The Marjorie Taylor Greene case

[lpetrich]

MTG goes full Godwin:

Marjorie Taylor Greene compares House mask mandates to the Holocaust - CNNPolitics

Greene, in a conversation with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody Real America's Voice TV show "The Water Cooler," attacked Pelosi and accused her of being a hypocrite for asking GOP members to prove they have all been vaccinated before allowing members to be in the House chamber without a mask.

"You know, we can look back at 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," Greene said. "And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."

She got responses like

"You can never compare health-related restrictions with yellow stars gas chambers and other Nazi atrocities. Such comparisons demean the Holocaust and contaminate American political speech," the American Jewish Congress said in a tweet in response to Greene's comments. "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene must immediately retract and apologize."

Covid: Congressional Democrats have 100% vaccination rate - CNNPolitics
"For Republicans, at least 44.8% of House members are vaccinated and at least 92% of senators are, CNN found."

That is 46 out of the 50 Republican Senators. Out of the 212 House Republicans, 95 say that they are vaccinated, and 112 did not respond. That leaves 5 who say that they are not, like Tom Massie, R-KY.


Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on House mask mandate and Holocaust comparison - CNN Video

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doubled down on her comments comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust, telling KPNX's Bianca Buono that "any rational Jewish person" doesn't like mask and vaccine mandates.

Marjorie Taylor Greene defends comparing mask mandate to Holocaust as Republican colleagues turn on her | The Independent
and
'Evil lunacy': GOP lawmakers slam Marjorie Taylor Greene's mask comparison to Holocaust

 

[lpetrich]

Jake Tapper on Twitter: "MTG says Speaker Pelosi wanting Members of Congress to get vaccinated and if not to wear masks is “exactly the type of abuse” as murdering Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust and David Brody nods along. No follow up. (vid link)" / Twitter
She said that the House Speaker was "mentally ill" and that "You know, 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."

Then
Liz Cheney on Twitter: "This is evil lunacy." / Twitter
and
Adam Kinzinger on Twitter: "Absolute sickness." / Twitter

And Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the comments were "beyond reprehensible."

"This is, I don't even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that frankly amps up and plays into a lot of the antisemitism that we've been seeing in our society today," he said.

They may have to take her out of Congress in a straitjacket, and if they do so, she may spend a lot of time in a rubber room.

 

[Rhea]

Disgusted that the news head just nodded along. That is a hugely problematic statement. But conservtive news head lends legitimacy.

Glad the two GOP reps spoke up. We do not need to live like we’re all hanging out at the NAZI bar.

 

[Gospel]

Jake Tapper on Twitter: "MTG says Speaker Pelosi wanting Members of Congress to get vaccinated and if not to wear masks is “exactly the type of abuse” as murdering Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust and David Brody nods along. No follow up. (vid link)" / Twitter
She said that the House Speaker was "mentally ill" and that "You know, 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."

Then
Liz Cheney on Twitter: "This is evil lunacy." / Twitter
and
Adam Kinzinger on Twitter: "Absolute sickness." / Twitter

And Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the comments were "beyond reprehensible."

"This is, I don't even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that frankly amps up and plays into a lot of the antisemitism that we've been seeing in our society today," he said.

They may have to take her out of Congress in a straitjacket, and if they do so, she may spend a lot of time in a rubber room.

The way things are going in that camp, it'll be Peter Meijer & Adam Kinzinger joining Liz Cheney over letting Lazer Lady go.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Jake Tapper on Twitter: "MTG says Speaker Pelosi wanting Members of Congress to get vaccinated and if not to wear masks is “exactly the type of abuse” as murdering Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust and David Brody nods along. No follow up. (vid link)" / Twitter
She said that the House Speaker was "mentally ill" and that "You know, 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."

Then
Liz Cheney on Twitter: "This is evil lunacy." / Twitter
and
Adam Kinzinger on Twitter: "Absolute sickness." / Twitter

And Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the comments were "beyond reprehensible."

"This is, I don't even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that frankly amps up and plays into a lot of the antisemitism that we've been seeing in our society today," he said.

They may have to take her out of Congress in a straitjacket, and if they do so, she may spend a lot of time in a rubber room.

Is she crazy or a wannabe McCarthy. It really is hard to tell. She sure the heck isn't a politician, nor someone that should even be in Congress. She is a troll in the Congress, with almost no threat of a ban hammer going down on her.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Just imagine the voters who put her in and love her shenanigans. Jeeeeeesus Christ. Such patriots. Georgia assholes.

 

[LoAmmo]

Just imagine the voters who put her in and love her shenanigans. Jeeeeeesus Christ. Such patriots. Georgia assholes.

MTG is a natural and sadly predictable outcome--a predetermined consequence of a party out of all rational control. She's the consequence of the GOP rebranding itself in Trump's image, and more mini-Trumps will be feeding that pipeline after her. Someone out there in the GOP, a rising, um, "star" whose name we don't even yet know, will be along to out-crazy MTG come next election season.

But, yes, it's the voters who loudly and proudly support and cheer candidates like MTG who scare me. They'd happily re-elect this batshit insane woman to represent them simply because she routinely "owns the Libs," in their dim view. She showcases the same willfully ignorant stupidity and hateful biases that they themselves value, and even if they couldn't define "Socialism" with five dictionaries and a week to do it in, they know that Marjorie Tayor-Greene "is like them." Which is scary, and sad.

(Incidentally, if you wonder what kind of place could ever deliberately elect a Marjorie Taylor-Greene...drive through her district sometime. Um. Yikes.)

 

[southernhybrid]

I've only been in her district twice and that was over 20 years ago. It didn't seem any different than any other rural area. Please tell us what you saw in her district that was so weird. It does border on the Tennessee line, I think. Maybe Georgia can blame Tennessee for her. She ran unopposed, not that any Democrat had a chance in her district. Now she's getting money from all over the country. What's up with that? Her largest donations are supposedly from outside of Georgia. Who are these people? Why are they so infatuated with a hateful, bigot like MTG?

She's obviously a narcissist, like her former president. I do wonder if the people in her district really knew what they were supporting when they voted for her. The few people who I met in her district seemed like nice, reasonable people. But then again, that was in the late 90s and a lot of things have changed since then.

The last time I drove through an exurban area in Georgia, there were still a lot of Trump signs in place, so I doubt that her district is much different from most exurban or rural areas across the US.

 

[ZiprHead]

Moments after Kevin McCarthy condemned Marjorie Taylor Greene for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust, Greene retweeted a tweet calling McCarthy a "moron" and "feckless c**t."

She then deleted it.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

House Minority Leader McCarthy says Rep. Greene's comments regarding Nazis and vaccinations were wrong.

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

McCarthy added, “Americans must stand together to defeat anti-Semitism and any attempt to diminish the history of the Holocaust. Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.”

And when he says condemn, he means metaphorically. It should be noted that Rep. Greene's comments are actually wrong on a couple levels as the Nazis put stars on the people they hated, not the ones they wanted to provide privileges. So chalk up another awful analogy to the right-wing.

After the ensuing criticism online over her posts, Greene then tweeted that she wasn't comparing Covid rules "to the Holocaust, only the discrimination against Jews in early Nazi years. Stop feeding into the left wing media attacks on me."

link

Understood Greene. And just to make it clear, when I compare you to a Nazi, I'm only talking about the mid 1930s Nazis.

 

[Shadowy Man]

House Minority Leader McCarthy says Rep. Greene's comments regarding Nazis and vaccinations were wrong.

BFD! He said Trump's actions on Jan 6th were wrong, too. We have seen where that led.

Let's see if he thinks Greene's comments are as wrong as Cheney's by doing anything about it.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1397226470188191749[/TWEET]

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/1n5e_zl9Qb4[/YOUTUBE]

Skip to 1 hr and 34 minutes to see Greene. This is where she makes her full statement.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Wow, what a total douchebag.

 

[Swammerdami]

Does anyone else find it odd that Qaren Taylor Greenee is wearing shorts in the Don2-linked video? Is this attire worn to make a statement? Or was she just in such a hurry to make the meeting that she didn't have time to change after serving at a BBQ with the Proud Bois?

(Perhaps I'm overly aware of such attire. I live in a country where, despite a hot climate, wearing shorts is highly frowned on in certain contexts. I cringe when I see foreigners wearing shorts at a funeral.)

ETA: I see that the very next speaker is also wearing shorts. Maybe it's just a Georgia thing.

 

[Gospel]

Wow, what a total douchebag.

I think she's hot. In a toxic nuclear waste way.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/1n5e_zl9Qb4[/YOUTUBE]

Skip to 1 hr and 34 minutes to see Greene. This is where she makes her full statement.

We need to be coming together not further apart... and anyone that disagrees with me is a cunt!

I suppose some spin could lead us to "Rep. Greene equated confederate statues to statues for Hitler and Satan."

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/1n5e_zl9Qb4[/YOUTUBE]

Skip to 1 hr and 34 minutes to see Greene. This is where she makes her full statement.

We need to be coming together not further apart... and anyone that disagrees with me is a cunt!

I suppose some spin could lead us to "Rep. Greene equated confederate statues to statues for Hitler and Satan."

Imagine if in 1990's, the United Daughters of the Nazi Party engaged in historical revisionism and commissioning and placing statues with plaques all over Germany. The group would also say things like "most Nazis were nice to the Jews," "the Nazis were just fighting to defend their homes and children," and "some Jews liked it and joined the Party." Imagine one of the statues was of Hitler with a plaque that read "Adolf Hitler - Supreme Leader of Germany and one of the greatest orators of all times." Then the statue of Hitler by some weird arrangement is privately owned so it cannot be touched or moved, but it's also put in a public square.

Meanwhile, in the actual, real, modern Germany, students are taken on field trips to concentration camps to learn non-fictitious history.

But in the US, post civil war, confederate terrorists were given pensions by the US govt. Everyone including former slaves who were promised restitution instead had to pay taxes and from the taxes, the seditious veterans received free income-welfare. And later many of these seedy slave owner mansions have become hotels or places where white people get married.

History...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Are there WWI or WWII re-enactments in Europe like they do in the US with the Civil War? Those things disgust me. The whimsy of war. Where is the tent where they are cutting off the limbs?