Marjorie Taylor Greene smears Biden family to call for bombing raids against Mexico

[Ohio Joe]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for bombing raids in Mexico to curtail illegal drug trafficking.

The Georgia Republican revived a plan floated by Donald Trump, based accounts written in books by former defense secretary Mark Esper and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, to conduct targeted missile strikes against Mexican drug cartels.

"President Trump was right," Greene tweeted. "We should bomb the cartel’s because they are an international criminal organization murdering our people by lacing deadly fentanyl from China in drugs they illegally sell across our border to US citizens.Not Mexico or it’s [sic] great people, the cartels."

Greene offered a possible preview of the incoming Republican majority's legislative priorities in a series of tweets blaming President Joe Biden and his son Hunter for the explosion in fentanyl use that began during Trump's presidency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marjorie-taylor-greene-smears-biden-family-to-call-for-bombing-raids-against-mexico/ar-AA15Ka5K?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ba0688f26c68483ba6c3fb589b172662

Why yes, lets bomb our allies... Fucking loon

[underpants]

1. Hold it WHAT? This must be 4th level extrapolation at least

"Joe doesn’t seem to mind drug abuse bc he campaigned for POTUS while his daughter Ashley was in drug rehab writing about inappropriate showers w/ Dad."

I know about the diary being stolen (O’Keefe) and the pre-election attacks of Biden with pictures of children.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Part of me is looking forward to these crazies getting more media face time.

No amount of pwning the libs is going to offset the brand damage MTG, Boebert, Jordan, et al are going to do. It took awhile for the media to come out and plainly call TFG a liar and the idiots taking over the House may get some slack initially, too. But at some point soon they'll have 'crazy'd' themselves out of the media's good graces. Hope the pubs choke on it.

[vlyons]

35. I hope they foam at the mouth with crazy anger and wacko conspiracies

We live in degenerate times. That Liar Santos is just the latest example of how degenerate Republicans are.

Hey Margie: To bomb cartels in Mexico, or anywhere else in the world, requires a declaration of war from Congress. I know that your hero Big Loser thought he could do whatever he pleased, but noooooooo. If you want Biden to bomb anywhere, you go get the rest of Congress to declare war.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. What is this obsession with FENTANYL? Is it anywhere near the epidemic they claim?

[barbtries]

6. yes.

https://www.dea.gov/fentanylawareness

you can look at some of these videos to get a more personal look at some of the families affected by these deaths:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fentanyl+poisoning+story

it is some scary shit.

[Maraya1969]

11. Synthetic opioid deaths are 18 times more than they were in 2013

(Apparently even with these numbers unintentional deaths from drugs don't even rank in the top 10 for people 18-24)

"In 2021, nearly 108,000 people died of drug overdoses; 71,000 of whom died from fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Illicit fentanyl overdose deaths among teens accounted for 77% of adolescent overdose deaths in 2021."

https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/fentanyl.html

"Rates of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, which includes fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, increased over 56% from 2019 to 2020. The number of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids in 2020 was more than 18 times the number in 2013. More than 56,000 people died from overdoses involving synthetic opioids in 2020. The latest provisional drug overdose death counts through June 2021 suggest an acceleration of overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic."

What can be done?


The increase in overdose deaths highlights the need to ensure people most at risk of overdose can access care, as well as the need to expand prevention and response activities. CDC issued a Health Alert Network Advisory to medical and public health professionals, first responders, harm reduction organizations, and other community partners recommending the following actions as appropriate based on local needs and characteristics:

Expand distribution and use of naloxone and overdose prevention education
Expand awareness about and access to and availability of treatment for substance use disorders
Intervene early with individuals at highest risk for overdose
Improve detection of overdose outbreaks to facilitate more effective response

[Hekate]

30. Yes it is. It amounts more to outright poisoning than overdosing, as it's inserted into lookalikes...

High school kids who think they’re getting a single Percocet from another high schooler get found dead in the school bathroom.

The latest big haul in California turned out to be enough to kill everybody in the half-dozen biggest counties in the state.

I do not know what the manufacturers think they are getting out of this — but it doesn’t look like they care much about return business.

[Warpy]

46. It's being put into all sorts of street drugs now, including meth and cocaine

which seems just a little odd. Anything where they can step on the real drug and substitute synthetic crap for it, I guess, while preserving some sort of high.

All of it is originating in China and most of what's coming into the US is routed through Mexico. That shit is also destroying Mexico, since so many dealers end up sampling the goods and never know when some of it was badly mixed.

They really need to attack this at the source, China, but Republicans have fought that idea tooth and nail for decades. It's getting to the point they are going to be overruled because that shit is now in everything on the street and no, it's not killing the right people. There are no right people to kill with bad drugs.

[Initech]

4. What a colossal piece of shit that woman is.

[Maraya1969]

5. Portugal made possession of drugs legal to stop the crime associated with it. I think the US should

consider such an action since it is the drug cartels that cause so many immigrants coming to our shores seeking asylum from these dangerous cartels.

I don't know enough about how that would work because someone has to make the stuff. But if they decriminalized the drugs it seems like there would be a lot less crime - I think.

[Buckeyeblue]

9. There is a strong argument to be made for legalization

The best reason is to treat drug addiction as a disease and not a crime. I have a feeling the cartels would still exist one way or another.

[Maraya1969]

13. Oh yea, they diverted the funds that would go toward punishment into treatment

[gratuitous]

16. Oregon legalized cannabis

It has spawned an enormous black market, with heavily guarded growing compounds in rural areas, depending on captive labor and theft of water rights. I think we need to act as a nation, like we should for firearm regulation. Chicago may have regulation of firearms, but that makes it a very profitable black market for firearm manufacturers and sellers who flood the city from outside. Legalized cannabis in one state provides a base for the cartels to create black markets in states that still treat cannabis as a criminal matter.

[Buckeyeblue]

24. It's legal in Michigan too

Lot of Ohio and Indiana make their way across the boarder to buy. But I didn't consider intrastate shipment of legally grown pot to a state where it isn't legal. But that probably happens on small and not so small scales.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Supreme Court asked to bar punishment for acquitted conduct

WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury convicted Dayonta McClinton of robbing a CVS pharmacy but acquitted him of murder. A judge gave McClinton an extra 13 years in prison for the killing anyway.

In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn't commit.

The Supreme Court is being asked, again, to put an end to the practice. It's possible that the newest member of the court and a former federal public defender, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, could hold a pivotal vote.

McClinton's case and three others just like it are scheduled to be discussed when the justices next meet in private on Jan. 6.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-asked-to-bar-punishment-for-acquitted-conduct/ar-AA15JFJ0

[lindysalsagal]

8. Isn't there a test for candidates to determine if they're human or not?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. She Wasn't Getting Enough Attention While On Vacation

Can you imagine the horror of getting no attention for 3 whole days????

[Alexander Of Assyria]

27. Well, got some attention right here at DU! Why?

[ProfessorGAC]

29. She Doesn't Care About That

We're all godless communists to her.
I don't blame those here bring up her stupid utterances. Sometimes you have to read it to believe the stupid stuff she says & does.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

33. I believed her to be 100% stupid stuff way before Jewish laser beam.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Can't Argue

She's clearly blindingly stupid.

[LeftInTX]

12. Only if she and Cancun Cruz are vacationing together!

[Takket]

14. "trump was right"?

wasn't he president for 4 years? How can he be "right" about something he never did?

[Martin Eden]

44. Logic and Critical Thought don't register with them

If it did, they wouldn't be far right whackos in the first place.

[70sEraVet]

15. If she wants to bomb criminal organizations .....

Trump Tower? Or RNC Headquarters?

[gratuitous]

17. A little fuzzy on the Constitution there, aren't you Marj?

What a dimbulb.

[Renew Deal]

18. This is what passes for conservative intellectual thought these days.

[orthoclad]

19. But then where would she get

access to meth?
Of course she never touched the stuff.

Maybe Boebert could start cooking again. Diarrhea ribs, of course.

[Traildogbob]

20. The only thing this DUNK

Smears is shit like her peeps did in our capital.

[Carlitos Brigante]

21. We should bomb the cartel's..... what? I know it's too great an expectation

that this semi literate moron would be able to differentiate between the plural form and apostrophe.

[NBachers]

42. Yes, that stuck out to me, too.

[republianmushroom]

22. Republican do like to have wars.

Another brilliant statement MTG for attention. Must of been tough
on her, Santa, getting all that attention and her not getting much if any.

[Lovie777]

23. YA know, the GQP congresscritters are going all out .....

for 2 years saying and doing some crazy un-Amercian shit, one for sure trying to create total chaos within the USA and the world. All of it will backfire but the evil concept will be unbearable.

GQP is total evil.

[LiberalFighter]

25. How would her constituents feel if Mexico bombed her district because

of the stupid people voting for her? And likely using those same drugs?

[aggiesal]

26. Where else is she going to get her Fentanyl? n/t

[packman]

28. Screw that half-measure stuff, we're AMERICA - NUKE THE WORLD

[littlemissmartypants]

31. She's probably mad because her bootleg steroids could kill her so

She's having to pay for legit stuff now...

[IcyPeas]

50. my thought too

[calimary]

34. That woman IS a smear.

[treestar]

36. conservatives have zero credibility

on any drug issue - the demand for the drugs is from the US, those are individual people deciding to take illegal drugs - what happened to personal responsibility, conservatives? If you don't want to be addicted to drug, don't do drugs in the first place. Just say no, it's that easy.

It is like when conservatives suddenly care about needy veterans or the homeless - only when they want to claim illegal aliens are getting help before them.

[BadgerMom]

37. Medvedev predicted in a tweet thread that in 2023

there could be a US civil war. He thought Texas and Mexico could be allies.

I’m no longer on Twitter. (Don’t miss it, btw.) I cannot retrieve the tweet thread and, frankly, don’t want to. I heard about this nonsense in greater detail on MSNBC last night. So I apologize for not linking.

But I’m here to say that after the Russian interference in the 2016 election I no longer see these outlandish sorts of statements as unrelated. I am aware that some could accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist. Well, sometimes conspiracies exist. Witness Jan. 6, 2021. I think it’s possible this nonsense will be a new rallying cry for the far right Putin lovers who might see destabilization as opportunity. Is MTG just a nut or something more sinister?

[soldierant]

49. If you accept that everything they say is projection,

you are forced to believe they are in varius conspiracies up to their necks.

[bdamomma]

39. Keep on circling

the drain Marge you be going down soon. You weirdo. crazy:

[chriscan64]

40. How exactly would that work?

Is there some sort of new smart bomb that can tell when the target is all cartel and no civilians? Maybe a nicely worded letter would help.

Dear Cartels,
Please gather all in one place and remove regular people so we can bomb you.

[ificandream]

41. Marjorie Traitor Greene is going to go further and further off the edge.

Until she tumbles.

[IronLionZion]

43. We could toss MTG out of a plane

in a remote area with sharks or vultures and claim mission accomplished.

[AllaN01Bear]

45. ahhh shaddup.

[Bayard]

47. Completely insane

With no redeeming qualities. Much like her hero.

[Evolve Dammit]

48. Can someone just escort her to a padded room? "Family" intervention? She's f'in nuts. nt

[Emile]

51. I thought fentanyl was coming in on ships.