Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't here to legislate. She's here to live-stream.

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The QAnon movement got to Congress. It has no idea what to do next.

By Simon van Zuylen-Wood

In mid-January, first-term Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was live-streaming herself as she walked through a hallway beneath the U.S. Capitol. Pulled down below her chin was a black mask that read “CENSORED” in white block letters. Monologuing into her phone, she walked by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a Black Lives Matter activist-turned-lawmaker also in her first term, who yelled at Greene for not properly wearing the mask. Greene pulled up her mask, told Bush not to yell at her, then yelled at Bush for a bit and resumed her monologue. “That’s how it is, how it is now in America,” she told her viewers. “You’re witnessing exactly what we’re having to live through.” Bush ended up moving her office away from Greene’s; Greene proceeded to call her “the leader of the St. Louis Black Lives Matter terrorist mob.”

Watching later, I was struck by how much the video resembled footage Greene had recorded before she ran for Congress. In 2019, she filmed herself wandering the Capitol looking for Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who are Muslim, to try to make them retake their oaths of office on a Bible instead of a Koran. The next month, she returned to Washington to stalk Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, berating him about a gun-control bill.

Seen in one light, Greene is a troll-activist success story: She leveraged her harassment of congresspeople to become a congresswoman herself. Seen in another light, she is stuck playing the same role she did before achieving any influence or notoriety. Like the dog who catches the car, she got what she wanted, and she isn’t sure what to do next.

Greene is best known for her past promotion of the byzantine QAnon belief system, though her paranoia about establishment subversion isn’t limited to fictional satanic pedophile rings. Before running for office, she pushed theories about false-flag operations, inside jobs, a mass shooting plotted by the gun-control lobby and countless other imagined plots. This probably goes without saying, but she believes that the presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Barely one month into her tenure, her colleagues may have reached a breaking point. This past week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called her ideas a “cancer” for the GOP; Greene ended up recanting some of her past positions, forced-confession style. On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted along mostly partisan lines to strip Greene of her committee assignments, a move typically reserved for members charged with a crime (or those who ask why “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” are controversial terms, as Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa did). Though she retains some support from her caucus, Greene has effectively been quarantined from her colleagues, as though to prevent the further spread of her beliefs.

But this lack of legislative influence will probably wind up boosting her brand, which is built on her ability to engage her fans in speculation about the various dark energies she — and they — are up against. Passing laws was never the point.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/marjorie-taylor-greene-isnt-here-to-legislate-shes-here-to-live-stream/2021/02/05/a64c8044-675d-11eb-8c64-9595888caa15_story.html

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1. Easy for insurrectionists to know routes in the building if she's live-streaming.

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2. Taxpayers give her $174,000 and a bully pulpit to advocate for QAnon.

Now that she's not on any committees she can go full time to push for the overthrow of the government.
Way to go Republicans!

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