Rightwing media mock Marjorie Taylor Greene after Ukraine aid bill passes

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Source: The Guardian

Mon 22 Apr 2024 12.26 EDT


A New York Post front page on Monday blaring “Nyet, Moscow Marjorie”, its mocked-up picture showing Marjorie Taylor Greene wearing a Soviet cap, was the latest sign of sections of the US right turning on the extremist, pro-Trump Georgia congresswoman over her opposition to military aid for Ukraine.

“The score in Congress is now ‘Jewish space lasers lady 0, common sense 1’,” the Murdoch-owned tabloid said, celebrating the fact that Greene and other “Republican renegades’” failed to stop passage of the Ukraine aid on Saturday, though they long delayed it. “Jewish space lasers” refers to one of the many conspiracy theories Greene has spread since entering national politics, in that case concerning a supposed cause of wildfires.

The aid bill that passed the Republican-led House on Saturday despite opposition from Greene and other GOP rightwingers also funnels military support to Israel and Taiwan.

Greene was defiant, telling Fox News Mike Johnson’s “speakership is over” after he oversaw passage of the aid bill, and calling for the Louisiana Republican, a stringent rightwinger himself, “to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process”. She again threatened to trigger the motion to remove the speaker that she filed last month – a move that also generated significant criticism in rightwing media circles.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/22/ukraine-aid-marjorie-taylor-greene-new-york-post

[Blue Owl]

1. Greene needs to be ridiculed off the stage and out of office

This neolithic clownstick has no business in modern government

[Torchlight]

2. I'm getting a sense of critical mass being reached in regards to her antics.

More than a handful of GOP have gone on record in the past ten days criticizing not just her (banal) policy, but also seriously ripping into her as a person.

She's harmful to the country, yes. She's more harmful to the GOP itself though. If her seat is going to be occupied by an R, then I think she's the best possible driver for the GOP clown car and would love to see someone nominate her for speaker.

Sure she was removed from all committee roles for endorsing political violence, and sure she was was expelled from the conservative House Freedom Caucus after sharing a tantrum with Ms. Boebert (who to her credit, never offered Ms. Greene a hit from the vape pen or a quick cuddle in the mezzanine), but isn't that just another word for strength and decisive leadership in their party?

She's being mocked, and that's old hat. The new fedora is that the mocking is coming from inside her own house.

[jimfields33]

3. Intrigued

[tanyev]

4. The inevitable outcome of not being able to play well with others.

The only variable is how long it takes.

[The Wizard]

5. She could be the source

of exposing other House members with Russian ties,

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. MTG and Boebert need to shut their pie holes n/t