can not just advocate for killing your peers and not get arrested, but as a bonus get elected. Among many others, AOC has excoriated a GOP caucus where "there are no consequences" for violence, racism, misogyny, insurrection: "That silence is acceptance." She especially singled out craven House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for refusing to hold his members accountable for their complicity in the Capitol riot, charging him with "fealty to white supremacist organizations." Pathetically, McCarthy already had a "you're a Congresswoman now!" talk with Greene's fellow nutjob Boebert, defending them and asking the press to "give them an opportunity before you claim what you believe they have done and what they will do." He'd also gone bravely out on a limb by saying he found Greene's earlier comments "appalling." After CNN's revelations, he amplified his displeasure, troubled-Susan-Collins-like, by calling Greene's murderous impulses "deeply disturbing," and said he "plans to have a conversation" with her about them. Still, he went ahead and gave Greene - mad denier of America's most infamous school shootings, proud stalker of their survivors - a seat on the House Education and Labor Committee, where Greene says she is "ready to get to work" to reopen every school in America, champion religious freedom, protect homeschooling, and harass trans kids. Pelosi: "The enemy is within the House."
Amidst multiple calls for Greene to resign, California Rep. Jimmy Gomez introduced a resolution to expel Greene from office in light of "her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence." "I don't need to explain why @RepMTG is a clear and present danger to Congress and our democracy," he wrote. "She did it herself. And she must go." Alas, she's evidently, rabidly intent on staying, unaware "it's not ok to threaten to kill a political rival" and uninterested in dialing it down. When Sen. Ralphael Warnock (!!) criticized her, she called him a "heretic." She told U.K. white supremacist Katie Hopkins the riot was cool. At a sparse town hall - COVID's raging in her district - she slammed a media that "makes me sound like a monster" and threatened to arrest a reporter who tried to ask her a question; her "communications director" said the reporter "caused a scene" (not). Her Twitter posts still alternate between dumb and vicious. She's been reposting benign older posts that don't call for assassinating colleagues - She has many kinds of friends! It's great when scientists discover something God writes about like water deep in the earth! - and why aren't they breaking news? She wants to "diligently continue to work on impeaching President Biden for abuse of power," also Kamala Harris and Pelosi. Responses suggest she is unhinged and "staggeringly unqualified" - "Who gets to tell her Pelosi can't be impeached?...I feel like she doesn't have a firm grasp on how government works...There is something wrong with this woman" - though, given she used to want them executed, she may be mellowing. It's all so relative: In a now-erased Facebook post, Greene proposed, based on her "research," that the deadly 2018 California wildfires were caused by a Jewish laser beam from space. "I really hope they have very good aim beaming the sun's power down to earth," she mused. We really hope, after she's booted from Congress, she gets some help.