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Zorro

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Mon Feb 1, 2021, 01:19 AM Feb 2021

If Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn't Beyond the Pale, Who Is?

There’s still time for Republican leaders to reject Q.

By The Editorial Board

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
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn't Beyond the Pale, Who Is? (Original Post) Zorro Feb 2021 OP
The new face and voice The Wizard Feb 2021 #1
K&R for exposure Blue Owl Feb 2021 #2

The Wizard

(12,483 posts)
1. The new face and voice
Mon Feb 1, 2021, 01:37 AM
Feb 2021

of the Republican death cult. Show her face, voice and political affiliation everywhere. The cultists are a strange lot. They think professional wrestling is a competitive sport. Flat Earthers, and just plain ignorant self enamored weirdos who feel betrayed that the government stands for equality and rule of law. Mob rule will not stand. Did I mention well armed and violence prone and easily torqued up band of hooligans directed by a criminally insane reprobate.

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