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'Nobody Listened To Me': The Quest to Be Marjorie Taylor Greene
All MTG ever wanted was someone to pay attention to her.
By MICHAEL KRUSE
02/25/2021 07:55 PM EST
ALPHARETTA, Ga.—Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked her gum as she pretended to listen to a man in a dress read a book about a unicorn.
It was late April of 2019. She sat in the rear of a room at the public library here near her home in this suburb north of Atlanta. Greene at the time identified as a mother, a business owner, a fitness trainer, a “supporter of the 2nd amendment,” “a patriot” and a “conservative blogger on social media,” and she had come to mount what she described as an “undercover” protest of something called “Drag Queen Story Hour”— an event she saw as “insane” put on by a person she considered “an abomination.” Using her iPhone to surreptitiously record, Greene flipped back and forth between a shot of the stage and a close-up of her own face, creating a kind of herky-jerky show on Facebook Live.
“Be nice to people around you!” the wig-wearing reader, stage name Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker, said in closing to the small gathering of children and their parents. Greene, sporting a pink cast on her left foot, hobbled outside. “Were you able to hear all that?” Greene asked the 400 or so viewers following along.
Lingering on the library sidewalk, Greene quarreled with the branch manager, feuded with a woman who asked her to stop her video and vented to passersby, a local police officer and her fledgling army of self-appointed digital soldiers.
“I called and emailed our county commissioner, I called and emailed this library, and I’m a taxpayer here in the city,” she lamented to her on-screen audience. “And my voice did not matter.”
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One side says, “Be nice to people around you!” and the other side says, "He's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting."
This is why it's not just politics anymore. This is more than just policy—it's about decency. No one forced her to go to that event, or any of her children. How did it possibly hurt her? And if she wants to talk about taxes, let's talk about all the taxes that I pay, that I'm against, but I don't protest by being rude to people who have nothing to do with the tax policy. I am just so sick of these childish, rude, self-righteous, mean-spirited assholes. 
