If Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn't Beyond the Pale, Who Is? - NYT Editorial Board

[Teddy Beer]

How far is too far? This is the question Republican leaders are being forced to grapple with as the public outcry grows over one of their newest House members, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The Georgia freshman is best known for endorsing QAnon, the right-wing movement convinced of the fiction that Donald Trump is a messiah sent to defeat a cabal of Satan-worshiping, child-abusing, deep-state villains. But this is just one of the bizarre lies she has peddled. Her greatest hits include promoting the conspiracy theory that blames the 2018 Camp Fire wildfire in California on a space laser controlled by a prominent Jewish banking family, suggesting the Obama administration used its MS-13 “henchmen” to murder a Democratic National Committee staff member and floating the idea that the Clintons had John F. Kennedy Jr. killed. She has dabbled in 9/11 Trutherism and contended that various school shootings were false-flag operations. She also traffics in racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim talk.

Ms. Greene does not draw the line at promoting bigotry and disinformation. Videos and social media posts from before she ran for Congress show her endorsing violence against those she sees as enemy combatants in an ongoing civil war. She has expressed support of social media calls to execute high-profile Democrats, including the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and F.B.I. agents. When asked about such activities, Ms. Greene has dodged, asserting that her pages have been run by “teams” of people over the years, some promoting views with which she does not agree. Many of the posts in question have since been scrubbed.

Ms. Greene’s behavior since her election has been troubling as well. She has peddled false claims that the presidential election was stolen and rife with fraud. She was among the 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the results of the Electoral College on Jan. 6, even after a pro-Trump mob sacked the Capitol. On Jan. 17, Twitter briefly suspended her account for repeatedly violating its “civic integrity policy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop.html

"Beyond the Pale"??? This overripe Georgia Peach is beyond Pluto!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

1. Sounds like the 2021 Republican Party Platform.

I wonder what they have got planned for 2022?

[Ford_Prefect]

2. She's beyond the Palin, wayyyyyyy beyond.

The only thing she hasn't done is personally murder someone on camera. She has advocated for it to happen and applauded those who stormed the Capitol, just as DJT has done. If she did not participate in the Jan 6th events or assist in their preparation I'll be very surprised.

She IS the new face of the party just like Hawsey and Boebert. She is glib and overstated like Palin. She is more dangerous by the minute as the MSM looks for ways to normalize her distortion and her violent views so glibly stated. As long as she is portrayed as an expression of a GOP "norm", no matter how bizarre her remarks, without contradiction by MSM she will become a way point towards the next radicalization. That point is coming rapidly and we have no idea when it will appear, or who will suffer it face to face.

[ck4829]

3. Hold up. There is a "Beyond the Pale" according to Republicans

That would be anyone who wants universal healthcare, environmental protection, quality education regardless of income, putting human lives before profits, and so on.

[Bettie]

7. It's actually even simpler than that

anyone who wants to help non-billionaires in any way.

[MrScorpio]

4. Hey, she's a Republican

There is no bar.

[Iliyah]

5. republicans allowed shithiole to loot . . .

criminalized, destroy both mentality and physically, causing undue suffering, job lost and deaths in The United States of America. Lost of confidence from allies while embracing dictators, etc.

This embrace is nada to them.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

6. If she was a senior in her 70's...

or 80’s her family would be putting her in a home.



I’m right there so no senior flaming. Agewise not crazywise.

[tanyev]

8. She's just a whiter shade of pale.

[area51]

9. I wish someone could call for a psychiatric hold on her,

to get her examined.