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The full delegation’s scores for 2023 are:

Senator Warnock – 100 percent

Senator Ossoff – 94 percent

Representative Buddy Carter -3 percent

Representative Sanford D. Bishop – 94 percent

Representative Drew A. Ferguson – 0 percent

Representative Hank Johnson – 100 percent

Representative Nikema Williams – 100 percent

Representative Rich McCormick – 0 percent

Representative Lucy McBath – 97 percent

Representative Austin Scott – 0 percent

Representative Andrew Clyde – 0 percent

Representative Mike Collins – 0 percent

Representative Barry Loudermilk 0 percent

Representative Rick Allen – 3 percent

Representative David Scott – 97 percent

Representative Marjorie Taylor Green – 3 percent

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In spite of President Donald Trump's insistence that he still knows what MAGA wants, a new piece from The i Paper argued that he is now facing an "insurgency" from the movement he created as he continues to sow divisions.

"With just over two months to go before voters are set to seal his fate in America’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump is once again bucking tradition: instead of uniting his party around him and leading from the front, he has spent days stoking divisions among Republicans that could advance the day when the GOP splits asunder," reporter Simon Marks wrote in the Tuesday piece,

He later added, "last Friday night, the President fired the latest, dramatic salvo in his efforts to retain the leadership of a movement that shows every sign of fracturing beneath him. Amid collapsing trade talks with Canada, fresh revelations of the damage Iran has done to America’s military infrastructure, and several days of primary contest losses for a host of Trump-backed Republican candidates, the President turned his social media blowtorch on 'traitors' around him."

Marks further argued that "Ground Zero" for the MAGA pushback against Trump could be traced back to Wyoming, "America's reddest state," earlier this year, when "five [GOP] lawmakers broke ranks and condemned the President for a social media post in which he compared himself to Jesus." More recently, his endorsed candidate for governor in Wyoming "went down to a crushing defeat" against another Republican candidate "who pledged to lower the temperature of extremist debate in the state."

Marks also highlighted the Florida House race in which "antisemitic influencer Dan Bilzerian" sought to unseat incumbent Rep. Randy Fine, calling him a "Jewish supremacist" and attacking Trump as "nothing but a tool for Israeli hegemony." While Bilzerian did not win the primary, Marks argued that his ability to secure 19 percent of the final vote offered "a fresh indication that Trump and his approved candidates are vulnerable to accusations that the President has betrayed MAGA and sold the movement out."

Elsewhere, three spurned former Trump supporters — Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and Tucker Carlson — shared a photo of a meeting together, amid rumors that they might be plotting the creation of a new political party to take on Trump and his remaining GOP elite backers. Trump himself was dismissive of this idea, lambasting the group as a bunch of "losers."

"Trump now finds himself confronting a paradox. In many ways, MAGA’s greatest strength since he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015 has been the movement’s ability to portray Republicans as a single insurgency seeking to overthrow an elitist radical-left establishment and the so-called 'deep state,'" Marks concluded. "But today, Trump’s control of MAGA is threatened by a fresh insurgency vowing to overturn the very Republican elite that he now leads. Containing those threats will be no small matter, as Carlson, Massie, Greene and others build support for their version of Trump’s handmade political universe.

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The New Republic's Virginia Heffernan has followed the MAGA breakup closely over the past year as President Donald Trump's broken promises has left the movement feeling "betrayed."

While speaking to Greg Sargent for his "Daily Blast" podcast, the two discussed the recent warning issued by former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.), who abandoned the president over the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a TikTok video, Greene warned that the era of MAGA success is done.

"The coalition came in. You want to know why ‘26 and ‘28 is going to be different? Because Donald Trump broke his big, big campaign promise of no more foreign wars, and actually has got us embroiled in a war with Iran, a war that should not be happening, and he’s not backing off of it. And it will probably get worse. So, that has the affordability crisis. That’s why people can’t afford gasoline. That’s why people’s bills keep going up. Food prices are still going up. Beef is at all-time high. It’s ridiculous. You know what you should have done? You should have stuck to your campaign promises, and you should have delivered for the people that put you in office, not the ones writing you the big fat checks," said Greene.

It comes after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confessed to the press, "I don't really understand" the spike in oil prices.

Sargent called Greene a kind of "oracle" when it comes to predicting that this would happen when she left Congress.

"When Marjorie Taylor Greene says the coalition is falling apart, all these voters feel betrayed by you, Mr. President, she isn’t just making a prediction. She’s essentially saying to these voters, you know, you shouldn’t show up for this guy because he f—— you, right? That’s what she’s really saying. And it’s true. She’s right about it," said Sargent.

Trump is quoted as saying he doesn’t care about his old voters. And she and lots of people took that very personally," she said.

Now, they argued, Trump is repeating the kind of foreign-policy overreach he once blasted. It comes as he's issuing threats of economic punishment against countries that trade with Iran. It's not something easily enforced and is designed largely to create the appearance of action while lacking a clear strategy for ending the conflict, they said.

Now MAGA is stuck in a messaging crisis where even Fox News personalities like Sean Hannity are avoiding most discussions about the war. The two think it's likely because audiences don't want to hear pro-war rhetoric. So, pro-Trump media is falling back on the same message that Trump is being unfairly persecuted.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was finally forced to say that the affordability crisis isn't a "hoax," as Trump claimed. On Thursday, Johnson acknowledged that the war has pushed gas prices higher. It has finally become a problem impossible for Republicans to ignore.

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In an interview with NBC News in January 2026, Donald Trump said: “Maga is me. Maga loves everything I do.” Until recently, this statement was true. But over the past several months, cracks have begun to appear in the loyalty of the US president’s “Make America Great Again” base.

Two of the movement’s most prominent figures – former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson – have voiced their discontent with the leader they previously lavished with unconditional support.

Greene’s falling out with Trump was rooted in her advocacy for releasing the investigative files related to late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But it also centred on her discomfort with US support for Israel and a sense that Trump had abandoned his “America first” campaign promises.

In December 2025, Greene told CNN that “the dam is breaking” on Trump’s grip over the Republican party. As an example, she pointed to the 13 Republicans who voted with Democrats that month to overturn an executive order that allowed Trump to fire federal employees. Greene resigned from the House of Representatives in January.

Carlson’s more recent break with Trump was equally dramatic. “I don’t hate Trump,” he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview released on April 25. “I hate this war [in Iran] and the direction this US government is taking.” Carlson went so far as to apologise to the public for “misleading” them into voting for Trump in 2024.

In a week when an attempt to assassinate Trump is once again headline news, we are reminded of Carlson’s take on a previous attempt on the US president’s life in 2024. Carlson had invoked “divine intervention” to explain Trump’s survival of that attempt, declaring “something bigger is going on here”.

At that point, the president had religious-right elites firmly on his side. This fervour has dissipated in recent times. But are Greene and Carlson representative of a broader problem for the Maga movement, or are they just a pair of high-profile defections and nothing more?

Putting ‘America first’

The grievances and concerns outlined by Greene and Carlson are real. When Trump ran for president in 2016, he broke with Republican orthodoxy by denouncing the Iraq war as a catastrophic mistake. He promised to extract the US from costly foreign wars and put America ahead of global policing commitments.

His first-term record was somewhat mixed, but the key takeaway was that no new major wars were initiated. On the 2024 campaign trail, Trump repeated these earlier pledges. He said he would end the Ukraine war within 24 hours and keep the US out of new conflicts. Trump has clearly reneged on these commitments.

The Iran war is broadly unpopular with the US electorate. Polls show that more people are against the war than support it. On average, 15% more people oppose than back it, and in some recent surveys that gap is even bigger, with up to 27% more people against than in favour. About 75% of US adults also now describe the economy, which is being affected by higher prices, as “very” or “somewhat” poor.

This dissatisfaction is visible among Republicans voters, though probably not to an extent that suggests support for Trump is in danger of imminent collapse. Recent polling by the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates that, while dropping by 13 percentage points compared to a year ago, 38% of Republican voters still “strongly” approve of Trump’s presidency.

At the same time, there are some signs that Trump’s core Maga base remains largely steadfast in its support, despite the very vocal dissent from some. The same poll found that roughly 90% of Americans who self-identify as “Maga Republicans” approve of Trump’s overall job performance. Another survey by NBC suggests that 87% of these people currently approve of his handling of the war in Iran.

While these surveys are unlikely to capture the full range of sentiment within the Maga movement, they still indicate that Trump retains a solid core of support from members of this group. However, if the conflict drags on and economic pain deepens, the room for elite dissatisfaction to percolate down to the base is likely to widen.

Presidential ambitions

There may be other reasons explaining why Carlson, in particular, has broken with Trump. As Jason Zengerle, a journalist at the New Yorker magazine and the author of a biography of Carlson, put it recently when discussing Carlson’s reversal on Trump: “He’s also sort of making a political move.” Various media outlets have suggested that Carlson may be eyeing a 2028 presidential run.

Some commentators, including White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka, have drawn parallels between Carlson and Pat Buchanan. In the 1990s, Buchanan challenged President George H.W. Bush over the Gulf war and reshaped the Republican party’s ideological trajectory even without winning its presidential nomination.

Greene has floated Carlson for president. In a social media post in March, she wrote: “I SUPPORT TUCKER. Trump doesn’t even know what Maga is anymore.” Carlson, for his part, has publicly dismissed a presidential bid.

But this rebranding exercise, of attempting to seize the Maga label from Trump and attach it to a new vessel, is a significant development. It suggests that “America first” is no longer exclusively synonymous with one figure.

The looming question is whether this seed of elite discontent can grow into something organisationally meaningful before 2028, when Americans elect their next president.

Clodagh Harrington, Lecturer in American Politics, University College Cork

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene launches ruthless attack on Trump ahead of his Georgia trip - Alternet.org

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Joe Rogan condemns Trump's 'Gestapo' for 'snatching up people'

Marjorie Taylor Green slams Trump’s 'politicization of the Department of Justice'

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White House officials contacted the U.S. Secret Service about then-U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after Code Pink protestors confronted President Donald Trump at a Washington, D.C. restaurant that the Georgia Republican lawmaker had recommended. The visit had not been announced to the press.

According to Axios, that cinched the downfall of the relationship between Greene and Trump, who was embarrassed by the group and its ability to get so close to him. Officials also were concerned for the president’s safety.

The White House reportedly told the Secret Service that Greene, who is friends with the group’s co-founder, may have tipped them off that the president would be dining at the D.C. restaurant, Joe’s Seafood.

“Trump aides view the Joe’s Seafood debacle as a point of no return in his relationship with Greene,” Axios reported, citing a Trump ally-turned-critic who left office this week.

“Greene told Axios that any suggestion she revealed Trump’s dinner plans was ‘an absolute lie, a dangerous lie. I would never do that.'”

The former Georgia congresswoman also told Axios, “The story you should be writing is why didn’t the Secret Service sweep the restaurant,” and have metal detectors at the door?

Code Pink spokesperson Melissa Garriga told Axios that Greene “absolutely” did not inform the group of Trump’s plans, calling it “comical” to suggest she had.

Meanwhile, Axios also reported that Greene had repeatedly called the White House to confirm Trump would be dining at the restaurant, Joe’s Seafood, but did not show up herself, which some White House officials found odd.

The Trump-Greene relationship had begun to sour earlier, after Trump sent Greene polling results that showed if she ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, she would lose to a Democrat.

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Although MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is still serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, her days as a GOP lawmaker are coming to an end. Greene, in November, resigned from Congress to express her opposition to President Donald Trump's policies, and she's leaving on Monday, January 5, 2026 rather than serving out the rest of her term.

But unlike Trump's Democratic critics or Never Trump conservatives on the right, Greene is criticizing him from a MAGA standpoint — as she believes he has betrayed the America First agenda during his second term.

In an interview with the New York Times' Robert Draper published on December 29, Greene discussed her transition from an "absolute" Trump defender to an outspoken critic.

Recalling MAGA cries for revenge after the murder of Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, Greene told Draper, "Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you're wrong. You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what…. After Charlie died, I realized that I'm part of this toxic culture. I really started looking at my faith. I wanted to be more like Christ."

Greene told Draper that she became disenchanted with Trump for a range of reasons, from his support of artificial intelligence to tariffs she said were hurting small businesses in her district. But she was especially upset over his handling of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) files on the late billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Greene told Draper, "The Epstein files represent everything wrong with Washington. Rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims."

The outgoing congresswoman contends that her stand on the Epstein files was what alienated Trump more than anything.

"But it was Epstein," MTG told Draper. "Epstein was everything."

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November 23, 2025, edition of MSNOW's The Weekend

EUGENE DANIELS (MS NOW HOST): Angelo, you spend a lot of time, probably more than anyone at this table, looking through right-wing media apparatus and kind of the world that is happening there. What we keep hearing from folks, whether it's here on MS NOW or other news organizations that are saying there's cracks in the MAGA base because Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah — but you spend a lot of time — is there actually cracks in the MAGA base, or is this something that we're over reading?

ANGELO CARUSONE (MEDIA MATTERS PRESIDENT): I think that, I wouldn't use the word base, right? The narrative is starting to unravel a little bit, and that's why it seems like there's this chaos or cracks. There is dissension. There certainly is. I mean, part of what we've been dealing with for so long is a consistent narrative coming out of the right-wing media. That's why we call it an echo chamber. And in a way, Trump has been the conductor for that chorus, which has helped him sort of not just have political power, but control the story. And what you're seeing in the last, you know, month or so are these cracks, Marjorie Taylor Greene being one example of that, the Tucker stuff with Nick Fuentes, lots of other examples. And I think what that — there are discrepancies. And I think it is reflective of two things. One, Trump does not have his finger on the zeitgeist the way that he typically does. He just isn't as connected to that audience and that's given him the ability to bob and weave and sort of control them and layer in things and sort of anticipate where it's going and that's why Marjorie Taylor Greene had a leg up on this.

DANIELS: Does it feel different this time? Because we've seen these cracks. You talked about Elon Musk. But like for years, since 2015, we've seen the Republican Party figure out how to love Trump again, whether it's Ted Cruz, who Trump called his wife ugly, to Marco Rubio who's now the secretary of state when he was talking about Trump's hands. Does this time feel different, the cracks, the dissension?

CARUSONE: Yeah, it does, it does. And now that does not mean that Trump is not dangerous. That's not to diminish his political power, his destructiveness. There's clearly a lot of it there. But what's different this time is sort of a much more — a forward looking idea. And they're all sort of looking beyond 2028. I mean, Tucker even did it explicitly, something they don't talk about. He was doing an interview with Paul Dans not that long ago where they were talking about it's time to start thinking about what happens after Trump. But that is like taboo — a year, six months ago, three months ago, that would have been taboo. But now that is a topic that they all want to think about and that's been the difference. So now I think it's fair to call him a lame duck. They would not have called him a lame duck a month ago. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is one part of that storyline unraveling. And I also think it's reflective on the larger media is that we all love a heel turn and we have to be careful.

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One of President Donald Trump's most loyal internet defenders has turned onRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), saying she has betrayed the president with her recent critique of him and the Republican party, Newsweekreports.

The anonymous social media account known as "Cat——", which has 3.9 million followers, complained that the Republican congresswoman had been "stabbing Trump in the back at every turn" and called for her to be primaried.

Last week, Mediaitereported that Greene was no longer following one of its social media accounts "amid a MAGA civil war."

Greene's vocal pushback against the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the release of files associated with the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and foreign policy measures has "triggered a backlash from some MAGA influencers," Newsweek says.

Cat—— shared an image claiming Greene had made $21 million in five years in Congress and said it was "time to primary and get rid of this fraud."

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They also said Greene, who has said her high net worth comes from her family's construction business and personal investments, was "getting filthy rich while stabbing Trump in the back at every turn."

"I'm so tired of these complete and utter phonies," they wrote, adding in a subsequent post. "Marjorie Taylor Greene is so cringe now. I feel like taking a bath because I ever supported her. She’s a total fraud who’s gotten filthy rich in a few short years in Congress."

Greene doesn't seem to care what they think, telling NBC News earlier this month, “I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is said to be redefining her role within the Republican Party by challenging both party leadership and President Donald Trump on key issues.

A report published in the Guardianon Sunday noted that once a staunch ally of Trump, Greene has recently diverged from Republican orthodoxy on several fronts. She has criticized the White House's plans to send military aid to Ukraine, labeled Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide," and called for the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The report said Green "has increasingly gone rogue on both domestic and foreign policy."

These positions have set her apart from many of her GOP colleagues, who continue to support Trump and maintain traditional party lines. One of Greene's most notable departures from party unity has been her stance on healthcare. She has sided with Democrats in advocating for the continuation of Affordable Care Act subsidies, arguing that allowing them to expire would lead to significant premium increases for her constituents.

In a social media post, Greene stated, “I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE.”

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The report notes that despite these divergences, Greene has been careful to maintain her support for Trump. She has avoided direct criticism of the president, instead framing her actions as representing the interests of her district over party loyalty.

In an interview with The Hill, she emphasized, “I am 100% the same person today as I was when I ran for Congress,” suggesting that her recent positions are consistent with her populist roots.

Meanwhile, political analysts view Greene's actions as a reflection of a broader populist sentiment within the Republican base.

Henry Olsen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center told the Guardian that Greene's positions resonate with many Republicans who support government action to assist working-class Americans, aligning with Trump's economic populism.

The article noted that some observers suggest Greene's dissent may be motivated by personal ambitions. Reports indicate she considered running for governor or senator in Georgia but was discouraged by the White House due to concerns about her divisiveness.

Jeff Timmer of the Lincoln Project speculated that Greene's recent actions could be a response to being sidelined, stating, “They didn’t want her to run; she’s getting a pound of flesh," he told the outlet.

Political scientist Andra Gillespie from Emory University described Greene as a “complex politician” who is making “interesting choices.”

She suggested that Greene's actions reflect a delegate-style representation, where she prioritizes the views of her district over party lines.

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Late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel could barely get the words out of his mouth when he had to say: “I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

It was his second time this month, he noted, and added “I need something to wash out my mouth.” But in truth, the issue at hand, which is access to health care, is no laughing matter.

Greene’s latest defection from the MAGA cult of loyalty for which she has been a leading figure popped up in an exclusive interview with CNN in which she didn’t beat around the bush concerning the effect of the House-passed budget bill that, due to not reauthorizing Affordable Care Act subsidies, has caused the shutdown of the federal government.

“Everybody is just getting destroyed” Greene told reporters. “This cliff is coming for millions and millions of Americans where their health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket. Republicans, you have no solutions. You haven’t come up with a new plan in place, and we’re not even talking about it, and it is hurting so many people.”

Greene’s concerns are at odds with the narrative the GOP is trying to spin on the shutdown — namely that it’s all the fault of Senate Democrats. Instead, Greene says the healthcare crisis now facing millions of Americans, including her kids and constituents, is a direct threat to Republicans in the polls and voting booths.

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It’s worth noting Greene is also one of four Republican House members who signed the discharge petition to force the release of the Epstein files, telling The Hill: “I think when it comes to women being raped, especially when they were 14 years old, that’s pretty black and white.” Moreover, she said Speaker Johnson’s attempts to keep the House shut down was “wrong” and they should reconvene to take care of the vast spectrum of Congressional business.

For his part, Johnson doesn’t want to reconvene the House due to the recent election of a Democrat who, when sworn in, will provide the final signature to force Johnson to deal with the “Epstein bomb”.

What could this MAGA rebellion by Greene have to do with Montana? Well, it’s not so dissimilar from a group of nine Republicans who broke with their own leadership over any number of issues. Chief among them was health care, and support for a bill by fellow Republican Ed Buttrey to lift the pending expiration of Medicaid expansion for low income people that the Senate’s GOP President, Matt Regier, opposed.

Like Greene, Buttrey noted that healthcare was critical and Republicans had no other plan: “We have 10 years’ worth of data that shows that the program we designed is working and working well. There’s no need to change it, it’s a savings to our budget, it is providing help for people all across the state, it’s helping save our rural health care facilities. Why would you want to change that or come up with another plan?”

It’s fair to say the GOP tends to “keep its soldiers in line” when it comes to supporting or opposing leadership positions. Yet, just as Greene defied Johnson on Medicare funding and Trump on the Epstein files, Buttrey and his nine “rebels” defied their own leadership and governor to support Medicaid expansion.

None of this spells the end of MAGA, of course. But it shows that when it comes down to the critical issues that affect the citizens of our nation and state, party affiliation is not and should not be the determining factor — especially when it comes to taking care of each other.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), once among President Donald Trump’s most loyal and vociferous backers, is now openly breaking with the president over his handling of the filed related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to a New York Timesreport published Sunday, Greene said she was angered after a Trump aide signaled that supporting legislation to release government documents tied to Epstein would be seen as a “very hostile act.”

In response, she says she phoned a senior West Wing official and pushed back hard.

“I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district,’” she recalled in her comments to The Times.

“We aren’t supposed to just be whipped on our votes because they’re telling us what to do … or saying ‘We’ll primary you,’ or that we won’t get invited to the White House events.”

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When asked how threats from Trump’s camp affect her, Greene replied: “Me personally? I don’t care … I’m like, ‘[Expletive] you.’”

The report noted that her evolution is dramatic. Elected in 2020 amid controversy and dismissed by many as a fringe figure, Greene gradually grew more aligned with GOP leadership, most notably under former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who often steered her more extreme impulses. But that phase appears over.

Now, the Georgia Republican operates as a powerful independent force. She has challenged Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) (whom she pushed to remove over his stance on Ukraine aid), and she has publicly criticized Trump when she believes he’s strayed from MAGA orthodoxy.

On issues like Epstein transparency, Gaza, artificial intelligence, and U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts, she says she no longer feels bound by party or presidential loyalty.

Still, Greene frames her posture carefully.

“It changes when someone goes into office,” she said. “Any president — they’re in a cone of information that they’re being provided. That’s a serious factor happening.” She added, “If I can move President Trump out of there, I think he’s on the right page. I think it’s a matter of who is talking in his ear.”

Despite her distance, Greene continues to call Trump “my favorite president.” Yet in recent months, she has publicly challenged him, notably over his handling of Epstein‑related documents and his rhetoric toward survivors and critics.

She insists her current independence is a strength, not a liability.“I didn’t get elected with a President Trump endorsement … It felt really bad at the time, but honestly it’s been the best thing for me. I get to be very independent.”

"But Mr. Trump in recent months has tested the limits of the unflagging loyalty that his base has previously shown him. And Ms. Greene’s stalwart positions have revealed a fraying at the edges of the MAGA movement," the report noted.

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Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: After Trump Deploys National Guard in D.C., Jeanine Pirro Declares, ‘This Is Just the Beginning’

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said on Monday night that President Donald Trump is just getting warmed up when using federal agents and troops in Washington, D.C.

Janna Brancolini @ The Daily Beast: Fuming Loomer Goes Nuclear on Marjorie Taylor Greene in All-Night Attack

The far-right influencer, who has the ear of President Trump, called the Georgia lawmaker a “lying fake Christian whore.”

Michelle Goldberg @ The New York Times: A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her.

Being an antifeminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power.

Ben Makuch @ The Guardian: Trump stirs far-right rage despite FBI deprioritizing extremist threat

Donald Trump has faced an onslaught of criticism from opponents and Maga diehards alike, on issues such as Jeffrey Epstein, the war with Iran, and his steadfast alliance with Israel in the face of genocide. But among the ever dangerous far right, which has generally applauded Trump’s efforts to deport thousands of people a day, his actions of late have stirred rage among a group experts say has benefited greatly from his administration’s law-enforcement pivots.

Tess Owen @ Wired: The Trump Administration Is Using Memes to Turn Mass Deportation Into One Big Joke

Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that’s the point.

Jemar Tisby: Douglas Wilson’s Theology Predicted Today’s Politics

What happens in politics is downstream of what happens in the church.

Dan McClellan: Responding to Frank Turek & Charlie Kirk

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In an article for *The Guardian*_{ }_published Sunday, columnist Arwa Mahdawi highlighted a startling turn in the rhetoric of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a figure long known for far‑right conspiracy theories and divisive behavior.

Greene, according to Mahdawi, has begun to speak a modicum of sense, as she turns on her own party. This dramatic shift has seen Greene lambasting the direction of the Republican Party and accusing male colleagues of mistreating women.

Green recently spoke about how Elise Stefanik’s nomination for UN ambassador was sidelined in favor of a less-qualified man.

“I don’t want to have anything to do with [the course that the Republican party is on],” Greene told the Daily Mail last week.

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Mahdawi underscored further surprising stances Greene has taken: she’s become the first Republican lawmaker to call what’s occurring in Gaza a genocide, and she attacked Rep. Randy Fine’s (R-AZ) dismissive “starve away” social‑media post, calling it disgraceful coming from a Jewish congressman.

But Mahdawi warned that these remarks likely aren’t rooted in genuine empathy; Greene’s history of Christian nationalist rhetoric and Islamophobic or antisemitic conspiracy theories suggests her motivations may be more cynical.

"Let me be unequivocal about this: while she may occasionally be making more sense recently, Greene is no friend to the Palestinian cause specifically or progressive issues more generally," Mahdawi wrote.

But she added: "Keep going, Marjorie! While I can’t stress enough that MTG is no ally, that doesn’t mean she’s not an accidental asset when it comes to destroying the Republican party. I’ve lost any hope that the Democrats, a party that largely consists of self-interested careerists who don’t believe in much other than their own advancement and are happy to help fund a genocide, will mount any sort of meaningful fight against the worst instincts of Trumpism. When Maga eventually collapses it will be from infighting, not Democratic opposition."

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Although far-right MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has been a forceful, combative supporter of President Donald Trump, she was critical of the military strikes that he ordered against Iran and favors a very isolationist approach to the Israel-Gaza conflict. And that stand is putting her at odds with Fox News host Mark Levin.

MTG and Levin are having a bitter war of words. Levin attacked Greene as a "lunatic" and "fake MAGA," declaring, "The Republican Party isn't going the way of Marjorie Taylor Greene or her ilk. No way!"

Greene, interviewed by Eric Bolling on Real America's Voice, said of Levin, "When Mark Levin talks about my ilk, he is insulting, I would say, most Americans in this country, Eric….. $37 trillion in debt, inflation is so high, groceries are expensive, bills are expensive, people can't afford rent, credit card debt is at an all-time high, and young people today cannot ever even dream of buying a house. That's the America that Mark Levin has fought for, that’s the America that Mark Levin loves, and Mark Levin, let’s be really honest, is Israel First. He’s not America First. So if it were up to Mark Levin, America would fight every single war that the secular government of nuclear-armed Israel wanted to drag America into."

Greene, a 51-year-old Gen-Xer, attacked Fox News for catering to "neocons" and "Baby Boomers" and told Bolling they are "not the future of America" or the Republican Party.

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Greene's feud with Levin is generating a lot of discussion on X, formerly Twitter.

Georgia Republican Jeff Criswell said of Greene, "I'm a baby boomer. And I am headed to D.C. to replace this moron. Respectfully."

X user Edward Fairfax Rochester tweeted, "Boomer here. I listen to Robert Barnes rarely Fox News."

Another X user, Gil Sosinsky, posted, "@mtgreenee is a self-centered ingrate who has zero self-awareness. The largest group are children of baby boomers (millennials) Greene's insulting baby boomers is no differenr than baby boomers trivializing WWII generation. So dimwit Greene hates elderly & Jews."

Richard Angwin commented, "Marjorie Taylor Greene calling Fox News viewers 'elderly and brainwashed' is rich coming from someone whose conspiracy-fueled rants make QAnon look like a bedtime story."

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July 21, 2025, edition of Stay Free with Russell Brand, streamed on Rumble

RUSSELL BRAND (HOST): It feels like you're saying to a degree — [UNINTELLIGIBLE] I don't even understand this. I can always feel his aura. But that Trump isn’t governing in the way that his mandate — Trump’s not governing in the way that he was elected to govern, whether that’s the, you know, Epstein list, whether that’s the ongoing wars, whether it’s the migrant crisis in spite of his successes at the borders. So aren’t we then starting to, and I recognize that the revelations around Barack Obama and that stuff is exciting, but we all kind of knew that anyway, and maybe it could be regarded as something of a distraction.

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Even after the election of Trump part 2.0, which seemed like a significant, almost seismic event in American politics. The arrival of Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy, all of this stuff. And I know we’re less than a year in. It seems like, maybe, you know, we’re still talking about the same stuff. Foreign aid that’s risible. Foreign aid that’s supporting wars. Relationship with Israel or Jordan — pick a country, pick an enemy, pick an ideological opposition. Waste. B.S. We’re talking about the same things. Media corruption. The same things are happening.

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REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): What’s happening right now is the Republican Party — and they didn’t want to, they more were dragged kicking and screaming into supporting Donald Trump. And now — but they’ve all come in and whether they really truly believe or not, they’re all wearing their MAGA hats and pretending to cheerlead behind him.

But here’s, here’s the warning for the Republican Party. If you can’t — you can’t go out and talk about deep state actors that committed treason and election fraud and rich, powerful, elite cabals if you’re not gonna hold these people accountable. The base is past it. They — That has been red meat that’s been dangled out for years now. I mean, since 2017, we’ve been hearing about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice and Samantha Powers and all these people — James Comey, you know, Brennan, like all these people. But yet if there’s never any accountability, the base is like, “tell me why I should care.” And that’s actually where it’s coming. That’s how, I mean, it’s a dangerous situation to continue to say “these are the bad guys” and then never hold them accountable. But the Republican Party doesn’t realize where they are in the big picture of things. They have an opportunity to actually correct the wrongs and actually to turn the ship around and get the right course going for America, actually care about the American people, turn your policies back to America first. Stop spending so much damn money.

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The Justice Department asked a federal court on July 18, 2025, to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein’s case. The direction from President Donald Trump came after weeks of frustration among some far-right groups over his administration’s refusal to release the complete and unredacted “Epstein files.”

Epstein, a wealthy financier with high-profile connections, was arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges and later died by suicide in a Manhattan jail awaiting trial.

In early 2025, a federal court unsealed portions of the court documents. While names of some of the alleged clients and victims were released, many were redacted or withheld.

Epstein’s arrest and death became a central focus for QAnon followers, who saw them as proof of a hidden global elite engaged in child trafficking and protected by powerful institutions. The release – or withholding – of the Epstein files is often cited within QAnon movement circles as evidence of a broader cover-up by the so-called “deep state.”

Some followers of the MAGA – Make America Great Again – movement and the Republican Party believe in the false claim that the United States is secretly controlled by a cabal of elites who are pedophiles, sex traffickers and satanists.

Over time, what started as a baseless conspiracy on obscure platforms has migrated into the mainstream. It has influenced rhetoric and policy debates, and even reshaped the American political landscape. The foundational belief of many of the QAnon followers is that Trump is a heroic figure fighting the elite pedophile ring.

Trump’s attempts at downplaying or obstructing the very disclosures they believe would validate their worldview has led to confusion. To some, the delay in the release of the files feels like a betrayal, or even the possibility of his wrongdoing. Others are trying to reinterpret Trump’s actions through increasingly baseless conspiracy logic.

Trump has publicly dismissed demands for the full release of the Epstein Files as a “hoax.” He has also made false claims. On July 15, 2025, Trump said: “And I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey. They were made up by Obama.”

As a scholar who studies extremism, I know that the movement views Trump as a mythological figure and it interprets Trump’s actions to fit this overarching narrative – an elasticity which makes the movement both durable and dangerous.

From Pizzagate to QAnon

The QAnon movement began with the Pizzagate conspiracy theory in 2016, which falsely claimed that high-ranking Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of a Washington, D.C., pizzeria. The baseless theory gained enough online momentum that a man armed with an assault rifle stormed the restaurant, seeking to “free the children.”

In 2017, an anonymous figure called “Q” began posting cryptic messages on message boards like 4chan and 8kun. The baseless accusations of a global network of elites involved in controlling global institutions, including governments, businesses, and the media, as well as operating a child trafficking and ritual abuse, were central to the QAnon movement’s narrative.

The movement has recruited followers through language like “Save the Children,” to mobilize around issues of child trafficking.

Many QAnon adherents, particularly women, were drawn to the movement through such appeals to child protection. According to psychologists Sophia Moskalenko and Mia Bloom, this type of appeal taps into powerful emotional instincts, making conspiracy theories like QAnon more persuasive and harder to dislodge, even in the face of contradictory evidence.

QAnon movement’s rise

QAnon followers perceived Trump as a messianic figure working to expose this cabal in a climactic reckoning known as “The Storm” – a moment when mass arrests would finally bring justice.

They claimed that this moment would eventually bring about a “Great Awakening,” a reference to the religious revivalist movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. In this context the phrase described the supposed political and spiritual enlightenment that would follow “The Storm” – a moment of mass realization when people would “wake up” to the truth about the “deep state.”

In 2019, the FBI identified QAnon as a domestic terrorism threat, and major social media platforms began banning related content, but by then, QAnon had bled into mainstream conservative politics. Q-endorsing candidates, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, ran for and won elected office a year later.

Trump and QAnon

During Trump’s first administration – from 2017 to 2021 – the QAnon movement flourished. The posts from Q claimed to reveal insider knowledge of a secret war being waged by the president, often in coordination with the military, against the powerful elite.

Trump never explicitly endorsed the movement, but he did little to distance himself from it.

His administration also included figures, like former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who openly interacted with Q content online.

Trump’s rhetoric, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election, gave new life to QAnon narratives. When he questioned the integrity of the electoral process, QAnon followers interpreted it as confirmation of the deep state’s meddling.

However, after Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race, QAnon followers revised their original prophecy to maintain belief in “The Storm” and “The Great Awakening.” Some claimed the defeat was part of a larger secret plan, with Biden’s presidency serving as a cover for exposing the deep state. Some believed Trump remained the true president behind the scenes, while others reframed the awakening as a spiritual rather than political event.

Indeed, by 2020, several congressional candidates openly embraced or showed sympathy for the QAnon movement. SEE REF

At various campaign rallies in 2022 and after Trump used the movement’s symbolism. On Truth Social, his social media platform, he retweeted Q-affiliated accounts, and praised QAnon supporters as “people who love our country.” That same year he reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid with the words “The Storm is Coming.”

After the 2020 elections

Trump’s departure from the White House in January 2021 created an existential crisis for the QAnon movement. Predictions that he would declare martial law or arrest Joe Biden and other Democrats on Inauguration Day failed to materialize. Q’s posts also stopped, leaving many followers adrift.

Some abandoned the theory. Others rationalized the failed predictions or embraced new conspiracy narratives, such as the belief that Trump was still secretly in charge or that the military would soon act to reinstate him.

Some QAnon communities merged with or were absorbed into broader anti-vaccine, anti-globalist, and Christian nationalist movements.

How big is the movement?

Estimating the number of QAnon believers is difficult because many individuals do not openly identify with the movement, and those who do often hold a range of loosely connected or partial beliefs rather than adhering to a consistent or uniform ideology. Not everyone who shares a Q meme or echoes a Q talking point identifies as being part of the movement.

That said, surveys by groups like the 2024 Public Religion Research Institute and the Associated Press have found that 15–20% of Americans believe in some of QAnon’s core claims, such as the existence of a secret group of Satan-worshipping elites controlling the government.

Among Republican voters, the number is often higher.

This does not mean all these people are hardcore QAnon adherents, but it does show how far the narrative, or parts of it, has seeped into mainstream thinking.

Epstein as evidence of ‘the cabal’

The Trump administration’s failure to disclose the information in Epstein files has fueled internal confusion, disillusionment and even radicalization within the movement.

For some QAnon believers, this failure was a turning point: if Trump – once seen as the hero in the conspiracy narrative – would not or could not reveal the truth, then the “deep state” must be more entrenched than imagined.

At the same time, frustrations have grown within MAGA and the QAnon movement’s spaces. Some see it as a failure to fulfill one of his most important promises: exposing elite pedophiles. Others believe the delay is strategic, another example of “the plan” requiring more patience.

The QAnon movement continues to evolve, even as its central figure hedges and hesitates, showing how potent myths can be in times of uncertainty. In my view, understanding why this belief continues to gain traction is essential for understanding the current state of American democracy.

Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, *University of Dayton

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By Marquise Francis, Yahoo News | January 19, 2020

On the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the combative Georgia Republican known for her association with the fantastical, cultlike QAnon conspiracy theory, was back on Twitter after a 12-hour suspension, and back to making waves and rocking the precarious boat that Republicans find themselves in, having lost the White House and both chambers of Congress.

“I’ve said this all along, it’s people over politicians, not the other way around,” Greene tweeted late Monday night, just hours after her Twitter account was reinstated after it was suspended for violating the social media giant’s policies. “It’s the people of this country that matter. That’s why I’m asking everyone to join me as a Citizen Cosponsor to #ImpeachBiden.”

A rising star among the far-right wing of the party because of her brash, outspoken pro-gun, anti-abortion, stridently conservative views, Greene has most recently found herself at odds with Republican officials, who are alarmed by her record of conspiracy-mongering, bigoted rhetoric and last-stand efforts to undo the election results in her own state.

On Tuesday, Media Matters for America uncovered Facebook posts by Greene from 2018 in which she accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton of encouraging school shootings to push for gun control, calling the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and 17 others injured, a staged “false flag” operation.

“I am told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control,” Greene wrote.

GOP colleagues have gone out of their way to denounce what one called her “cuckoo” ways.

“She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party,” Republican Sen. Ben Sasse from Nebraska wrote in a recent op-ed for the Atlantic, describing Greene as “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

“If the GOP is to have a future outside the fever dreams of internet trolls, we have to call out falsehoods and conspiracy theories unequivocally. We have to repudiate people who peddle those lies,” he added.

Last summer Republican officials panicked after videos uploaded to Greene’s Facebook account emerged that showed the then candidate making a series of racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic comments. As thousands of Americans across the country were in the streets marching daily on behalf of racial justice in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, Greene was spewing hate. GOP officials attempted to distance themselves from her campaign.

“The comments made by Ms. Greene are disgusting and don’t reflect the values of equality and decency that make our country great,” Republican House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said, throwing his support to Greene’s primary opponent, neurosurgeon John Cowan.

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Politico, through his spokesman, that the comments were “appalling” and he had “no tolerance for them.” But McCarthy stayed neutral in the race, choosing to let the primary play out. Greene and Cowan ended up in a runoff, which Greene won.

Some Republican lawmakers then were worried that not enough pushback by national GOP leaders on Greene’s actions would create a firestorm that would not be so easily put out in the months to come.

“This is the kind of race and kind of situation where you need those groups,” said Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., who also supported Greene’s primary opponent. (Her Democratic opponent, who faced long odds in the overwhelmingly Republican district, withdrew before the Nov. 3 general election.) “So often, they only get involved when they have someone that they are trying to get in. But I think it’s just as important they get involved when there’s someone they’re trying to get out.”

Today they’re seeing their fears play out.

Greene, who became the first open supporter of QAnon elected to Congress in November, now uses her growing social media following and access to conservative media organizations like Newsmax and OANN to spread lies and push political propaganda. She plans to file an article of impeachment for Biden on his first full day in office because of “abuse of power,” citing Biden’s alleged family business connections with China and Ukraine, but she has not offered evidence of wrongdoing.

Greene has been somewhat of a loose cannon in recent weeks on Twitter, spreading lies about election integrity in her state and pushing for “all Americans” to “mobilize and make your voices heard in opposition to these attacks on our liberties” in a now deleted tweet archived by ProPublica.

She’s even come down on fellow Republican officials.

“Morons like you are responsible for losing GA’s 2 Republican Senate seats,” Greene tweeted in response to Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling’s assertion that she, former Rep. Doug Collins and President Trump were responsible for the substantial drop-off in Republican voter turnout in the Georgia Senate runoff elections. “You ran a Nov 3rd election that was stolen bc you idiots at the SOS mailed out millions of absentee ballots to any one and everyone while GA was an open state.”

On Sunday, Twitter suspended Greene’s account for 12 hours “for multiple violations of our civic integrity policy,” according to a Twitter spokesperson, which included lying about the elections’ validity.

But Greene’s status among hard-core conservative voters in the party seems secure for the time being. She has gained popularity as a vocal supporter of Trump’s efforts to overturn the presidential election, and has risen to borderline conservative stardom by openly supporting QAnon, a baseless theory that Trump is fighting a cabal of “deep state” saboteurs who worship Satan and traffic children for sex. The FBI has deemed the conspiracy theory a domestic terrorism threat.

In recent months she’s tried to distance herself from QAnon, but in an earlier video posted to YouTube, which she has since made private, Greene expressed her admiration for the theory. “Q is a patriot,” she said. “He is someone that very much loves his country, and he’s on the same page as us, and he is very pro-Trump.”

Yahoo News reached out to Greene for comment, but she has not responded to the request.

Following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter increased its efforts to purge misinformation and incitements to violence from its site. Last week it deleted more than 70,000 accounts that were used to share QAnon conspiracy theories.

But critics want more accountability.

A MoveOn petition to “Remove Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene” from Congress had garnered more than 40,000 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon.

Boebert is a freshman Republican lawmaker from Colorado who holds many of the same views as Greene, and has also dabbled in QAnon conspiracies. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, said Monday that he and Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., had both seen Boebert giving a tour of the Capitol to a “large” group ahead of the riot. Boebert denies this.

The petition accuses Greene and Boebert of “dereliction of duty” and “collusion” in the Capitol riot and occupation, which is under investigation by the House.

Some progressive activists are calling for Greene to be held accountable for spreading lies about election fraud.

“Leave aside the results of this latest big lie, that the president and his enablers won an election, leading to an assault of our Capitol. … It’s extremely troubling and dangerous for the underpinnings of our democracy, [which] relies on the way we elect our leaders, and a peaceful transfer of power,” Robert Brandon, president and CEO of Fair Elections Center, a national, nonpartisan voting rights organization, told Yahoo News. “Certainly if there are folks who contributed to that, they should be held accountable.”

In a year that saw record voter turnout, Brandon warns about a rollback in voting rights in the coming months as a result.

“Voter fraud has been talked about for 20 years, but normally as a way to disenfranchise voters,” he added. “We just saw a loosening up of voting options, whether it be mail-in voting or early voting in this year’s elections, and I think we will have an attack on that, starting in states like Georgia.”

University of New Haven associate professor of national security and political science Matthew Schmidt believes Greene’s rhetoric heightens the danger from right-wing extremists.

“The No. 1 national security threat has been domestic extremist groups,” Schmidt told Yahoo News. “It’s not ISIS, it’s not al-Qaida, it’s not Russia, it’s not China. It’s white supremacists and whoever else is attaching themselves onto QAnon. Reps like Marjorie Greene incite these groups. When she repeats these conspiracy theories that have no basis, she gives them validity because she’s an elected official. It’s incredibly dangerous … and has a long-term effect because this information is used to pass down to other generations that people with differing views are wrong and this is how you can act in response.”

Schmidt added that Congress ultimately has the power to hold Greene and others accountable for things they do and say, but acknowledged that it’s a slippery slope to push to limit any form of free speech.

“[The issue] is that this is the intersection of free speech and culpability of a criminal process,” Schmidt said. “Right now you don’t see enough evidence that she has incited a specific act, but … Congress has the capability to set its own rules and its ethics violations. There could be a way Congress could censor its members … using rules violations.”

But Republicans now have to ask themselves: Have they created a monster they can’t control? Greene has already announced her intention to file an article of impeachment against Biden on his first day in office, a stunt certain to get more attention than votes, but which can only enhance the impression of congressional Republicans as being more interested in showboating than in governing — and complicating McCarthy’s hopes of winning a majority in 2022 and becoming speaker of the House.

Republican leaders have faced this situation before — just last year, in fact, when, after years of tolerating the barely concealed racism and bigotry of Rep. Steve King of Iowa, they decided he went too far in an interview in which he questioned what was offensive about the phrase and concept of “white supremacist.”

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By Scott Wong and Rebecca Kaplan

WASHINGTON — A member of the House Freedom Caucus confirmed Wednesday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been removed from the conservative group, citing her repeated “attacks” on GOP colleagues.

“She’s not a member of the Freedom Caucus, and she shouldn’t be in the future,” Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said in an appearance on NBC News' “Meet the Press NOW” in some of the most definitive comments yet about Greene’s status in the group.

Greene, a fundraising powerhouse with an enormous social media following, has been one of former President Donald Trump’s top defenders on Capitol Hill. She is the first lawmaker to be ousted from the Freedom Caucus since it was started in 2015 by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, then-Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and others.

Other members of the ultraconservative group had said a vote was taken June 23 to eject Greene over her altercationwith Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and her vocal support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ultimately successful bid for speaker and his trillion-dollar debt-ceiling deal with President Joe Biden.

But for the past two weeks, there was confusion about her status after Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, R-Pa., declined to comment about the matter and Greene insisted that no one had informed her that she had been voted out. Some Freedom Caucus members suggested that Greene has been avoiding Perry’s attempts to reach her to deliver the news.

By Wednesday, Perry and Greene still had not personally spoken about the issue, even though they would have been on the House floor together during votes.

“No, I haven’t talked with him about any of that,” Greene said. “I’m mostly focused on the work I’m doing and serving my district, not interested in any drama.”

A spokesman for Greene had no immediate comment about Buck’s remarks. Greene did not attend a Freedom Caucus meeting Tuesday night after lawmakers returned to Washington from the July Fourth recess.

Buck, who is one of the more mild-mannered members of the often rambunctious Freedom Caucus, said Greene’s ouster was about not her political views but her repeated attacks on other members of the group, including her criticism of colleagues for blocking McCarthy, R-Calif., from winning the speaker’s gavel in January.

“She has consistently attacked other members of the Freedom Caucus in an irresponsible way, and as a result of that she was kicked out of the Freedom Caucus,” Buck said, “and she should not be, she should not be a member.

“We have diverse opinions in the Freedom Caucus. It’s not monolithic, but insofar as attacking other members, it just shouldn’t be tolerated over and over again,” he continued. “It’s not one simple attack. It’s not what happened on the floor a few weeks ago with Lauren Boebert. It is a series of really poorly thought-out attacks on other members.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Loses House Committee Assignments : NPR

House Removes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene From Her Committee Assignments

February 4, 2021

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., faces a vote over whether she should be removed from her two committee assignments because her past comments and social media posts promoting conspiracy theories and violence.

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The House of Representatives has voted to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, following uproar over her past incendiary comments and apparent support of violence against Democrats.

Thursday's vote was 230-199, with 11 Republicans joining with all Democrats to back the resolution.

The vote comes a day after the House Rules Committee advanced a resolution, put forth by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to remove Greene from her assignments on the Budget panel and the Education and Labor Committee.

The Georgia freshman has come under fire in recent weeks for her history of trafficking in racism, anti-Semitism and baseless conspiracy theories, along with her support for online comments encouraging violence against Democratic officials prior to taking office.

Greene spoke on the House floor ahead of the vote and said her past comments "do not represent me."

Greene's defense

Calling herself a "very regular American," Greene said she "stumbled across" the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory at the end of 2017 but stopped believing in it a year later when she "started finding misinformation." But Greene has continued to spread false, QAnon-fueled theories since then, telling a local news reporter in July 2020 that she was "concerned about a deep state."

"I was allowed to believe things that weren't true," she said on the House floor Thursday. "I would ask questions about them and talk about them and that is absolutely what I regret." WHAT?

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Greene went on to say, "If it weren't for the Facebook post and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn't be standing here today and you couldn't point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong."

She then went through a litany of retractions of past statements, saying school shootings are "absolutely real" and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks "absolutely happened."

She recounted: "I remember [9/11] crying all day long, watching it on the news. It's a tragedy for anyone to say it didn't happen."

But back in 2018, GreeneSept. 11 conspiracy theories while speaking to the American Priority Conference.

"We had witnessed 9/11, the terrorist attack in New York and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon," she said at the time. "It's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon, but anyways, I won't — I'm not going to dive into the 9/11 conspiracy."

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Her comments Thursday on school shootings follow a resurfacedof her berating and mocking a Florida school shooting survivor. She's also faced criticism for a series of videos unearthed by Politicoin June in which she made numerous racist and anti-Semitic remarks.

Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., responded to Greene's remarks on the floor, noting her defense sidestepped her "liking" social media posts prior to her election that advocated for violence against Democratic leaders.

"I just have to say that I did not hear a disavowment or an apology for those things. I did not hear an apology or denouncement for the claim, the insinuation that political opponents should be violently dealt with. I didn't hear anybody apologize or retract the anti-Semitic and Islamophobic remarks that had been made that have been posted over and over and over again."

Setting a precedent

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., distanced himself from Greene's past rhetoric but said the issue of kicking her off of committees should be adjudicated by the House Ethics Committee.

"What the majority is really proposing to do today is establish a new standard for punishing members for conduct before they ever became a member," he said. "This change opens up troubling questions about how we judge future members of Congress and whether or not we as an institution should impose sanctions on members for actions they took before they were even candidates for office."

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McGovern countered saying he "hopes" the resolution does, in fact, set a precedent.

"Because if this isn't the bottom, then I don't know what the hell is," he said. "I hope we are setting a clear standard for what we will not tolerate. Anyone who suggests putting a bullet in the head of a member shouldn't serve on any committee period."

He added that Greene has been profiting off of her past remarks, referencing a tweetfrom Greene where she says she "will never back down." Greene tweetedthat she has raised over $160,000 on Tuesday alone.

"If anyone has any question about the things that she has said or done, anybody who's watching, just spend a moment and look at her social media posts, don't take my word for it. Go research it for yourself. Google it. It's all there," McGovern said.

"I'm a big believer in the ethics committee process, but I don't need an investigation to tell me what I can read with my own eyes."

In a powerful moment, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., walked around the floor showing his colleagues a poster featuring a screenshot of a Facebook ad on Greene's campaign page.

The image featured a photo of Greene holding a gun alongside isolated images of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Underneath was the caption: "Squad's worst nightmare."

"I urge my colleagues can look at that image and tell me what message you think it sends," Hoyer said. "Here she is armed with a deadly assault rifle pointed toward three Democratic members."

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Hoyer added: "In 2019, during the same election cycle in which she ran, [Greene] showed support for comments online that the quickest way to remove [House] Speaker Pelosi from power would be, and I quote, a bullet to the head. Did any of you hear Steve King say anything like that?" referencing the former Iowa congressman who was removed from committee assignmentsfor comments on white supremacy.

Republican discord

Democrats repeatedly pointed to the lack of action by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on behalf of Republicans. McCarthy released a statement Wednesday night condemning Greene's past comments but didn't indicate that any party disciplinary action would be taken against her.

For her part, Greene has touted a particular ally in her corner: former President Donald Trump.

She tweeted Saturday that she had a "GREAT call" with him and that she is grateful for his support. Trump has not publicly commented on this week's actions.

Greene has been rebuked many in her own party, though, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who called rhetoric like hers a "cancer" on the GOP.

Greene is not the only Republican congresswoman who faced questions about her political future this week.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, was the subject of discussions in the GOP Conference over her vote to impeach Trump. Late Wednesday night, House Republicans voted to keep Cheney in her leadership position.

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Media Matters: Charlie Kirk on Texas flooding: “What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI”

"It's not just incompetence. This is DEI working to undermine meritocratic institutions, and more people likely died than otherwise would have because of DEI."

Jennifer Bendery @ HuffPost: GOP Rep. Weirdly Lies About Helping His State Survive The Medicaid Cuts He Voted For

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) insists he helped get $1 billion for hospitals in his state hit by Trump’s tax bill. Except his governor and state legislature did that.

Cameron Oakes @ Rewire News Group: Anti-Choice Groups Seek Stricter Rules on Abortion Medication Mifepristone

A July 8 letter asks HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to allow its use only up to seven weeks of pregnancy and in-person, among other changes. The majority of U.S. abortions involve mifepristone.

Art Jipson @ The Conversation: What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism in the US?

Vance Boelter, who allegedly shot Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, Mark Hortman, on June 14, 2025, studied at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas. The group is a Bible school linked to the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR.

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Dispatch writer John McCormack has a lesson for reporters who push Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on her opposition to U.S. strikes in Iran: “She may threaten to call the police on you.”

McCormack caught Greene — who vehemently opposes President Donald Trump’s recent bombing of Iran — near the Capitol this week and asked her to clarify her claim that “I don’t know anyone in America who has been the victim of a crime or killed by Iran,” despite 241 dead U.S. service members killed in a Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon in 1983, among other attacks.

“I was talking about on our homeland,” Greene responded, seemingly unaware that the country had also invaded a U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held Americans hostages. It’s leaders have also plotted assassination attempts on U.S. soil, which the Department of Justice claims included Trump.

“I asked Greene if the Iranian attacks on Americans demonstrated that the United States had national interest in the strike against Iran — that it wasn’t simply done to advance the interests of Israel.” But by that point, McCormack said Greene was getting furious.

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“Your goal is to attack me and twist my words,” she told him, and kept interrupting his repeated attempts at questions.

“I’m done talking to you,” she snapped, according to McCormack. “You know what? I’m going to go tell the Capitol police you’re harassing me.”

McCormack says the exchange went down in a hallway where credentialed press corps members “have every right to ask members of Congress questions,” and that Greene, herself, has been known to chase down teen victims of the Parkland school mass shooting.

“But the story here isn’t simply another example of Greene’s absurd behavior but of how isolated someone like Greene is inside the Republican Party on matters related to Israel and Iran,” McCormack writes.

Unlike Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who also opposes U.S. Iranian involvement, McCormack says Green posts “antisemitic conspiracy theories” like the one suggesting Israel assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

“There was once a great President that the American people loved. He opposed Israel’s nuclear program. And then he was assassinated,” Greene posted on X as recently as this month. And in 2022, Greene spoke at a conference hosted by a Holocaust-denier who had called a writer a “race traitor” because he “work[s] for Jews.”

Greene isn't just a card-carrying member of the relatively small MAGA caucus that opposes Trump on U.S. intervention in the Middle East, McCormack says.

“On matters related to Israel and Jews, she’s in a class all by herself.”

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Kyle Mantyla

Alex Galbraith @ Salon: "Back then we had dumb presidents": Vance explains key difference in current Middle East war

Vice President J.D. Vance served in the Iraq War a full six years before troops were withdrawn. Because of that, you might expect some hesitancy from the veep as President Donald Trump waltzes his way into another Middle Eastern war. Instead, the second-in-command of the Trump admin can confidently say that this time will be different, because past presidents were "dumb."

Janna Brancolini @ The Daily Beast: Giuliani Demands Treason Charges for Dems Threatening to Impeach Trump Over Iran

Disgraced former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani railed against Democrats calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment over his unilateral strikes against Iran.

Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Trump Breaking Campaign Promises: ‘We’re Entering a Nuclear War, World War III’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined Steve Bannon’s WarRoom on Monday and fumed at President Donald Trump for breaking his campaign promise not to engage in wars in the Middle East.

Angry White Men: Dave Reilly: Boise Is ‘Clean’ And ‘There Aren’t Any Black People’

On Friday, white nationalists Dave Reilly and Rebecca Crockett hosted their podcast, The Backlash, from Boise’s Heterosexual Awesomeness Festival — a sparsely-attended anti-LGBTQ event hosted by the Old State Saloon. While speaking with Old State Saloon owner Mark Fitzpatrick, who appeared on the show before, Reilly praised Boise for not having “any Black people.”

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: In defiance of courts, Texas to put Ten Commandments in public schools

The Supreme Court has already ruled against Ten Commandments in classrooms. Republicans in several states are approving new laws anyway.

Media Matters: Media Matters files suit in federal court to block retaliatory FTC investigation and protect its First Amendment rights

Investigation into Media Matters is the latest example of Trump administration abusing power to target perceived political opponents.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has called out her fellow Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) over his opposition to President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill."

According to Lawler, the issue of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap has not been duly addressed during negotiations regarding the bill. He told CNN Wednesday he would vote no if the bill is not amended.

Several Republicans from New York have opposed a provision in the bill related to state and local taxes.

In a post on the social platform X Wednesday rejecting these concerns, Greene said: "Mike Lawler usually isn’t the guy in the conference with the best ideas, after all we lost a Republican held seat to a Democrat the last time Republicans voted for one of his 'great' strategy."

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"Now Mike Lawler is a NO on Trump’s big beautiful bill because he won’t accept a SALT cap increase from $10K to $30K per year. And the deduction applies to those who make under $400,000 per year," she wrote in the post.

"What’s the point in Republicans fighting to protect and keep re-electing 'Republicans' if they constantly undermine the agenda America voted for???" she continued.

Lawler responded to her post, saying:“Shockingly the ‘Jewish Space Laser’ lady once again doesn’t have a clue what she is talking about."

“By the way, the reason you enjoy a gavel is because Republicans like me have won our seats. Good luck being in the Majority if we don’t," he wrote on X.

Meanwhile, after a lengthy markup on Wednesday, a House committee approved the tax component of the measure, which includes a $30,000 cap on the SALT deduction.

The Hill reportedthat Lawler, along with several fellow House GOP members from wealthier suburban districts, argue that this cap does not sufficiently reflect the high local taxes their constituents encounter.

Lawler and four other Republicans from the SALT Caucus are demanding a higher cap during negotiations. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) remains hopeful about reaching an agreement, per the report.

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is doubling down after admitting she didn’t fully read the House GOP’s sweeping budget bill—despite now emphatically opposing its AI provisions. The outspoken Georgia Republican faced widespread ridicule Tuesday, as House Democrats blasted her for ignoring their earlier warnings about controversial measures in the legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

"Here's a lesson for us all," Greene declared in a speech on the House floor Wednesday. "No matter what political party holds office and is in charge, we should all watch carefully the bills that we pass."

Greene expressed strong disapproval over the provisions in the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill" that bans states from regulating artificial intelligence for ten years, claiming such a regulation would "destroy federalism."

"With this warning, I urge all of my colleagues that when the House gets to vote on the one big, beautiful bill again after it leaves the Senate, that we make sure we protect a federalism and at the same time urge our colleagues in the Senate to pull this clause out of the one big, beautiful bill."

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In a TV spot on Wednesday, Greene also told NewsNation that she is being "very transparent and honest" about not reading that provision.

Some of Greene's Democratic colleagues continued to chastise her for discovering the importance of reading bills in full.

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) wrote up this scenario mocking Greene:

"Surgeon: 'In hindsight, I should have washed my hands' Pilot: 'In hindsight, I shouldn’t have put tape over all the dials' Olympian: 'In hindsight, the pre-race martinis were a bad idea.'"

Other critics blasted her as well.

"Did she not read the briefing docs; Or did her LD [legislative director] not provide any?" asked The Lincoln Project's communications director Gregory Minchak. "So it's either she runs a terrible office or she's a terrible member. Either way she's telling on herself."

Watch the video below or at this link.

Greene: Here's a lesson for us all, no matter what political party holds office and is in charge, we should all watch carefully the bills that we pass pic.twitter.com/uUoPmXRtIE

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Government watchdog Congressional Integrity Project (CIP) is slamming the new Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee under U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). The group calls the subcommittee a “rogues" gallery of extremists, conspiracy theorists and C-team political operatives” promoting President Donald Trump’s clampdown on certain non-government organizations (NGOs).

The Guardian reports far-right firebrand Greene will launch hearings this week on “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild”, purporting to expose the use of federal funds by NGOs to advance “radical” agendas such as “open borders and the Green New Deal scam.”

But a (CIP) memo condemns the hearing as “political theater” and “weaponized government oversight.” The memo also describes the hearing as extreme hypocrisy considering the substantial federal funding Republican allies and rightwing groups receive.

“Their own networks have systematically benefited from government contracts, subsidies, and loans worth billions of dollars,” the memo states, according to the Guardian.

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Personalities contributing to the committee display this week on Capitol Hill include personalities such as Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which the Southern Poverty Law Center designates a hate group. Krikorian has made statements that Haiti’s problems today stem from the nation being one of the first in recent history to throw off the yoke of slavery and not be .” VID]

The memo adds that CIS received more than $700,000 in PPP loans and is now under investigation by the justice department for potentially lying to obtain at least one of them.

“That’s right, Republicans chose as their star witness on government waste someone who may have committed fraud to secure government money for his organization,” the memo claims.

Another participant is Power the Future founder and Executive Director Daniel Turner, who the CIP describes as a career political operative who worked for the Charles Koch Institute before founding Power the Future. Power the Future is a climate-denial organization that attacks environmental groups for receiving federal grants, says CIP. It added that Turner’s former employer, billionaire Charles Koch, has received more than $750 million in government subsidies, even as Greene claims to be rooting out government waste.

“Turner … represents everything wrong with this sham hearing,” CIP told the Guardian. “He’s a junior varsity Republican operative masquerading as an objective analyst while advancing the financial interests of the fossil fuel industry – the same interests that have systematically profited from the very government largesse he now pretends to oppose.”

Read the full Guardian report at this link.

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The far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has assembled a “rogues’ gallery of extremists, conspiracy theorists and C-team political operatives” to promote Donald Trump’s crackdown on non-government organisations (NGOs), a congressional watchdog has claimed.

The House of Representatives’ Delivering on Government Efficiency (Doge) subcommittee, chaired by Greene, is due to hold a hearing on Wednesday entitled “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild”.

The subcommittee said in a press release that the hearing will “expose” the use of federal funds by NGOs to advance “radical” agendas such as “open borders and the Green New Deal scam”. It frames its work as an investigation of the alleged funneling of taxpayer dollars to politically motivated groups while “lining the pockets of their friends and allies”.

But a memo from the Congressional Integrity Project (CIP), obtained by the Guardian, condemns the hearing as “political theater”, “weaponized government oversight” and an exercise in hypocrisy, given the substantial federal funding received by Republican allies and rightwing groups.

While attacking civil society organisations for receiving federal grants, the memo says, “their own networks have systematically benefited from government contracts, subsidies, and loans worth billions of dollars”.

Wednesday’s hearing on Capitol Hill will feature witnesses Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies; Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of Power the Future; and Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center.

The CIP describes Greene’s lineup as “rogues’ gallery of extremists, conspiracy theorists and C-team political operatives masquerading as government watchdogs”.

It notes that the Center for Immigration Studies has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and regularly circulates content from “white nationalist and antisemitic writers”.

Krikorian has made statements including that Haiti’s problems stem from not being “colonised long enough”.

The memo adds that CIS received more than $700,000 in PPP loans and is now under investigation by the justice department for potentially lying to obtain at least one of them. “That’s right, Republicans chose as their star witness on government waste someone who may have committed fraud to secure government money for his organization.”

The CIP describes Turner as a career political operative who worked for the Charles Koch Institute before founding Power the Future, a climate-denial organisation that attacks environmental groups for receiving federal grants. Yet Turner’s former employer, Charles Koch, has received more than $750m in government subsidies.

The memo states: “Turner, who calls ‘climate change the slippery slope to socialism’ and promotes conspiracy theories about climate science, represents everything wrong with this sham hearing.

“He’s a junior varsity Republican operative masquerading as an objective analyst while advancing the financial interests of the fossil fuel industry – the same interests that have systematically profited from the very government largesse he now pretends to oppose.”

Walter leads the Capital Research Center, “a secretive organization that won’t disclose its donors while attacking others for lacking transparency”, the CIP alleges.

“His organization’s fiscal arrangements appear designed to shield activities from public scrutiny, yet he positions himself as a watchdog exposing liberal ‘dark money’.”

In 2023, according to the memo, Walter helped funnel nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations to supreme court justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas’s group while his organisation had business before the supreme court, creating conflicts of interest.

Walter also has a history of making or defending offensive statements about race, gender and sexual orientation. He publicly defended a university professor accused of making racist statements, said average Americans have “disgust at homosexual practice” and in the 1990s mused that one good thing from the Monica Lewinsky scandal might be “that feminism will die, that sexual harassment laws will fizzle”.

The memo adds: “This hearing represents weaponized government oversight at its worst, with Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene assembling hate group leaders, conspiracy theorists, and dark money operatives to attack civil society organizations while the very people crying about government waste have pocketed billions in federal contracts and subsidies.”

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Social media is dive-bombing MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor (R-Ga.) after she admitted regretting voting for President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful” spending bill. Greene said she had not been aware of its contents.

“Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years,” Greene wrote on X Tuesday. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”

The sprawling, 1,000+ page bill slipped through the thin House Republican majority by a single vote in May. Greene was one of the supporters not only voting for the bill but condemning other Republicans with cold feet. But a section Greene now takes issue with would halt states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next decade. A coalition of lawmakers believe the language will make it harder to address AI-generated scams.

Greene claims she had not read enough of the bill to identify the controversial section.

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“We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states’ hands is potentially dangerous,” she wrote on X.

Reaction on X was swift, with U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell posting beneath her admission that “You have one job. To. Read. The. F------. Bill.”

“MTG is the Second Republican House Representative that voted for the One Big Beautiful budget bill they hadn’t read,” posted News Night Associate Producer Maggie Jordan, referencing U.S. Rep Mike Flood (R-Neb.), who was booed by constituents at a town hall last week when he, too, admitted being unaware of the section. “Governing at its finest,” she added.

Other posts excoriated MTG’s lack of attention to detail. “I guess we made the bold assumption that Marjorie Taylor Greene could read,” wrote podcaster Karly Kingsley.

Progressive voices, in particular, piled on Greene, with liberal influencer Brian Krassenstein quipping: “Here's an idea. If you are voting on something without understanding it, please resign immediately.”

“We should bring back shame,” wrote Project Liberal Executive Director Joshua Reed Eakle on X.

Marty Taylor, executive director of progressive PAC New Blue USA, said he, for once, found himself in accord with Greene. “I hate to admit it but I gotta agree with MTG on this. She should have read the bill. But she is 100% right. This one time.”

Greene added in her X post that she would not be voting for the bill when it returns to the House for final approval unless the controversial section is removed.

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georgia's MAGA moron and prescient stock trader Marjorie Taylor Greene's feelings were hurt when an AI analyzed her professions of faith as potentially disingenuous.

Screaming back at an AI is interesting, but when all you have is a hammer, be MTG? I guess the theory is she just has to stay in the newscycle, no matter how uninteresting or unintelligent, what she is doing is to maintain fundraising. It makes no sense why she'd engage with GROK.

"Marjorie Taylor Greene identifies as a Christian, expressing faith in Jesus and traditional beliefs, like in her 2021 Christmas message," Grok offered. "However, her Christian nationalism and support for conspiracy theories, like QAnon, spark debate. Critics, including religious leaders, argue her actions contradict Christian values of love and unity, citing her defense of January 6 and divisive rhetoric."

"Supporters may see her stances as faith-driven," the chatbot added. "Whether she's 'really' a Christian is subjective, depending on personal and theological views. Her faith appears genuine to her, but public actions create controversy."

Greene was incensed by the generative AI chatbot's description of her views, and she let it know.

".@grok the judgement seat belongs to GOD, not you a non-human AI platform," Greene posted. "Grok is left leaning and continues to spread fake news and propaganda. When people give up their own discernment, stop seeking the truth, and depend on AI to analyze information, they will be lost."

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'This is our shot': Dems see 'destructive' MTG's new job as chance to cripple the GOP

Matt Laslo April 29, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party’s path back to power runs through Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her made-for-TV Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) oversight subcommittee — or so Democrats increasingly hope.

To many on the left, MTG is the right’s slightly disjointed answer to AOC, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). They believe the two women represent the future of their parties.

Greene entered Congress in 2021 and rose to fame as an extreme supporter of Donald Trump, dedicated to controversy and partisan drama. Winning the nod to chair the DOGE subcommittee tied her to Elon Musk, the Trump megadonor whose so-called Department of Government Efficiency has taken a chainsaw to federal staffing and budgets.

But as polling shows Musk becoming increasingly unpopular, and Trump’s ratings suffering too, Democrats see Greene’s committee as a promising stage for a fight.

“This is our shot to not just win the midterms, but to transform our party into one that can win big in the presidential election and get back to our roots,” Rep. Gregorio Casar (D-TX), a DOGE subcommittee member, told Raw Story.

“We can't let them wear us down or have us give up. We have to see it as a golden opportunity. You have the richest people on Earth bragging on social media that they are getting richer while everybody else is getting screwed, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is the face of their movement. I mean, Democrats have to be able to win that fight.”

But after Trump won the White House in November, no one’s holding their breath, especially not elected Democrats who risk attracting progressive primary challengers if they are even slightly perceived to be acting as MAGA enablers: one distinct danger of sitting on the DOGE subcommittee, with Greene in control.

“A very destructive person”

It’s grueling for Democrats to sit underneath Greene’s gavel, fear-laced whims and oversized posterboards — so much so that when the DOGE subcommittee was announced, Democratic leaders considered boycotting it, in part because they feared legitimizing Greene and the increasingly far-flung right.

“The person charged with executing this vision is Marjorie Taylor Greene,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told MSNBC in December. “Are you kidding me? This is not a serious effort when you put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge. It speaks for itself.”

But a few months and countless headlines later, Democrats on the subcommittee say it’s been worth it going toe-to-toe with the serial conspiracy peddlers who comprise roughly half of the eight Republican members.

Asked what it was like working with Greene, and if she showed any signs of co-operative behavior, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) — one of the six Democrats on the panel — told Raw Story: “No, not really. I think that she's a very destructive person. She just sits there and spouts, like, lies and conspiracy theories at all these hearings.”

As Garcia learned personally, disruptive behavior is easier in the majority. At the subcommittee’s first hearing in February, Garcia called Musk a “d---.” He also said Democrats needed to “bring actual weapons to this bar fight.” Soon after, Trump’s Justice Department came knocking, suggesting he’d issued a threat.

Despite such bumps, Democrats say they are getting their groove back. They need to. After November’s rout, they were depleted, depressed and without a discernible strategy. In January and February, as Musk and his unelected DOGE army eradicated whole agencies and even tried to erase history itself — including, if temporarily, the term ‘Native American,’ an Air Force training video on the Tuskegee Airmen and even Harriet Tubman's picture — Democrats remained at a loss.

Now, the relatively youthful Democrats on the DOGE subcommittee are using, or desperately trying to use, their perch to speak past Greene and address everyday Americans.

Garcia insisted: “I think it’s important that we’re there. She shouldn’t be allowed to just say crazy s—t and not have any sort of response to it. It’s good that we’re there.”

The subcommittee has become a congressional petri dish, for testing talking points, energizing social media and real-time experimenting with trash talk formerly deemed unbecoming.

Admittedly, it’s one of the dirtiest jobs in Trump’s Washington. Going toe-to-toe with MTG means taking on a digital heavyweight: deft, ruthless, unconcerned by facts as we know them. But Democrats think it will prove rewarding.

“For a long time, progressive Democrats especially have been trying to make the case that these right-wing, nutty politicians are just puppets for billionaire interests that are trying to steal your money,” Casar said. “Now you see that on TV every day.”

The second-term congressman offered two examples: “Elon Musk is out there bragging about wanting to eliminate Social Security, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing every crazy thing she can to help him and to distract from the real issues hurting Americans.

“… I see the subcommittee as a real opportunity for Democrats of all stripes to say, ‘Oh, if we want efficiency, we should go after Big Tech and Big Pharma and the big corporations that are milking taxpayers, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is wanting to go after your healthcare and your kids educational programming.’ If we can't take that committee as an opportunity to rebuild our party, then we're missing the point.”

Away from Washington, Casar recently rallied with Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders — the Vermont independent who ran for president as a Democrat — on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

“When I went to Tucson with them, they said that we were going to be in the high school gym with 2,000 people. Next thing you know, 23,000 people show up and fill the whole football field and it's the biggest rally in Arizona history,” Casar gushed. “That's what's going on out there.”

‘I think Musk is doing more’

That was Arizona. Washington still belongs to Trump, Musk and MTG. Congress’ two-week Easter vacation ends Monday, the economy is wobbling and after a string of unforced errors, Trump needs a win. As always, MAGA has his back. Online armies are itching for battle.

Republicans have not yet put internal differences aside to codify an array of constitution-testing, court-confined DOGE cuts. Trump is also set on extending his first-term tax cuts, while intensifying deportations.

Expect dealmaking and arm-twisting to abound. Democrats aren’t invited to those GOP-only confabs, of course, which is why the party’s attorneys general have been firing off state lawsuits since Trump turned his inauguration into an executive order signing party and set loose Musk and DOGE.

"Much of the actions so far taken by DOGE — talking about both the [group] that Musk runs and the committee — have been illegal," Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) told Raw Story. "So we've been able to reverse a lot of that. Remember, when they cut the funding for some of the [federal] grants? Things like that, we've been successful in court overturning that.”

It’s been a mostly winning strategy, mostly at the local level, away from Capitol Hill. Lynch, a member of MTG’s DOGE committee, happily conceded the point.

“That's been the only recourse we've been able to have, but we've been successful on, maybe, 80% of the cases,” he said. “So we're going to keep doing that.”

Musk's role in Trump’s administration may be winding down, but Democrats remain wary. Though they face off against MTG, they know she is merely Musk’s sidekick.

“I think Musk is doing more,” Lynch said. “That might change. He seems to be phasing out, but right now, we've been more occupied with dealing with Elon Musk than we have with anything that the gentlelady from Georgia has put forward. They're talking to each other, that's for sure.

“It's a challenge. But one we expected.”

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Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ignited a heated confrontation during Wednesday [vid] by claiming that budgets have nothing to do with policy — a stance that top Democrats have long argued contradicts core American values. Her assertion drew an immediate rebuttal from one of the committee’s top Democrats, but Oversight Chairman James Comer jumped to Greene’s defense, attempting to cut off the correction and escalating the exchange into a shouting match, while mocking Democrats' efforts to preserve and honor American values.

After U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) made an impassioned plea to not cut the budget of the Veterans Administration, or Social Security, or Medicare in order to produce a $4 trillion tax cut largely for the wealthy — a top Trump priority — Congresswoman Greene lashed out.

"I'd like to point something out that our Democrat colleagues know this, because they did reconciliation before when they are they were in charge and, you know, it may be hard for some of the freshman Dems to understand, but this is not a policy debate," the Georgia Republican alleged. "That's not what reconciliation is. This is a budget process."

"And so for the American people watching at home, our Democrat colleagues are sitting here trying to score points and spread more lies and divisiveness about Republicans in order to spread more garbage across the country," she charged, calling Democrats' pleas "entertainment."

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That's when U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat in Congress for nearly a quarter century and possibly next in line for Ranking Member of the Oversight Committee, slammed Greene's interpretation of the Committee's work.

"Mr. Chairman, I just want to say, our federal budget reflects our values," Lynch declared, a statement many budget experts would affirm, and one that has been by President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

"When we fund the VA," Lynch continued, "it's not just about numbers. It's about, it's about the mission, and the purpose of our budget."

Chairman Comer appeared to grow angry.

"You do understand our federal budget is $2.5 trillion?" Comer declared, appearing to suggest details like how much spent on veterans was not worth the Committee's time. "We can't have 'values'," Comer insisted, with the amount of debt the federal government is carrying.

"Reclaiming my time — you don't get to just interject, Mr. Chairman," Lynch charged.

You know what? I think you've already spoken, so you're out of order," Comer declared, hitting his desk with his gavel.

"I will speak," Lynch, now heated, told the Chair. "You're about to put our country $4 trillion more than debt."

"I don't think you all could find a billion dollars in savings," Comer alleged.

"Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time," Lynch again declared.

"You can talk all you want. I want everyone in America to see how much — " Comer snapped.

"Mr. Chairman. You're out of order. You're out of order. You're the chairman, you're out of order," Lynch again charged.

"Now, without interruption," Lynch continued, "what we decide here in the budget is what I'm the point I'm trying to make is it's not just dollars and cents. It's about where, where that money goes, and what, what purposes and what, what priorities it reflects. And those, you know, governing is about making decisions, and we we choose to fund things that in this country, we have honored for a very long time, and that, you know, I have to say, in my 25 years in Congress, we have had very little disagreement on funding veteran benefits."

Lynch went on to lament that "now we're fighting tooth and tongs — and nail — about whether we're gonna lay off 80,000 employees at the VA. What I'm saying is that, sure, it's about the budget, but underlying that budget is is our priorities as a country. What we consider to be worthwhile . And I feel that veterans' benefits are worthwhile. Veterans, healthcare is worthwhile. The way we treat our federal employees is important. It is intrinsic to be the work of the federal government and how we help the most vulnerable, as well as, you, average everyday Americans on Social Security, on Medicaid."

Watch the videos below or at this link.

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President Donald Trump's top loyalists are angling to climb the political ladder to help secure the future for his ultra-MAGA movement—and position themselves for greater influence. House members like far-right U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are looking at the U.S. Senate, and far-right U.S. senators like Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reportedly see hope in governors' mansions.

Some critical U.S. senators on both sides of the aisle are retiring, like Republican former Majority and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and the second-highest-ranking Democrat senator, Dick Durbin of Illinois.

"Democrats anxious to deny Donald Trump and his Republican Party a governing trifecta as soon as possible are feeling pretty good about their prospects for flipping the House in 2026, given the GOP’s fragile margin of control and the historical pattern of sizable midterm losses for the president’s party," New York magazine's "Intelligencer" reported last month.

"But the Senate, which has the power to confirm Trump’s executive branch and judicial nominations, is really going to be a reach. Democrats would need to flip four Senate seats to win control of the chamber. And an already difficult landscape is being made even tougher by the retirements of Democratic incumbents Gary Peters of Michigan, Tina Smith of Minnesota, and now Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. All three of these open seats could potentially trigger competitive races in 2026."

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Enter Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who went from a freshman stripped of all of her committee assignments over incendiary language, to becoming chair of the Delivering on Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) subcommittee. She also sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Congresswoman Greene is now thinking about becoming Senator Greene. If successful, her controversial tactics could have a dramatic impact on what is supposed to be the "world's greatest deliberative body."

Rep. Greene is reportedly eyeing a run to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, and believes she would “crush” any GOP primary opponent—except Governor Brian Kemp, should he choose to enter the race—according to the right-wing website Daily Caller.

"Republicans are laser-focused on defeating Ossoff, whose narrow victory over former Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue in a January 2021 runoff election was partly responsible for costing Senate Republicans their majority during the 2020 cycle," Daily Caller notes, adding, "Ossoff is the only Senate Democrat running for reelection in a state that Trump won last November."

Could Greene beat Ossoff?

"This would be a dream for Dems in Georgia," should Greene run, observed veteran journalist Lydia Polgreen.

"Somewhere at the DSCC [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] some operative is frantically wondering if there is anything they can do to ensure this happens," wrote University of Pennsylvania political and media historian Brian Rosenwald.

A Daily Caller source also suggested Ossoff would retain his Senate seat, especially should the election move into a runoff. And Ossoff "has been taunting Greene to jump into the race."

Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville is reportedly mapping out a run for the Alabama Governor's mansion.

"Tuberville told a group of donors at a private event on Wednesday night that his mind is officially made up," the conservative website Yellowhammer News reported. "Rather than seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate, he is ready to run his next race in Alabama, and serve the people of the state in Montgomery instead of Washington.

An official campaign announcement is imminent in the coming weeks, but latest reports offer insight into a finalized decision by Tuberville, who has been privately discussing jumping into the 2026 gubernatorial race for quite some time."

Senator Tuberville reportedly is "furious" at the leak, according to an opinion column at Alabama Political Reporter.

"Tuberville melted down like a plastic lawn chair in July. By Thursday morning, the whispers had turned into headlines. Then Tuberville took to Facebook — and things got weird."

“While I appreciate all the interest,” Tuberville wrote, “Suzanne and I are still praying about how to best serve the people of Alabama. When I have an official announcement about my future, you’ll hear it directly from me.”

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn, a top "Trump loyalist," is "strongly looking" at a run for the Tennessee governor's mansion.

The Tennessean reports that "early polling suggests she would likely be the Republican frontrunner. Some politicos across the state consider her success a foregone conclusion: at a Tennessee Chamber of Commerce event in January, attendees called her 'Gov. Blackburn.'"

And U.S. Rep. Jim Comer (R-KY), the chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee, has also said he would be interested in running for governor.

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Time's up for the GOP

Thom Hartmann April 25, 2025

We’ve spent years watching Donald Trump attack our democratic institutions, inflame divisions, and corrupt the public discourse.

But focusing solely on Trump misses the larger, more disturbing reality: Trump isn’t acting alone. He’s a dangerous pathogen that found the perfect host in today’s Republican Party, an organism already compromised and eager to be infected.

The evidence of this dangerous symbiosis is alarming and immediate. Just days ago, America crossed a threshold that should chill every citizen who still believes in the rule of law.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a young man living peacefully in Maryland with no criminal record, was ripped from his home and deported to El Salvador — not by rogue agents, not by mistake, but in deliberate defiance of multiple federal court orders.

A judge had explicitly ordered that Garcia not be deported. The U.S. Supreme Court had intervened. And still, the Trump-controlled Department of Justice — under Attorney General Pam Bondi — refused to comply.

Garcia vanished from U.S. soil like a political dissident in a dictatorship. Senator Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to find him yesterday, only to be denied access. The Salvadoran government wouldn’t even confirm his location. Garcia now sits detained, alone in a foreign country, denied lawyers, family, or recourse.

He’s not a criminal — he’s a political hostage. His only crime was existing under an administration that believes it is above the law.

This isn’t abstract. This is what the death of democracy feels like. A court order ignored. A life uprooted. A senator stonewalled.

And it’s a precedent set: if the executive branch can disappear a legal US resident despite Supreme Court orders, democracy is already bleeding out right in front of our eyes.

To fully comprehend the gravity of our situation, we must recognize that Trump is both a symptom and a disease. Like any opportunistic virus, he didn’t invent the weakness — he exploited it. The Republican Party, drifting toward authoritarianism since Nixon, became the perfect host.

From the backlash to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, to Nixon's Southern Strategy, to the Tea Party’s billionaire-funded anti-government rage against our first Black president, the GOP built a party on grievance and fear. It corroded democratic norms for decades. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, union busting, judicial stacking, demonizing immigrants and queer people, rightwing propaganda media — all laid the groundwork.

Trump didn’t create this environment. He walked into it, flipped the switches, and set it ablaze. He didn’t poison the well. He found it already poisoned and drank deeply.

What’s particularly chilling is how methodical Trump’s attack on democracy has been.

He’s spent years convincing millions that elections are fraudulent — despite no credible evidence. This isn’t just the tantrum of a defeated candidate. It’s a calculated attempt to destroy the one institution that makes a republic function: trust in the vote. When citizens no longer believe their ballots count, democracy dies.

That was the goal. Undermine faith in the system so completely that only Trump — and those who pledge loyalty to him — are seen as legitimate.

His authoritarian instincts were never hidden. He praised dictators like Putin, Orbán, MBS, and Kim Jong Un. He demanded personal loyalty from government officials, attacked the judiciary, and labeled the free press “the enemy of the people.” Every move was pulled straight from the autocrat’s playbook, designed to erode checks on his power.

The insurrection on January 6 was not an outlier, but rather the inevitable outcome of years of lies, hate, and democratic erosion. Trump didn’t just incite a mob; he sat and watched — gleefully — as it ransacked the Capitol, hunted lawmakers, and shattered windows in the temple of democracy. He delayed help. He wanted it to succeed.

And the Republican Party? It shrugged. Which is the key to both understanding and stopping Trump.

None of this destruction would be possible without the Republican Party’s active complicity. They are not passive bystanders; they are eager enablers. Leaders who once called Trump “dangerous” and “unfit” now parrot his lies and excuse his crimes.

Why? Because they’ve traded principle for power. The “party of family values” excused porn star hush money because it helped rig the 2016 election. The “party of fiscal responsibility” celebrated massive tax cuts for billionaires that exploded our nation’s deficit. The “party of national security” turned a blind eye as Trump aligned with America's adversaries and vilified NATO.

They sold their souls. And for what? Judges? Tax cuts? A fleeting grip on power?

At the core of this transformation is the deliberate cultivation of cruelty as political strategy. Trump’s policies were never just misguided: they were purposefully cruel.

The separation of children at the border wasn’t a failure; it was a feature. Designed to cause pain. Designed to deter. Designed to send a message that America no longer welcomed the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, at least when their skin is not white.

His refusal to return Kilmar Garcia to his family and community (and over 200 others) is not an outlier. It’s the same cruelty repackaged. The same contempt for legal restraint. The same hunger for domination. And if he’s not stopped by Republicans on the Supreme Court or Republicans in Congress, history and his own words tell us he’ll be coming for you and me next.

Beyond policy, Trump has waged a relentless war on truth itself. He didn’t just lie; he declared war on the very idea of truth. He called climate change a hoax. He politicized a deadly pandemic. He turned science into a partisan enemy and transformed medical expertise into a battleground.

The result? Hundreds of thousands of unnecessary Covid (and now measles) deaths. A public so divided they couldn’t agree on masks or medicine. That wasn’t an accident. It was the point: destroy our shared reality, and you can then more easily destroy democracy.

Perhaps most destructive of all, Trump didn’t merely inherit America’s divisions: he weaponized them. He didn’t unify urban and rural, rich and poor, Black and white: he pitted them against each other for personal gain. Rage was his currency. Fear his strategy. When people are busy hating each other, he knows, they don’t notice who’s robbing them blind.

What we now face is no longer a political party but a vicious, cruel cult of personality. Today’s GOP isn’t defined by principles or policies: Disagree and you’re exiled — just ask Liz Cheney. Ask Adam Kinzinger. Ask Mitt Romney.

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t represent a fringe any longer; she is the mainstream now. Her recent town hall — where dissenters were tased — wasn’t an aberration. It’s the new GOP, where violence is celebrated as a tool, not a last resort, and elected officials revel in their own cruelty, brutality, and ability to ignore the needs of their constituents while taking millions from their donors.

She’s the perfect reflection of Trump: His pathological narcissism drives much of his destructive behavior. A man who cannot tolerate criticism, admit fault, or share the spotlight will burn down democracy itself to protect his fragile ego.

When faced with a choice between national interest and personal gratification, Trump invariably chooses the latter. His demand for absolute loyalty — to him personally, not to the nation or the Constitution — reveals a man who sees America not as a nation to serve but as a stage for his own aggrandizement.

There’s also method in Trump’s chaos. By keeping the country in a constant state of outrage and crisis, he prevents organized resistance and meaningful accountability. The chaos isn’t accidental; it’s strategic, designed to exhaust opponents and normalize previously unthinkable behavior. Each new outrage makes the previous one seem quaint by comparison, creating a downward spiral of degraded expectations.

Trump has weaponized division for political gain. He doesn’t simply observe American divisions; he actively creates and exploits them. By turning Americans against each other — urban versus rural, white versus non-white, native-born versus immigrant — he creates tribal loyalties that override ethical concerns or policy considerations. A divided America is easier to manipulate and control than a united one.

What’s most terrifying about this transformation is that Trump has created a blueprint for future authoritarians. He’s shown how to destroy a developed, advanced democracy from within — legally, slowly, under the guise of patriotism.

And the Republican Party? It’s not just following the map. It’s paving the road.

The critical question before us isn’t whether Trump has damaged America. He has. The question is whether that damage is reversible.

— Can we still rebuild?

— Can Republican elders return to principle?

— Can billionaire donors withdraw their support and allow democratic values to reassert themselves?

— Will it take a second Republican Great Depression to shock the party awake?

Americans don’t yet know any of the answers here, but we do know this: inaction is surrender.

Our democratic survival depends on recognizing that Trump is the virus, but the Republican Party is the host. And if we don’t treat the host, the next authoritarian will be worse. Smarter. More effective. More dangerous.

What happened to Kilmar Garcia could happen again. It will happen again, in fact, if we let it. Our democratic immune system — the press, the courts, business and the legal profession, the voters — must fight back. Because we are running out of time.

Rebuilding what they’ve destroyed will require more than simply removing Trump from power; it will demand a fundamental recommitment to democratic values and institutions by the GOP.

Republicans: Wake up!

You are the last firewall. This is your reckoning. Your move.

NOW READ: Farmers in deep-red state spell trouble for Trump as he mocks the Constitution

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When Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday this week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) postedon the social platform X, “Evil is being defeated by the hand of God."

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said, “Good job, JD,” jokingly suggesting that Vice President JD Vance, the last foreign leader to meet the pope before his death, bore some responsibility for it.

In an article published in PoliticoFriday, journalist Jamie Dettmer wrote that this "venom" from MAGA after the Pope's death is not surprising.

ALSO READ:A progressive Pope? Here are Francis' greatest reforms and controversies

"MAGA stalwarts never hesitate to use personal invective and hyperbole to smear and intimidate — it’s their way of grabbing attention while seeking to break opponents and discipline institutions that won’t bend the knee, whether church, university or media outlet," he wrote. "And Francis, who was no friend to populist nationalism, certainly infuriated them."

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The article notes that Benjamin Harnwell — a close associate of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who has been working to create a right-wing “gladiator school” at a monastery in Lazio near Rome — wasted no time likening Francis to King Herod, the ancient Roman ruler in Judea who, as recounted in the Bible, ordered the massacre of all male infants in Bethlehem, fearing that Jesus was among them.

In an interview with Politico regarding the aggressive tone of his statements, Harnwell acknowledged that he would be a hypocrite for adhering to “your norms of compassion." He went on to say, “I’m very glad he’s dead.”

"The irony is that MAGA leaders are now marching in lockstep with a deep state — in this case, the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders, who would like to turn the clock back not just to before Francis but preferably to before John XXIII’s liberalizing reforms of the 1960s," wrote Dettmer, who is the opinion editor of Politico Europe.

ALSO READ:Megyn Kelly unleashes on Pope Francis just one day after his death

"Francis began skirmishing with MAGA during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in 2016, criticizing Trump’s plans to build a 'big beautiful wall' along the southern U.S. border. At a Mass in Ciudad Juárez, he said that a 'a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,'" Dettmer wrote.

The writer further said, "Then, in 2017, Francis warned against rising populist movements, cautioning that they could lead to a new Hitler. Noting that Germany in 1933 was the most obvious example of populism in Europe, 'in times of crisis, we lack judgement,' he told Spain’s El Pais newspaper. 'Hitler didn’t steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people.'"

Dettmer notes that while President Donald Trump didn't directly attack him, MAGA figures targeted the pope because they viewed Francis as a major proponent of global progressivism and an adversary to their movement. Among them, Bannon notably sought support from affluent allies in the U.S. and Europe, particularly traditionalist church members unhappy with Francis' reforms and limitations on the Latin Mass. He aimed to purchase the aforementioned Lazio monastery, Certosa di Trisulti, as part of this effort, per the article.

Meanwhile, Catholics globally are getting ready for Pope Francis' funeral this Saturday in Rome. Some conservative Catholics in the United States are sharing their hopes for a new pope and voicing their criticisms of the former pontiff.

ALSO READ:Pope's Easter address denounces 'contempt' for migrants following meeting with Vance

Despite the criticisms, Francis continued to enjoy popularity among conservatives in the U.S A February poll by the Pew Research Center indicated that 70 percent of Republican-leaning Catholics viewed Francis favorably.

ALSO READ:'Bizarre in many ways': Libertarian reveals what’s behind far right’s 'war on empathy'

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QUESTIONS SCREENED?

Greene gives 'word of warning' to constituents: 'Behave' or be 'thrown out' of town hall

Greene has declared her Tuesday night town hall is for constituents only, who must submit questions only in advance, must sign up, and then “sit and listen.” The Georgia Republican declared protesters, whom she alleged would only be “paid” Democrats, will be ejected.

In a social media video, Congresswoman Greene stated, “this is a town hall that’s strictly for constituents. That means you have to live in my district, and you had to sign up on the sign up link. That’s important. Make sure you bring your ID, as we will be verifying that you actually live in the district and have signed up to be in the town hall.”

Greene, under scrutiny over recent stock purchases she allegedly made, is holding the town hall in a county Vice President Kamala Harris carried in November by 15 percentage points, according to Fox News. The GOP Congresswoman established additional rules, namely, no protesting—despite First Amendment protections.

“Also, this is important for everyone attending the town hall,” she said. “You need to understand this is not a place to protest. This isn’t a place to stand up and scream and yell. This is a place to sit and listen, and we have your questions if you signed up.”

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Then she served up “one word of warning for you: If you’re planning to act up scream and protest, you’re going to be thrown out. And that’s the way it goes. We know how the Democrat Party is organizing and funding these protests for Republican town halls, all across America. And I’m just going to tell you, I don’t tolerate it.”

“America voted for President Trump, they voted for Republicans to be in charge of Congress and the Senate, and they voted to put America first, and that’s exactly what we’re doing,” she concluded

Speaking to Fox News, Greene added she expects her constituents to “behave well. And we expect them to be, you know, respectful.”

Watch the video below or at this link.

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I’m so excited for my Town Hall in Cobb County tonight! To my constituents who have registered and are planning to attend this evening, regardless of your political party, I’m excited to see you and answer your questions. To the paid Democrat protestors planning to show up from across the country tonight, stay outside. This is not your event. And Donald Trump is still your president.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses Jasmine Crockett Of ‘Organizing Political Violence’ Over Calls for Anti-Musk Non-Violent Protests

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While all hell was breaking loose during an Oval Office meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, conservative reporter Brian Glenn—a.k.a. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend—took a moment to question the Ukrainian president’s choice of clothing.

The 56-year-old Real America’s Voice host used his time at the microphone to ask Zelensky why he was not wearing a suit.

The question came on the heels of Trump and JD Vance bullying Zelensky during their Russia-Ukraine war talks.

In video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by C-SPAN, the MAGA congresswoman’s boyfriend demanded answers: “Why don’t you wear a suit? You’re at the highest level in this country’s office, and you refuse to wear a suit. Do you own a suit?”

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Glenn’s out-of-pocket query elicited laughter from those present, including Vance. A surprised Zelensky politely responded saying: “I will wear a suit after this war is over. Maybe something like yours. Maybe better.”

Greene, for one, thought it was an entirely appropriate question. She took to X to note how “proud” she was of Glenn “for pointing out that Zelensky has so much disrespect for America that he can’t even wear a suit in the Oval Office when he comes to beg for money from our President!!”

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The awkward exchange wasn’t the only time someone remarked on Zelensky’s garb on Friday. Earlier in the day, while greeting Zelensky, Trump apparently expressed his approval of his fellow prez’s get-up, the Daily Mail reported. “Oh, you’re all dressed up,” Trump remarked, to which Zelensky responded while shaking his hand “Yes. I had to.” Trump seemed pleased, “He’s all dressed up today.”

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Meet the Man MAGA America Wakes Up To

Between hosting Right Side Broadcasting Network and dating Marjorie Taylor Greene, Brian Glenn is the next big MAGA media star.

Brian Glenn stands for a portrait in Harlem.

Brian Glenn is fast becoming one of Donald Trump’s favorite reporters, likely racking up more one-on-one interviews with Trump in the last year than any other journalist. | Photos by Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO

By Adam Wren

04/24/2024

NEW YORK CITY — Brian Glenn was about to go live. Amid the hundreds of reporters crowded outside a Manhattan courthouse on the first morning of Donald Trump’s criminal trial last week, Glenn, the director of programming for Right Side Broadcasting Network, would be delivering the news from the circus straight to hundreds of thousands of faithful MAGA viewers.

Glenn looked like a typical television newscaster, but a bright blue and white pin he wore on the lapel of his suit set him apart from others in the press corral: It featured a big, bold “47” — a nod to Trump’s possible return to the presidency, which was gifted to him by the Trump campaign. Surrounded by Trump fans, Glenn cut the figure of a former homecoming king navigating the crowd at the big game. People wearing red caps kept coming up asking to be interviewed, a request he repeatedly obliged. In between, he pulled out his iPhone and flashed me photos from when he had shown up at this same spot to cover Trump’s arraignment last April.

Pointing to one image, he singled out his girlfriend, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. (He calls himself the other half of “MAGA America’s favorite couple.”) He recounted how his crew had to cut their coverage short that day after Greene was mobbed by press and onlookers. “I probably physically bulldozed a dozen people getting her out of there,” Glenn said.

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a protest.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a protest held in Collect Pond Park across the street from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in New York on April 4, 2023. | Stefan Jeremiah/AP

As Glenn spoke, he stopped mid-sentence, a voice breaking through his AirPods. “30 seconds?” I heard him say. He quickly returned to his mark and began to broadcast to an audience of what would soon blossom into more than 200,000 RSBN viewers spread across YouTube and Rumble, the right-coded video service. “This is Biden’s witch hunt,” Glenn told his viewers. “This is what this is. This is Biden’s trial. This is his ability, or effort right now, to take President Trump off the campaign trail.”

THE MEDIA ISSUE

The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America | By Michael Kruse

The 10 Thirstiest Members of Congress | By POLITICO magazine

He Worked for the Nastiest People in Politics. Now He’s Airing Dirty Laundry. | By MICHAEL SCHAFFER

How Newt Destroyed Dinner in Washington | MATTHEW KAMINSKI

Meet the Man MAGA America Wakes Up To | By Adam Wren

The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White House | By Eli Stokols

Inside the Off-the-Record Calls Held by Anti-Trump Legal Pundits | By Ankush Khardori

How Donald Trump Gets His News | By Meridith McGraw

The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It | By Jack Shafer

Right Side Broadcasting Network dates back to 2016, when stay-at-home dad Joe Seales launched the online channel in order to live stream Trump rallies. Eight years later, RSBN has grown into a full outlet that employs roughly a dozen people and features a website full of stories. RSBN is like NFL RedZone for Trump rallies, covering them hours before any speakers approach the dais. Now, as Trump’s general election campaign kicks into high gear, it has also cemented itself as the pro-Trump media outlet of record for the MAGA base. The network boasts 1.64 million subscribers on YouTube (a larger subscribership than One America News Network) and another half a million on Rumble.

Glenn is the star who Seales has largely handed control over to. He is the Trump rally gameday host who plumbs the depths of MAGA America in the crowds wherever Trump goes. Glenn is fast becoming one of Trump’s favorite reporters, likely racking up more one-on-one interviews with Trump in the last year than any other journalist. During gaggles, Trump often singles him out for positive-slanted questions after entertaining a series of hardballs from other reporters. Christina Bobb, one of Trump’s revolving cast of attorneys, is a regular guest alongside Glenn on RSBN’s coverage of the trials.

Brian Glenn, second from right, interviews MAGA supporters.

Glenn (second from right) interviews MAGA supporters near the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse while jury selection is underway for Donald Trump’s criminal trial on April 16.

If you’ve seen a viral video of a Trump supporter at one of his rallies circulating on social media, there’s a good chance it came from Glenn’s crew. Earlier this month, when Trump traveled to an Atlanta Chick-fil-A restaurant, it was Glenn and Right Side that captured video of Trump explaining his new state-focused abortion policy. Prominent reporters like the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein grabbed the clip and posted it to X. And when Trump made an off-the-record stop at a New York bodega where a man was stabbed to death following the second day of his trial, Glenn was there along with other reporters.

“He always goes to Brian — he’ll find him in any gaggle,” said Ron Filipkowski, the Florida defense attorney and anti-Trump online influencer who has logged hundreds of hours watching RSBN, which he calls “C-SPAN for MAGA.” “No one gets to interview Trump anymore. Brian has done the most Trump interviews of anyone over the last four years.”

RSBN has developed a reputation for going nearly everywhere that Trump ends up. Thanks to that flood-the-zone mentality of documenting Trump’s every move, it’s likely your favorite mainstream media reporter’s go-to method for keeping tabs on Trump on days that they’re off the campaign trail.

Filipkowski and Glenn have formed an unlikely friendship online over direct messages that have spanned years, something I did not expect when I reached out to Filipkowski, a prominent X personality who made his name by spending almost every waking moment dunking on Trump and the MAGA movement.

“I actually have found them to be the most valuable resource over the last four years to understanding MAGA — more than any other source,” Filipkowski told me. “I’ve probably posted 50 or 100 Brian Glenn interview clips of Trump, probably even 200. I find those clips incredibly valuable, because you’re getting it unvarnished. That’s when [Trump] lets his guard down a little, when he’s got a friendly face.”

Far-right media figures are reviving their conspiratorial crusade against Dominion Voting Systems

With early voting underway, some right-wing media figures are falsely claiming that Dominion voting machines are “switching the votes”

Written by Jack Winstanley, Jack Wheatley & Reed McMaster

Research contributions from Alex Kaplan

Published 10/24/24 mma

As early voting gets underway in many states, far-right media outlets and personalities have begun promoting a conspiracy theory that Dominion voting machines have “switched” votes, which echoes the debunked conspiracy theory about Dominion voting machines that was heavily promoted by far-right and right-wing media, such as Fox News, in 2020.

## Far-right media figures are reviving their 2020 playbook to undermine election results by spreading conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines
- On October 18, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed that voting machines supplied by Dominion Voting Systems had flipped votes in Whitfield County, Georgia, prompting election officials to clarify that the situation had been determined to be the result of user error and “was quickly resolved while the voter was still on-site.” Accusations of “fraud” on the part of Dominion were also dispelled by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who stated that the situation “got blown out of proportion” and that the claims made are “not supported by the facts.” KFDM, [10/21/24]
- Following the 2020 presidential election, right-wing media, including Fox News, targeted Dominion Voting Systems with multiple conspiracy theories alleging that the company had engaged in election fraud. Notably, the company reached a $787.5 million settlement with Fox News, which acknowledged in a statement “the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.” Right-wing media figures had falsely accused voting machine companies of “flipping” or deleting votes in order to sway election outcomes. The Associated Press, [4/18/23; Reuters, 12/20/22; Media Matters, 11/13/20, 4/18/23, 5/2/23]
- Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, right-wing and far-right media figures have already started to push conspiratorial claims seemingly to undermine election results, including baseless claims about supposed mass voting by noncitizens and a conspiracy theory that Democrats are attempting to steal the election with overseas voting.Right-wing media figures have also repeatedly pushed the “great replacement” conspiracy theory with claims that Democrats are allowing “a wide open border” in order to sway census data and “get more Electoral College votes so they can find another way to rig elections.” Several right-wing and far-right media figures who have evoked the specter of noncitizen voting have claimed that state departments of motor vehicles are being used in a scheme to “register illegals to vote” through driver’s license applications. Some others have mischaracterized overseas voting — a legal process that allows U.S. citizens abroad to vote — as an “Undetectable Way to Steal the Election From Trump.” Media Matters, [7/11/24, 9/16/24, 9/23/24, 10/3/24, 10/10/24, 10/21/24]
- On October 19, Dominion Voting Systems released a statement on X (formerly Twitter) apparently in response to the renewal of conspiracy theories.The company wrote, “Dominion is closely monitoring claims around the Nov. 2024 election and strongly encourages use of verified, credible sources of info. We remain fully prepared to defend our company & our customers against lies and those who spread them.” Twitter/X, [10/19/24]
## Right-wing media and far-right figures are claiming that Dominion voting machines are compromised
- On Infowars, Marjorie Taylor Greene spread conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems to Alex Jones, saying that “a very good friend” in her district had shared a social media post about a woman whose vote allegedly changed after using a voting machine, and that “everyone” she has talked to “feels like Donald Trump would win by a landslide if they don't steal the election.” On October 18, Greene said that the ballot was “marked wrong,” and that “every single time” they tried to use the machine “it kept on making the same error – kept on switching the votes.” Later on in the show, Greene also expressed skepticism about overseas voting, saying “the amount of concerns that we have about people being sent emails overseas, telling them how to obtain an absentee ballot and telling them how to mail — to send it in by email,” concluding that she is “concerned about November 5.” Later in the hour, Jones asked her to retell this story. While it is true that certain states allow for ballots to be sent and received electronically, the Brennan Center for Justice has stated that criticism of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act “appears to be part of the larger effort by election deniers (frequently backed by the Republican Party) to plant the idea the election is not legitimate.” Infowars, *The Alex Jones Show*, [10/18/24, 10/18/24; Bipartisan Policy Center, 9/9/24; Brennan Center for Justice, 10/18/24]
- Greene doubled down in a post on X, writing, “Reports from Whitfield County, GA that Dominion machines are flipping votes.” She added, “This is exactly the kind of fraud we saw in 2020.” In an earlier post, Greene claimed that a ballot “had been changed from their selections made on the machine,” and encouraged voters to “double check your printed ballot.” Twitter/X, [10/18/24, 10/18/24]
- Responding to Greene’s post, Rogan O’Handley (who operates the right-wing social media account DC Draino) asked on X, “Why can’t Georgia just run a clean election?! Why are votes being changed in the machines?! ENOUGH.” Twitter/X, [10/18/24; South Florida Sun Sentinel, 6/19/22]
- QAnon account Shadow of Ezra claimed on social media that Dominion Voting Systems were “allegedly flipping votes” in “Georgia, Pennsylvania, and now Tennessee.” Shadow of Ezra also claimed, “These aren't isolated incidents, but rather a wave of complaints pouring in.” In another post, the account alleged, “It’s not just Georgia’s Dominion voting systems raising red flags,” “mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are arriving already sealed, making them look tampered with and disqualifying them from being counted if you try to open them.” Twitter/X, [10/19/24, 10/18/24; Media Matters, 5/6/24]
- On X, Trump ally and January 6 rally organizer Kylie Jane Kremer claimed that “we are already seeing MAJOR issues with the [Dominion] machines across the Peach State as early voting is underway.” Kremer claimed that a voter had their vote switched, adding: “A voter chose Trump on the BMD (ballot marking device) & then when the printed ballot came out of the table top printer (before it was scanned to actually cast the ballot), the text showed they selected Kamala.” Twitter/X, [10/18/24; The New York Times, 12/18/23]
- Patrick Colbeck, a former Michigan state senator who reportedly “traffics in election conspiracy theories,” wrote on X, “Dominion machines caught flipping votes.” He also claimed that “these machines were cited for significant security vulnerabilities,” and that “zero Dominion ICX machines were subject to public accuracy testing.” Twitter/X, [10/19/24; The Washington Post, 5/28/24]
## Some far-right media figures lashed out at Dominion following its social media post about alleged lies targeting the company
- On right-wing outlet LFA TV’s Live from America, host Jeremy Herrell claimed that Dominion was “threatening lawsuits” by stating that they were monitoring claims about their equipment during the 2024 election.Herrell added that Dominion’s post and prior lawsuits are “why Newsmax, Fox News, and others will not say that Dominion voting machines are corrupt. They will not say the 2020 election was stolen. They won’t say any of that because they’ve been sued, and they’ve been threatened, and they’re scared of Dominion.” Rumble, *Live from America*, [10/21/24]
- On Rumble, anti-vaccine figure Sherry Tenpenny interviewed former member of the Florida House of Representatives Anthony Sabatini, claiming “it seems as though the Dominion server issue has not been addressed.” Sabatini responded, “When it comes to Dominion and, you know, electronic control of the elections, I don't know what to tell you. Unfortunately, a lot of the states have not touched that. The legislature has not touched that.” The Associated Press, [5/7/24; Rumble, This Week with Dr. T, 10/14/24]
- An article for The Gateway Pundit claimed that Dominion had issued a “chilling warning to conservatives” by stating that it was monitoring claims that its machines may be compromised. The Gateway Pundit, [10/20/24]
- Right-wing social media account Amuse claimed that Dominion’s statement was a suggestion that the company is “gearing up to file more defamation suits against critics.” Amuse also called Dominion’s post “censorship” and claimed that being “unable to openly discuss their experiences or concerns without fearing litigation feels fundamentally un-American.” Twitter/X, [10/20/24]
- In response to Dominion’s post, QAnon influencer Jeffrey Pedersen, known online as “intheMatrixxx” posted, “Why is @dominionvoting making such a statement? Seems like people are losing faith in our voting system.” Twitter/X, [10/21/24; Media Matters, 4/29/24]
- On the Rumble show The Daily Dose, Gateway Pundit writer and far-right show host Elijah Schaffer lambasted Dominion’s post and, using air quotes, asked, “You couldn’t question the vaccines, you couldn’t question the election. What other ‘safe’ and ‘guaranteed’ and ‘free’ process are you not allowed to question that you just have to blindly accept?” He concluded, “Well, it’s getting kind of alarming to me that we’re heading down this road.” Vigilant News Network, *The Daily Dose*, [10/22/24; Media Matters, 7/12/22; Twitter/X, accessed 10/23/24]

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) seemed to blame "climate change" for historic flooding in Georgia and North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

During a Tuesday town hall event in Murray, Georgia, Greene complained that her Democratic colleagues wanted to allow additional immigrants to enter the United States.

"As a matter of fact, if you all could sit and listen to every detail of our committee hearings," Greene said. "You would hear them saying that it's racist not to let these people in."

"You would hear them saying that they're coming because of climate change," she continued.

Greene then suggested that Democrats should focus on climate change challenges in the U.S. instead.

"Really?" she said. "Try talking to the people in western North Carolina. Try talking to the people in South and Central and Eastern Georgia."

"They were affected by the climate," the lawmaker added.

Later in the event, Greene conducted a poll asking the audience who was "really running the White House."

"If you think it's Obama, raise your hand," she said.

Watch the video below.

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September 17, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Someone said, “Why is MTG so in your face?" Because, she's a jealous woman, and she's working against Donald Trump, and I exposed her. And she, I mean look, we have the documentation of this, she used her campaign funds to set Trump up. You can go look this up yourself. And she's the one who helped orchestrate the dinner between Kanye West and Nick Fuentes and Donald Trump, and her campaign funds were used to pay for the domain for Kanye West's campaign the same day, the same exact day as the dinner. She supported Kevin McCarthy. She's a liar. She's a fraud. I mean, what do people need to know about it? She's a jealous woman. She's crazy.

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Father of school shooting victim shames MTG for 'praying today instead of reacting'

David Edwards Raw Story

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US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is working hard against passing the bipartisan foreign aid package in support of Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression — mainly by calling for Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) ouster if he works with Democrats to pass it.

Capitol Hill reporter Juliegrace Brufke shared via x (formerly Twitter) Wednesday night, "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced an amendment requiring members to 'conscript in the Ukrainian military' if they vote for the Ukraine supplemental bill."

The amendment titled "Amendment to Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024," reads: "Any Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military."

READ MORE:['Completely detached': Johnson’s speakership in danger amid GOP’s far right revolt

That's not all.

President Joe Biden counsel Eric Columbus tweeted, "MTG also introduced an amendment appropriating 'such sums as necessary . . . for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.' (I’m not making this up, read the second screenshot!)"

The second screenshot Brufke posted, reads: "By the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border."

Still, the amendment that stands out most to lawmakers and legal experts is the proposal requiring House members who support aiding Ukraine in its fight against President Vladimir Putin and Russia to enlist in the Ukrainian military.

Former US Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) tweeted, "'WHY DONT U GO FIGHT THEN!' is not just a bad faith attack, but a royally dumb argument. Devoid of logic.Reasonable to argue that supporting Ukraine is not in our interest. But Ukrainians aren’t asking us to fight.They are already fighting. Thats why they are asking for aid!"

World Liberty Congress co-founder Garry Kasparov said, "We all know she’s an idiot spouting Kremlin propaganda, but the irony here is that the only way US troops will have to see action over Ukraine is if we let Ukraine lose and Russia attacks NATO. Of course I’m sure she’d be for abandoning NATO too, as would Trump."

US Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) wrote, "America deserves so much better than MTG and House Republicans' political theater. What a mockery of this very serious moment. We're going to take away their gavels in November."

Center for European Policy Analysis senior fellow Olga Lautman added, "She is really working hard for Russia. Unbelievable she is in Congress after openly supporting our adversary and assisting in an insurrection."

Greene, herself, replied to Brufke's tweet, writing, "I mean if you want to fund the war, why don’t you go fight in it. Show your support for Ukraine."

Then, the anti-Donald Trump Lincoln Project responded to the Georgia congresswoman, tweeting, "@RepMTG If you want to help Russia so much, why don’t you go fight in their military. Show your support for Putin."

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The call was recorded': Brutal fact check decimates new Marjorie Taylor Greene Trump claim

David McAfee Raw Story

The disturbing and cruel psychology of Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Greene hammered over claiming 'Biden DOJ and FBI' planned to assassinate' Trump and she 'knew'

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'Simply deranged': MTG lambasted for claiming 'Biden administration is a communist regime'

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Despite Donald Trump’s promise of “Uniting our Nation,” top Republicans kicked off the 2024 Republican National Convention Monday with attacks on LGBTQ Americans, at times invoking religion, to raucous applause and approval from the GOP delegates.

“This fringe agenda includes biological males competing against girls and the sexualization and indoctrination of our children,” declared U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), a common right-wing attack on transgender children (video below). The GOP delegates, who hours before had pumped their fists in the air and chanted “Fight! Fight! Fight!” were quick to respond to Johnson’s denigrations with waves of booing.

“Today’s Democrat agenda, their policies, are a clear and present danger to America, to our institutions, our values and our people,” Johnson continued. “Democrats have forgotten American families. They’ve abandoned the hard-working middle class. But with President Trump and Republicans, those forgotten Americans are forgotten no more.”

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a self-avowed Christian nationalist, declared Trump the “founding father of the America First movement,” and said, “I thank God that His hand was on President Trump” during the assassination attempt that took the life of a 50-year old retired fire chief sitting behind him.

“The establishment in Washington has sold us out,” Greene went on to say. “They promised unity and delivered division. They promised peace and brought war. They promised normalcy and gave us Transgender Visibility Day on Easter Sunday,” she charged, another common right wing attack that ignores Easter Sunday is on different days each year.

After the crowd booed, she continued.

“And let me state this clearly: There are only two genders,” Greene declared, raising her her hand with two fingers up. “And we are made in God’s image. Amen.”

“And we won’t shy away from speaking that simple truth, ever.”

At the end of her speech, Greene vowed, “as God as my witness, He will finally give us the country we deserve. Because Donald John Trump is the leader American deserves. God bless the American people. God bless President Trump, and God bless the United States of America.”

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Greene (R-GA) is in hot water for getting two out of eight people correct when listing individuals who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Greene, who earlier in the day was hit with a flurry of criticism for falsely claiming that Donald Trump won her state of Georgia in 2020, recently posted about the ages of those who signed the Declaration of Independence.

"The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 was 44 years old, but more than a dozen were 35 or younger: Thomas Jefferson: 33 John Hancock: 39 James Madison: 25 Alexander Hamilton: 21 James Monroe: 18 Aaron Burr: 20 Paul Revere: 41 George Washington: 44," the lawmaker wrote.

ALSO READ:How The Onion’s founding editor finds humor in the dismal age of Trump

Greene was hit with a fact check from the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.

"James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, Aaron Burr, Paul Revere, and George Washington were not signers of the Declaration of Independence," it states.

The site's users also chimed in to correct the representative.

@JoJoFromJerz wrote, "Ok — who else does moron Marge think signed the Declaration of Independence? Best answer wins a free peach tree dish. Go!"

Travis Akers wrote, "6 of these 8 men did not sign the Declaration of Independence."

@lisa_liberal responded, saying, "Keep in mind ladies and gentlemen. That Marjorie Taylor Greene is a U.S. Representative. Whose salary is paid for by taxpayers."

She then added, "STOP ELECTING STUPID PEOPLE."

@MamaSissieSays, reportedly a retired government teacher, said, "Marjorie Taylor Greene being completely wrong about history (AGAIN) aside… Claiming that the average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was 44 is NOT a flex when the Founders life expectancy was only 64 years."

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Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an ally to Donald Trump, was brutally fact-checked on Sunday after she claimed she "knows" that the former president won Georgia's election in 2020, which he lost to current president Joe Biden.

Greene was advertising a recent pro-Trump boating event in her home state when she made the comment.

"Yesterday’s enthusiasm for President Trump on Lake Allatoona was unmatched!!" she said Sunday. "I know he won Georgia in 2020, and after yesterday, I know he’s going to win Georgia again in 2024!"

The comments likely didn't go as Greene planned.

@slayergoddess69 responded with, "Unmatched? He lost in 2020."

"You have nowhere near the supporters you did 4 years ago. Not even close. And, you're bragging about 30 boats when you used to have hundreds? Again, all these 'flex' photos are just showing us in real time how little there are left in your MAGA world," the user added. "You get ratioed on social media. You literally get chased out of town wherever you go. Your opponent is making friends with your constituents."

@ArtieVandelay1 said, "There were less than 10 boats with signs or flags."

@franklinisbored asked for a correction from the social media site itself.

"Let’s have @CommunityNotes weigh in on this. Trump lost Georgia in 2020," the user said. "As a matter of fact, he called the Secretary of State of Georgia’s to find just enough votes just to win. He asked him to rig the election! The call was recorded."

@DrainTheTrumps said, "Only in some alternate cultiverse did Trump win Georgia in 2020."

"Don’t you remember him on the phone illegally begging for votes?" the user asked Sunday. "It’s a whole felony thing. Google it!"

@mannylopez60110 added, "He lost 2020 and he will lose 2024."

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in a profane rant filled with lies and false accusations, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) unleashed a venomous screed in the halls of Congress attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, the retired immunologist who served as the public face of the federal government’s battle against the COVID pandemic, just after she had attacked him face-to-face during a House committee hearing Monday.

Dr. Fauci retired at the end of 2022 after serving since 1984 as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but the right and the far-right’s false claims about COVID and Fauci during a pandemic that caught the Trump White House off guard one year after it dismantled President Barack Obama’s pandemic response team, continue to this day.

Among them, Congresswoman Greene’s remarks Monday afternoon.

“The Democrats are responsible for the lockdowns, forced vaccinations, kids being forced to stay home, people committing suicide, and all of the horrors that this country lived through during COVID,” the Georgia GOP lawmaker said on-camera in little-noticed remarks she posted to social media (video below).

“Fauci belongs in prison. He should be tried for mass murder and crimes against humanity. That’s how I feel after that hearing. That’s how the American people feel.”

Greene is wrong.

Both Democratic and Republican governors and local authorities directed Americans to stay home in the early days of the pandemic. Some directed out of state visitors to quarantine. Some closed schools and transitioned to virtual classrooms, and some instructed residents to stay home except for medical emergencies or trips to the supermarket.

So did then-President Trump on March 16, 2020:

Since General George Washington mandated inoculations for his soldiers, Americans at times have been required to be vaccinated against infectious diseases. The CDC recommends dozens of vaccinations for infants through adolescence, and again in adulthood, including for seniors. All 50 states have vaccination mandates for public school students.

Dr. Peter Hotez, considered a “vaccine specialist,” in 2023 estimated 200,000 Americans died as a result of refusing the COVID vaccine.

In December of 2022, The Atlantic‘s Yasmin Tayag, citing studies wrote, “by far the single group of adults most likely to be unvaccinated is Republicans: 37 percent of Republicans are still unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated, compared with 9 percent of Democrats. Fourteen of the 15 states with the lowest vaccination rates voted for Donald Trump in 2020. (The other is Georgia.)”

The Georgia Republican Congresswoman in her hallway remarks on Monday claimed “everything” she said in the hearing was “correct.”

“It’s how the American people feel, is what we know to be a fact.”

Congresswoman Greene said Dr. Fauci was not a doctor, as far as she was concerned.

“It’s all the evidence has been proven true,” she also claimed.

“We have [Democratic Congressman] Jamie Raskin in there accusing us of worshipping Trump, worshipping a convicted felon,” Greene also said, using air quotes as if Trump were not a convicted felon.

When told Donald Trump is a convicted felon, Greene replied, “well, yeah. So was George Floyd,” referring to the unarmed Black man whose murder by police set off massive nationwide protests.

“The media worships George Floyd. Democrats worship George Floyd, there were riots burning down the f*cking country over George Floyd and Raskin’s in there say we worship him. Excuse me, let me correct you, and this is really important. I don’t worship, I worship God, God, and Jesus is my Savior. I don’t worship President Trump, and I’m really sick and tired of the b*llsh*t antics I have to deal with constantly from the Democrats.”

Despite Greene’s insistence that “the American people feel” that “Fauci belongs in prison” and “should be tried for mass murder and crimes against humanity,” polling firm YouGov ranks Dr. Fauci as the 17th most popular person in America. Pope Francis is ranked at number 18. 49% of Americans have a positive opinion of Dr. Fauci.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene buys condo in 'crime ridden hell hole' - Alternet.org

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'In the Trump cult': Constituents explain why they support Marjorie Taylor Greene

Alexandria Jacobson June 23, 2024

ROME, Ga. — On the national stage, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) captures nonstop attention for her gun-wielding, rabble-rousing, speaker-slaying, election-denying persona.

Look at her 2020 congressional campaign ad where she fires a semi-automatic rifle into targets symbolizing Democratic policy concerns such as climate change and gun control.

Or when she blows up a car symbolizing the “Democrats’ socialist agenda” with another semi-automatic rifle she raffled off during her 2022 campaign.

Or there’s the time when Greene got attention for interrupting President Joe Biden’s State of the Union donning a white fur coat.

That’s even before her efforts to oust Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson for his cooperation with Democrats to pass a government funding bill.

“She comes across sometimes like a girl version of Yosemite Sam, just kind of ‘pew, pew, pew, pew,’” said Wendy Davis, a former city commissioner for Rome, Ga., who ran and lost in the 2022 Democratic primary for the 14th District seat. “Not just because of her seemed love of guns, but just that firing off at the slightest thing.”

But the MTG that Americans see on the national stage isn’t always the same fiery character in person. Sometimes she is, but other times she’s “very nice” and asks “politely worded questions,” her constituents tell Raw Story.

MTG in the wild

Raw Story traveled to Greene’s 14th Congressional District to speak with some of her constituents, both Republicans and Democrats, who’ve had an opportunity to see her in-person.

Together, they paint a picture of what the headline-grabbing congresswoman is really like off camera when engaging with her community.

Mary Bramblett, a member of the Floyd County Republican Women, recalled once seeing Greene while Christmas shopping at a local Hobby Lobby with her cousin. Bramblett’s cousin wanted a photo, so they followed Greene around the store, which “she didn’t seem to mind at all,” Bramblett said.

Bramblett also heard Greene speak in-person at a meeting for the Floyd County Republican Women.

“Her speeches, you know how she can become so, well, like Trump? She’s so down to earth … she was great,” Bramblett said. “Very passionate, even the day she spoke to us, she was just so passionate about everything wanting to be more perfect, which is what she said.”

Maggie Combs, another member of the Floyd County Republican Women, said of meeting Greene at the party event, “She's a very nice person. Very, very out front, and that's what matters.”

Nedra Manners, the owner of Yellow Door Antiques and Art and a member of the Floyd County Democratic Party, said she met Greene at a fundraiser in September 2020. Manners described Greene as “fine in person” and “real nice.”

But Greene did question the decision to move the fundraiser from its usual spot on a popular pedestrian bridge to a hotel courtyard where more social distancing was possible during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Manners said.

“It was smaller, but tables were spread around, and everybody felt real comfortable out there,” Manners said. “So, I was introduced to her, and we had this magazine that showed the event on the bridge, and her question was, ‘why didn't y'all have it out there this year?’ Because she didn't get it.”

Davis was in the same room as Greene when they both were supervising vote recounts for their respective parties in 2020.

“She has this capacity to be this flame throwing ‘la, la, la,’ loud, loud, loud, angry, mad, ‘everybody else is bad’ energy when she's trying to be in front of a camera,” Davis said. “When she's in smaller spaces, she's smaller. She's more like a regular person.”

Davis said Greene would make comments on camera about how “this election was probably stolen,” but then “she comes inside, and she's just asking legitimate, nicely, politely worded questions, and just watching, right, not making a spectacle of herself.”

Added Davis: “Why do you have to be two different things? Just be who you are.”

Kelly Thurman, an employee with the Murray County Sheriff’s Office, and his wife, Michelle Thurman, a dental assistant and office manager, said Greene frequently visits Murray County in Greene’s sprawling district.

“She believes in values that a lot of small town people have, I guess, and so that's one reason everybody likes her,” Michlle Thurman said. “She likes to stand behind the people themselves. A lot of people don't want to stand behind the people, just the politics. But she's definitely for the people.”

One of the values that Greene best represents in the community is her belief in “gun laws and the right for us to carry,” Michelle Thurman said.

Lamar Wadsworth, chair of the Polk County Democratic Party, said he saw Greene from a distance in the parking lot of a local grocery during her first campaign. He said she spoke from the back of a pickup truck to about 10 people.

“I don't know what attracts people to her except Trumpianity is the dominant religion here, and she’s wholeheartedly in the Trump cult. I don't really remember anything standing out. There’s simply nothing about her that qualifies her,” Wadsworth said. “A lot of people who are just decent people are fed up with her antics. You know, her behavior would get her suspended in middle school.”

Numerous other constituents in Greene’s district previously told Raw Story they’ve never had a chance to meet her and find her presence in the district to be lacking, particularly as her district office is not publicly listed and only available to visit by appointment.

Greene’s spokesperson, Nick Dyer, did not respond to Raw Story’s interview request.

Greene is favored to win the November general election for her seat in Georgia's 14th Congressional District, which she won with 65.9 percent of the vote in 2022. Still, Democrats are determined to challenge her for the seat, with Shawn Harris challenging her in November after winning Tuesday's Democratic runoff election.

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Trump has created a civil war within his own MAGA movement amid a crucial election year that could decide whether he ends up in the White House or the big house, the New York Times reported Monday.

His controversial endorsement snub of Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) has divided his loyal MAGA backers — known for their allegiance to the Trump party line — in a critical swing state in the upcoming election.

“It shows the weakness of MAGA and the Trump coalition,” political scientist David Richards told the Times. “There are a lot of egos trying to leverage Trump to their advantage. If that’s all you have going and you don’t have a big policy difference, that’s going to lead to some really weird splits.”

The egos in question belong to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Trump's former campaign strategist Steve Bannon.

While Greene, a staunch supporter of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who was ousted with a helping vote from Good, is delivering stump speeches for his Trump-endorsed opponent John J. McGuire, Bannon remains resolutely in Good's corner, the Times reports.

Tensions mounted last week when these two MAGA celebrities hosted competing events delivering their characteristic vitriol on for two opposing Republicans battling for one congressional seat.

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“We need loyalists,” Greene reportedly barked at a crowd of a dozen voters in a Virginia parking lot. "[Good] kicked Trump when he was down."

Down the road, Bannon appeared next to Good at a much larger event outside a local court house where he told the crowd, "They think you’re a bunch of morons who don’t count."

The Times argues this rift between two major MAGA bigwigs could spell trouble for Trump as he tries to reclaim the White House in 2024.

ALSO READ: Republican dodo birds have a death wish for us all

"The back-to-back events last week pitting some of the most famous MAGA figures against each other have highlighted how strange this civil war of a primary has become," writes reporter Annie Karni.

"It has splintered the MAGA movement and the G.O.P. itself and highlighted the shifting alliances, personal feuds and chaotic maneuvering that have come to define the party as much as any ideological or policy position."

And the stakes are high for Trump, who faces two federal court case he could theoretically kill should he regain authority over the Justice Department in 2025.

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New plans? How Trump loyalists are out for Biden family blood more than ever

Matt LasloandRaw Story June 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden all but unraveled, but you wouldn’t know that from talking to House Republicans this week.

They’re out for Biden family blood more than ever.

The GOP’s cheering of a damning verdict for presidential son Hunter Biden — found guilty of lying on a federal firearm form and illegally owning a gun — have proven short-lived.

On Capitol Hill, the mood amongst Republicans is mostly anger as the party overflows with complaints about “a two-tiered” system of justice — even after the president’s son was successfully prosecuted by the same Department of Justice they decry for its pursuit of former President Donald Trump.

“No one's taking it seriously, because the Department of Justice, if they were actually a real justice system, they would have charged him for FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act]. They would be charging him for human sex trafficking,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Raw Story while walking to the Capitol to vote Wednesday.

MTG’s far from alone.

On Wednesday, three powerful Republican committee chairs sent the Department of Justice criminal referrals for Hunter and James Biden, the president’s brother.

The two Bidens made false statements to their committees that "implicate Joe Biden’s knowledge and role in his family’s influence peddling schemes and appear to be a calculated effort to shield Joe Biden from the impeachment inquiry," wrote Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO).

Those criminal referrals were sent to Special Counsel David Weiss and Attorney General Merrick Garland on the same day House Republicans voted to hold Garland in contempt for turning over a transcript of President Biden’s interview with the special prosecutor while withholding audio of it.

In the wake of the Hunter Biden guilty verdict, Republicans now say Department of Justice lawyers are complicit in a cover up.

“I think it's just an attempt to try to say, ‘Oh, we're not a two-tier justice system,’” Greene said. “And they [don’t] want to prosecute BLM rioters, Antifa and all these other people that caused $2 billion in damage.”

It’s more than just a different system of justice: the “deep state” is now in the driver’s seat at the DOJ, according to many in the GOP.

“The Hunter Biden trial was a veneer. There wasn't a sincere prosecution,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Raw Story.

While House Republicans voted along party lines to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden at the end of last year, the effort has gone nowhere in the GOP-controlled House.

That’s in part because their star witness, retired Russian figure skater Alexander Smirnov, went from being an FBI informant to being charged with lying and creating false documents about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

While on a private fundraising call last year, Gaetz dismissed the Biden impeachment effort — “I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden” — since then he’s been raising alarms about bribes the Oversight Committee has failed to link to the president.

ALSO READ: ‘MIA MTG’: Why Marjorie Taylor Greene has no publicly listed district offices

Even though his committee has failed to make the case that Biden corruption is a family affair leading all the way to the White House, Gaetz dismisses the Hunter Biden gun case as “dumb.” He says DOJ lawyers need to do more — and broaden their investigation.

“I identify strongly with the statement from the Trump campaign that it was a distraction from the real Biden crimes. These guys are moving around millions of dollars in Chinese bribe money, and what we got him on was lying on a gun form? It’d be like getting Jeffrey Dahmer for littering,” Gaetz said, referencing the convicted serial killer.

Dumb or not, many Republicans are now watching to see whether Hunter Biden gets any jail time for his first time, non-violent felony conviction.

“Well, I think they considered the facts and found him guilty. It’ll be interesting to see what his consequences are,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) told Raw Story. “If you’re on drugs, should you really have a gun? It’s either a law or it’s not a law. If they don’t believe in it, it’s like anything else, you gotta change it.”

While Norman’s closely watching the case against the first son, he, too, accuses the Department of Justice of playing politics even after the special prosecutor won a conviction this week.

“I do think it's a smokescreen,” Norman said. “I mean, look at what Hunter Biden’s gotten by with. $8 million in art sales. I don’t think he’s an artist.”

President Biden has said he will not pardon Hunter Biden.

“I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal," President Biden said. "Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. So many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong and resilient in recovery."

President Biden also reaffirmed his loyalty to his family.

"Jill and I will always be there for Hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support,” Biden said. “Nothing will ever change that."

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Dr Anthony Fauci has responded after a Jan 6 rioter was seen sitting behind him during Monday’s House Covid hearing pulling faces.

Fauci was called to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s hearing on Monday, as House Republicans have sought to scrutinize his role as one of the chief faces of the federal government’s response to the pandemic.

During the hearing, he went head-to-head with Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene who told the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases he was “not a doctor” and “belonged in prison” amid heated questioning.

But Greene was not the only one of Fauci’s critics who caused a stir during Monday’s proceedings.

A January 6 rioter, who served one of the toughest prison sentences yet for the insurrection, was seen sitting behind the medical expert pulling faces.

A man was seen making faces behind Fauci during Monday’s Covid hearing (C-SPAN)

CNN host Kaitlan Collins also claimed that the man yelled out in agreement when Greene said that Fauci belonged in prison.

The rioter was revealed to be Brandon Fellows, who was recently released from prison on May 20 after serving three years on both felony and misdemeanor charges. Fellows was convicted of entering the Capitol and smoking cannabis in Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley’s office, according to the Department of Justice.

Fauci said he was made aware of who was sitting behind him after the hearing and asked: “What’s somebody like that doing at a hearing about Covid?”

Fellows was arrested on January 16 2021 in New York by the FBI following the insurrection after spending days bragging about the events of January 6 and posting videos and photos online.

Brandon Fellows was arrested following the January 6 insurrection (Department of Justice)

In one video, he was seen entering senator Merkley’s office where he put his feet on the table and took two drags from a joint that was handed to him by another rioter. Meanwhile, in pictures, he was seen posing with police officers.

After the riot, he gave an interview to Bloomberg where he said his Bumble dating profile had “blown up” with attention because of the interest in his Capitol riot pictures.

In court, he represented himself, submitting long, handwritten documents in which he compared himself to Jesus.

He also at one point asked if he should call the wife of US District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was presiding over his case. Judge McFadden later lambasted him, accusing him of showing the “height of contempt” for all branches of government, adding that he had “flagrantly lied” under oath.

Anthony Fauci takes his seat ahead of a bruising House hearing about Covid on Monday (AFP via Getty Images)

“It is, rather, your defiance of any and every attempt to try to get your actions to conform to what the law requires that has gotten you to this point,” McFadden said. He later added: “It’s time for you to grow up!”

Since being released from prison, Fellows has continued to seek media attention, giving an interview to Bloomberg in which he said he had “no regrets” about the insurrection, before attending the Covid hearing on Monday.

The GOP representative claimed during the hearing that Fauci’s “repulsive, evil science” led to school children having to endure class with masks and claimed he abused puppies with his testing, something he denied.

The Republican firebrand was rebuked by colleagues for her aggressive questioning as Fauci was grilled over his pandemic response and the origins of Covid.

“As a dog lover, I want to tell you this is disgusting and evil, what you signed off on, and these experiments that happened to beagles paid for by the American taxpayer,” she said. “And I want you to know that Americans don’t pay their taxes for animals to be tortured liked this.”

Throughout her hearing, she refused to acknowledge Fauci as “Dr Fauci” but instead as “Mr Fauci.”

“Mr Fauci – because you’re not ‘doctor’ – you’re Mr. Fauci,” she said while asking a question before saying, “No, I don’t need your answer.”

Shortly after Greene’s questioning, Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, lambasted her line of questioning.

“That was completely irresponsible,” he said. “This might be the most insane hearing I’ve actually attended.”

Throughout the hearing, Garcia and other Democrats apologized to Fauci for attacks from Republicans, noting how he, his wife and daughters received numerous death threats.

The hearing was Fauci’s first public appearance on Capitol Hill since he left as the chief medical adviser for the Biden administration and as director of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.

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donald Trump and his allies are falsely claiming President Joe Biden, the U.S. Dept. of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had a plot to assassinate his top political rival, the ex-president, during the execution of a search warrant in 2022 at Mar-a-Lago. Critics, including law enforcement experts, are blasting Trump and his MAGA associates for the “dangerous” lie.

On Tuesday a U.S. District Judge unsealed court documents in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Espionage Act case against Trump where he faces 40 felony counts, most over his alleged unlawful removal, retention, and refusal to return classified documents including some of the nation’s top nuclear secrets.

One of those filings, as The Washington Post reported, was a law enforcement documents that included a standard statement reminding FBI agents on the Bureau’s policy on the use of deadly force, “which says officers may resort to lethal force only when the subject of such force poses an ‘imminent danger of death or serious physical injury’ to an officer or another person.”

But on Tuesday, Trump explosively posted on Truth Social, “WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!”

Later, in a fundraising email Trump went much further.

“They were authorized to shoot me!” the subject line reads, according to an archive of political emails.

“TRUMP ALERT,” it begins. “BREAKING FROM TRUMP: BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME!”

“You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable… Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”

Attorney and former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa observed, “Including the deadly force policy [in] an ops plan is SOP [standard operating procedure]. But just so I make sure I’m following the plot, according to Trump’s position in court, what he is accusing Biden of would be perfectly legal and within the scope of his ‘official’ powers, right?”

Trump repeatedly has insisted presidents must have complete and total “absolute immunity.” His attorneys have argued in federal court and before the U.S. Supreme Court a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate his political rival and it would be lawful, as was noted here:

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was among the top allies who falsely characterized the court filing.

“The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light,” she posted to her official federal government account on X. “Does everyone get it yet???!!!! What are Republicans going to do about it?” hold my beer

She also wrote: “This is grounds for impeachment of Wray and Garland. Trump and team was cooperating the entire time with the FBI,” Greene claimed, both of which are false.

“Was deadly force authorized against Biden for his docs? Were they going to shoot SS then Pres Trump, Melania, and Barron too??? Speaker Mike Johnson fully funded the DOJ and FBI plus new building and tied our hands behind our backs to hold them accountable. We have the power of the purse and Johnson has handed the purse to Chuck Schumer. All of this is unforgivable.”

Fox News Business host Maria Bartiromo also promoted the false claims Wednesday morning:

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NBC News’ Ryan Reilly mockingly explained the situation: “GOP members of Congress think the feds wanted to assassinate Trump and so they did a raid on his place in Florida when they knew him to be in New Jersey because Mar-A-Lago was closed for the season.”

Meanwhile, critics are sounding the alarm on Trump’s and the GOP’s lies.

“This is wildly irresponsible, even for professional troll like Marjorie Taylor Greene,” wrote conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg. “FBI knew Trump wasn’t there. It was all coordinated with Secret Service in advance. This is deeply dangerous bullshit.”

“Trump wasn’t there,” said talk radio host Joe Walsh, a former GOP U.S. Congressman, responding to U.S. Rep. Greene’s remarks. “Everything was coordinated with Secret Service & local law enforcement. Even for you, this is a deeply irresponsible and dangerous thing to say.”

David Axelrod, the former top Obama strategist and White House advisor, remarked, “This is patently nuts…and dangerously provocative!”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday claimed that President Joe Biden and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) planned to "assassinate" former President Donald Trump.

The MAGA lawmaker also claimed that she attempted to warn the ex-president of such matters.

"The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light," Greene wrote via X/Twitter. "Does everyone get it yet???!!!! What are Republicans going to do about it? I tried to oust our Speaker who funded Biden’s DOJ AND FBI, but Democrats stopped it."

She also claimed, "I made sure that he knew."

The Georgia Republican leader was responding to Truth Social post from Trump, in which he wrote: "WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the 'Icebox,' and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden's DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREATTO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE -25TH AMENDMENT!"

Retired FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi responded to Greene's claim, noting that "every FBI operations order contains a reminder of FBI deadly force policy."

The Dispatch Editor-In-Chief Jonah Goldberg commented: "This is wildly irresponsible, even for professional troll like Marjorie Taylor Greene. FBI knew Trump wasn’t there. It was all coordinated with Secret Service in advance. This is deeply dangerous bulls—t."

Columnist Goldie Taylor's replied to Greene, saying, "Something is really wrong with you."

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similarly to his MAGA colleague — US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — on Tuesday US Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) claimed that President Joe Biden wanted to have former President Donald Trump killed during the FBI's raid on the Mar-a-Lago estate.

Referencing the statement, "Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary ...." Gosar claimed via X/Twitter: "Biden ordered the hit on Trump at Mar-a-Lago."

About an hour prior to the Arizona congressman's claim, Rep. Greene baselessly claimed that "Biden and the FBI planned to assassinate" the former president.

ABC News Justice Department reporter Alex Mallon reported via X/Twitter, "FBI issues rare statement directly responding to this attack from Trump and his allies. Says 'standard protocol' was followed - 'No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter."

ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur noted: Anytime the fbi takes an adversarial action like executing a search warrant, there is a deadly force policy. If there is danger to you or public and there’s no alternatives, you are authorized to use deadly force. This is standard policy.

She added, "And of course they gave the Secret Seevice and local law enforcement a heads up. Authorized to use deadly force is not the same as 'planning to shoot people.' But every briefing has to include a deadly force policy that is acknowledged by every agent before they go in."

Adam Kinzinger replied: "Gosar is a clown."

Lawyer Bradley P. Moss said: "Per Trump, Biden has complete immunity"

A former CIA attorney under the account @secretsandlaws wrote: "As a general rule, I don't judge any lawyer for zealously representing a criminal defendant, but blatant distortions in legal filings like this were clearly designed to generate over-the-top responses from Trump's supporters, just like the one below. It's unethical and immoral."

Lawrence Hurley said: "Based on Trump's arguments in his election interference case, Biden could not be prosecuted if he had actually ordered this..."

Doug Thompson replied: "I try not to retweet nonsense but this is outrageous.Pre-authorization for use of deadly force is routine when issuing a search warrant. 'Go search for and seize evidence at the scene of a serious crime but go unarmed' would be absurd."

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House Oversight Committee hearing erupted into a war of words on Thursday when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) exchanged slights during a contempt hearing for Attorney General Merrick Garland for blocking the release of audio tapes related to an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

In this case, their furious exchange was prompted by Greene's decision to personally insult Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX).

Earlier in the proceeding, Crockett had sought an answer from Chairman James Comer (R-KY) with a hypothetical question about rules violations that doubled as a thinly veiled shot at Greene: “I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling: If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”

Later on, Greene got into a spat with Crockett when she launched an attack on the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York.

"I would like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Merchan’s daughter," Greene quipped.

Crockett countered: "What does that have to do with Garland?"

Greene told her, "I don’t think you know what we’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your reading."

That insult prompted Ocasio-Cortez to demand Greene's insult be stricken from the record.

"I do have a point of order, and I would like to move to take down Ms. Greene’s words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person... move her words down," she said.

"Are your feelings hurt?" Greene taunted.

"Oh girl, baby girl!" Ocasio-Cortez shot back. "Don’t even play!""

AOC continued to tell off Greene: "That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person? Move her words down—"

"Are your feelings hurt?" Greene asked. "Aw!"

Ocasio-Cortez's comeback: "Oh girl, baby girl! Don’t even play!"

That had AOC demanding Greene apologize.

But Greene, who permitted her comments to be deleted from the record made clear she wasn't going to say sorry.

"I’m not apologizing," she said. "Why don’t you debate me?"

"That’s self evident," AOC told her

Greene then told her: "Yeah, you don’t have enough intelligence."

AOC then requested that the last jab be stricken too.

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'Putin’s envoy' Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked in Democrat’s bill

David Badash April 18, 2024FRONTPAGE NEWS AND POLITICS

For years U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been called “Pro-Putin.” As far back as 2021, her first year as a member of Congress, the question had been raised on social media: “Is Marjorie Taylor Greene a Russian asset?”

In 2022 The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org reported: “Marjorie Taylor Greene Parrots Russian Talking Point on Ukraine.”

Back then, as the article highlighted, Greene had said, “there is no doubt that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s actions in Ukraine are despicable and evil.”

Now, she promotes a far more favorable view of President Vladimir Putin and his illegal war against Ukraine, a sovereign nation which the Russian autocrat wants to incorporate – at least partly – into Russia.

Just last week Greene spread demonstrably false pro-Russia talking points about a “war on Christianity” while defending and promoting President Vladimir Putin.

READ MORE: ‘Afraid and Intimidated’: Trump Trial Juror Targeted by Fox News Dismissed

“This is a war on Christianity,” Greene told far-right propagandist Steve Bannon. “The Ukrainian government is attacking Christians, the Ukrainian government is executing priests. Russia is not doing that.”

That’s just plain false, as NCRM reported.

Largely in response to her strong opposition to the U.S. supporting Ukraine, and her spreading Russian disinformation and flat-out pro-Putin falsehoods, Greene’s fondness for Putin and Russia has been making headlines.

“Republicans Who Like Putin,” was the headline last month at The New York Times, which observed: “A few Republicans have gone so far as [to] speak about Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in ways that mimic Russian propaganda. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused Ukraine of having ‘a Nazi army,’ echoing language Putin used to justify the invasion.”

“The Putin Republicans Have the Upper Hand” warned Washington Monthly‘s David Atkins on Wednesday, reporting on “conservative extremists led by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

“They admire the strongman as a Christian nationalist leader, and won’t support Ukraine. The global consequences of their besotted love affair with the Russian strongman could be cataclysmic.”

“Russia Is Buying Politicians in Europe. Is It Happening Here Too?” The New Republic‘s Alex Finley wrote last week. The photo at the top of the page? Marjorie Taylor Greene.

READ MORE: ‘Used by the Russians’: Moskowitz Mocks Comer’s Biden Impeachment Failure

Finley pointed to Greene’s interview with Bannon, “about Ukraine’s persecution of Christians, which is a Kremlin talking point aimed at boosting the pro-Moscow wing of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church. The U.S. should be spending money on the border with Mexico, not on Ukraine aid? That’s a Kremlin talking point. Russia invaded Ukraine to defend itself against an expanding NATO? That’s a Kremlin talking point. Call for a cease-fire, and give Russia Crimea and eastern Ukraine? That’s a Kremlin talking point.”

Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post last week ran this headline: “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she ‘seriously hates’ people who support sending more aid to Ukraine: ‘Most repulsive, disgusting thing happening’.”

Then there is Greene’s obsession with Nazis. Specifically, equating Ukrainians with Nazis, which she did several times over the past week, including on Wednesday. That earned her the condemnation and wrath of U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), who demanded: “Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler.”

Wednesday night, Congressman Moskowitz, known for his use of humor and sarcasm to make his points, declared: “Just submitted an amendment to Bill drafting appointing MTG [Marjorie Taylor Greene] as Putin’s Special Envoy to the United States Congress.”

Moskowitz’s amendment was in response to Congresswoman Greene’s amendments requiring members to “conscript in the Ukrainian military” if they vote for the Ukraine military funding bill, as Juliegrace Brufke reported.

READ MORE: ‘Big Journalism Fail’: Mainstream Media Blasted Over Coverage of Historic Trump Trial

The Florida Democrat wasn’t joking, as Axios’ Andrew Solender pointed out Thursday morning.

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Moskowitz did not stop there.

He drafted legislation on Thursday to name the Capitol Hill offices occupied by Congresswoman Greene after the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, infamous for promoting appeasement in dealing with Adolf Hitler.

Chamberlain also signed the Munich Agreement, which allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia.

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fifth-place Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is ramping up her rhetoric ahead of next week’s first GOP presidential debate, sharpening her spear to target Democrats and President Joe Biden with charges of communism, just as top Trump supporter U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been doing.

Haley, the former Trump UN Ambassador, attempted to paint herself as a reasonable Republican when she was the governor of South Carolina, but is now rated a “Hard Core Conservative” by OnTheIssues. Over the past few years she has positioned herself as tough on China, gradually but increasingly weaving remarks attacking “Communist China,” and the “Chinese Communist Party” into issues here at home.

“The Chinese Communist Party is building missiles and we’re arguing over gender pronouns. China is laughing at us,” Haley declared in June.

Despite her false suggestion that somehow the Chinese military is stronger than the American military, and despite her clear attack on transgender people, Haley earned an “Amen” from Caitlyn Jenner, but rancor from many others.

“I was just in Beijing,” wrote New York Times diplomatic correspondent Edward Wong. “I can tell you I didn’t have a single conversation with anyone about the use of pronouns in the US or about any American ‘culture war’ issues.”

On Wednesday, Haley moved from attacking Communist China and the CCP to accusing the President of the United States of signing into law a “communist manifesto.”

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), part of President Biden’s signature legislation that has helped drop inflation from 9% a year ago in July to just 3%, is now being targeted by Haley.

“The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is a communist manifesto filled with tax hikes and green subsidies that benefit China and make America more dependent on Beijing. While Joe Biden cozies up to Xi Jinping, American families are footing the bill for all this spending,” Haley claimed.

Her rhetoric increasingly mirrors that of far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“It’s an old Republican trope,” Rolling Stone reported earlier this month, “to claim everything Democrats do is communism. But Marjorie Taylor Greene took it to the extreme, as she is wont to do, claiming that with the indictments of Donald Trump, ‘Americans are actually seeing what communism really looks like.'”

“The more times they indict Trump, the more people realize that the Biden administration is a communist regime,” Greene had told Fox News.

And on Tuesday, while again defending Trump, Greene combined his four criminal indictments totaling 91 charges, calling the prosecutions “straight-up communism.”

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In yet another attempt to convince Donald Trump that she should be his Vice-President, Georgia's most rotten peach, Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene, rails against free speech. Greene complains that Trump has had some restrictions placed upon him to prevent his witness tampering and endangering public servants while urging actual free speech be restricted.

It just so happens that people will call fascists fascists, and in the case of MTG and Trump, they are correct. Trump refused to decry neo-Nazis and insisted there were "good people on both sides" when presented with the opportunity. Marge imagined "Jewish Space Lasers" to place blame for wildfires upon Jewish people. Both stand with Nazis and when you do, you aren't "with the Nazis"; you are a Nazi. Nazism is specialized fascism.

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In other news it looks like Greene was well paid for supporting Kevin McCarthy:

In a FEC fundraising report released on Sunday, McCarthy's Majority Committee PAC is listed on two of six PAC donations made to Greene's congressional campaign between July 1 and Sept. 30.

The two $5,000 donations were dated July 19 — just weeks before Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) motion to "vacate the chair" that resulted in McCarthy's ouster.

In all, Greene reported receiving $15,000 from the PAC during the reporting period.

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marjorie Taylor Greene is in a nasty twitter fight with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

On August 15, she warned her followers not to go to Fulton country to show their displeasure at Trump's arrest. "Don't give them an ounce of your flesh," she tweeted. "Let them have their empty streets, barricades, and media circus. "In Georgia, we will SHOW UP at the polls!!!"

But yesterday, she decided to openly defy her own advice by revealing that she went to Fulton County to support Trump. "Tonight, I joined hundreds of Patriots at the Fulton County Jail to support President Trump during his persecution by Communist Atlanta DA Fani Willis."

Marjorie Taylor Greene better watch out. Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't take kindly to people who don't do as she says.

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Why Republicans are 'disproportionately credulous about health-related misinformation': analysis

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 20: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to reporters following a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony about the Biden administration's ongoing plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images).

Brandon Gage August 22, 2023

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, conservative politicians like United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-Georgia), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), and former President Donald Trump established themselves as faucets of "wildly conspiratorial" "health-related misinformation," according to The Washington Post's Philip Bump, who examines why those tactics have been successful amongst Republican votersin a Tuesday analysis of KFF surveys.

"Greene, of course, has a well-earned reputation as a purveyor of conspiracy theories and misinformation," Bump notes. "But this particular bit of performed skepticism was not an area in which she was freelancing. In recent days there has been a resurgence in the idea that the government is attempting to manipulate the citizenry through COVID-19, with 'I WILL NOT COMPLY' trending — yes, in all caps — on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday morning. That refusal to comply centers on nonexistent or theoretical mandates, which doesn't seem to have dissipated the energy."

Bump adds that "new research shows the extent to which Republicans are disproportionately credulous about health-related misinformation. It's not just that there is an uprising against an imaginary imposition, it's also that Republicans are consistently more likely to express belief in false claims related to COVID-19 and other things. Greene is by no means alone."

The data, Bump explains, shows that "Republicans were on average 20 percent more likely to state that they believed the false claims were accurate. Foremost among them: the regularly debunked idea that the coronavirus vaccine has caused thousands of deaths in otherwise healthy people. Nearly half of Republicans think that's true."

Moreover, nearly fifty percent "also think thativermectin is an effective treatment for the COVID-19 virus, which it is not. This has long been a leading example of how partisanship infiltrated the discussion about COVID-19 treatments, with other research showing that in places that voted for Donald Trump, people were more likely to seek information about the drug, and more prescriptions for it were written."

Bump points out that there is a correlation between belief in fake facts about SARS-COV-2 and deaths from the disease, mainly due to doubts about the efficacy of vaccinations, stating that "research made public last year found that after vaccines became widely available, Republicans made up more of the COVID-19-related deaths in Ohio and Florida."

Bump continues, "KFF found that abouttwo-thirds of Democrats didn’t believe any of the false claims about COVID-19 or vaccines. Only about a quarter of Republicans — and not many more independents — fell into the same category."

READ MORE: 'Clearly defined body count': Florida and Ohio Republicans experienced 43 percent more COVID deaths than Dems

Respondents were questioned about "other health-related subjects, including gun violence," Bump adds. "Again, Republicans were more likely than Democrats to believe false claims about gun violence. In this case, independents landed closer to the middle."

Bump contends that partisan bias lies at the heart of the disparity, writing, "The claims centered on COVID-19 and vaccines are largely ones that have been debunked by health professionals or government actors, groups that are viewed more skeptically by independents. KFF's research shows that while most Americans trust their personal doctors' health recommendations, that trust drops off when respondents were asked about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or state and local health officials. Independents were less trusting of state and local health officials' recommendation than were Republicans."

Bump stresses that "Democrats are far more trusting of recommendations from the Biden administration than Trump; for Republicans, it's the opposite," which based on KFF's figures is attributable to the absorption of alternative media narratives

"That Republicans often cite Fox News as a source for information — and are about as likely to say they consume Newsmax as they are to view CNN — comports with the higher acceptance of false claims about guns," says Bump. "These are not generally questions adjudicated in the context of public health (despite the obvious overlap with health concerns). Things like Fox News' frequent presentations about gun crime or school shootings, generally framed through a right-wing lens, likely contribute to the imbalance."

Bump observes that "it's probably less that the respondents believe the false claims than they are willing to express some acceptance of them, given how their politics establishes that as a standard response."

Bump concludes, "In Ohio and Florida, at least, this seems to have been proved — at times — deadly."

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Feds to MTG: Tell us more about that anti-Islam, Nazi-adjacent provocateur who used your credit card

Alexandria Jacobson

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The Federal Election Commission has questions for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) about a credit card charge that ties her congressional campaign to far-right agitator Milo Yiannopoulos and and rapper Kanye West.

Greene’s congressional campaign committee received a letter from the FEC on Tuesday asking for “information essential to full public disclosure of your federal election campaign finances” regarding reimbursement of $7,020.16 that was labeled as “use of campaign credit card for personal expense.”

Let’s back up.

Last month, Raw Story reported on the receipt, which appeared on a financial disclosure submitted to federal regulators by Greene for Congress.

Seemingly, the receipt was reimbursement for Yiannopoulos’ use of the Greene campaign’s credit card in November to purchase a campaign website domain for the yet-to-be-launched 2024 presidential campaign of West.

RELATED ARTICLE: Milo Yiannopoulos settles up with Marjorie Taylor Greene for Kanye West website scandal

Yiannopoulos, who is known for online harassment and making bigoted and controversial statements, including comments seemingly defending pedophilia, worked for Greene as an unpaid intern in 2022, Insider reported.

The reimbursement amount matches the GoDaddy expense on Nov. 22, 2022, for “domain registration and hosting” that Greene previously reported, according to The Daily Beast.

Yiannopoulos’ initial transaction was for the purchase of ye24.com and occurred on the same day that West, who now goes by Ye, dined with former President Donald Trump and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, The Daily Beast reported.

Shortly afterward, West and Fuentes, a Holocaust denier, appeared together on right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ show where West made anti-Semitic comments praising Hitler and Nazis, Politico reported.

West reportedly fired Yiannopoulos, who took credit for setting up the dinner at Mar-a-Lago, in December but rehired him as “director of political operations” in May, according to The Daily Beast.

West ran for president in 2020 but hasn’t officially announced a 2024 run.

The FEC’s request for additional information addressed to Greene’s treasurer, Jason Boles, said, “This receipt appears to be related to an apparent unauthorized use of Committee funds. The Commission notes your explanation of the unauthorized activity. Although the Commission may take further legal action regarding this apparent improper use of Committee funds, any further clarifying information that you can provide will be taken into consideration.”

Boles did not respond to Raw Story’s request for comment at the time of publication.

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'Straight up communism': Nikki Haley echoes Marjorie Taylor Greene rhetoric to attack Democrats

David Badashand The New Civil Rights MovementAugust 16, 2023

Fifth-place Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is ramping up her rhetoric ahead of next week’s first GOP presidential debate, sharpening her spear to target Democrats and President Joe Biden with charges of communism, just as top Trump supporter U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been doing.

Haley, the former Trump UN Ambassador, attempted to paint herself as a reasonable Republican when she was the governor of South Carolina, but is now rated a “Hard Core Conservative” by OnTheIssues. Over the past few years she has positioned herself as tough on China, gradually but increasingly weaving remarks attacking “Communist China,” and the “Chinese Communist Party” into issues here at home.

“The Chinese Communist Party is building missiles and we’re arguing over gender pronouns. China is laughing at us,” Haley declared in June.

On Wednesday, Haley moved from attacking Communist China and the CCP to accusing the President of the United States of signing into law a “communist manifesto.”

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), part of President Biden’s signature legislation that has helped drop inflation from 9% a year ago in July to just 3%, is now being targeted by Haley.

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“The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is a communist manifesto filled with tax hikes and green subsidies thatbenefit China and make America more dependent on Beijing. While Joe Biden cozies up to Xi Jinping, American families are footing the bill for all this spending,” Haley claimed.

Her rhetoric increasingly mirrors that of far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“The more times they indict Trump, the more people realize that the Biden administration is a communist regime,” Greenehad told Fox News.

READ MORE: Trump calls Fani Willis 'a racist' ahead of potential indictments

And on Tuesday, while again defending Trump, Greene combined his four criminal indictments totaling 91 charges, calling the prosecutions “straight-up communism.”

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as far-right extremists continue to coalesce around Donald Trump and his third run for president, women, some of whom were once derided as "mommy bloggers," are taking an increasingly larger role as the faces of the movement.

According to a report from theGuardian, from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to "martyr" Ashli Babbitt, who lost her life in the Jan. 6 riot, increasing numbers of women are recruiting or being used as recruiting tools to draw in other women that one researcher claims are susceptible to finding cults appealing.

As the Guardian's MacKenzie Ryan wrote, “alt-right” women have "shifted to influential public-facing roles in rightwing media production and far-right national politics," as they defend the rioters who stormed the Capitol or ostensibly use the protection of children to push a far-right agenda like the controversial Moms for Liberty."

According to Dr. Sandra Jeppesen of Lakehead University, "[Far-right women] have a lot more power than you think,” adding, "I think women definitely want power. I don’t think ‘alt-right’ women go into politics for altruistic reasons.”

Case in point, the rapid ascension of lawmaker Taylor Greene, with the Guardian reporting, "In the days leading up to 6 January 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the extremist congresswoman from Georgia, paid tens of thousands of dollars for a promoted Parlor post stating the need for a grassroots army and created a Photoshopped image of her and Donald Trump. The post, used as an election fundraiser for Greene’s campaign, garnered millions of views and played a strong role in mobilizing people to the Capitol, Jeppesen explained."

The protection of children is a central selling point to recruiting more adherents with Iowyth Ulthiin, a PhD student at Toronto Metropolitan University, explaining, "Who doesn’t love children and want them to be safe?”

The Guardian report states, "The far right can take the same recruitment posture online. Ulthiin’s research has seen women in the 'mommy blogger aesthetic' on Instagram, known for sharing photos of 'lovely, enviable lives', become subtly political and then escalate rapidly into conspiracy theories."

Ulthiin suggested, "women who fall into the far-right trap often have similar psychological profiles, stating, "It would be a similar crowd to those who are in danger of joining a cult." [link]

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'Simply deranged': MTG lambasted for claiming 'Biden administration is a communist regime'

Maya Boddie August 06, 2023

United States Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) suggested during a Sunday Fox News appearance that America is operating under a system of communism because former President Donald Trump has been prosecuted.

Speaking to Fox host Maria Baritamo, Greene said, "Bidenomics is failing America. People can hardly afford gas. They can hardly afford groceries. And many seniors on a fixed income are choosing between paying rent and being able to buy their medications. People are drowning in inflation and America's failing under Bidenomics. They have no policies to run on. The only thing they can run on is to continue smearing President Trump's name. And I just wanna follow up, Maria, and say the more times they indict Trump, the more people realize that the Biden administration is a communist regime. And for the first time, Americans are actually seeing what communism really looks like, and we have to stand up to this."

The MAGA lawmaker continued, "This is why Republicans in the House, when we come back in September, we have to vote for an impeachment inquiry because it's the right thing to do. Whether Joe Biden $5 to his name for corrupt business deals or whether he took $40 million, it doesn't matter. It's up to Republicans to do the right thing and not allow the Department of Justice to win the 2024 presidential election for Joe Biden."

READ MORE: Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets that 'communists and Democrat activists' got her banned from Twitter

During an MSNBC appearance last month, Politini Media Chief Executive Officer and political analyst Danielle Moodie said "I'm gonna say something unpopular. People need to stop paying attention to the polls and start paying attention to what Joe Biden is actually doing. And the numbers don't lie, Republicans do," Moodie said. "And so that's the thing that we need to hold fast to. Everything that Joe Biden has done since the beginning of his administration, he has been winning. This is actually what winning looks like, not what Donald Trump told us that it was. And so when you look at inflation in comparison to the rest of the world, America is doing incredibly well. You look at the gas prices that came down. You look at the infrastructure bill that was passed, and it was a bipartisan bill. And so what Democrats need to do is just keep hammering down on Bidenomics."

Also last month, economists recognized a significant inflation drop "to the lowest level since March of 2021."

Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi said, "One couldn't ask for a better report on consumer price inflation. Inflation is definitively throttling back, and while today's report overstates the case, there is a strong case that inflation is headed in the right direction. The Fed should rethink the need for more rate hikes."

Furthermore, National Geographic defines communism as a system "based on the goal of eliminating socioeconomic class struggles by creating a classless society in which everyone shares the benefits of labor and the state controls all property and wealth."

READ MORE: 'These people are clowns': GOP senator roasted for video warning 'communists' against visiting his state

According to National Museum of American History, "Capitalism is the economic system in the United States. It is a market economy," meaning "people, not the government, own most businesses. In the U.S., businesses decide what to sell. They decide how much money to charge for products and services. Then people decide what they want to buy. This is called a market economy. The economy is controlled by individual people, not by the government."

Journalists, political strategists and professors blasted the GOP lawmaker's comments via social media.

Director of University of Southern California Center for the Political Future Robert Shrum commented: "This is simply deranged."

Political Strategist Simon Rosenberg said: "The reason MTG and Republicans keep having to invent a party to run against is that aren't going to be able to beat the Democratic Party, the one they will be facing in the election next year."

NYU Law Professor Chase Madar said: "Not sure this even means anything to Americans under 45 (outside Florida). Anti-communism has lost its bite in the land of $699 EpiPens."

Stephen Rodrick, Chief Correspondent at Variety added: "I don't know man, not sure you get to take aremarkably creative home office deduction under communism."

Condé Nast Legal Affairs Editor Luke Zaleski said: "Marge is actively trying to cut the head off the department of Justice and their prosecution of the insurrectionists. She is a traitor and a confederate soldier—not an American public servant—and a growing threat to the rule of law and a free and unified United States of America."

READ MORE: GOPers 'who represent districts that Biden won in 2020' rightfully against impeachment: NPR host

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National Geographic's full report is available at this link. National Museum of American History's report is here.

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in a recent town hall meeting in Gordon County, Georgia, Republican CongresswomanMarjorie Taylor Greene responded to a constituent's call to execute political opponentsby telling the crowd, "I think we're ending on the right note." Medias Touch posted the exclusive video.

"What is the penalty for treason," asked the constituent. "Ok? We know that treason has been released and nobody is prepared to answer for it. Something has got to be done. It's treason.Our country, our Constitution has been stomped on repeatedly… People have got to be tried for treason."

Greene said "yep" to the constituent's treason rant. Another constituent yelled out, "And death penalty!" Greene's response was a laughing affirmation: "I think we're ending on the right note."

Meidas Touch points out that this incident is not the first time Greene has agreed with calls to kill political opponents. "CNN has previously reported that Congresswoman Greene indicated support for executing Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and FBI agents prior to running for office."

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'Putin’s enabler': House Democrat torches MTG’s amendment to defund NATO

Brandon Gage

July 26, 2023

United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) on Wednesday introduced a motion to cut contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by $73 million. Greene belongs to a cohort of right-wing House lawmakers who oppose arming Ukraine in its struggle against Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion.

Defunding NATO, with whom the US is allied in the coalition supplying Ukraine with defensive weaponry, was also an effort that former President Donald Trump undertook while regularly praising Putin.

"We continue to send hundreds of billions of dollars to NATO to defend Ukraine's democracy, even though they aren't even a NATO member nation. Investing in NATO security is an America-last policy," Greene said. "All increases in funding should be investing in the United States of America's security and the defense of our own border. President Trump was exactly right when he called on European nations to put the required minimum of two percent of their GDP towards NATO defense spending."

READ MORE: Greene blasted for 'parroting Kremlin talking points' on Biden Ukraine trip

Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia) panned Greene's proposal as a gift to the Russian dictator.

"Putin benefits from this amendment," Connolly stated. "Putin; a sociopath who is engaged in the most depraved behavior in our lifetimes, killing innocent men and women, targeting hospitals, targeting schools, showing no restraint. This Congress must stand with Ukraine. This Congress can never be seen as Putin's enabler. And that is what this amendment does. That's what's behind it."

Connolly added, "The author of this amendment has already said she wants to give zero to Ukraine. So we know the motivation behind the amendment. Let's reject it. Let's stand with Ukraine."

Watch Connolly's response below courtesy of The Recount or at this link.

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Representative Robert Garcia (D-California) tore into Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday after Greene displayed explicit images of President Joe Biden's son Hunter engaged in sexual acts.

Although Biden was indicted federal tax evasion, the stunt was the GOP's latest gambit in their as-yet evidenceless pursuit of the First Family, all of whom they have accused of corruption.

"'Before we begin, I would like to let the Committee and everyone watching at home [know] that parental discretion is advised,' Greene said before attempting to smear Biden as a sex trafficker," noted Raw Story.

While questioning Internal Revenue Service whistelblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, Garcia recalled that Republicans have failed to pony up the dough on the Bidens, into whom probes commenced under the admininstration of former President Donald Trump.

"So let's first zero in on the bottom line. What we have is two IRS investigators who clearly worked very hard on the Hunter Biden investigation. And thank you both for being here today," Garcia began.

"You both gave recommendations to prosecutors based on your work, which you've described today," Garcia continued. "And then Donald Trump's handpicked prosecutor then made recommendations to charge Hunter. He acted independently and he himself has confirmed this. You did your job making recommendations, and then the prosecutor did his job. You don't have to agree with his conclusions, but that's the bottom line of what we have today at this hearing. But today's hearing is like most of the majorities investigations and hearings — a lot of allegations, zero proof, no receipts, but apparently some d*ck pics."

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'Crazy': Inside the fight that got Marjorie Taylor Greene booted from the Freedom Caucus

Matt Laslo

and Raw Story

July 08, 2023

WASHINGTON – Two years ago, Democrats booted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her committees over racism, conspiracies and threats.

Greene is back in the committee game. But some two weeks ago, the far-right Freedom Caucus in part ousted her for cursing: specifically, for calling Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) “a little b----” on the House floor.

Politicians talk dirty. But not that dirty, at least not within the ranks of the Freedom Caucus — a gleefully brazen band of far-right rabble-rousers with a history of fighting GOP leadership.

In exclusive interviews with Raw Story, one current and two former members of the Freedom Caucus — who requested anonymity to speak candidly about a colleague — described the inner-workings of the group and why its members could no longer tolerate Greene’s antics.

“That’s a big damn deal in there. You don’t have to agree with everybody. What you do have to f------ do is not violate anyone's confidence,” one former Freedom Caucus member told Raw Story. “I can never remember anyone ever yelling at anyone in a Freedom Caucus meeting. Ever.”

The Freedom Caucus is notorious for its methodical secrecy.For one, the group keeps its full membership rolls hidden from the public. And members prize having candid meetings with one another even when there’s fierce intellectual disagreements within the group.

“The sort of code of the members: You disagree with somebody, you still don't burn them down because it's important for you to be able to have an honest discourse,” the former Freedom Caucus member said.

While the former member doesn’t know Marjorie Taylor Greene personally, the former member questioned whether Greene knows herself.

“What’s important to MTG? I don't know the answer to that question — that's rhetorical,” the former Freedom Caucus member asked. “It may have backfired, but it may not have. She may have gotten exactly what she wanted. Who knows?”

Tactics are one thing. Just ask now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). At the start of the year, over 15 Groundhog Day-esque ballots, a mere handful of Freedom Caucus members — along with some of their far-right allies — kept McCarthy in political purgatory until he doled out concession after concession.

Greene — whose aides didn’t make her available for an interview — wasn’t a part of the speaker standoff. She was fully in Camp McCarthy, which also left bitter feelings among some corners of the Freedom Caucus. McCarthy has since rewarded Greene.

Tact is another value Freedom Caucus members prize, and critics say Greene doesn’t have much.

“You can’t say things like that,” the Republican lawmaker told Raw Story. “I really don’t understand these people who will say crazy things just to get in the papers, and — maybe that’s her personality — I would never say anything like that.”

The Freedom Caucus lawmaker fears populist politics is overtaking prudent policy making.

“There are some of the newer members who would prefer to be hardlined, and it does worry me for the future of the Freedom Caucus — because if you push out the intellectual debate aspect, I’ll think you’ll chase off a lot of people,” he said.

While the Freedom Caucus is only eight years old, it’s already strayed from its fiscal conservative roots, according to another former member who has since left the U.S. House but remains in elected office elsewhere.

“When I joined the Freedom Caucus, I was hoping that I’d finally found a place where fiscal conservatives could go— and I think that’s why a lot of other people went there,” the former Freedom Caucus member said. “And then it turned out that, maybe, that wasn’t the major driver even for the Freedom Caucus.”

In the past, the Freedom Caucus was more selective on the front end.

“I don’t think we ever kicked anyone off when I was there,” the former member told Raw Story. “But there were people that wanted to join that we decided not to invite to join and it tended to be people who struggled so hard to articulate their positions in a pleasant way without insulting groups of people that we didn’t want to be identified with them.”

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...In the end, though, the most fiery remarks predictably came from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO). Boebert fumed that there was “no raid of [Hunter Biden’s] crackhouse,” referencing the presidential scion’s well-known battles with substance use.

Greene took it further with a buzzword-filled tweet about the DOJ’s “stunt,” echoing Trumpworld’s unproven claims about President Biden’s corruption schemes and portraying Trump as a helpless victim.

“Meanwhile the pathetic and weaponized DOJ who protects their puppet President and refuses to prosecute Joe Biden and Hunter for taking bribes from Ukrainian oligarchs and raking in tens of millions of dollars from foreign countries bc the Big Guy makes policy decisions to be help his customers are the real crimes the Biden’s should be charged with!” Greene raged.

“Oh but hey, look at Jack Smith trying to throw President Trump in jail for 100 years for legally possessing documents he’s allowed to posses under the Presidential Records Act,” she concluded. “We are controlled by COMMUNISTS!!”

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Hunter Biden is toast

John Byrne June 20, 2023

Hunter Biden Has Pled Guilty

Hunter Biden's lawyers request meeting with attorney after whistleblower alleges mishandling of his case

Today, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to three federal charges, after a long investigation 5 YRS TRUMP GUY DOJ and legal battle. The Justice Department announced the pleading Tuesday in a court filing that President Joe Biden's son would plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of tax evasion and enter a diversion agreement on one felony count of being a drug user in possession of a firearm, according to multiple sources. The Department of Justice has been investigating the younger Biden on possible firearms and tax evasion charges, and House Republicans have been probing his overseas business dealings.

Hunter has also fought invasions into his privacy

The 52-year-old attorney, investor, father of five, and Navy veteran who happens to be the son of the President of the United States, recently called for state and federal investigations into how his personal, private information from his now-infamous laptop was disseminated, according to CBS News.Biden also threatened a defamation lawsuit against former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

The “flurry of letters to the Delaware attorney general, the Department of Justice, the I.R.S. and attorneys for Fox News and Carlson,” CBS reports, “represent an aggressive new strategy for the president’s son, who is facing long-running federal criminal investigations, as well as new probes promised by congressional Republicans, according to a source familiar with Biden’s approach.” “This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team,” the source told CBS News. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.”

Trump Calls Charges a 'Traffic Ticket'

These headlines epitomize Trump's presidency in free fall President Donald J. Trump joined by senior White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway, Senator Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar attends a White House Listening Session on Youth Vaping and Electronic Cigarette Epidemic Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Former President Donald Trump complained the Hunter Biden plea deal was but a "mere 'traffic ticket'" on Tuesday. Hunter Biden, the youngest son of President Joe Biden, was charged Tuesday for not paying income tax and for illegal possession of a firearm, The Washington Post reported. Biden reportedly made a plea deal with the feds, and though the deal needs to go before a federal judge, it's expected that he'll avoid prison. The Hunter Biden plea deal would instead see a sentence of probation for the misdemeanor tax charges, and a diversion program, anonymous sources told the Post. Assuming Biden completes the diversion program, the gun charge—a felony—would be taken off his record, the sources told the paper.

Trump responded to the report on his social media platform Truth Social, alleging corruption in the Joe Biden administration. "Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere 'traffic ticket.' Our system is BROKEN!" Trump wrote.

Trump called for a new election because of Hunter

Hunter Biden reveals that Trump's DOJ is investigating him — just as the president wanted Hunter Biden

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Last August, President Donald Trump on Monday called for a redo of the 2020 election in an angry rant on his app Truth Social. Trump stated that he should be declared the winner of the contest that he lost in a landslide to President Joe Biden, saying, "So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn’t, 'Trump would have easily won the 2020 Presidential Election.' This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country. REMEDY: Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!"

Trump's outrage stemmed from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's revelation to podcaster Joe Rogan that month that the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Zuckerberg that articles relating to Hunter Biden's laptop were pieces of Russian propaganda. Facebook then suppressed posts about the president's son and his computer.

Hunter threatened Marjorie Taylor Greene

These legal experts allege that Marjorie Taylor Greene may have admitted to violating federal law Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia in Tampa, Florida in July 2022 (Gage Skidmore)

In April, Hunter Biden's legal team fired shots Monday at two of his chief Republican antagonists. Biden attorney Abbe Lowell sent letters asking the Treasury Department's inspector general to investigate how former Donald Trump loyalists obtained reports of Biden's alleged "suspicious activity" and seeking a congressional ethics review ofRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's public attacks against President Joe Biden's family, reported Politico's Playbook.

"We write to request the Office of Congressional Ethics initiate a review of and take appropriate action as a result of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA 14th C.D.) suspected violations of House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct," Lowell wrote. "Representative Greene’s unethical conduct arises from her continuous verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of personal photos and data, and promotion of conspiracy theories about and against Robert Hunter Biden. None of these could possibly be deemed to be part of any legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of her statements and actions, and the forums she uses to spew her often unhinged rhetoric."

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rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told a group of women Sunday that Satan hated them because they could have babies.

While appearing at Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Conference, Greene told her version of the biblical creation myth.

"Ladies, you have a great enemy," Greene said. "And it hates you because of who you are. Because you're a woman."

"You see, if you pay close attention to scripture, all the way back in Genesis, it talks about the creation of everything we see, know, feel, hear, everything that exists," she continued. "And it talks about the creation of man and woman. And in Genesis, the Bible tells us that God created us, man and woman, in his image he created us."

According to Greene, God created woman because man was "lonely."

"And when God noticed that man was lonely, he took a rib from the man, Adam, and created woman. Now, woman was different than man. Woman was not the same. Human, yes, but different in amazing ways. Woman Eve, she's beautiful, absolutely stunning," she explained.

But Greene claimed Satan was "jealous" of woman.

"Satan, known to be a fallen angel, he was known to be beautiful as well," she opined. "That was the thing about him. And that's what gave him all the pride within himself, is he wanted to be the most beautiful one."

"That's why Satan hates you," Greene added. "There's another reason why Satan hates women, is because women can do something Satan cannot do, and he wants to be able to do... Satan cannot create life, but women can."

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by closely allying herself with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has become much more of an insider than she was a year ago. But Greene is no less a conspiracy theorist than she was in 2021 or 2022, and that includes bribery claims she has been making against President Joe Biden.

The far-right MAGA congresswoman is claiming, without proof, that the FBI is covering up bribery she alleges Biden committed. During a Thursday night, June 8 appearance on Fox News, Greene told host Laura Ingraham that she read a Biden-related document inside a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).

Greene's critics, however, are saying that instead of making Biden look bad, she may have admitted to committing a federal crime.

Greene, known for promoting QAnon's conspiracy theories and claiming that "Jewish space lasers" were responsible for wildfires in California, told Ingraham, "This is a document that all of America should be able to see. But the FBI is stonewalling us, and they would only let us see it in a SCIF. Well, what I did after reading the document is I made notes when I walked out and I went to the table. And I wrote down everything that I had just read so that I could come out and tell the American people what I read."

A SCIF is used for highly sensitive information, and in most cases, members of Congress are not allowed to repeat information they see inside the facility.

Attorney Mark S. Zaid, in response to Greene's comments on "The Ingraham Angle," tweeted, "Hey @FBI, if this information was classified sounds to me like the Congresswoman is admitting to a crime. And if it was not, @SpeakerMcCarthy should remove her privileges for violating the trust she was afforded as a Member of Congress to review sensitive information."

Retired law professor Christopher G. Moore stressed that taking notes on information viewed inside a SCIF and later discussing it on cable news is a violation of federal law.

In a June 9 tweet, Moore posted, "The right to remain silent is apparently not taught in MAGA schools. For those with security clearance it is their duty under penalty of law to remain silent. These basic concepts are alien to Greene and her fanatical supporters."

Journalist Kaz Weida said of Greene, "I don't know who needs to hear this, but this is also mishandling of classified documents and it's a crime."

Similarly, USA Today columnist Rex Huppke tweeted, "The GOP really needs to get people who are better at doing crimes, because this one was like, 'HEY, EXCUSE ME, IS THERE A CAMERA I CAN DO THIS CRIME IN FRONT OF, PLEASE?'"

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WASHINGTON (TND) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has announced she intends to introduce articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.

Greene said during her press conference on the matter on Thursday that Biden should be removed from his office due to his failure to secure the southern border and because he has "deliberately compromised our national security by refusing to enforce immigration laws and secure our border."

It is with the highest amount of solemnity that I announce my intention to introduce articles of impeachment today on the head of this America-at-last Executive Branch that has been working since January 20th, 2021, to systematically destroy this country: the President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden," Greene announced Thursday.

Greene added that Biden has allowed "approximately six million illegals from over 170 countries to invade our country," and that "his administration has willfully refused to maintain operational control as is required by law."

The impeachment articles against President Biden cap off what Greene calls "impeachment week," during which the congresswoman has also made moves to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,

FBI Director Christopher Wray

and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Greene has yet to release the text of her proposed impeachment articles against Biden, but did share on social media a photo of a piece of paper that reads "NEXT NO. H. RES. 420" in bold printed text with the number being handwritten. The words "Impeaching Joseph R. Biden" are scribbled in handwriting at the bottom of the paper.

The impeachment articles against President Biden come as his administration faces what The Washington Post called "one of his thorniest policy challenges yet" as Title 42, a pandemic-era immigration policy that restricted incoming migrants coming from countries where communicable diseases were present, came to an end on May 11.

Over 10,000 migrants were encountered along the southern border on May 9 alone, according to Homeland Security officials. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told The National Desk that community leaders have been told there will be "just too many people to even process."

President Biden has already said that "we’re doing all we can" in regard to the U.S. southern border, but added that "it’s going to be chaotic for a while."

More than 2.6 million people have been reportedly expelled from the U.S. under Title 42. Since Title 42 has ended, the impending migrant crisis that so many have warned of seemingly has yet to occur.

The National Desk reports that while the border is still backed up and the reported number of crossings remains high, other than a last-minute surge experienced near the end of Title 42, the situation has been "on par" with the numbers experienced over the last several months.

However, events at the border continue to make headlines and draw criticism. Less than 24 hours before Title 42 was set to end, an Afghan national who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) terror watchlist was arrested at the U.S. southern border. On Wednesday, an 8-year-old child reportedly died while in Border Patrol custody.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia, on Tuesday was the highest bidder among House Republicans for a cherry “chapstick” used by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Greene, who promotes herself as a culture warrior and fiscal conservative, made the winning bid for the lip balm after McCarthy sweetened the deal by promising to attend a donor dinner, according to reports.

“During GOP conference today,” Politico’s Olivia Beavers reports, “House Rs did about a 15-min fundraising auction for chapstick used by Speaker McCarthy. The winner: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose winning bid was $100,000, her Spox confirms to me.”

“Others bid on it as well, but MTG ultimately won: And as bidding went on, McCarthy would sweeten the deal, throwing in agreeing to attend a dinner with donors/supporters for whoever wins, Spox confirmed,” Beavers adds, citing Greene’s spokesperson. “The chapstick specifically was a Rep. Aaron Bean campaign chapstick.”

Speaker McCarthy has been allegedly negotiating with President Joe Biden over the debt ceiling. If Republicans refuse to raise the debt limit, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns by June 1, the U.S. will default on its debt for the first time in history. Experts say the result will likely have global ramifications, drive interest rates sky high, and devastate the U.S. and world economies. It will also destroy international confidence in the American dollar, and permanently increase the interest rate the U.S. spends on its debt.

It is if the $100,000 came from Greene’s personal funds or if it is donor money.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) responded to the news, saying, “They doing this insane chapstick shit while the country teeters on default. Wild.”

“$100,000 spent on used chapstick,” said podcaster Rachel Vindman. “Please bring this up when people say this woman is relatable and down-to-earth.”...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) called into bankrupt right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars on Thursday and lavished him with praise for the specious information that he feeds to his audience.

"Alex, you have been, uh, a true leader. You, you are an original. You've always been telling the truth to the American people and making sure that they're informed on everything," Greene said.

Jones was very publicly rebuked last year when he was ordered to pay more than a billion dollars in damages to the families of the victims who were slaughtered in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Jones, an outspoken 9/11 Truther, also peddled former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election ahead of his failed coup at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

But none of that was apparently important to Greene, who has engaged in 9/11 Trutherism, bullied survivors of school shootings, kicked a constituent, attended white nationalist-hosted events, and voted to nullify President Joe Biden's victory over Trump.

Greene giddily continued praising Jones.

"I really thank you and I commend you for standing in the face of unbelievable attacks against you, um, not only you, but your family that stands behind you and your staff that work so hard to in, in this important cause. Um, you were right all along," Greene declared. "This is an information war and it's time for our side to start fighting that war and fight it in the same way that they fight us."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she feels 'threatened' by Black Democratic congressman

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David Badash andThe New Civil Rights Movement May 18, 2023

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Thursday she feels “threatened” by U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), claiming his “physical mannerisms are aggressive,” “there’s a lot of concern” about him, and “he’s someone that people should watch,” after video of the two outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday shows both having a surprisingly lively, collegial debate, and laughing and joking.

CNN aired video of the two lawmakers:

But Thursday, Greene tried to build a case against Bowman, claiming that at a recent New York City protest rally against Donald Trump, Rep. Bowman was “shouting at the top of his lungs, cursing, calling me a horrible – calling me a white supremacist, which I take great offense to. That is like calling a person of color the N word which should never happen. Calling me a white supremacist is equal to that and that is wrong. Jamaal Bowman was down there cursing at me telling me to get the eff out of there. And he was leading the mob.”

After having attempted to paint the New York Democratic Congressman as dangerous, Greene declared, “I think there’s a lot of concern about Jamaal Bowman, so and I am concerned about, I feel threatened by him. He not only let a mob there, but his boisterous lies.”

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Greene apparently also took offense that Congressman Bowman urged her and the entire House Republican caucus to save their party after unanimously blocking a Democratic resolution on Wednesday to expel Congressman George Santos (R-NY), after he was indicted on 13 federal criminal felony charges last week. Bowman’s suggestion was in earlier times, political parties were expected to take responsibility for their corrupt members.

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“And I’ll tell you another thing he said outside there, he was saying save your party.’ I kept telling him no, ‘save the country.’ It’s not about political parties. We shouldn’t care about political parties. We should care about the country, because no matter what our political beliefs are Jamaal Bowman I don’t know what his political beliefs are. I know what mine are. But we both we both swore an oath to serve the country here in Congress’s representatives.”

She then issued a warning against the New York Democratic lawmaker, declaring, “I am very concerned about Jamaal Bowman, and he’s someone that people should watch.”

But Greene has a documented history of racist remarks. Three years ago, as a candidate, Republicans distanced themselves from her, “after POLITICO uncovered hours of Facebook videos in which she expresses racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views,” the news outlet reported in June of 2020.

Greene “suggested that Muslims do not belong in government; thinks black people ‘are held slaves to the Democratic Party’; called George Soros, a Jewish Democratic megadonor, a Nazi; and said she would feel ‘proud’ to see a Confederate monument if she were black because it symbolizes progress made since the Civil War.”

“Now,” Politico reported at the time, “GOP lawmakers, aides and operatives fear Greene — a wealthy businesswoman who has already drawn national attention because of her belief in a trove of QAnon ” conspiracy theories — could create an even bigger black eye for the party if she wins the nomination.”

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In December of 2021 Greene was accused of using a “racial slur,” according to The Independent, which also reported she “has a history of remarks that have drawn accusations of racism. In the past few weeks, she has accused her Muslim-American colleagues in the US House of Representatives of being ‘Islamic terrorist sympathizers’ and called one member in particular, Rep Ilhan Omar, ‘pro-Al Qaeda.'”

In February of 2022 Greene was highly criticized for speaking “at a white nationalist conference in Orlando,” and then mocked after claiming she was unaware of what it was.

Last fall Greene came under criticism for making remarks that “echoed the ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory long promoted by white nationalists that nonwhite immigrants could eventually displace native-born white Americans,” Spectrum News reported.

In a December, 2021 opinion piece at The Daily Beast, Kali Holloway wrote about Greene and her Republican colleague from Colorado, Rep. Lauren Boebert.

READ MORE: ‘Impossibly Wrong’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Leveled for Providing ‘Absurd’ Cover for Violent Trump Followers

“She and Boebert spew racist talking points and stoke white terror like it’s their jobs, mostly because it is. The GOP ‘big tent’ has a come-one-come-all policy for white racists, white supremacists, and white nationalists from every walk of life. Boebert and Greene are just faithfully representing a voting base that overwhelmingly thinks America’s most pressing problem is that white status-loss leaves white people vulnerable to being treated like Black people.”

Watch a clip of Congresswoman Greene below, and video of her and Congressman Bowman above, or both at this link.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday blamed "mental illness, drugs, and evil forces" for a mall shooting in Allen, Texas, where [8?] deaths are confirmed.

Multiple people were shot and some were killed at a mall in Allen, Texas, CNN reported. The network also reported that the gunman was believed to be acting alone, and that he was killed on the scene.

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"This is the piece of shit that took innocent lives today," he wrote. "Thank GOD that a brave police officer ran into the line of fire to kill this demon."

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She added, "Thank God for the brave officer that courageously ran into the line of fire to save others."

Greene's tweet didn't address the existing gun laws in Texas, nor did it talk about the possibility of firearm reform in the U.S., butit did lay the blame at the feet of unidentified "forces." She also offered the victims prayers.

"We pray [vs funding?] for the victims and their families and an end to the mental illness, drugs, and evil forces that cause people to commit such horrors," according to the congresswoman from Georgia.

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HHS committee [GOP] leaders agree to silence Marjorie Taylor Greene after Mayorkas lying accusation

Meaghan Ellis April 20, 2023

Republican and Democratic lawmakers part of the House Homeland Security Committee have both agreed to block Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from speaking after her accusations leveled against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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The controversial lawmaker's remarks came on Tuesday, April 18. During the session, Greene accused "a colleague of an extramarital affair while agreeing to withdraw her comments accusing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of being a liar" for failing to prevent the flow of fentanyl into the United States, the Hill reports.

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“You’re a liar. You are letting this go on and the numbers prove it,” she charged.

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Reacting to Greene's remarks, Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) offered a blistering rebuke as he admitted that he was "appalled" by the lawmaker's actions.

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“I’ve been on this committee from Day 1. We’ve never had an accusation made of any member like that. And I’m appalled at it. We all ought to be embarrassed at it. We are a better committee than what the gentlelady is trying to make of this committee. So I appeal the ruling of the chair,” he said.

Initially, the Democrats' motion to silence Greene failed due to an 11-9 vote but just minutes after, Democrats managed to prevail.

Thompson attempted to have Greene's remarks removed but the lawmaker declined the option to withdraw.

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“We’ve gotten to the point of the language that we’re using is not the kind of language that historically we as members of this committee [have] used. And, again, I just think in the interest of civility of this committee, I would implore all of the members that I understand that strength and concern, but you know, there’s a way that we ought to conduct ourselves. What I’m hearing is not how a majority of this committee conducts business,” he said.

At that point, the Republican chairman intervened and conceded that Greene's remarks were a violation of House rules.

Watch that full exchange below or at this link.

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Dr. Mark Lowenthal accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of misleading the public about the origins of Covid-19.

During a House hearing on Covid-19 Tuesday, Greene complained that the government could track down alleged military leaker Jack Teixeira but couldn't determine the origins of the virus.

"So, the intelligence community is able to figure out immediately who was leaking classified information in a Discord chat, but yet still doesn't want to say whether it came from the lab or didn't come from the lab," Greene said. "The intelligence communities seem to release or not release information based on how the information will affect the government that it seems to protect."

Lowenthal, a former intelligence agent, responded to Greene.

"May I respond to something else that you said in your comments, Ms. Greene?" he began. "There is a vast, vast difference between tracking a leak on a social media site and determining the origins of this disease. And to compare the two is entirely fallacious, ma'am."

"Dr. Lowenthal, you've said that you keep your intelligence claims and information nonpartisan," Greene shot back. "In 2018, Mr. Lowenthal, you were quoted in the New York Times saying that President Trump is the best president that Russia ever had. That sounds pretty political to me."

"I was no longer an intelligence officer at the time, ma'am," Lowenthal replied. "I'm a private citizen."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Monday lashed out at the federal government for the prosecution of alleged leaker Jack Teixeira.

While appearing on the War Roombroadcast with host Steve Bannon, Greene suggested that Teixeira had been caught up in a conspiracy to leak military secrets.

"But just like the fall guy from Afghanistan was Stu Scheller, and he was the only one that got arrested from that debacle," Greene said, "now we have Jack, the 21-year-old National Guardsman, that they want to make the biggest traitor in America, and anyone that defends him or says, wait a minute, what is really going on? Well, you become a traitor too. And that's what they're trying to say about me."

Bannon wondered if Greene believed Teixeira, as a "Grundon" in the National Guard, could have had access to national security secrets.

"No, I don't buy it," the lawmaker replied. "And if he did, our country is a joke. Our country is a joke. If that kid had full access to all this classified information, then you might as well forget it. We're done. We're absolutely done."

Greene agreed that Teixeira must "face some penalties," but she insisted "there's a lot more there, and it needs to be exposed."

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday posted a scientifically illiterate tweet about climate change that left many of her followers stunned.

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In trying to play down the threat posed by a warming planet, Greene wrote a lengthy, nonsensical post that did not even attempt to discuss the actual science behind climate change.

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"If you believe that today’s 'climate change' is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled," she wrote. "We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one another while our galaxy rotates and travels through the universe. Considering all of that, yes our climate will change, and it’s totally normal!"

In fact, scientists have found that the Earth's climate was relatively stable for thousands of years until the end of the 20th Century, when human activity pumped increased the amount of carbon being pumped into the atmosphere, which caused global temperatures to spike.

Greene is correct, however, that the Earth does revolve around the sun, which means she likely does not subscribe to the "flat Earth" conspiracy theory.

Many of Greene's followers jumped in to mock her for completely bungling the science behind climate change.

Brant Beckman, a meteorologist at South Dakota-based news station KNBN, attacked Greene for displaying a graph in her post that purportedly debunked climate change despite the fact that it had absolutely nothing to do with the amount of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere.

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"If you tried to present this graph in a basic statistics course, the teacher would have thrown a chair at the chalkboard," he wrote. "These are nonsense words. Like pretending you speak German by mumbling strange words together."

WAOW meteorologist also took note that Greene's graph did not include anything about carbon dioxide emissions, so he replied to her tweet showing her a graph showing the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere over time.

Ryan Matoush, a meteorologist at KNST News Topeka, was similarly floored by Greene's total ineptitude at grasping basic scientific concepts.

"It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that someone like this holds a position of power and responsibility - where did we go so wrong??" he asked.

NASA climate scientist Chris Colose sarcastically thanked Greene for debunking his entire work by spouting utter nonsense.

"Good news climate Twitter! We forgot that the Earth spins and revolves so it’s time to pack up and go home," he joked.

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During an appearance on Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), the Georgia lawmaker compared Trump's prosecution to Jesus and Nelson Mandela, insisting they were all prosecuted by what she described as "radical corrupt governments."

“Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today. Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison. Jesus! Jesus was arrested and murdered," she said.

Greene's remarks come as Trump faces his arraignment in connection with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation into hush payments made to Stormy Daniels, the adult film star he is said to have had an affair with.

Although the media requested for the arraignment to be televised, that request was denied by a judge.

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as part of her interview with CBS News' Lesley Stahl, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was asked about some of her past actions, like chasing school shooting survivor David Hogg from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Greene didn't appreciate the questions about it, saying that it doesn't show the full breadth of her life.

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One of the things Greene yelled at Hogg was that if he was protected at school by security guards, there wouldn't be mass shootings. The MSD high school had a security guard, however. It didn't help.

Stahl also asked Greene about her claims that Democrats were a "party of pedophiles."

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"They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?" asked Stahl.

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"Democrats, democrats support," she struggled. "Even Joe Biden, the president himself, supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children."

"Wow. Okay," Stahl said, clearly taken aback.

Children aren't allowed to have transgender surgeries, and it's something that Republicans continue to be fact-checked on.

Transgender children and those with gender identity issues are about who they are, not about being sexually molested. So, it's unclear how Greene jumps from transgender people to pedophiles. Greene provided no other evidence of "sexualizing children" other than her problem with gender identity.

"But my question really is, can't you fight for what you believe in without all that name-calling and without the personal attacks?" asked Stahl.

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"Well, I would ask the same question to the other side, because all they've done is call me names and insult me nonstop since I've been here, Lesley. They call me racist. They call me anti-semitic, which is not true. I'm not calling anyone names. I'm calling out the truth, basically."

"Pedophile?' Stahl asked again.

"Pedophile — call it what it is," Greene said.

Those who fight actual child sex trafficking and work to help protect child molestation have spoken out about the Republicans using such language so casually, saying that it belittles the very real struggles survivors have faced. At the same time, it also diminishes the word by using it as an insult for anyone that supports LGBTQ rights.

Greene has never offered an apology to those she belittles with her attacks, much less to Democrats she has lied about.

See the segment below or at the link here.

Marjorie Taylor Greene struggles when asked to justify her 'over the top' attacks on Democrats

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r. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is being mocked and criticized after issuing an off-the-rails rant defending Donald Trump after the ex-president was indicted late Thursday afternoon.

Trump reportedly will face over 30 charges when he is arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday, two weeks after he claimed would be the day he would be arrested. In that infamous social media post Trump also urged his supporters to “protest!”

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Congresswoman Greene, an ultra-MAGA acolyte and far-right extremist, on Friday announced she will travel to New York City to show her support for the indicted ex-president.

“I’m going to New York on Tuesday. We MUST protest the unconstitutional WITCH HUNT!” she tweeted.

Her remarks came barely hours after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sent a six-page letter to House Republican Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan warning that Congress must not “interfere” with the prosecution of Donald Trump. It accused him and two other top Republicans of “an improper and dangerous usurpation,” “attempted interference with an ongoing state criminal investigation,” and warned them against “unlawful political interference.”

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That letter specifically called out Congresswoman Greene for her rhetoric, noting “some committee members have explicitly stated an intent to interfere with the state proceeding.”

“For example, responding to Trump’s statement that he would be arrested, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene stated that ‘Republicans in Congress MUST subpoena these communists and END this! We have the powerto do it and we also have the power to DEFUND their salaries and departments!’ … and that Republicans who ‘do nothing to stop’ the prosecution ‘will be exposed to the people and will be remembered, scorned, and punished by the base.’”

Clearly his warning had little impact on the far-right Georgia Member of Congress.

In response to Greene’s Friday morning tweet, former U.S. Congressman David Jolly, also a former Republican, appeared to suggest she was encouraging an untoward response.

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“Lighting the match,” he tweeted.

NBC News senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake appearing to suggest it was a bad idea, responded by saying, “The situation downtown Tuesday is going to be tense. Narrow streets. Tons of press. Lots of police from different jurisdictions already highly visible.”

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Top CBS News reporter Robert Costa responded to Greene’s remarks, noting: “By order, NYPD officers here in lower Manhattan, outside the court, are already in full uniform, bracing for protests next week…”

Condé Nast legal affairs editor Luke Zaleski, also responding to Greene, wrote: “They want to incite violence in NYC.”

“Marge is a confederate soldier not an American public servant,” Zaleski added. “She has taken over Congress and wants to destroy the nation from inside. She admits it. Her public agenda is reinstalling a criminal traitor she’s obstructing justice for and breaking up the United States of America.”

Meanwhile, journalist Helen Kennedy appeared to not take Greene’s remarks – or Greene – seriously.

“Clown hurries to circus,” she tweeted.

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last Friday, United States Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), Mike Collins (R-Georgia), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Florida), Byron Donalds (R-Florida), Robert Garcia (D-California), and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) visited the Washington Corrections Department in the District of Columbia where twenty defendants are awaiting trial for their roles in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection.

Greene and other right-wing loyalists to former President Donald Trump have insisted that conditions inside the jail are deplorable and that the detainees are victims of "inhumane treatment" akin to the notorious American military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

After their tour, Greene and her colleagues held a press conference where they again asserted that their comrades are unjustly suffering.

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"It's been over two years and this is continuing on, and while theAntifa, BLM rioters, over ninety-five percent of their charges were dropped, none of our January 6th, uh, pre-trial defendants' charges are dropped," Greene complained toReal America's Voice.}:

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"As a matter of fact," she continued of the largest investigation in the history of the Justice Department, "they're treated like political prisoners and the Department of Justice is going to continue to arrest one thousand to twelve hundred more protesters."}:

Crockett disagreed, according to The New York Times:

'My frame of reference comes out of Arkansas jails, Texas jails. Listen, this is so much different and so much better,' Ms. Crockett said, adding that detainees elsewhere in the D.C. facility were kept in worse, more cramped conditions. 'I don’t think the January 6ers would want to go the other way.'

Crockett further revealed that the "January 6th [defendants] had more access to technology [than other defendants]," CBS News reported on Saturday. "They have access to laptops and tablets. It's unlike anything I've ever seen."

READ MORE: 'They've got a barbershop': House Dem. schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on the reality of U.S. jail conditions

But what social media observers noticed in the clip that was posted to Twitter on Tuesday was Greene's use of the word "our," which many interpreted as an inadvertent confession that Republicans support the insurrectionist movement that Trump fomented and continues to stoke.

Recall that on January 6th, Greene voted against certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 Electoral College victory over Trump. Greene went on to boast in December that "if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won."

MsConduct: "From the f*ck around & find out files."

Wall(-e) Street: "'They're not dropping charges against people caught on camera committing crimes is quite the thing to whine about."

Romeo McFluorish, Electron Thief: "Exactly. Not the flex she thinks it is."

Logan Davis: "They're political in the sense that her political leader inspired them towards political violence."

Merrily awaiting: "Yes, the January 6th detainees do belong to her political ideology."

Eagledale: "It's hardly unusual for a terrorist to label themself as a political prisoner when they face the consequences for their actions."

Stelenj: "How come it took 900 white people being arrested to get her to care about conditions in prison? And when will she be visiting the prisons in her own state? It seems like there are a lot more problems there than here."

Kyle Schwerin: "@RepMTG literally out here admitting blatantly that she is an insurrectionist. Yet the House is not going to do anything, because they're all spineless cowards."

Greene has also falsely alleged that the Capitol attackers belonged to Antifa and Black Lives Matter, which commenters viewed as contradictory to what she claimed on Friday as well as in her previous condemnations of those democratic causes.

Audrey: "So… they are being detained because they 1) can't make bail, 2) won't make bail, or 3) have been deemed too dangerous or a flight risk to get bail? What is it Marge? There's a reason they are still there, and much of that reason is up to them."

Wilda Uhrig: "How do you tell that they're being treated like 'political' prisoners as opposed to criminal prisoners? Is it because they get to have tablets that allow them to access the internet and make calls that criminals don't get?"

Paul Allen: "I thought they were Antifa and BLM and FBI insiders? I can't keep up."

Rachel M. Horne: "But weren't they ANTIFA and BLM? Poor Marge. She just can't keep her lies straight."

Ken: "Wait I thought it was ANTIFA."

Watch the Real America's Voice segment below or at this link.

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"The ATF's ongoing, unconstutional [sic] attacks on the Second Amendment must end," Greene's office stated of the Brian A. Terry Memorial Eliminate the ATF Act, which went nowhere because Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress. The typo still appears on Greene's website.

Like most right-wing lawmakers, Greene is steadfastly opposed to any form of sensible gun control, even as thousands of Americans are killed by bullets every year. But Monday's mass shooting at the private Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee that claimed the lives of at least six people marked an escalation in Greene's rhetoric and actions aimed at thwarting efforts to save lives.}:

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Footage of the confrontation was posted to Twitter along with a screenshot of Greene boastfully writing that the ATF abandoned its assignment "after we questioned their motives."

In the video, Greene flexed her power.

"We're members of Congress," she said, adding that "I serve on the Oversight Committee."}:

READ MORE: Watch: Jamie Raskin shreds Marjorie Taylor Greene at hearing for sympathizing with insurrectionists

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Jayme Ruimveld: "Is this today? Is she running her mouth about guns while children have been murdered by guns at their preschool? Not a shred of decency. Not an ounce of respect or concern for the grieving families. Absolutely soulless."

Kat: "And they're worried about gun vendors, feeling threatened!"

Judy Miron: "There are 7 more people dead, 3 of them children today in Nashville.. and she complains about ATF inspections!! Time to get rid of her. Vote her out!!"

Michelle: "Marge is nothing but a heartless hateful little troll."

Leon: "Meanwhile children died today at a Christian School, but hey as long as your precious 2nd Amendment that was written for Flintlock rifles is protected right."

Cathy Coleman: "There is something very wrong with MTG and the Republican members of Congress who hover around her & follow her lead. Something beyond dirty politics or unbridled ambition - there is a menacing wickedness and cruelty about them all."

ZoëbethC-MeidasMighty: "Just as another shooter shows up in Tennessee to kill elementary school kids. They got their priorities straight. I bet after lunch it's more bills to ban Drag Shows on a federal level."

Marcus Flowers: "As America grieves over yet another school shooting, this time in Nashville, Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to prevent the ATF from doing their job. Common Sense Gun Legislation is necessary. We must do something to protect our children."

Seth Abramson: "Marjorie Taylor Greene is all about 'good guys with guns' until a violent insurrectionist smashes the window of the Speaker's Lobby inside a closed-to-the-public United States Capitol so a military veteran can leap into the breach and kidnap or kill a sitting member of Congress."

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reacting to a report that Donald Trump is likely to be indicted next week in a Manhattan courtroom by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and the former president's claim on Truth Social early Saturday that he will be arrested on Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) flipped out on Twitter and called for the defunding of the Department of Justice.

On Truth Social, in a two-part, all-cap post littered with misspellings, the former president wrote, in part: "NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!"

That led to the controversial Georgia Republican to demand "Enough of this!" and attack the DOJ.

"If the Manhattan DA indicts President Trump, he will ultimately win even bigger than he is already going to win. And those Republicans that stand by and cheer for his persecution or do nothing to stop it will be exposed to the people and will be remembered, scorned, and punished by the base. President Trump did nothing wrong and has always fought for the American people, and we all know it, which is why we love him.

And any Republican who thinks the Democrats will stop this madness once Trump is out of the way is fooling themselves," she wrote. "Weaponized Government and Political Persecution are new chapters in their playbook and they will use those methods against anyone who stands in their way. And we are absolutely fed up with the two-tiered justice system or rather INJUSTICE system in America. The base has had enough of Republicans that won’t stand up for the people and against the Democrats war against Trump, his admin, his supporters, and traditional values."

She then continued, "We must bring in the Biden DOJ officials who have been coordinating with the Manhattan DA to testify. And subpoena all of it. We must end the weaponization of government power for politics."

"Biden’s DOJ is coordinating with the Democrat Manhattan DA to arrest Donald Trump, the top Republican Presidential candidate for 2024, and charge him with a fake outdated misdemeanor charge. It’s ALL FOR POLITICS! This is what they do in communists countries to destroy their political opponents! Republicans in Congress MUST subpoena these communists and END this! We have the power to do it and we also have the power to DEFUND their salaries and departments! Enough of this! The American people deserve a government that actually works for them NOT a bunch ofself centered communistswho bail out their donors, protect the elites, and weld their power to punish their political enemies!" she concluded.

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furious Tara Setmayer dropped the hammer on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon for not only allowing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)to act as speaker pro tempore on Wednesday in his place -- but for also embracing her and promoting her in the party with key committee assignments.

Appearing on "The Alex Witt Show" on MSNBC, theformer GOP campaign consultant was asked about Greene's high-profile Wednesday gig and immediately went on a tirade about the controversial Georgia lawmaker, eventually calling her a "degenerate," before attacking McCarthy.

Pointing out that Taylor Greene was handed the gavel by McCarthy on International Women's Day, Witt prompted her guest with, "What a difference two years makes from being removed from all of her committees to having the speaker's gavel. What does this say, Tara, about Marjorie Taylor Greene's increasing influence in the party?"

"First of all, hearing that makes my stomach turn and it should make every American stomach turn that this woman, this Confederate-wannabe, insurrectionist, degenerate, whatever sits behind and has the speaker's gavel and preside over anything in the House of Representatives."

'It's bad enough to tax dollars pay her salary," she continued before adding, "It says more about Kevin McCarthy than it does about her -- she is who she is."

"And you know we see her despicable contemptible behavior all of the time," she added. "It's that Kevin McCarthy is a coward and he has decided that he will acquiesce to this MAGA side of the Republican Party which has now overtaken the mainstream Republicans. He has as part of this Faustian bargain, he has done everything possible he can to lick the boots of MAGA in order to have that position including putting that woman in positions of power."

"That tells you everything you need to know about where the Republican party is today and why it's irredeemable," she added.

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March 5, 23 people, including a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild, were charged with domestic terrorism after an intense demonstration against a planned police training facility in Atlanta. Tom Jurgens, an employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center who was there as a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild, has been the target of a right-wing media smear campaign claiming that the SPLC condones violence and has colluded with antifa.

Far-right activist Andy Ngo posted about the SPLC connection to one of those arrested on Twitter on March 6, and prominent right-wing media figures including Tucker Carlson and Jack Posobiec picked it up.

The confrontation with police occurred during a music festival held as part of a week of action in opposition to “Cop City,” a $90 million facility that many say was approved largely absent community input. Atlanta is already a highly policed area, and the facility will uproot parts of a culturally significant forest that is one of Atlanta’s largest remaining green spaces in a predominantly low-income, Black area.

According to police, hundreds of activists broke away from the concert and breached the site of the project. Footage from the construction site appears to show construction equipment on fire while protesters threw rocks and fireworks at police. Music festival attendees and community organizers alleged that arrests were made “indiscriminately” at the festival, which was about a mile away from the training facility and occurred an hour after the action took place. According to an attorney for some of the defendants, there has yet to be a charge for arson or interference with government property and arrest warrants cited evidence such as activists simply having mud on their shoes.

Police initially arrested 35 people. In response to Jurgens' arrest, SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang said in a statement:

“Tom was performing a public service, documenting potential violations of protesters’ rights. We are outraged that police officers present at the protest refused to acknowledge Tom’s role as a legal observer and instead chose to arrest him.”

Right-wing media are trying to delegitimize SPLC by suggesting it condones hate and violence and falsely claiming the group helped coordinate the event:

Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Center, told Newsmax host Chris Salcedo that the SPLC is “in bed with antifa”: “What's so bad about this is that you have the Southern Poverty Law Center that is anti-law enforcement, anti-government, they’re in bed with antifa, but yet they hold themselves out as being the definer of groups that are anti-government. … This isn't the fox guarding the henhouse; this is the fox living in the henhouse, dining on chicken.” Newsmax, The Chris Salcedo Show, [3/7/23]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Fox host Sean Hannitythat antifa members are “the ground troops of the Democrat party”:“You wouldn't be surprised to find out that the Southern Poverty Law Center, their own attorney, was one of them. This is who the Democrat party is. They are domestic terrorists, and antifa needs to be held accountable. And the Department of Justice better start doing their job.:{” Fox News, Hannity, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[3/7/23:{]}:

Dinesh D’Souza called the SPLC a hate group: “The SPLC is itself a hate group, but a hate group on the side of the left. And so they promote violence. … Very often when you’ve got these rioters on the streets, you’ve got lawyers with the SPLC and other groups running around with the rioters and their idea is to quote ‘collect evidence’ that can be used to defend these people if and when they are arrested.” Salem Podcast Network, The Dinesh D’Souza Podcast, [3/7/23]

Former Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston falsely alleged that SPLC coordinated the attack: “The Southern Poverty Law Center was the group that apparently coordinated that. That's who the lawyer worked for. I do think he should be disbarred, but it was actually an orchestrated attack.” Newsmax, Wake Up America, [3/7/23]

New York Post reporter Jon Levine implied that the Biden administration and SPLC turn a blind eye to domestic terrorism: “Let’s just put the shoe on the other foot here, Maria. Can you imagine if 23 Proud Boys were arrested for attacking a gender reassignment clinic in Atlanta? I mean, we’d already have — President Biden would probably already be down there giving a speech.” Fox Business, Mornings with Maria, [3/7/23]

:{Former Georgia Rep. Vernon Jones said the FBI should investigate the SPLC:“I would like to see the FBI investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center, because he [Jurgens] cannot be the lone wolf, the lone actor. … And if they were to delve into that organization, who's supposed to be about anti-hate, which this really, they reflect on, this individual reflecting so much hate, I think they'll find where not only has it been funded, but you’ll see others that have been involved in this prior to this incident and other incidents.” :{Newsmax, :(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}:John Bachman Now, [3/7/23]}:

The New York Post wrote that the SPLC “lost its moral standing” by refusing to call antifa a hate group.New York Post, [3/6/23]

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “So is SPLC officially a domestic terroristgroup?” Twitter, [3/6/23]

Libs of TikTok:“The Southern Poverty Law Center called me a terrorist for posting a flyer of a publicly available drag show. Turns out one of their attorneys is an Antifa member and was arrested for domestic terrorism. It’s always projection with them.” Twitter, [3/6/23]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson and anchor Trace Gallagher said SPLC propogates hate and attacks its political opponents: Carlson said SPLC “exists solely to destroy the lives of anyone who stands in the way of the Democratic Party.” Gallagher claimed the center has “long been accused of monitoring hate while propagating hate” and that it defines hate as “anything SPLC disagrees with.” Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, [3/6/23]

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt said people like Jurgens want to “kill you and destroy your country.”:“These are all a bunch of angry white kids that still live at home at the age of 28 and hate capitalism. … One is allegedly an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the same organization which the FBI’s Richmond division recently used as a source for equating traditionalist Catholics to violent extremists.” Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, [3/6/23]

Human Events editor, neo-Nazi affiliate, and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec called the legal observers an “antifa degenerate.”: “Here is a photo of the 23 Antifa degenerates arrested for Domestic Terrorism in GA last night after torching gov’t equipment and throwing rocks at cops. 1 of them is a lawyer for the SPLC. Sponsor? Almost all are from out of state. Proof that Antifa is a nationwide terrorist organization.” Truth Social, [3/6/23]

Lauren Witzke, a far-right political activist and president of the Stew Peter Network, posted to Gab an image of Jurgen’s LinkedIn profile: “An SPLC staff attorney was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism at last night’s #Antifa ‘Stop Cop City’ riot in Atlanta. Now It’s time to shut down the ENTIRE SPLC terrorist operation.” Gab, [3/6/23]

Far-right troll Eoin Lenihan:“Highly significant! An SPLC attorney arrested in Atlanta last night for terrorism. The SPLC is currently the biggest ally of Antifa relying on their hacked materials & doxes of individuals for their “hate watch” list. The SPLC actively hires Antifa “researchers” & “journalists”… Twitter, [3/6/23]

Andy Ngo, who has covered the protest extensively on social media and accused legal observers of “helping antifa in the violent conspiracies,” has also acknowledged his disdain for SPLC based on the center’s criticism of him. The center has called out Ngo for trafficking “in politically charged disinformation,” accepting money from a Polish cultural center for giving an anti-antifa speech in Warsaw, and being friendly with the far-right Hungarian government.

Ngo’s fixation on antifa and SPLC has helped spur responses from lawmakers. In 2021, his coverage of clashes between the Proud Boys and left-wing activists in Portland, where he was allegedly attacked by demonstrators, was an impetus for Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) bill to designate antifa as a terrorist organization. On March 8, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced similar legislation to declare antifa a terrorist organization, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said he wanted to open an investigation into the FBI’s reliance on SPLC to identify extremist threats.

This is not the first time right-wing media have come after SPLC

SPLC is a legal advocacy organization that focuses on civil rights and is widely considered to be an authoritative voice on extremism. The center identifies and tracks hate groups and has helped law enforcement and the FBI respond to them.

The center has drawn the ire of right-wing media for calling out hate speech from conservative groups in the past. In 2017, FoxNews.com promoted the false accusation that SPLC added a conservative writer to a “hate list,” when it simply noted that she has been a guest on a radio show produced by the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council. FRC and other hate groups have united to smear SPLC for accurately labeling them as such. FRC’s official position is that “homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large” and “is by definition unnatural.”

In 2012, FRC tried to blame SPLC for a shooting that took place at its office because the shooter was allegedly motivated by FRC’s anti-LGBTQ hate group label. At the time, FRC President Tony Perkins doubled down on hateful rhetoric saying SPLC needs “to be held accountable, and they need to be stopped before people are killed because of their reckless labeling and advocacy for homosexuality and their anti-Christian stance.” Perkins also used the Atlanta incident to denounce SPLC for Jurgens’ presence at the protest. [twt fitton]

there’s a good reason why legal observers are necessary at protests

Opposition to Cop City has already proved fatal. In January, Manuel Terán, a young activist who opposed the project, was killed by Atlanta police under suspicious circumstances. Police maintain that Teran was to blame for the confrontation and shot an officer first.

It’s not uncommon to have legal observers at protests, particularly when tensions between law enforcement and demonstrators are high. According to the New York City Bar Association, the “work includes documenting arrests, use of force, intimidating display of force, denial of access to public spaces like parks and sidewalks, and any other behavior on the part of law enforcement that appears to restrict demonstrators’ ability to express their political views.”

Legal observers have helped protect the rights of protesters in the past. For example, according to The Intercept:

Collecting the names of people arrested at protests is the first step toward ensuring that they have legal representation. During the mass arrests at the 2004 Republican National Convention, those names allowed lawyers to secure a habeas corpus writ for hundreds of protesters who were unlawfully detained by the NYPD, sometimes for days, without access to lawyers.

Legal observers have also been punished for their work in the past. In 2021, 12 legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild sued the New York Police Department, alleging the department violated their constitutional rights at a 2020 protest in the Bronx. Even though the NYPD patrol guide says legal observers are entitled to be present, the observers allege they were prohibited from carrying out their function and even met with violence. In fact, New York City just agreed to pay more than $20,000 each to hundreds of individuals who were trapped by police and attacked with batons and pepper spray during that same protest.

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"The left has told us something that should put fear into the heart of every parent,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene began her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday morning. “They said they’re coming for our children.” Dressed in a light pink blazer and with straightened bleach blonde hair, Greene painted a gruesome (and fictional) picture: a multibillion dollar industry preying on kids and eager to subject them to life-altering surgery.

“I am going to be introducing my bill, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, that will make it a felony to perform anything to do with gender care on children,” she said. The crowd roared in applause.

At CPAC, held this past weekend at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center in National Harbor, Maryland, trans bashing—and talking about kids’ genitals—was a main theme. Panels were dedicated to it, speakers harped on so-called “transgender ideology,” and politicians threw out one-liners about trans people when they were short on applause. CPAC is a place where rhetoric and strategy are typically tested, where politicians get a sense of what lands with their base, and this past weekend, Republican politicians eagerly deployed transphobia for their gain. As they denied trans people’s existence, CPAC’s speakers paired their attacks with efforts to galvanize the conservative base ahead of 2024 and to take over public schools.

How Did We Get Here?

The panel following Greene’s provides some insight as to how we arrived at this place. Terry Schilling of the anti-LGBTQ American Principles Project took the stage with Chloe Cole, a woman in the process of reversing her transition, and Riley Gaines, a former Division 1 swimmer at the University of Kentucky who lost races last year to Lia Thomas, a trans woman. After describing the “transgender lobby” as “evil,” Schilling belabored the state of women’s sports.

Before “grooming” rhetoric was commonplace on the right, religious-right groups like Schilling’s began peddling stories about trans girls hurting girls’ sports. But this supposed concern was never about sports. In 2020, a Right Wing Watchinvestigation found that while much of the anti-trans messaging focused on sports, a coalition of religious-right groups was busy taking action, drafting legislation not only to prevent trans girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, but also to preventtrans kids from receiving gender-affirming care.Called “Promise to America’s Children,” the coalition included groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, Heritage Foundation, and Family Research Council—groups that have long been dedicated to rolling back rights for LGBTQ Americans. Thanks to these groups and allied state legislators, in 2023, some 400 anti-trans bills have been proposed in 42 states and 9 have passed, according to a national trans legislation tracker.

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"The strategy is fearmongering and propaganda,” Schuyler Bailer, a trans rights activist, told Right Wing Watch. “There’s absolutely no data to support the idea that trans people are an inherent threat to children.” In fact, gender-affirming care is supported by major health institutions, Bailer noted, with the American Medical Association declaring it “medically-necessary, evidence-based care that improves the physical and mental health of transgender and gender-diverse people.” But the facts aren’t what these attacks are about.

“Republicans found that when they could paint trans people as deviant, nefarious, harmful people that are going to hurt you in the bathroom or groom your children as the narrative goes, they could drive votes,” Bailer said.

Religious-right groups like Family Research Council have been explicit that their attacks on trans people are part of what they see as an election-winning strategy. “Our goal: Make the SAFE Act THE ‘wedge issue’ of the 2022 midterm elections!” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins wrote in a 2021 fundraising letter for FRC Action.

The Right’s Strategy on Display

The right’s strategy was on display on CPAC’s mainstage.

Sebastian Gorka—a former Trump adviser and an alleged member of a Nazi-cooperating political group in Hungary shortly before Marjorie Taylor Greene Friday to try to fire up the nearly empty room. He focused his sights on 2024.

“We have to win it so big that this radicalized party that thinks it’s OK to have open borders, to change the Constitution, to get rid of the Supreme Court, to,” he paused for effect, “mutilate young girls and boys as sacrifices on the altar of the transgender insanity. We have to so crush them at the next election that they collapse."

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*eron Greenesmith, a researcher at Political Research Associates, told Right Wing Watch Saturday that “CPAC is showcasing the truth of the right.” “Trans people have become, once again, the recruitment tactic and fundraiser of the right,” Greenesmith said. “Trans-supportive conservatives have ceded the floor to those who advocate openly for anti-trans violence.”

As these ideas about the need to “protect” kids and women snaked their way into right-wing media, the right has expanded its messaging. Now, right-wing activists say a shadowy “gender lobby” preys on kids to turn them trans. Politicians portray drag queens reading books to kids as “grooming” children. Gay teachers are “indoctrinating” children, they say, as are diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings.

Such fearmongering is effectively being deployed by groups like Moms for Liberty, which is trying to ban books about the LGBTQ experience, and Moms for America, a conservative group that urges right-wing candidates to run for school boards and claims to have more than 500,000 members across the country. Kimberly Fletcher, president and founder of Moms for America, made it clear to the CPAC audience that it’s not just trans people her group is organizing against, but the honest teaching of the history of our nation, sex education, and the tolerance and acceptance of the LGBTQ community writ large.

At a Thursday CPAC panel titled “One Tuff Mutha,” Fletcher claimed the left was coming after children, her voice quivering as she spoke. “They’re trying to erase us as moms,” she said. “And they know historically that’s what you do—that’s what Hitler did, that’s what Mao did, that’s what Stalin did. You take the children, you win the future.”

She listed a series of fears, her voice rising at each new alleged assault: “Everything that we’re facing: The CRT—the critical race theory is racism, that’s 101, that’s what it is. The comprehensive sex education, which isteaching kindergartners how to stimulate themselves. The gender confusion, where they’re having coming out parties since the first grade, and children are coming home terrified they’re suddenly going to turn into the opposite sex.”

She called on the audience to go on “the offensive,” asking kids to record their teachers. What we really need, she said, is “a new PPP”: “parents, pastors, and people of faith uniting together to save this country, protect our kids, and reclaim our culture, and restore the republic.”

The Right’s End Goal

Beneath the fearmongering about trans people as a tool to galvanize the base ahead of 2024 and to instigate a right-wing takeover of the schools is an even more dangerous ideology and agenda: a belief that trans people do not and should not exist.

On the third and final day of CPAC, The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles made that stance explicit: “The problem with transgenderism is not that it’s inappropriate for children under the age of 9,” Knowles said. “The problem with transgenderism is that it isn’t true.”

“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism,” Knowles said. “If it is false, then for the good of society… transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.” The crowd erupted in applause.

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as controversy ensued, Knowles insisted that he never called for the eradication of trans people but merely the eradication of an ideology. But transness is not an ideology, and ‘transgenderism’ is simply a phony term used by anti-trans activists. Based on Knowles’ remarks at CPAC and elsewhere, the results of such a call to action is clear: eliminating so-called “transgenderism” in public life as he emphatically calls for would make it impossible for trans people to live as themselves.

“It is a call for the eradication of trans people because you can’t separate transness and trans people,” Bailer told Right Wing Watch. “You cannot take away ‘transgenderism’ and leave the person. That’s not how it works.”

Bailer said that Knowles’ comments came up in the trans support groups he guides. His clients were terrified by the statement—not so much for Knowles’ transphobia but for the reception his comments received. “The cheering of the crowd—that was really disheartening and striking to receive watching that video,” he said.

In 2020, Right Wing Watch spoke to LGBTQ activist and writer Charlotte Clymer as religious-right groups and far-right politicians were attacking trans girls in sports. When asked what their goal was with such attacks, she was blunt—and prescient.

“Their goal has been to wipe out trans people from the public square from day one,” she said.

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all 26 Republicans on the powerful House Oversight Committee have refused to sign a simple, two-sentence statement denouncing white supremacy.

"We, Members of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, together denounce white nationalism and white supremacy in all its forms, including the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory. These hateful and dangerous ideologies have no place in the work of the United States Congress or our Committee," the statement (copy below) from Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reads.

It comes after several Oversight Committee Republicans "invoked dangerous and conspiratorial rhetoric echoing the racist and nativist tropes peddled by white supremacists and right-wing extremists," during a February hearing on the "border crisis," Ranking Member Raskin said in a March 5 letter to Committee Chair James Comer (photo, top.) The Washington Post first reported on Raskin’s letter.

"In particular, some Members repeatedly described the number of migrants arriving at the border as an 'invasion,' and even went so far as to falsely accuse the Biden-Harris Administration of implementing a plan 'to deliberately open our border' for purposes of 'changing our culture'—mirroring language often used by MAGA extremists who believe that pro-immigration policies are designed to replace white populations with non-white immigrants and other racial minorities," Raskin's letter says.

Congressman Raskin is a former constitutional law professor who gained national prominence as the impeachment manager during the second impeachment of Donald Trump.

"As I explained to you at the hearing," his letter to Comer continues, "such language borrows from the 'Great Replacement' theory, the central dogma of contemporary white supremacy that has been repeatedly invoked by white nationalists to justify violent acts of domestic terrorism, including the mass murders of dozens of Americans at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a Walmart in El Paso, Texas."

All 21 Democrats on the Oversight Committee signed the statement, and all 26 Republicans refused. A Committee spokesperson called the statement a "distraction," according to The Independent.

the 26 Republican Representatives who refused to denounce white supremacy and white nationalism are (in order of appearance on the statement): James Comer, Jim Jordan, Mike Turner, Paul Gosar,Virginia Foxx,Glenn Grothman, Gary Palmer, Clay Higgins, Pete Sessions, Andy Biggs,Nancy Mace, Jake LaTurner, pat Fallon, Byron Donalds, Kelly Armstrong, Scott Perry, William Timmons, Tim Burchett, Marjorie Taylor Greene,Lisa McClain, Lauren Boebert, Russell Fry, Anna Paulina Luna, Chuck Edwards, Nick Langworthy, and Eric Burlison.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for an American “divorce.”

She apparently sees herself as a modern-day John C. Calhoun, a demagogue who serves the interests of the white oligarch class and, in turn, receives their support, and the power and wealth that come with it.

She's started a secession propaganda campaign much like Calhoun and his buddies did when he left the White House as VP in 1833, the same year England outlawed slavery on British-territory plantations and talk of abolition in the US kicked into high gear.

It took Calhoun and his fellow traitors about 25 years to convince enough people in the South to go to war against America and try to replace our democracy with a fascist, race-based oligarchy.

But today—with electronic media providing instant communication and AR15s being much more efficient killing machines than the Confederacy had available—the heirs to Calhoun's sedition apparently think they can pull it off in a much shorter time.

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Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie recently suggested the tipping point, the second American Civil War, will come when:

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“[T]hirty to forty percent could agree that [the American government] was legitimate tyranny and it needed to be thrown off."

He then openly argued that American fascists should be sufficiently well-armed to take on the US Marines. Finishing that sentence, Massey—who tweeted a Christmas picture of his family (including his young children) each cradling an assault weapon—added:

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“They [those trying to bring down the American government] need to have sufficient [fire]power without asking for extra permission. It should be right there and completely available to them in their living room in order to effect the change [of our form of government].”

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Make no mistake about it: this is sedition. It's anti-American. It's pro-fascist.

Yesterday on my radio/TV program, Congressman Mark Pocan said Greene's comments were “almost treasonous. "I'd drop the “almost.”

Greene even said out loud the part Republicans have been trying to not get caught saying for several decades now: she doesn't think Democrats should be allowed to vote if they live in Red states.

When a resolution came to the House floor last week condemning Putin's ally, Syrian dictator Assad, the only two “no" votes came from Greene and Massey.

Dictatorship good, democracy bad.

It's an old, old song for America that dates back to the 1840s.

Keep in mind that the Civil War wasn't just about slavery: it was primarily about preserving the wealth of the Southern oligarchs. While slavery was the source of their wealth, morbidly rich planters had so overtaken the political system of the South that it ceased to be anything close to a democracy—even for white people—by the 1840s.

That decade of the 1840s, in fact, was a key turning point for the effort to end democracy altogether in America. In just the ten years from 1840 to 1850, over 800,000 enslaved people were brought into the deep South.

Poor whites suddenly found themselves without work and pay generally collapsed across the region, while the plantation owner class became fabulously rich. It led to an internal abolition movement in the South, as white workers who didn't own slaves desperately tried to regain opportunities in the workplace.

As Southern abolitionist Hinton Helper wrote in his 1857 book The Impending Crisis of the South:

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“The lords of the lash are not only absolute masters of the blacks, but they are also the oracle and arbiters of non-slaveholding whites, whose freedom is merely nominal, and whose unparalleled illiteracy and degradation is purposely and fiendishly perpetuated.”

The book became one of the biggest bestsellers in American history(even though you could go to prison for owning it in the South where it was banned), and sparked such a political crisis in 1860 that the House of Representatives was unable to elect a Speaker for almost two months. Sound familiar?

Abraham Lincoln didn't even advocate ending slavery until well into the Civil War: he was too busy fighting against Southern oligarchs who were hell-bent on ending democracy in America and replacing it with a white supremacist oligarchy. Lincoln's goal in responding militarily to Southern succession wasn't to free enslaved African Americans, it was to keep the country together and try to restore some semblance of democracy to the South.

On Aug. 22, 1862 (the Emancipation Proclamation would come exactly one month later), after more than a year of war, Lincoln wrote a letter to the New York Tribune pointing this out:

“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.”

Here we are again, and once more the issue that's got working-class white people riled up is the intersection of economics end race.

Republicans pass laws against Critical Race Theory, teaching Black history, and complain about “woke" and “BLM," but at its core it's all about distracting white people from their being ripped off by a white oligarchic class that promotes racial hatred to deflect anger from themselves.

As Marjorie Taylor Greene is essentially pointing out, just like in 1860.

The genesis of today's discontent began in the 1980s with the Reagan Revolution, as the Reagan/Bush administration opened America to “free trade" with the early stages of what became the World Trade Organization and negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which Bill Clinton signed on January 1, 1994.

Like the middle-class working white people in the South—who'd been about a third of that region's population prior to the 1840s when all those slaves were imported—the four decades since Reaganism began here have also seen the collapse of white working-class income and wealth.

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When Reagan came into office in 1980 about two-thirds of white Americans were solidly in the middle class: today that number is around 45 percent and it requires two people working full time to pull even that off.

Meanwhile, the rich have gotten fabulously richer. Several of America's billionaires are today richer than any person has ever been in history. Richer than the pharaohs.Richer than the ancient kings of Europe. Rich enough to shoot themselves into outer space with their pocket change.

And where did that money come from? Just like the plantation owners in 1850, it came from rigging the system.

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The past 42 years have seen over $50 trillion in wealth stolen from the homes and pockets of working-class people and deposited into the money bins of the morbidly rich through GOP tax-cut and union-busting policies.

In the past 42 years over 60,000 factories and 15 million well-paying union jobs have been shipped to Mexico and China, leaving working class whites (among others) literally out in the cold.

Just like in the 1850s, that's an explosive transition. And just like in the 1850s, it has brought out oligarch-funded political demagogues to tell white working-class people that their problems are all caused by Black people and their “woke" allies, and therefore the nation must divide itself.

Greene, Massey, and the rest of the sedition caucus in Congress are playing with fire. The people they're trying to crank up on behalf of America's rightwing oligarchs have already tried to murder the Governor of Michigan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Vice President of the United States.

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“Over the past decade, 96 percent of incidents in which extremists killed someone were committed by people motivated by right-wing ideologies.”

The number of people murdered for political purposes over the past 25 years by SDS or Antifa or other anti-fascist or “left wing" ideologues? Zero.

And in promoting bloodshed in 2023 America, the seditionists among us aren't even subtle. Last December 10th, Greene told a Young Republican group in New York:

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that [January 6th insurrection and effort to murder Vice President Pence], we would have won. Not to mention, it would've been armed."

Pitting Americans against each other by race, geography, or even politics when simultaneously invoking bloodshed as a justified outcome is as anti-American as it gets.

It's why the 14th Amendment says:

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

If the seditionists within today's Republican Party had any goal other than to tear America apart and create an apartheid state run by and for the oligarchs who fund their campaigns and lifestyles, they'd be telling us about it right now. But are they?

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Greene (R-GA), a far-right Christian nationalist extremist, kicked off her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)Friday morning by telling the room filled with many empty seats that the left is “coming for our children,” in her hate-filled, lie-filled, fear-mongering, anti-LGBTQ speech portraying her cause as virtuous because, she preached, “our God is bigger.” That God, she promised, would help her pass anti-transgender legislation that “will make it a felony to perform anything to do with gender-affirming care on children.”

“The left has told us something that should put fear in the heart of every parent,” Greene said as she began her speech. “Not just parents – every single person.”

“They said they’re coming for our children,” Greene declared.

“I think the Republican Party has a duty. We have a responsibility, and that is to be the party that protects children,” her speech (video below) continued.

Greene again falsely claimed that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “he wants our sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine,” which is the exact opposite of what he said. She attacked the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus for “literally singing we’re coming for your children,” referring to a 2021 “tongue in cheek” song the group received right-wing death threats over because it advocated for teaching children to love and “not to hate.”

She did not offer any other examples where “the left” said they are “coming for our children."

she called medical experts who support transgender children a“billion dollar industry that mutilates the genitals of children” and claimed “they have a target, or should I say a victim?”

Describing transgender children and teens as “confused,” Greene told her audience, “everyone knows that when you’re growing up, I mean, think about it. How many times did you say when you’re a kid you wanted to be a fireman or a doctor or a police officer. You wanted to be something when you’re an adult, but when you grew up, you became something else.”

rather than offer support for transgender children and teens and their families, Greene repeatedly called them abused “victims” and said many of them “have diagnosis of autism, mental illness, they have depression, they have anxiety, they have psychosis. Many of them live in foster care. So they already have lived lives of abuse. And these victims come in thinking they’re going to find happiness and they’re going to find security in their identity because they think they can change their gender. These boys think they can become girls. These girls think they can become boys,” as she described gender-affirming surgery that almost never takes place on minors.

Greene announced her bill, the Protect Children’s innocence act, which she said “will make it a felony to perform anything to do with gender affirming care on children.” She boasted it would pass because of God.

“Our God is bigger. And our God, our God is the God that created us man and woman in His image, He created us in our God is the God that created our children. And because of him, we will get this bill passed and the Republican Party will be the party that protects children from such an evil that I cannot believe it exists in this time.”

Watch Greene’s full speech below or at this link.

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'Isn’t she amazing?' Biden trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene

Meaghan Ellis

March 02, 2023

President Joe Biden recently took a jab at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during his speech at an annual retreat held in Baltimore, Md.

The president's comments came just one day after Greene's remarks asking Rebecca Kiessling, a Michigan mother who lost two of her children in 2020 due to drug-related deaths, if her children could still be alive “if our government would secure our southern border.”

Kiessling, a conservative activist, responding in agreement with Greene's suggestion saying, "Absolutely."

READ MORE: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment to bar Biden from selling oil goes down in massive bipartisan defeat

Accompanying the clip of her brief conversation with Kiessling, Greene tweeted, “Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl.”

However, CNN pushed back against Greene's assertion blaming Biden and his administration by highlighting that former President Donald Trump was actually in office when Kiessling's son died of a fentanyl-related death.

Biden also weighed in.

“She was very specific — I shouldn’t digress, probably — I read, she was very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that I killed her sons. Well, the interesting thing is, that fentanyl they took came during the last administration,” Biden said while chuckling, also saying, “Look folks. Anyway, I don’t want to get started.”

READ MORE: Lauren Boebert slams Marjorie Taylor Greene for bringing a white balloon to Biden’s SOTU address

The president went on to appeal to lawmakers to unify.

“We need to come together on police reform and immigration reform. We need to protect voting rights and the right to choose. Ladies and gentleman, we got to reinstate Roe v. Wade and pass it nationally. We really do,” Biden said. “And look, I know as well as you the MAGA Republicans are not gonna get on board for most of these things. But that leaves a lot of Republicans that are still left. By the way watch, watch, I predict, watch, watch what happens. Republicans can help make a significant majority on some of these things.”

Biden went on to list a number of bipartisan initiatives currently in play before turning his attention to the Georgia lawmaker.

“It’s hard as hell, I acknowledge, but it’s there,” he said speaking about potential bipartisan agreements as he added, “and, you know, a little bit more of Marjorie Taylor Greene and, a few more, you’re gonna have a lot of Republicans running our way.”

“Isn’t she amazing?” he said of Greene.

Biden's latest jab comes just days after his recent comical remarks about Greene in Virginia. Speaking to that crowd, he said, "I've been around for a lot of State of the Unions; I never saw one where the president got to negotiate in the open with everybody."

The crowd reacted with laughter as he continued, "Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene was yelling, 'Liar, liar, Biden's a liar,'" Biden said mockingly.

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) are actively spreading anti-Ukraine disinformation, posting to Twitter a deceptively-edited video of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which they falsely claim means the Ukrainian President wants America's "sons and daughters" to die defending Ukraine.

Senator Lee complained his personal Twitter account was suspended at some point after he retweeted the video. It was recently restored and his post with the deceptively-edited video has not been removed.

The original Twitter sources of the video have warning labels that Greene and Lee appear to have ignored before posting. Greene posted it to her official U.S. government Twitter account.

That warning, in the form of a readers' note, says: "This quote is taken out of context. The full quote is :'If Ukraine loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO states, then the U.S will have to send their sons and daughters exactly in the same way as we are sending our sons and daughters to war'."

The Associated Press also published a fact check on Wednesday noting the deceptively-edited video is "missing context." The AP states: "He was not suggesting Americans would have to fight in Ukraine."

But in the deceptively-edited video Greene and Lee tweeted, Zelenskyy (via an interpreter) says, "the U.S will have to send their sons and daughters exactly in the same way as we are sending our sons and daughters to war."

Zelenskyy goes on to say, "and they will have to fight because it's NATO that we're talking about. They will be dying, God forbid, because it's a horrible thing."

In the full video from February 24, Zelenskyy is urging Americans to not give up on Ukraine. The most important portion of Zelenskyy's remarks have been edited out in Greene's and Lee's version: "If Ukraine loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO states."

Greene tweeted, "There's not a parent in America that wants their son or daughter dying defending Ukraine's border. When have Ukrainian & NATO sons and daughters died defending America's border?"

Lee tweeted, "Zelensky has no right to presume that our sons and daughters will fight his war. Shame on him. We've somehow sent the message that we work for him. Shame on us!"

The 19-second deceptively-edited video has been viewed nearly 400,000 times.

Zelenskyy's (via interpreter):

"I would like to thank the American people. I would like to thank all of the American people that are supporting Ukraine, the Congress, the President, the TV channels, the journalists, and everyone that has been supporting us, and that percentage of Americans, as you've mentioned is increasing. I can tell them only one thing. If they do not change their opinion, if they do not understand us, if they do not support Ukraine, they will lose NATO, they will lose the clout of the United States, they will lose the leadership position that they are enjoying in the world, that they are enjoying for a very fair reason, and they will lose the support of the country with 40 millions of population, with millions of children. Are American children any different than ours? Don't Americans enjoy the same things as we do? I don't think we're that different. And I'm actually very happy that we have bipartisan support, but we keep hearing those messages from time to time and they’re dangerous.

There are political leaders that are elected by people. And if this issue is raised, those political leaders need to be responsible and cautious because people are looking at them. Who wants a third world war? Would anyone risk would anyone be willing to accept that risk? The US is never going to give up on the NATO member states. If it happens so that Ukraine, due to various opinions and weakened and depleting of assistance, loses, Russia is going to enter the Baltic states, NATO member states, and then the US will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending their sons and daughters to war and they will have to fight because it's NATO that we're talking about and they will be dying, God forbid because it's a horrible thing."

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday falsely claimed that President Joe Biden was to blame for a congressional witness’s family tragedy, the deaths of two of the mother’s children from fentanyl. But when a top CNN fact-checker asked the Georgia Republican's spokesperson why she made that claim, when the children died the year before Biden became president during the Trump administration, the response was a terse and profanity-laden email.

"Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son's murders because of the Biden administrations [sic] refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel's [sic] from murdering Americans everyday [sic] by Chinese fentanyl," Greene tweeted, attaching video of her questioning the mother (below).

In the video, from her committee seat, Greene was careful to use the term "our government." But in her tweet, which has received 2.9 million views in under 24 hours, Greene blamed "the Biden administrations," which is false.

Her tweet was so upsetting and offensive to so many that a readers' context note was appended to it by Twitter: "The fentanyl overdose deaths Greene refers to occurred in July 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump. Joe Biden was not in public office when the Kiesling brothers died."

CNN's Daniel Dale says, "I asked Greene's office last night about her tweet blaming the Biden administration for these deaths in 2020 under Trump. Spokesman Nick Dyer responded by saying lots of people have died from drugs under Biden and 'do you think they give a f*ck about your bullsh*t fact checking?'"

Dyer's profanity did not stop there.

"I also gave Greene congressional spokesman Nick Dyer an opportunity to comment regarding Greene's multiple false claims yesterday about the 2020 election, such as the lies that Trump won Georgia and that there were thousands of dead voters there," Dale tweeted. "His response: 'F*ck off.'"

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'You are a scumbag': Marjorie Taylor Greene's closest confidante believes tormenting the media is part of the gig

Warren Rojas May 27, 2021,

Nick Dyer with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's spokesman has worked in politics for nearly a decade.

Nick Dyer's recent spat with Rep. Eric Swalwell thrust the Texas native into the spotlight.

Tormenting the media is part of the gig.

Boundaries mean little to the self-styled iconoclast Nick Dyer.

The communications director for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the loose cannon whom disaffected Georgians entrusted with representing them in Washington, recently took it upon himself to confront Rep. Eric Swalwell about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's sudden about-face on pandemic-related mask-wearing requirements.

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It was just another day in the social-media-content mines for Team Greene, which immediately ran to Twitter to discredit every account of the exchange but its own.

Much like his boss, Dyer uses social media to lash out at all types of enemies. He probably devotes more time to it now via @RealNickDyer than he did on a since deleted account (@MrNickDyer) from a decade ago. But it's hard to tell for sure since only snippets of that past online persona — a big part of which was hyping Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul really hard — are still floating around.

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Sen. Rand Paul. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

All in a day's work

Dyer's first brush with Congress came via his work on Ted Cruz's debut campaign. A legislative biography lists Dyer, a Texas native, as the deputy state field director for the now two-term Texas Republican's initial bid for higher office in 2012.

After that Dyer took on a new challenge: Dr. Greg Brannon, a tea-party challenger who ran for House and Senate seats in North Carolina, losing three primaries from 2014 to 2016. Archived tweets from that era display myriad interests. Short-term distractions include a History Channel miniseries about the American Revolution and Super Bowl 49, while his hero worship of Paul and aversion to Hillary Clinton emerge as recurring themes.

The last snapshot of the now defunct account shows it was locked, meaning closed off from public inspection, when August 2017 rolled around. By then, the bio info had been changed to: "WE DID IT! #MAGA." In April 2015, it led with "Ted Cruz Alum."

How he filled this time between then and now is an open question.

Dyer did not respond to a request for comment about how he came to work for Greene or the scope of his duties in her congressional office as the Georgia Republican quickly rises to celebrity status far beyond Washington.

What he's up to these days is somewhat part of the public records, though holes still exist.

Dyer has issued 35 press releases on Greene's behalf since the 117th Congress got underway, averaging about two a week since the nascent pol was sworn in in January.

Those missives have included highlights from floor speeches, redirects to Greene-related videos, and one-liners about general housekeeping issues. Still, Dyer's well ahead of the exclusively press-focused shop supporting Greene's fellow freshmanRep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican of North Carolina who prioritizes "comms rather than legislation," Time magazine first reported. Cawthorn's flacks have produced 17 press releases so far this year.

By comparison, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pumped out 80 press releases (and counting) during the latest session — some of which were mandated by Greene-sparked scandals past and present. In February, McCarthy attempted to smooth over her penchant for conspiracy theories.

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This week, the California Republican had to weigh in on Greene equating COVID-19-related safety protocols to the Holocaust.

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"Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history," McCarthy said in an official statement. "The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling."

Never one to take criticism lightly, Greene via Dyer blasted out a response plucked straight from Trump's punch-back-harder playbook: deflect blame, denounce socialism, and duck responsibility.

"I'm sorry some of my words make people uncomfortable, but this is what the American left is all about," Greene said in a release lumping congressional Democrats in with "the great tyrants of history."

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Dyer's dealings with the press have been adversarial, to say the least.

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In January, a television crew from WRCB, a Chattanooga, Tennessee, NBC affiliate that broadcasts in Greene's northwest Georgia district, was barred from asking questions of Greene or her constituents.It was also threatened with arrest at the invite-only town hall the reporters had been credentialed for.

"This was a town hall for constituents. Not a press conference," Dyer told the Associated Press by email. "Every attendee (besides media) was allowed to ask a question and Congresswoman Greene answered every question."

Dyer did not respond to Insider's request for comment about whether restricting media access was his idea or the brainchild of Greene's like-minded chief of staff, Patrick Parsons.

A month later, the Politico writer Michael Kruse published a story tracing Greene's meandering journey from disillusioned suburban mom to conservative bomb thrower.

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"You are a scumbag, Michael," was Dyer's only contribution to the nearly 6,700-word opus.

The animosity carries over to his Twitter feed. That's where Dyer curates a personal-enemies list in real time.

One of his most frequent targets in the news business is theCNN anchor Jake Tapper.

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But Dyer will, from time to time, go after the biggest newspaper in Greene's home state or the media in general.

Dyer roasts foes from either side of the aisle, appearing to derive no less pleasure from trumpeting Rep. Liz Cheney's ouster from House Republican leadership for unapologetically bad-mouthing Trump than he does from talking down to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat of New York.

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The connective tissue between his deleted Twitter account and his current soapbox? Reveling in others' misery.

In June 2014, Dyer managed to swipe at two leading Republican figures. In a comment captured by Talking Points Memo, he took digs at both South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who had just pulled out a GOP primary win over more conservative challengers, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who'd just been picked off by the tea-party poster boy Dave Brat.

"Much more important that Cantor lost than Graham winning," he wrote on that now defunct Twitter account.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Paul Pelosi is to blame for his near-fatal assault as he leaves hospital

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Quinn Owen @ ABC News: Proud Boys saw surge in membership after Trump’s debate message, former member testifies.
David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘Democrat’ Voters Should Be Banned from Voting If They Move to Red States.
David Edwards @ Raw Story: Charlie Kirk claims ‘witches’ made him ‘sick’ as he attacks Trump grand jury foreperson.
Joe Jervis: Indicted QAnon Ex-Clerk Runs For Colorado GOP Chair.
Kate Riga @ Talking Points Memo: With Primary Decided, Stage Is Set For Wisconsin Supreme Court Barnburner.
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker @ The Washington Post: Arizona’s top prosecutor concealed records debunking election fraud claims.
Anya Zoledziowski and David Gilbert @ Vice News: The Far Right Is Calling for the Execution of Teachers and Doctors.

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Brad Reed Raw Story

February 22, 2023

Peter Wehner, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, is warning that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) statements about enacting a "national divorce" should not be written off as a mere "freak

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In his latest essay at**The Atlantic, Wehner argues that Greene is now too influential within the House Republican Party to be written off or ignored as a crank.

"Greene is not just a member of Congress, not just a member of its Committee on Homeland Security," argues Wehner. "She has become a confidante of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy."

In fact, Wehner believes that Greene speaks for a shockingly large number of ordinary Republican voters who have so come to hate sharing a country with people who don't agree with them politically that they want to secede and form a new nation.

"Greene and McCarthy -- one crazed, the other cowardly -- embody a large swath of the modern-day GOP," he argued. "Any party that makes room for seditionists and secessionists is sick and dangerous."

Wehner also noted the irony of members of the so-called Party of Lincoln hopping aboard the secession bandwagon.

"The Republican Party, forged a century and a half ago in the fight against secession, now finds the move worth contemplating," he notes.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has set off yet another controversy — this time, by calling for GOP-dominated red states to secede from the union.

On Monday, February 20, the far-right conspiracy theorist and MAGA congresswoman tweeted, "We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done."

Some conservative Republicans were quick to call Greene out for her secessionist fantasy, including Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and former Rep. Liz Cheney. Romney told the Salt Lake Tribune, "I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity …. We're not going to divide the country. It's united we stand and divided we fall."

Cheney, in a February 20 tweet, posted, "Let’s review some of the governing principles of America, @mtgreenee: Our country is governed by the Constitution. You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie."

But other Republicans have remained silent. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) considers Greene an ally, and many Republicans are terrified of the possibility of being called a RINO (Republican In Name Only) by former President Donald Trump and others in the far-right MAGA movement.

Greene is hardly the first Republican to make incendiary comments. But in an article published by The Hill on February 23, journalist Al Weaver stresses that she enjoys greater prominence in her party than GOP extremists of the past. Greene, Weaver notes, is a "key ally" of the House speaker, sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, and is a "possible" Donald Trump running mate if he wins the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Brian Rosenwald, a historian and scholar at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told The Hill, "There have absolutely always been gadflies in both parties who were extremists who were kind of going places that no one was comfortable with. Having an extremist in Congress is not new. Having someone willing to say insane and incendiary things (is) not really new. What I think is new …. is that here’s someone saying these things and doing these things and being embraced by leadership."

A Republican operative, interviewed on condition of anonymity, wasn’t especially troubled by Greene’s call for secession and dismissed it as a politician "just trying to stir the pot a bit."

But Rosenwald doesn't see it that way. In his view, Greene’s prominence in the GOP-controlled House shows a growing appetite for dangerous extremism in her party.

The Penn historian told The Hill, "This is the problem with how things get normalized.… Part of the problem the Republican Party has had for probably 40-plus years is they roll their eyes at the fringe of the party. These are the people who are getting more and more popular with their base, and these are the people that are getting the attention and sort of setting the agenda."

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated Presidents Day by calling for red and blue states to separate in a "national divorce."

"We need a national divorce," Greene tweeted Monday morning, barely weeks after calling President Joe Biden a "liar" in the nationally-televised State of the Union. "We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this."

Greene also called Democrats "traitorous," and angrily accused them of shoving down Republicans' throats "sick and disgusting woke culture issues."

"From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat'straitorous America Last policies, we are done."

Some blasted Greene's choice to make her remarks on the national holiday, officially Washington's Birthday, some noted she sits on the Homeland Security Committee, whileothers noted blue states contribute more to the federal coffers than red states, which are more likely to be supported by blue states. (The "red" and "blue" state descriptors are not only somewhat subjective, but fluid, as Democratic voters flipped two states from red to blue and held all the others in 2022.)

One Twitter user reminded that Greene is a "key advisor" to Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Her support of the embattled McCarthy helped put the gavel in his hand, and he has pledged loyalty to her. "I will never leave that woman," McCarthy reportedly said after becoming Speaker. "I will always take care of her."

attorney, journalist, and SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah had just four words in response: "This is treasonous. Period."

Others also called it "treason," and still others "sedition."

Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect, tweeted, "remarkable how casually these people suggest literal treason."

Another Twitter user observed, "This is a member of Congress, who sits on Homeland Security Committee, calling for secession. We fought a war over this once and 160 years later the losers still can't let it go."

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For the second time in as many weeks, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) compared Ashli Babbitt to victims of law enforcement brutality and insisted that Babbitt – who was fatally shot in the head by United States Capitol Police during the January 6th, 2021 insurrection inspired by then-President Donald Trump – was denied justice.

Greene's claim is false. The USCP explained following its investigation into the matter that "USCP's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) determined the officer's conduct was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer's own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury."

Yet Greene is still promulgating her unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

"And I wanna, I wanna go a little bit further. You know, we hear all of this talk nonstop about George Floyd, right? But yet no one cares about Ashli Babbitt. Nobody cares about her," Greene said at a town hall this week.

"I do," a man in the audience shouted.

"And I, and I see the video of when she was shot and what, what our mainstream media and what our Democrats refuse to acknowledge is if you watch that video, Ashley Babbitt was fighting people and trying to stop them from breaking the windowand, and going further where they were going," Greene continued.

"That's right," the same individual exclaimed.

"She was an unarmed veteran," Greene added.

"That's right," the incensed constituent reiterated.

Babbitt, Greene declared, "was murdered. Murdered. That's the word. Murdered. And the [black] man that shot her is walking around free. He has never been charged. There's been – there was justice for George Floyd."

Observers on social media speedily struck back.

sandi bachom: "My friend was standing next to her she was a screaming maniac and dove through the window. She committed suicide"

Larry Melman: "Ashli Babbitt died breaking into a US Government building. Not just 'a' US Government building, the Capitol building. Does anyone believe we all have the right to break through a door, climb in any US government building we want, as long as we call ourselves 'patriots'?"

Paul the other one...: "Ashli Babbitt died because a silver-spooned frat boy couldn't stand being a loser."

Shana Schwartzberg: "George Floyd was a victim of police brutality. Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist, killed by law enforcement while breaking into a Federal Building during an official proceeding. She was warned to stop. He begged them to stop."

Peter Brown: "Narrator: This is the perfect example of a false equivalency."

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United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) produced a video not long after she was sworn into her first term in the House of Representatives in which she claims that marginalized communities of color are victims of their own decisions to engage in crime.

The forty-second clip was first published by**The Daily Mailon June 30th, 2021, and expands the extensive laundry list of incendiary rhetoric upon which Greene has built her political firebrand.

"Generations of Black and Hispanic men – do you wanna know what holds them down? Gangs. Being in gangs and dealing drugs is what holds them down. The lack of education is what hold, holds them down. That's, that's not a, a white person thing, but gangs control them. They, they tell them, they tell the young men in their communities, 'don't go to school. Don't you, No. Don't you, don't you move out of this, out of this project.Don't you move out of this community. You join this gang and that's where you belong. You belong with us,'" said Greene. "The gangs are holding them back. It's not white people. It's, it's crazy."

Internet observers were unamused.

Ravin Boodram: "But, but…Charlie Kirk says school is a scam."

Michelle Lamb: "White racist middle-class Marge is an expert on inner-city gangs."

Brian Fidler: "'The lack of education is what holds them down; that’s, that’s not a white person thing' - Marjorie Taylor Greene. Disregarding the irony in MTG’s statement; lack of education in minority communities, is 100% a 'white person thing.'"

JWalker: "She probably interacted with her first black person when she came to DC. So tired of people who don’t actually know us acting like authorities on our lives."

Jay Sands: "She’ll be co-author of the next AP African-American history textbook to be used in Florida."

Surebrec: "Her lack of education didn't hold her down. All she needed, was enough people with their own lacks of education who were dumb enough to be duped into voting for her."

Damian: "Crazy bc people like Marjorie Taylor Greene hold so many white people down."

The Ghost of Yharnam: "Now let’s ask the question about why they’re funneled into that life style. Republicans don’t like talking about that part though."

Lazlo Holmes: "What a weird way to say systematic racism."

Rocky Mountain Dawg Nation: "I didn’t know I was in a gang??"

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disturbing and cruel psychology of Marjorie Taylor Greene

John Stoehr

February 01, 2021

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A new analysis suggests Republican lawmakers' behavior during President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech is a disturbing look into the new norm in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a new piece published by The New York Times, Karoun Demirjian pointed out some of the most egregious aspects of lawmakers' antics as she noted that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) even warned them from partaking in "childish games."

"The catcallers heckled with impunity, despite a private warning from McCarthy before the speech to be on good behavior and his public promises that the House would avoid 'childish games' during the address," Demirjian wrote. "It was the latest example of the speaker’s struggles to control his unruly rank and file. A vocal subset of ultraconservative Republicans has exacted steep concessions from McCarthy in exchange for supporting his bid for the speakership — and he has demonstrated repeatedly that he is willing to cater to their whims to placate his party’s base."

According to Demirjian, the chaos that erupted might be a clue of what's to come as Republicans take over the House of Representatives.

"The display — captured in images of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) her mouth wide-open as she booed and gave a thumbs-down to the president — reflected the ethos that has come to define the Republican-led House, where an emboldened right-wing that styles itself after former President Donald Trump is unapologetic about its antipathy for Biden and eager to show it in attention-grabbing ways," she wrote.

Offering more context into what transpired, Demirjian pointed out a pivotal moment in the night when Greene yelled "liar" at the president.

“If the American people had been on that House floor listening to that speech, it would have been a lot worse names than I called him,” said Greene.

Although lawmakers have not been reprimanded for their actions, experts warn of how lack of accountability could be problematic in the very near future as it may send a conflicting message.

"Experts worry that ignoring Tuesday night’s heckling could make it difficult to return to an era of more polite dealings — especially given how much more indecorous behavior has graced the halls of Congress in the past," she wrote. "One famous example of how bad things can get comes from 1856, when a House member beat a senator with a cane."

Joanne Freeman, an American history professor for Yale University, also expressed her concerns about Greene's outbursts and what transpired.

“It’s not as though there has never been this kind of violation of behavior,” said Freeman. “This one was extreme, it was repeated, and it was coming from people who have already disrespected the government and the office of the presidency.”

She added, “It isn’t just a few random people yelling something at the president. It’s part of an ongoing attack against national institutions of government and the national political process.”

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Members of Congress have access to vast resources to conduct the people’s business, including on-staff attorneys and the ability to contract experts, yet on Wednesday U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared to shun those assets while appearing before the TV cameras while misrepresenting federal law.She falsely declared that Twitter banning her personal account was “against the law,” and a violation of her First Amendment rights as she made clear she will use her newly-restored committee assignments to spread falsehoods, misinformation, and disinformation.

Greene now sits on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. During its third hearing of the year, “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story,” Greene appeared determined to extract vengeance for her personal Twitter account being permanently “suspended” – banned –before Elon Musk purchased the company and restored accounts of countless extremists.

At the beginning of her remarks Greene mentioned the witnesses, including former Twitter executives, and said: “You can consider your speech canceled during my time because you permanently canceled mine.”

“You see, you permanently banned my personal Twitter account, and it was my campaign account also, so let’s talk about election interference, shall we?”

“Let’s explain 52 United States law 10101: ‘No person shall intimidate, threaten or coerce or attempt to stop any other person for the purpose of interfering with their rights to vote or to vote as you may choose,'” Greene said,reading inaccurately from 52 U.S.C. 10101.

For reasons unknown, Congresswoman Greene decided that federal voting rights law applies to Twitter. It does not.

“You didn’t shadow ban or permanently ban my Democrat opponent,” Greene charged. “No, you did that to me. And that was wrong and it was against the law.”

It is not against the law for Twitter to shadow ban or permanently ban anyone, even a Member of Congress and their personal Twitter account.

“You see, not only that, was it was it me, that you violated my First Amendment rights, you violated countless conservative Americans,” she said, which again is false. The First Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Greene pushed forward.

“These were doctors that were trying to tell the truth about COVID,” she said, of people spreading false or misleading information and disinformation. “Doctors that were having success treating people with ivermectin that you all would not allow to be talked about.”

The FDA has made clear ivermectin is not a treatment for COVID-19: “The FDA has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans or animals. Ivermectin is approved for human use to treat infections caused by some parasitic worms and head lice and skin conditions like rosacea.”

“These were parents complaining about their school boards, teaching gender lies in their schools, biological males entering their daughter’s bathrooms and sports,” she complained. “These were also people questioning the 2020 election. And guess what? That’s Americans’ First Amendment right. These were people talking about voting machines. You know what? Democrats did that in 2019 before the 2020 election,” she claimed.

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*Ex-GOP congressman: 'Awful' Marjorie Taylor Greene should face 'censure' for heckling the State of the Union

David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement February 08, 2023

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) numerous times heckled President Joe Biden as he delivered the State of the Union Address, including repeatedly calling him a “liar.”

Not in modern history has anyone so clearly disturbed the decorum of the nationally-televised event watched live by 40 million Americans. Not even U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who infamously also called the President a liar – “You lie!” – during another nationally-televised event, that one by President Barack Obama in September of 2009.

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Tuesday night Congresswoman Greene repeatedly yelled, “You lie!” and, “Liar!” at President Biden, who, ironically, was sitting one seat back from his current position the last time it happened.

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\u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells "you lie, you lie" and "liar" after President Biden says Republicans are proposing to sunset Medicare and Social Security.\u201d

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Greene also heckled President Biden at other times throughout his speech – something she and Rep. Lauren Boebert did one year ago, also during the State of the Union.

Republican former U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger Tuesday night tweeted, “Did @RepMTG just yell ‘liar’?! Awful. Yet she will not be punished in response.”

READ MORE: ‘Salute Their Flags’: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Appears to Attack LGBTQ Americans and BLM During Angry GOP SOTU Response

He then called for Greene’s censure – and called for her fellow Republicans to do it.

“The GOP should lead the censure of @RepMTG for her behavior,” Kinzinger tweeted.

He wasn’t done.

Posting a screenshot of Greene standing during the State of the Union heckling President Biden, with her thumb pointing down, Kinzinger asked, “My fellow Republicans… you really want this as a role model for your kids? Do you really think the next generation will want to be part of this? I don’t.”

Kinzinger went one step further, reposting a tweet likening Congresswoman Greene to the fictional Disney villain Cruella de Vil – a comparison many on social media had been making during the evening’s event.

“Representative Joe Wilson was formally rebuked by the House on Tuesday for his outburst during President Obama’s health care address,” The New York Times reported, less than a week after what was at the time an unthinkable act. “The vote came after a Congressional clash over civility that showcased the deep partisan divisions in the House.”

Congressman Wilson also apologized for calling President Obama a “liar,” barely hours after his outburst.

“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill,” he said in a statement. “While I disagree with the President’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the President for this lack of civility.”

Congresswoman Greene likely will not apologize, and likely will not face any formal rebuke.

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During a House Rules Committee hearing this Monday, Jamie Raskin (D-MD) took an opportunity to call out Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for saying that the "major civil rights issue" of the day was Trump supporters who are being charged for partaking in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

During the hearing, the Democratic congressman spoke out against GOP efforts to disapprove of legislation passed by the D.C. Council. Republicans and others critics have described the legislation as soft-on-crime.

According to Raskin, Greene sees discriminatory mistreatment "not of Washingtonians, but of MAGA insurrectionists who are in jail for assaulting officers, interfering with a federal proceeding, and engaging in seditious conspiracy."

Raskin went on to say that Republicans controlling the House want to "turn the clock back on D.C.'s home rule power and relive the glory days when Washington was run like a colonyby some racist Dixiecrats out of the House district committee."

"Today, it's the GOP that is determined to put the people of Washington in their place," Raskin said, adding that Republicans will be "attacking Washington not just for its local voting rights policies and criminal justice code, but for its gun safety policies, for its defensive abortion rights and LGBTQ rights, its decriminalization of marijuana, and dozens of other issues potentially headed to the House floor."

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marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to set the record straight about the "Jewish space lasers" comment attributed to her.

"Every single day, there's people that think that I said a phrase called 'Jewish space lasers,'" a phrase that I never said," she said in the video. "As a matter of fact, it was created and invented in a story that a bunch of people read in the news and they believe that about me, but in fact, that's something I never said. And I don't hold any types of beliefs like that at all."

Let's look what MJT actually said in a 2018 Facebook post that she deleted (I've bolded the parts about Jewish space lasers and added comments in [square brackets]):

As there are now over 70 people confirmed dead and over 1,000 missing, the fires in CA are a horrific tragedy. I'm praying for all involved!

I'm posting this in speculation because there are too many coincidences to ignore, and just putting it out there from some research I've done stemming from my curiosity over PG&E stocks, which tanked all week then rallied Thursday night after CA official announced they would not let PG&E fail. I find it very interesting that Roger Kimmel on the board of directors of PG&E is also Vice Chairman of Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm [frequent targets of antisemitic conspiracies]. I also find interesting the long history of financial contributions that PG&E has made to Jerry Brown over the years and millions spent in lobbying. What a coincidence it must be that Gov Brown signed a bill in Sept 2018, protecting PG&E and allowing PG&E to pass off its cost of fire responsibility to its customers in rate hikes, and through bonds. It also must be just a coincidence that the fires are burning in the same projected areas that the $77 billion Dollar High Speed Rail Project is to be built, which also happens to be Gov Brown's pet project. And what are the odds that Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum [Jewish] is the contractor to the rail project! Geez with that much money, we could build 3 US southern border walls. Then oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires, and pictures and videos. I don't know anything about that but I do find it really curious PG&E's partnership with Solaren on space solar generators starting in 2009. They announced the launch into space in March 2018, and maybe even put them up before that. Space solar generators collect the suns energy and then beam it back to Earth to a transmitter to convert to electricity. The idea is clean energy to replace coal and oil. If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I'm sure they wouldn't ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don't know. I hope not! That wouldn't look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E. Good thing for Solaren that Michael Peevey is on their board since he is former President of California Public Utilities Commission, California's most powerful energy regulatory agency. Great connections right there!

Also I will say whoever was able to buy that PG&E stock at the bottom before that announcement was made when stocks rallied sure did well on their investment. I wonder how you get privy to that kind of info? You must have to know somebody right? Seems like there's a lot of connected people in this crowd. And with these space solar generators, I really hope they have very good aim beaming the suns power down to Earth…

But what do I know? I just like to read a lot

She did her own research! I guess to be accurate we should say "fire-causing laser beams from space owned by firms connected to a Jewish banking family." Is that better?

Marjorie Taylor Greene said she never said the phrase "Jewish space lasers" and "doesn't hold any views like that at all." pic.twitter.com/L1Q8019cVn

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United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) lamented her life as a lawmaker in a recent episode of a podcast.

*"The nature of this job – it keeps members of congress and senators in Washington so much of the time, too much of the time to be honest with you, that we don't get to go home and spend more time with our families, our friends, you know, all in our district, or maybe just be regular people because this job is so demanding, and it's turned into practically year-round," Greene said. "And for those of us in the House of Representatives, we have to run for Congress every two years. So you're practically campaigning nearly the entire time that you're here serving as a representative. So that's just a couple of examples that I can give you that I believe is a recipe for disaster, and that's how people just fall into this social club. I would call it a social club here in Washington, DC."

Greene successfully ran for a second term in November 2022 and is reportedly yearning for the vice presidency in 2024.

"Now, for me, I have no interest in that. I really don't. And I'll tell you why," she continued. "Becoming a member of Congress has made my life miserable. I made a lot more money before I got here. I've lost money since I've gotten here.I have people come up to me and say crazy things to me out of the blue in public places that they believe because they read it on the Internet or saw it on some news show about me. So it's not a life that I think is, like, something that I enjoy because I don't enjoy it. But I'm committed to this job because I believe in it."

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United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) on Thursday evening denounced House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) for installing cantankerous right-wing Republicans onto powerful committees. Ocasio-Cortez also reiterated her impassioned admonishments of Republicans for having ousted Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

"These individuals that Kevin McCarthy has appointed, chosen to appoint to committees. George Santos claimed that his grandparents were in the Holocaust. That was a lie. A disgusting lie. Marjorie Taylor Greene regularly trafficking in antisemitic conspiracy theories.Paul Gosar inciting – these are individuals, Marjorie Taylor Greene included – inciting violence against specific members in the body," said Ocasio-Cortez, herself a target of Gosar and Greene's antagonizing antics. "He has appointed all three of them. Two House committees. Not just one, but multiple. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was engaging in 911 conspiracy theories, Kevin McCarthy appointed her to the Homeland Security Committee. So there is really no consistency here. And it needs to be very well known that this targeting of Ilhan Omar is because the Republican base finds it easy. The Republican base finds it politically self-rewarding."

Seventy-seven minutes after that CNN interview, Greene accused Ocasio-Cortez of lying and then demanded that her colleague "be an adult and actually debate me on policy instead of run your mouth like a teenage girl."

Social media spawned various predictions.

Ty-22: "What 'debate'? You are out of her league."

langford: "Patience. AOC is going to eat your lunch."

MM: "Stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen. -AOC"

BIG LEE BRONZER: "You want to turn everything into the MTG freak show"

Danny Honeycutt: "First topic going to be regarding the issue of requesting pardons?"

KANDID- PROUD DEMOCRAT: "Why does she need to debate you? You defeat yourself daily."

Tracy Falco: "She’s hardly a coward. You are a waste of her time. Go pretend to be important."

Chidi: "AOC will wipe the floor with you in a debate. The only thing you’d win against her is a tractor pull."

The tragic comedy show. Starring all of us: "Are you going to debate if school shootings are real or not?"

Watching: "You probably want to sit this one out. Remember your memory ain’t that good… 'I don’t recall' x 10000"

Kyla in the Burgh: "You have a hard time even spelling simple words. Just sit down, Marge. Don't make her embarrass you."

Steve Comeau: "I bet she will when you actually bring sanity to the table. Don’t expect her to take up your offer any time soon."

Gailen David: "AOC learned never to wrestle with a sasquatch – it would just get mud all over her, and the sasquatch would like it."

A to the Z: "She's not wrong and you're not worth her time. There is no point in debating a known liar who will just lie some more."

Brandon Wolf: "why would she waste time debating someone with no policy knowledge and who is never operating in good faith?"

Brionne Davis Davel: "Maybe you guys could have that debate in a 'peach-tree dish' and share some gazpacho for lunch. You’re out of your league."

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https://www.alternet.org/marjorie-taylor-greene-infowars-viewers/

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Nice try': GOP Congressman says Marjorie Taylor Greene has 'matured' since spreading 9/11 conspiracies

Brandon Gage

January 22, 2023

On Sunday's edition of This Week, United States Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) defended House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) for placing Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene...

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alex Jones to Marjorie Taylor Greene: “My favorite member of Congress"; “The incredible MTG, the most eloquent, the most beautiful member of Congress"; “The most influential patriot in Congress. Fearless, smart and amazing"; “MTG, who I hope becomes president one day. Hell, she’d probably be better than Trump."

Marjorie Taylor Greene to Alex Jones: “I am a huge fan of yours"; “Your show is one of the best shows there is"; “You have courage and you're willing to talk about things and explore the issues and ask questions"; “I fully support you, Alex. You have been so in front of so many issues and news stories. And I'm just grateful for you. And I'm grateful for your fight"; “I'm so thankful that you have been right so many times"; “We have to band together.”

House Republicans' decision to give Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a Homeland Security Committee assignment is a victory for Alex Jones. He is a collaborator of and a source of information for the Georgia congresswoman, who has frequently praised Jones while appearing on his show, visited and dined with him in Texas, and said during one appearance that “we have to band together.”

Jones is one of the country’s leading right-wing conspiracy theorists. He has:

Repeatedly claimed that the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was fake. He has been successfully sued for his lies about the tragedy;
Promoted conspiracy theories regarding 9/11, the Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, and numerous other tragedies;
And pushed violent rhetoric against his perceived enemies.

Greene has similarly forwarded conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook, Stoneman Douglas, and 9/11, and used violent rhetoric against her perceived enemies.

Greene made 10 appearances on Jones’ program since 2022,most recently on January 12. During those shows, the two frequently heaped praise on each other.

They have also worked together to fundraise for Greene and push viewers to lobby Congress on behalf of her priorities. The two are so close that Greene visited Jones in Texas, where she appeared live in Infowars’ studios and dined at a restaurant with her fellow conspiracy theorist. (Greene has invited Jones to the Capitol.)

Jones has defended Greene after some on the right criticized her for supporting McCarthy's bid for speaker. Jones said on his program on January 8: “She supported a lot of good legislation. She supported free speech. She stood up for Infowars and she's had a lot of courage and she is loyal to Trump.” He added that he didn't want to hear criticism of her from certain people, adding: “I feel good. My gut's telling me she's good. I like her.”

During her Infowars appearances, Greene has lobbed her typical rhetoric, including urging vigilante violence against transgender people; promoting the conspiracy theory that January 6 was actually an FBI plot; and falsely claiming that the midterm election in Arizona was stolen.

Those appearances have also been a mutual admiration society between Greene and Jones. Here are numerous examples:

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jones and Greene’s over-the-top adulation for each other

Jones: “There's a lot of great new people in the last few years have gotten into Congress for defending this republic. But out of all of them, the most informative and interesting and brave has got to be Marjorie Taylor Greene.” [2/2/22]
Greene: “I am a huge fan of yours, so I'm thrilled to be here.” Jones: “I'm a big fan of yours as well.” [2/2/22]
Jones: “You’re what people want: an amazing, powerful, smart, beautiful woman promoting freedom.” [2/2/22]
Jones: “I believe in you. I mean, I know you’re for real. I know your voting record is amazing, and I know you're an example of a grassroots, hard working, smart person standing up and going against the system. And if you can inspire others and if we can inspire others, we're going to win this fight.” [2/20/22]
Jones: “You're not scared to come on here.” Greene later replied: “Oh, Alex, I would never be afraid to come on your show. I think your show is one of the best shows there is, and the American people know it. That's why so many people watch your show. Because you have courage and you're willing to talk about things and explore the issues and ask questions. There is nothing wrong with asking questions and digging for the truth.” [3/30/22]
Jones: “I celebrate MTG because she's a really smart lady. She has courage. She's even more beautiful in person. She's a businesswoman, a mom, a mother, a patriot, very successful in the private sector. And she's the example of what America is. And that's why they fear her so much. … She's smart enough to say, ‘Hey, we should support Alex because that's a populist movement. He's a good guy. He's not lying, he's not perfect. But we should support him. He's under attack.’ She understands the common sense of we're the good guys, we're trying to save the country.’” [4/21/22]
Greene: “I want to chime in there and tell you I fully support you, Alex. You have been so in front of so many issues and news stories. And I'm just grateful for you. And I'm grateful for your fight. I'm grateful that you've never given up and that when they've come after you like they have all these years, you have dug in and said, ‘No, you will not take me out. I will find another way and I'll keep telling the truth.’ And I just really appreciate you for that. And I fully agree with you. We have to band together.” [4/21/22]
Greene: “I love those T-shirts. ‘Alex Jones was right.’ I need one. I definitely want to wear one. And I'm so thankful that you have been right so many times.” [4/21/22]
Jones: “My favorite member of Congress.” [7/6/22]
Jones: “The incredible MTG, the most eloquent, the most beautiful member of Congress. I mean, they call her dumb all day because she's so damn smart. Look at this woman.” [7/6/22]
Jones: “The most influential patriot in Congress. Fearless, smart and amazing.” [8/24/22]
Greene: “I have to give you props, Alex. You were right all along. This is a war of information. It's the information war. And I love to say it: Alex Jones is right and you have been right on that. And Republicans, we are constantly losing this war.” [11/15/22]
Jones: “I love her. I think she's one of the best members of Congress and they're already getting a lot of great stuff passed.” [1/12/23]

Jones pushing for Greene to be president

Jones: “MTG, who I hope becomes president one day. Hell, she’d probably be better than Trump coming up in 2024. Can we get you to run for president in the next few years? Because I think you're one of the few people that would probably have a better voting record and have a better chance at winning than even Trump or maybe a Greene-DeSantis ticket?” [2/2/22]
Jones: “If the system got out of your way, which they wouldn’t, if the Republicans didn’t attack you, which they will, I think you would be — poll better and be a better candidate for president than DeSantis and Trump. So would you take a VP slot with either one of them or I'd rather just go ahead and back you for president. … You're just as smart or smarter than both of them. And you've got the guts we need. And everybody loves you. I'm serious. We need to think about MTG president here.” [7/6/22]

Jones promoting Greene’s campaign and legislation

Jones: “No matter where you live in the United States, you need to donate right now to Marjorie Taylor Greene's reelection campaign.” [2/20/22]
Jones: “I just really appreciate your great voting record and all you've done and everybody out there, there's not a place that you can fight for freedom better than Marjorie Taylor Greene and her reelection.” [2/20/22]
Greene and Jones promoted the congressional switchboard’s number to get people to call Congress about her legislation, the Congressional Voting Accountability Act, which “would discontinue the practice of voice votes, ‘present’ votes, and remote or proxy votes instituted during the Covid-19 pandemic.” Jones told his audience that supporting Greene’s legislation “is a very important thing to do.”

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) used Martin Luther King Jr. Day to serve up a Christian bible-based Old Testament rant that both reserves “vengeance” for God while calling on House Republicans to take action.

“Vengeance is mine declares the Lord,” the far-right self-identified Christian nationalist congresswoman proclaimed from her official government Twitter account. “God will not let evil go unpunished.”

She then called on House Republicans, saying they “must do what is right for the American people and no longer serve the Uniparty and the Globalist agenda,” presumably equating the few remaining “moderate” Republicans with the entire Democratic caucus.

“America First!” Greene then cried.

Monday is also the official start of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, known as “Davos,” named for the part of Switzerland where it is held annually. Davos is frequently targeted by the right as the “globalist agenda.” Its attendees include government, corporate, and culture leaders from around the world.

The Associated Press on Monday reported on the conspiracy theories fueled by the annual Davos conference.

Greene proceeded to spread some conspiracy theories of her own, including about President Joe Biden’s classified documents and Ukraine. She also retweeted a conspiracy theory from her personal Twitter account calling for the special counsel investigating ex-President Trump for his unlawful handling of classified documents to be “totally defunded.”

“Joe Biden enforcer Merrick Garland has weaponized the DOJ to go after President Trump,” she wrote, referring tot he Attorney General. “They want Trump in jail. It’s like they took a page out of Saddam Hussein’s playbook. Garland’s politically weaponized special counsel must be totally DEFUNDED.”

She did not call for the special counsel investigating President Biden’s handling of classified documents to be defunded.

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United States Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) became a fierce defender of Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-California) during his rocky ascension to speaker of the House last week. This was a notable evolution of their relationship, which began as contentious when Greene – who at the time was a fringe right-wing candidate – was elected in 2020.

But Greene's expanding influence over the GOP's voting base and McCarthy's conservative Republican caucus fostered a cooperation that now appears to be blossoming into a legislative allyship. Both lawmakers were endorsed by former President Donald Trump in their respective reelection campaigns in the November 2022 midterms. Trump also backed McCarthy's bid for the speakership, which McCarthy won after fifteen ballots over five grueling days.

Now, having jockeyed her way back into McCarthy's favor after she was stripped of her seats on congressional subcommittees in 2021, Greene is relishing her alignment with McCarthy's power.

On Monday, Greene tweeted a video in which she is shown gallivanting through the Capitol and embracing McCarthy as he was elected speaker.

"It’s time to begin.. and they can’t stop what’s coming," Greene wrote in a caption meant to taunt Democrats.

There were only two instances of spoken words. In the first, a man is heard stating that "she held up her phone and it said 'DT on the phone," referring to Trump. The second occurance is a recording of a reporter saying that the "defining image of the night" was "when Marjorie Taylor Greene raced down the aisle to take a selfie with Kevin McCarthy."

The slideshow ends with McCarthy holding up the speaker's gavel.

Almost immediately, Twitter exploded with mockery of Greene's self-aggrandizing montage, which was accompanied by musical riffs from Still D.R.E. by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg....

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infowars viewers are attacking 'fraud' Marjorie Taylor Greene for supporting McCarthy as House speaker

Alex Henderson

January 10, 2023

Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his online “Infowars” show have been highly supportive of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who has been a frequent guest on the program. But some “Infowars...

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House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection released a 150-page summary of its findings and voted Monday to send the Justice Department criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump and others who assisted his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Right-wing political groups and leaders generally responded either by ignoring the historic action altogether or by dismissing it as a partisan move without engaging substantively with the committee’s extensively documented findings.

Far-right activist Ali Alexander, who was a leader of the so-called “Stop the Steal” effort to overturn the 2020 election and keep Trump in power, called the committee’s criminal referrals “a coup against the voters.” Alexander, who participated in the recent disastrous Kanye West and Nick Fuentes appearance on Alex Jones’ show that turned into a festival of praise for Adolph Hitler, also released a statement purportedly on behalf of “Team Ye,” accusing Democrats and the “Republican Establishment” of working together “to rig our GOP primary or choose which candidates can be in the ballot before the American Voter.”

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton took to Twitter to charge that “’January 6’ is all about Biden/Left seeking to suppress/jail political opponents who blow the whistle on their election misconduct — and suppressing political opponents in 2024…” Fitton shared a video of himself claiming that “The left has decided that if you are challenging results they like in elections, you’re breaking the law and you should be jailed and prosecuted.”

Fitton also retweeted Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Jeremy Carl’s suggestion that the threat to democracy was somehow not Trump’s effort to overthrow the election or the violent effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, but the committee’s investigation: “A completely partisan House panel is trying to work hand-in-glove with a completely partisan DOJ to bring criminal charges against the previous U.S. President. If you still think we live in a functional democracy you need to wake up and realize what time it is.”

Former Trump attorney and self-styled “America’s lawyer” Jenna Ellis claimed, “It’s all a political pretext with zero basis in fact or law”—a ridiculous statement given the committee’s meticulous gathering of evidence, including testimony from many Trump administration officials.

Not to be outdone, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed the House committee as “communist.”

Writing in his daily email newsletter, longtime religious-right activist Gary Bauercalled the committee a “kangaroo court” and referred to the criminal referrals as outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “seeking to extract one last act of revenge against Donald Trump.” Bauer was similarly grumpy about the committee referring four Republican congressmen to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with committee subpoenas. Bauer didn’t defend their defiance of the law but railed against what he called a “despicable precedent established by petulant progressives.”

Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec greeted the conclusion of the committee’s final public meeting with a message on Telegram: “Bring it, demons.” Posobiec didn’t pass up the chance to raise money, urging his readers Monday night to buy Christmas presents from MyPillow using a code that would presumably give Posobiec a cut: “Jan 6 wasn’t an insurrection to overthrow the govt but promocode Poso is an insurrection to overthrow prices this Christmas!”

The committee is reportedly set to release a massive amount of additional documentation Wednesday.

Tags: Ali Alexander Gary Bauer Jack Posobiec Jenna Ellis Marjorie Taylor Greene Tom Fitton Capitol Insurrection House select committee on Jan. 6 Jan. 6 Judicial Watch

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Oh look! Crybaby Adam actually proved me right. “The American people can ensure he’s never elected again.” The J6 communist committee wants to stop President Trump because even after stealing the election they can’t beat him, so now they want to haul him into court.

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A new report is shedding light on far-right Republicans' change of heart regarding conspiracy theorist lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

In a piece published by The Daily Beast, reporter Zachary Petrizzo explained how the Republican lawmaker is losing the support of some of her most significant supporters for presumed lies she's told.

Petrizzo offered details about the backstory fueling Republicans' disapproval. "Why fellow extremists are upset?" Petrizzo asks, before adding, "That’s three-fold—and it involves Greene’s vocal support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House, her public spat with onetime friend Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and the finalization of her divorce."

He added, "White nationalist leader-turned-Kanye West informal campaign associate Nicholas Fuentes additionally turned on Greene earlier this month after she denounced him in late November, despite speaking at Fuente’s annual AFPAC conference months earlier in March. Fuentes–who now refers to Greene as 'Large Marge'—has since encouraged his white nationalist 'groyper' followers to heckle Greene at her campaign events."

Taking to Telegram to express his concerns about Greene, January 6 organizer Ali Alexander accused Greene of attempting to protect House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). “MTG wants to protect McCarthy from being removed if he is elected Speaker,” Alexander wrote. “There is something so odd about what is going on between McCarthy and MTG. I’ve only ever once before seen anything like it. It may be time for me to intervene.”

Stew Peters also sounded off on Greene amid her ordeal with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) On December 19, he took to Twitter with his remarks.

"I see you've stopped talking about dildos and butt plugs to stand by your China/Israel Owned FTX boy Kevin. Marje - You claim you want to 'Defeat the Democrats,'" he tweeted. "You haven't ONCE demanded that Kevin get rid of Pelosi's rules and bring back the Motion to Vacate the Chair."

During a phone interview with The Beast on Friday, Peters had strong remarks to say about Greene insisting that she was “'actually a threat to national security' and declared that she would 'burn in hell' one day."

“Marjorie is NOT America First, but regrettably a faker and a liar who raised millions claiming she would impeach Biden, and now backs a man for Speaker who refuses to impeach Biden,” he said.

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having vacated the far right and joined "centrist" Republicans in supporting sycophant Kevin McCarthy in his bid for speakerdom, Georgia peach Marjorie Taylor Greene is losing the support of her hardline fans. Not only has she engaged in a spat with former ally, the mathematically challenged Lauren Boebert, now a whole array of right-wing hacks, nutjobs, racists, anti-semites, and other former friends are now speaking out against her.

Yahoo:

Peters suggested the "wholesome Christian mom" image she ran under was a farce, apparently in light of her divorce, calling her a "two-bit whore."

Likewise, former Right Side Broadcasting Network host-turned-failed Republican congressional candidate Mike Crispi suggested that Greene was being "blackmailed" by McCarthy, which he called the "only logical explanation" for her fervent support.

"All she does is bully and try to discredit," he continued of the Georgia Republican.

White nationalist leader-turned-Kanye West informal campaign associate Nicholas Fuentes additionally turned on Greene earlier this month after she denounced him in late November, despite speaking at Fuentes's annual AFPAC conference months earlier in March.

Fuentes—who now refers to Greene as "Large Marge"—has since encouraged his white nationalist "groyper" followers to heckle Greene at her campaign events.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has found herself in yet another controversy — this time, for her comments at the New York Young Republicans Club’s 110th Annual Gala on Saturday, December 10. The far-right MAGA Republican, during her speech, drew applause when she told the crowd that if she and Steve Bannon had organized the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building, “we would have won” because “it would’ve been armed.”

Hannah Gais and Michael Edison Hayden of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attended that event and described what they observed during an appearance on the Daily Beast’s “Fever Dreams” podcast. Members of the SPLC are likely to encounter hostility at a MAGA event, and Gais and Hayden told “Fever Dreams” host Will Sommer that while they were honest about who they were, they didn’t go out of their way to draw attention to it.

In addition to Greene, attendees at the event included Donald Trump, Jr. and former One America News(OAN) host Jack Posobiec(known for promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy theory). Hayden recalled that the SPLC members agreed “that we would not lie about who we were” but were careful what they said at their table “because that’s the kind of place where we could have gotten busted and thrown out very, very easily.”

“We kept our heads down there…. (and) just took photographs and things,” Hayden told Sommer. Hayden also said of the rhetoric at the event, “The guardrails are completely off.”

Describing the speeches, Hayden explained, “Every single thing referred to this war that they believe that they’re in. I have to repeatedly say thatwe are not in their war, they are at war with us. And I think it’s really important to understand that there are people in this country who get together and plot in private and give each other awards who believe that they’re at war with us. So, for that sense, I felt it was very important to document it and to inform the public that it’s happened.”

According to Hayden, him and Gais spent about four hours mingling with the guests and were “very well behaved.” But when they spoke toPosobiec, the Pizzagate conspiracy theorist “started to get agitated” and “started to call me a scumbag and a troll.” And Hayden recalls that when Vish Burra, secretary of the New York Young Republicans Club, “started to push me out,” he “agreed to leave.”

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Christian nationalist U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s remarks at the New YorkYoung Republican Club’s Saturday night gala have elicited massive response – and condemnation – from many after she insisted had she been “in charge” of the January 6, 2021 insurrection the rioters “would’ve been armed” and they “would have won.”

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” Greene, a Republican from Georgia, told the group (video below). Some of the rioters and attendees were armed.

In addition to Greene and Bannon, Donald Trump, Jr. and far-right agitator Jack Posobiec were also in attendance, as was disgraced former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The Southern Poverty Law Center described the New York Young Republican Club’s gala attendees as a “collection of radical right figures including white nationalists and ultranationalist European leaders” and noted the “group’s president declared ‘total war’ on perceived enemies.”

Some are questioning how Greene can retain her congressional seat given the oath of office she swore to, which in part reads: “I, __, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Former Democratic U.S. Senator from California Barbara Boxer tweeted: “If you’re in Congress and swore to protect the Constitution & you’re asked if you had anything to do with 1/6 insurrection, you say something like: I would NEVER partake in violence against America. You wouldn’t say something like: if I did it I would’ve been armed!”

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) quoting Greene, tweeted that winning is “overturning an election,” and “Being armed = using force to do it.”

Congresswoman Greene “represents today’s Republican party and defines a coup as ‘winning,'” she stressed.

“This is un-American and dangerous,” Escobar added. “And Republican silence is complicity.”

Veteran journalist and SiriusXM Progress host Michelangelo Signorile called Greene’s remarks, “Treason out loud.”

“Marjorie Taylor Greene tells extremist confab that if she organized Jan 6 ‘we would’ve won’ and ‘we would’ve been armed.’ Take it as a plan for the next assault on democracy, which Trump is right now inciting,” he warned.

Gun violence prevention activist Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action observed this is a “Member of Congress fantasizing about killing her colleagues.”

Former Obama White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod, now the director of the non-partisan University of Chicago Institute of Politics, quoted Greene and called her one of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s “new top apparatchiks.”

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Since being sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has generated one controversy after another. And once again, the far-right MAGA Republican congresswoman is being slammed by her critics for promoting violence.

Greene, if anything, has grown even more cocky since her landslide reelection in the 2022 midterms, which found her defeating Democratic challenger Marcus Flowers by 31 percent in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. The very pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist and election denialist expects to become even more prominent in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2023 after its new Republican majority is seated, and she isn’t shy about openly calling for violence.

On Saturday night, December 10, Greene was among the speakers at the New York Young Republican Club's 110th Annual Gala, where she said that the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building would have been fully “armed” if she had organized it.

Greene told the crowd, “Then January 6 happens. And, next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon here. And I will tell you something: If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won — not to mention, it would've been armed. See, that's the whole joke, isn't it? They say that whole thing was planned, and I'm like: Are you kidding me? A bunch of conservatives, Second-Amendment supporters, went in the Capitol without guns, and they think that we organized that.”

MAGA Republicans attending the December 10 event obviously didn’t find Greene’s calls for violence disturbing; she drew a lot of enthusiastic applause. But her critics were quick to call her out on Twitter.

Liberal firebrand and former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tweeted, “Indict and arrest @RepMTG now. This is another threat to overthrow the government of the United States. Lock this creature away. Permanently.”

The group Occupy Democrats wrote, “She's not even hiding her treasonous desires anymore…. Her call for armed insurrection is grounds for arrest in our view."

Author Tim Wise posted, “Margarine Traitor Greed, saying the quiet (and illegal and seditious part) out loud. Lock her up.”

Progressive podcast host Dash Dobrofsky wrote: "Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would have 'won' on Jan 6 if she had 'planned it.' She also said it 'would have been armed.' Greene gave Capitol tours prior to the attack and sought a pardon for her role in the attack. DOJ (the Department of Justice) has an obligation to indict her.”

Twitter user John Norris, @JohnNor80033183, commented, “Personally I believe if Bannon organizes an insurrection, he will embezzle all funds raised for it.” And Jesse Peterson, @jpeterson1987, wrote, “I don’t care what party you support but certain things to me are inexcusable and this is one of them. How can any republican condone MTG and her speech here. It’s sick.”

Stephen Simpson, @BamaStephen, a self-described “former Republican,” said of Greene, “She is one of the main spiritual leaders of today’s neo-GOP. Lincoln would despise her words and actions. As a former Republican, I certainly do.”

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The massive trove of text messages turned over by Mark Meadows to the House select committee show Republican elected officials were willing to violate the U.S. Constitution on "bizarre" and obviously phony evidence.

Talking Points Memo reporter Hunter Walker obtained the messages, which show the former White House chief of staff communicating with GOP officials at all levels of government about far-fetched conspiracy theories to justify overturning Donald Trump's election loss, and he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that their lack of sophistication was genuinely shocking.

"We're touching on something that is really a central thing here," Walker said. "I covered the Trump White House, and a big question is how many people are in on the joke and how many people are true believers. I first, you know, became familiar with the text log when i was working on my book, The Breach, which is about the Jan. 6 investigation. I co-wrote it with [former GOP lawmaker] Denver Riggleman. He knows a lot of these people, and he was shocked when he opened the text log. He led the [select committee's] phone team, it was like looking into the mouth of madness, and even with that introduction, I had a similar reaction."

"Adults in government, not only engaging in frighteningly undemocratic language, but their base intelligence is called into question," Walker continued. "You're talking about the wild Italian theory, people were taking it seriously. We see another instance where someone has a bizarre theory from a Romanian YouTube video that any of us would know not to tweet, based on stuff from 2005 that they somehow thought carried over to 2022.The information literacy of our members of Congress is called into question here, and that's part of why we thought it was more important to present more of the totality of the these texts you have seen anywhere before, and our text team made sure you can see them in a phone as they were received, because the typos, the wild links, all of this is really important."

"One last point, and this is something that shouldn't be lost in this discussion," he added. "We see the pressure, we see it in real time in these texts on people like Doug Ducey, that was on people like Brad Raffensperger, that was on people like the Arizona attorney general. Scott Perry, the same guy sending this Italian theory, is talking about lobbying to have Trump pressure the Italian government and Pennsylvania legislatures, and you know, I think one of the things we see is if these people had given into the pressure, all of this plotting just might have worked."

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Former President Donald Trump and allies’ attempted coup and the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building was egged on by a number of Republicans. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, in December 2021, even recommended that Trump declare martial law in order to remain in the White House. And Flynn isn’t the only Trump supporter who had martial law in mind. According to the January 6 select committee, Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina had the same idea.

In an article published by Rolling Stone on December 13, journalist Charisma Madarang reports that in late 2020 and early 2021, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was in touch with “34 members of Congress” via text messaging about Trump’s efforts to remain in power. Meadows, according to Madarang, was forced to “hand over 2319 text messages to the House select committee.” And in one of them, dated January 17, 2021, Norman recommended martial law.

January 17, 2021 was 11 days after the January 6 insurrection and only three days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration. In that text message to Meadows, Norman wrote, “Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of no return in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!”

Norman referred to martial law as “Marshall law” in his texts, and so did Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.

“By January 17,” Madarang writes, “Greene told Meadows that several Republicans in Congress wanted Trump to declare martial law. She, too, appeared to think giving power to the military was named after a person named Marshall.”

Greene, in a text, told Meadows, “In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law. I don’t know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!”

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According to a report from Vice's Tess Owen, the romance between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and followers of notorious Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes is irreparably on the rocks after she put some distance between herself and him following his dinner with Donald Trump.

While the former president has been circumspect in attacking the young far-right anti-semitic demagogue, the equally controversial Taylor Greene fired off a tweet stating, "Of course I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racists anti-semitic ideology. I can’t comprehend why the media is obsessed with him."

That, in turn, led Fuentes to lash back out at her, and his followers have since piled on the one-time darling of the Christian nationalist movement.

As Vice's Owen reported, Fuentes told his supporters, "She’s just weak. She goes and says something edgy to get attention, and then when the pressure comes, she buckles. You know, she’s gonna be a MAGA-mom and QAnon and all that, and then the second Kevin McCarthy reprimands her and she loses her committee, she goes and apologizes.”

Noting that Fuentes has taken to referring to her as "Large Marge" in his diatribes, Owen writes that she has become a central topic among the "groypers" tied to Fuentes' extremist movement.

According to fringe conservative Laura Loomer, "MTG is no longer an ally to America First. She may have claimed to be so that she could climb the political ladder, but she has shown she is all talk and zero action, unless of course the action is selling t-shirts and wine glasses.”

Holocaust denier Vince James added, "You are their slave Marjorie, a slave to the Democrats and the Media that you constantly talk about. By that statement [disavowing Fuentes] it just got to show you're living according to the rules of their game, that they've completely rigged against us."

"Here’s my take: grifters are gonna grift, and it’s just sad that we have to go through that kind of betrayal,” far-right podcaster Dalton Clodfelter proclaimed.

According to Owen, Taylor Greene isn't taking the backlash against her lying down, calling Fuentes "immature" and then adding, "What has he ever done in his life? He knows nothing more than anyone else.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) did an interview several months ago with a white nationalist commentator who previously said that he thinks “peaceful coexistence” with Black people isn’t “possible” and “the war on whites is escalating very quickly. Plan accordingly.” Greene’s interview, which hasn’t been previously reported, is another example of how the Republican congresswoman has been reaching out to fellow extremists to appeal for support.

Republican House leadership is set to give committee assignments back to Greene and has reportedly told her that it would support her potential investigations.

Before entering Congress in 2021, Greene was a right-wing pundit who pushed conspiracy theories about school shootings, satanic child blood drinking, “Pizzagate,” 9/11, and Jewish people using a space laser to start fires. She has also endorsed violence against politicians, the QAnon conspiracy theory, and bigoted rhetoric.

She has continued to promote toxic rhetoric since taking office, including associating with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, toxic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and grifting election denier Steve Bannon; and posting on the white nationalist and antisemitic social media haven Gab.

Infowars foreign correspondent Dan Lyman interviewed Greene for his Infowars-affiliated site Border Hawk,where he fearmongers about the supposed danger of undocumented immigrants. Greene’s interview was posted and promoted on Jones’ website, which means that Infowars is monetizing it.

Lyman received a press pass and attended the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in late July, where he interviewed right-wing extremists including Jack Posobiec, Alex Stein, and Greene, calling her “one of our great immigration patriots in Congress.”

During the interview, Greene echoed white nationalist rhetoric by claiming: “It's not just a border invasion. It's an invasion of our entire country because these people are spreading to every single state, all 50 states.” She also said that the Republican-backed House would be “investigating all of the wrongdoing and the corruption” of the Biden administration; claimed that “Democrats don’t want” the U.S. to have “a border any more”; and declared that “we should investigate” the United Nations, nonprofits, and other “globalist groups and networks” for supposedly contributing “to the invasion of America."

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Lyman is a “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist and white nationalist who has repeatedly made racist and anti-Muslim remarks. Here’s a sampling of his rhetoric:

Lyman tweeted in November: “Wake up, White folks. The nation your ancestors sweat, bled, and died to build for you is being ripped out of your hands.”
In September 2021, Lyman appeared on Red Ice Radio, a white nationalist program that has also promoted Holocaust denial. At the start of the interview, Lyman said that he’s “been a big fan of Red Ice for years and it's truly an honor to join you today.” He later blamed non-white migrants for a “pattern” of “heinous sexual crimes” and “pretty crazy rape stories,” stating: “They [refuges from Afghanistan] really don't care what they're going after as long as it's has a pulse. And so to see that there's going to be so many more of them coming over, you know, I say the worst people that have invaded Europe in recent years have to be either Afghans, Pakistanis, or Somalis.”
Lyman tweeted in July 2020: “All Whites with any sense should flee diversity zones immediately. Peaceful coexistence no longer appears possible. Get out ASAP.”
Lyman tweeted in July 2020: “The war on whites is escalating very quickly. Plan accordingly.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will name her to the Oversight Committee if he becomes Speaker.

During an interview on Wednesday, conservative host Charlie Kirk asked Greene how she could be sure McCarthy would follow through with a far-right agenda, including subpoenas for Dr. Anthony Fauci and people close to President Joe Biden.

"He has said publicly that we are going to do all of these investigations into everything you just named," Greene insisted. "We are definitely doing these investigations and he's allowing the chairmen of the committees to run it."

Greene added: "I'm very excited to serve on Oversight. That's the committee I've asked for and no one has told me no about anything. I am going to be pursuing many things and I'm thrilled to be able to do that."

The lawmaker has split with fellow Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) over a disagreement about who should be the next Speaker of the House.

Democrats stripped Greene of all committee assignments in 2021 after reports found she repeated conspiracy theories and bigoted comments.

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When Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020’s presidential election, many world leaders were quick to congratulate him — from French President Emmanuel Macron to then-U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies in the Kremlin were clearly disappointed in that election’s outcome, and according to Daily Beast reporter Julia Davis, Russian officials are closely observing the United States’ 2022 midterms and hoping for a major red wave.

“Russian state media is following the midterm elections in the United States with great interest, but the mood in Moscow’s studios had noticeably soured in comparison to the fun-filled episodes of the years preceding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Davis observes in an article published on November 8. “While the experts and the hosts are still rooting for the Republicans, they stop short of promising the audience total salvation even with the GOP back in charge. Even the most seasoned propagandists can’t hide the fact that Russia’s war against Ukraine — and the global fallout that followed — is only going from bad to worse.”

Davis reports that Sergei Luzyanin, a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Russian Foreign Ministry, is hoping that Republicans will win big on Election Night — and that there will be considerable animosity between the Biden Administration and a GOP-controlled Congress in 2023.

On the state-operated Russian show “60 Minutes” (not to be confused with the CBS News program in the U.S.), Luzyanin commented, “A potential victory of the Republicans in the Congress and perhaps in theSenate will mark the beginning of a political Halloween…. After the midterm elections, we’ll see a glass jar full of poisonous American spiders tearing each other up. Go ahead and eat one another! It will be a frightening political process... It may also lead to tactical or strategic changes in their foreign policy…. Get lots of popcorn, and let’s watch.”

As some Russian media pundits see it, a GOP-controlled Congress will be better for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine than a Congress that remains in Democratic hands.

Olga Skabeeva, a Russian media host, commented that she hopes Democrats and Republicans tear each other to pieces but wasn’t sure it will happen as much as she would like. And while Skabeeva prefers Republicans over Democrats, she isn’t counting on any direct military help from the GOP.

Skabeeva told viewers, “We keep hoping it happens, but they’re yet to destroy each other…. The situation won’t change for the better, and we have to rely solely upon ourselves, on the Russian Army. Republicans can’t help us to hold on to Kherson.”

One clip that has been played on Russian TV, according to Davis, is a clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene promising that “not another penny will go to Ukraine.” Skabeeva obviously likes what the Georgia congresswoman had to say.

Skabeeva commented, “There aren’t many chances that the magnitude of the funding (for Ukraine) will change, but an everyday Russian keeps on hoping and believing. They’ve never followed the midterm elections so closely.... We trust and believe in the Republicans. Do we even have any other allies?”

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Trump supporters at a Sioux City, Iowa rally Thursday that Paul Pelosi is to blame for his own assault, just as the Speaker’s husband was being released from the hospital after being bludgeoned with a hammer in a “near-fatal” attack that left him unconscious in a pool of his own blood.

As she made her remarks news broke that Pelosi had just been released from a six-day stint in hospital, where he was operated on for a skull fracture and damage to his arm and hands. The Washington Post reports court records reveal his attacker was trying to wrestle control of a hammer, “striking Mr. Pelosi in the head at full force with the hammer, which knocked Mr. Pelosi unconscious.”

“He was unresponsive for about three minutes, the documents say, ‘waking up in a pool of his own blood.’ It is not clear whether that blood was from his head or from the injuries to his arm and hands.”

Greene had a different take: “Paul Pelosi was brutally attacked by a drugged out illegal alien that should have been deported and Paul Pelosi should have been a gun owner and shot his attacker,” she told the crowd.

Greene began her speech by attacking Democrats across the country.

“In less than two years everyone, Democrats have proven that they can’t be trusted with power,” Greene said. “But we already knew that, didn’t we? They’re running for office claiming Republicans are destroying democracy. But yet it’s Democrats who are destroying our country.

“Democracy is the government for the people. But everything the Democrats have done has hurt the people, she said, which is demonstrably a lie.

“Under the reign of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, we now have the highest inflation over 40 years. The American people can’t afford food, can’t afford their bills and can’t afford gas. And with Democrats in charge, we’re on the verge of a diesel fuel crisis. Can you imagine no diesel fuel? They have destroyed our American energy independence. Joe Biden did that.,” she said, again, in a provably false lie.

“The U.S. now has the highest crime we’ve seen in decades, where Americans are robbed, stabbed, raped, kidnapped, carjacked and murdered, but only – the only crime victim you hear about from Democrats in the media is Paul Pelosi,” Greene told supporters in another provable lie.

“Paul Pelosi was brutally attacked by a drugged out illegal alien that should have been deported and Paul Pelosi should have been a gun owner and shot his attacker,” she said, literally blaming Pelosi for his own assault. (It is not known if Pelosi is a gun owner. It is not a requirement in America to own a gun.)

“But Democrats in the media completely ignore horrific crimes against Americans every day. They ignore the illegal alien crime spree with drugs flooding across our border. With fentanyl poisonings every single day. Democrats have ripped our border wide open. But the only border they care about is Ukraine. Not America’s southern border. Under Republicans not another penny will go to Ukraine,” Greene promised, in another of her statements showing support for the murderous authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Our country comes first.”

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A new analysis is exposing the real timeline of staged attacks against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) while explaining why it should not be a surprise that the lawmaker and her husband were the victims of a home invasion.

The report, collectively written by The Washington Post's Ashley Parker, Hannah Allam, and Marianna Sotomayor, sheds light on how far-right Republicans have been depicting the top-ranking Democratic lawmaker as a target for several years. In fact, some have even suggested that she be assassinated.

In the report, the writers highlighted how the alleged home invasion assailant, identified as 42-year-old David Depape, has a history of echoing conspiracy theories. They also suggested that the Republican Party's disturbing rhetoric may also be a contributing factor to the uptick in politically charged threats and violence.

According to the Post, "For many Democrats, the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband represents the all-but-inevitable conclusion of Republicans’ increasingly violent and threatening rhetoric toward their political opponents — a phenomenon that escalated under former president Donald Trump, who prided himself on his inflammatory oratory and who was often reluctant to denounce white nationalists and others spewing hate speech."

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) also said, "Sadly this attack was inevitable. Political violence is on the rise. And instead of GOP leaders condemning it, they condone it with silence or, even worse, glorification.”

As an example, the writers referenced thehistory of controversial remarks made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). On multiple occasions, the conspiracy-driven lawmaker has encouraged threats against Pelosi.

"But the threats against Pelosi have often been particularly ferocious and date back more than a decade, when Republicans worked to make her one of the faces of former president Barack Obama’s health-care law," they wrote.

"More recently, CNN reportedthat in 2018 and 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — who was elected to Congress in 2020 and quickly became known for her conspiracy theory-laden views — repeatedly expressed support for executing prominent Democratic politicians, including Pelosi."

"Greene liked a Facebook comment that said 'a bullet to the head would be quicker' as a way of removing Pelosi as speaker, CNN found. And in a video of a speech Greene gave promoting a 2019 petition she’d launched to impeach Pelosi for 'crimes of treason,' Greene calls Pelosi 'a traitor to our country' and says the speaker could be executed for treason," with Greene sen stating in a video,"It’s a crime punishable by death — is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason.”

Michael Jensen, with the START consortium for terrorism research at the University of Maryland, also expounded on some of the problems that could arise when some individuals are targeted.

"If somebody sets their sights on these individuals and then they decide to mobilize, there’s virtually nothing stopping them,” Jensen said, later adding, "There was an opportunity for the more moderate elements of the Republican Party to distance themselves from the more radical elements and marginalize them, and be the start of the end of this wave. The exact opposite happened. What we saw instead was a doubling down on moving extremism into the mainstream.”

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday evening dove into the alternative realities that United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has relied upon to build her political brand.

"Name a deranged conspiracy theory and this woman believes it," Tapper said of Greene, a self-avowed right-wing Christian nationalist who was first elected to Congress in 2020 and immediately supported former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn President Joe Biden's landslide victory. "QAnon? Check."

Greene said in video recordings on November 26th, 2017:

Many in our government are actively worshiping Satan.

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[READ MORE: 'Abomination': Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests pastor Raphael Warnock is not a Christian

Tapper noted that Greene has embraced other debunked, fringe beliefs. "9/11 truthism? You bet," he said.

Greene, November 1st, 2018:

The so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon, it's odd. There's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.

What about "mass shootings staged by the US government? Of course!" Tapper added.

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How do you get avid gun owners and people that support the Second Amendment to give up their guns and go along with anti-gun legislation? How do you do that? Maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative. Is that what happened in Las Vegas?

[READ MORE: Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashes on Kevin McCarthy with chilling warning and post-election prediction

"No, it's not," Tapper affirmed. He then recalled the alarming tactics that Greene employed to seize power:

In the long ago political past of last year, it looked as though all of this crazy talk was too much for Republican Party leaders to stop. And after a bunch of past statements were unearthed, in which Greene indicated support for executing Democrats among other hideous comments, the House of Representatives voted to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments. And eleven members of her own party backed the move. It was supposed to be a political death sentence.

But, as Greene's extremism became more mainstream in her party, and her fundraising prowess and MAGA celebrity grew, so did her standing in the Republican Party. She sat front row as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy rolled out his plans for the Republican takeover in November.

And in recent days, she told 'The New York Times,' 'I think that to be the best Speaker of the House and to please the base, he's [Kevin McCarthy] going to have to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway. And if he doesn't, they're going to be very unhappy about it... and that's not in any way a threat at all.'

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) appears to be issuing a warning to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

Speaking to the New York Times, the Georgia lawmaker also suggested thatshe expects to gain “a lot of power” in the House chamber if Republican lawmakers manage to regain control of the 2022 midterm elections, according to HuffPost.

Describing her as speaking in a "flat, unemotional voice," the Times quotes Greene as saying:

“I think that to be the best speaker of the House and to please the base, he’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway. And if he doesn’t, they’re going to be very unhappy about it. I think that’s the best way to read that. And that’s not in any way a threat at all. I just think that’s reality.”

Greene has been working to gain more of a voice in the chamber, HuffPost notes.

"Within the House Republican conference, McCarthy has assiduously courted her support, inviting her to high-level policy meetings (such as a discussion about the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets Department of Defense policy for the year) and, according to someone with knowledge of their exchanges, offering to create a new leadership position for her," The Times reports.

A spokesperson for McCarthy's office denies the claims about a possible offer being made for Greene.

“I don’t have to have a leadership position,” Greene told the newspaper. “I think I already have one, without having one.”

Greene's latest remarks follow her long history of circulating outlandish conspiracy theories. On multiple occasions, she's attempted to push theories about false flag operations. The lawmaker has also encouraged disruptive and disturbing social media posts calling for the murder of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expanded her white Christian nationalist attacks on Monday, barely one week after again promoting the racist “Great Replacement” theory at a Trump rally.

Speaking with Charlie Kirk, a far right wing radio host, founder of Turning Point USA, and member of the highly-secretive Christian organization Council for National Policy, Greene repeatedly attacked U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s church in Atlanta.

Greene has publicly embraced the “Christian nationalist” label for herself and has repeatedly made racist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ remarks while also promoting Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that Joe Biden stole the election, COVID and vaccine misinformation, and Vladimir Putin’s falsehoods.

Less than two weeks ago Greene posted to Twitter that President Joe Biden “is Hitler.” Democrats are seeking to censure her for those remarks.

“I truly feel that Herschel’s going to win” the U.S. Senate race against Sen. Raphael Warnock, Greene told Kirk.

She said Rev. Warnock “calls himself a Christian, calls himself a pastor, but preaches abortion from the pulpit.”

NCRM could find no evidence that Rev. Warnock “preaches abortion from the pulpit,” but being a pro-choice Christian is actually the norm in America.

Kirk interjected into Greene’s rant, “it’s so sick.”

“It’s such an abomination,” Greene continued, to which Kirk agreed.

“It’s completely wrong and evil,” she concluded.

Americans United, which calls itself “the only organization dedicated solely to defending the separation of church and state,” last year called the Council For National Policy the “scariest Christian nationalist group you’ve never heard of,” and “probably the most dangerous group you’ve never heard of.”

“Formed in 1981, in part by Religious Right activist and author Tim LaHaye, the CNP is an umbrella organization of religious and secular far-right groups whose leaders meet regularly to plot strategy and share information. They’ve been quietly pulling the strings of ultra-conservative politics for four decades.”

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When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia debated Marcus Flowers, her Democratic challenger in the 2022 midterms, on October 16, he lambasted her for encouraging the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Greene angrily responded that it was unfair to blame her for that attack in any way. But an article written by journalist/author Hunter Walker and published on SubStack following that debate demonstrates that Greene promoted the Big Lie after the 2020 election and encouraged MAGA efforts to overturn the election results.

Greene, during the debate, told Flowers, “You cannot accuse me of insurrection. I was a victim of the January 6 riot just as much as any other member of Congress. That was the third day I had on the job. I had nothing to do with what happened there that day, and I will not have you accuse me of that. That is wrong of you to do. You’re lying about me, and you will not defame my character in that manner.”

But text messages that Greene sent to former White House Chief of Starr Mark Meadows before January 6, 2021, according to Walker, “indicate” that she “was involved in organizing the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election at the U.S.”

Walker has had a lot to say about the January 6, 2021 insurrection. He wrote the new book, “The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th,” with former Rep. Denver Riggleman — a conservative/libertarian who served in the U.S. House of Representatives via Virginia before losing a GOP primary and has been vehemently critical of the MAGA movement.

In one of her pre-January 6, 2021 messages to Meadows, according to Walker, Greene wrote, “Good morning Mark, I’m here in DC. We have to get organized for the 6th. I would like to meet with Rudy Giuliani again. We didn’t get to speak with him long. Also anyone who can help…. We are getting a lot of members on board. And we need to lay out the best case for each state.”

In another text, Greene told Meadows, “Last night Sen (Lindsey) Graham told me that if I found 100 names of dead voters in GA that he would object. I have 100 dead voters names!!.... Tell President Trump!”

After the insurrectionists attacked the Capitol, Walker reports, Greene promoted the bogus conspiracy theory that they were members of Antifa.

“Mark we don’t think these attackers are our people,” Greene told Meadows. “We think they are Antifa. Dressed like Trump supporters.”

On January 7, 2021, Greene told Meadows, “Yesterday was a terrible day. We tried everything we could in our objection to the 6 states. I’m sorry nothing worked. I don’t think that President Trump caused the attack on the Capitol. It’s not his fault. Antifa was mixed in the crowed and instigated it, and sadly people followed. But when people try everything and no one listens and nothing works, I guess they think they have no other choice.”

Greene continued, “Absolutely no excuse and I fully denounce all of it, but after shut downs all year and a stolen election, people are saying that they have no other choice. I defended Trump last night on Newsmax. He has been the greatest President. I will continue to defend him.”

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October 04, 2022

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded to fears of emasculation voiced by Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News...

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rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia got on stage at former president Donald Trump's "Save America" rally on Saturday and spewed out offensive comment after offensive comment, many of them dangerous when considering the underlying call to action.

"I’m not going to mince words with you all,” Greene told a Michigan crowd. “Democrats want Republicans dead, and they've already started the killings."

It’s not Democrats, though, who have both stood in the way of gun reform and framed Black and brown people as enemies for demanding that racists not be allowed to hunt them down and kill them.

Ahmaud Arbery, a Black former high school football standout, was accused of breaking into a home under construction when a three-person mob convicted of hate crimes chased, trapped, and murdered him in a South Georgia community.

Another white man was accused of intentionally targeting a grocery store in a majority Black community then killing 10 people at that store in Buffalo, New York.

Their names were Roberta A. Drury, Margus D. Morrison, Andre Mackneil, Aaron Salter, Geraldine Talley, Celestine Chaney, Heyward Patterson, Katherine Massey, Pearl Young, and Ruth Whitfield.

Greene didn’t mention any of them in her list of those slain because of their differences.

She listed only white Republican victims. One was 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson, who was hit and killedin North Dakota when another man accused of driving while intoxicated got into a political argument Ellingson. Next in Greene’s speech was 84-year-old "Right-to-Life" volunteer Joan Jacobson, who was shot while canvassing on September 20 in Michigan.

On the point that killing people for their beliefs is wrong, there is no debate. Using isolated incidents, however, to assert a wild accusation as fact should be beneath any sitting member of Congress.

Very little is beneath Greene. She went on to equate allegations of murder with President Joe Biden’s leadership. “Joe Biden has declared every freedom loving American an enemy of the state,” she said, “but under Republicans, we will take back our country from the communists who have stolen it and want us to disappear.”

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greene nominatedKyle Rittenhouse for a Congressional Gold Medalafter he shot and killed two men and wounded a third person, meeting protesters with a semi-automatic rifle in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Greene’s interpretation was that Rittenhouse “protected the community of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) riot on August 25, 2020.”

Those protesters were demanding justice after Rusten Sheskey, a white Kenosha cop, fired into the back of Jacob Blake, a Black security guard, seven times, paralyzing him. When protesters took to the streets for Blake, they were met with threats from armed men including Rittenhouse, who flew from Antioch, Illinois to respond to an alleged militia’s call to protect local businesses, according to USA Today.

“We appreciate you guys. We really do,” an officer could be seen telling Rittenhouse and others at the protest. This was about 15 minutes before the gunfire, after which Rittenhouse followed with a publicity tour. Though "serenaded" with a Proud Boys anthem; though acquitted of guilt; though spotlighted by Greene and other Republicans—Rittenhouse is no hero. He is a living, breathing example of just how dangerous the Republican party is when following the leadership of those like Greene.

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since former President Donald Trump left office, the widespread conspiracy theories of satanist pedophilia have slightly waned but now it appears those baseless claims are making their way back to the forefront.

In a new analysis published by NBC News, senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny explained the latest Satanic obsession brewing among members of the QAnon community.

"While the current obsession with Satan was boosted in part by the QAnon community, partisan media and conservative politicians have been instrumental in spreading newfound fears over the so-called ritualistic abuse of children that the devil supposedly inspires, sometimes weaving the allegations together with other culture war issues such as LGBTQ rights," Zadrozny wrote. "Those fears are powering fresh accusations of ritual abuse online, which are amplified on social media and by partisan media, and can mobilize mobs to seek vigilante justice."

Zadrozny went on to discuss the difference between witch hunts of the past and the current political climate as conspiracy theorists have begun circulating baseless claims about the existence of satanic rituals, graphic sexual abuse and underground pedophilia rings.

"Witch hunts have traditionally been associated with courts — even the kangaroo kind — but today, the accused can be branded satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet," she wrote. "Online accusers can bypass police, therapists and the traditional media and out their alleged accusers straight to audiences of millions."

The latest claims have been perpetuated by individuals like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene(R-Ga.). Zadrozny recalled a number of recent incidents where Satanic conspiracy theories had taken centerstage.

Pointing to one incident back in June, Zadrozny noted that the Republican lawmaker "credited the devil with whispering to women who choose to have abortions and controlling churches who aid undocumented immigrants."

Back in June, Greene tweeted a clip of a man dressed as the devil "stating that the mythical creature would be the next witness called by the House Jan. 6 committee." The lawmaker wrote, "They all know him, they all love him, and some even worship him."

She also pointed to another recent tragedy that was also overtaken by conspiracies. "Conspiracy theories similarly engulfed the tragedy in Houston at the Astroworld music festival in November, in which 10 people were crushed to death as the rapper Travis Scott performed on stage," Zadrozny recalled. "Social media sleuths gathered livestreams of the performance and pieced them together to come to an otherworldly conclusion: that the concert was actually a satanic ritual. The videos weren’t widely shared by devoted conspiracy theorists or religious zealots, but by mainstream Gen Z and millennial users."

Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, also weighed in to explain how conspiracy theories transformed over the last three decades.

“The ʼ80s and ʼ90s were terrifying and they ruined people’s lives, but they were constrained in certain ways by network technologies,” said Phillips, who co-authored the book, “You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape.”

Phillips also expressed concern about thepower of the internet and how it aids conspiracy theorists' ability to push their dangerous agendas.

“The internet has basically jumped over the need for other intervention,” Phillips said. “You can have an accusation that goes viral, be seen by millions of people by the end of that day. That was never possible before. You can almost foresee what is coming next. It’s what we’ve seen before, but all of the bulwarks are gone.”

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MAGA Republicans have been attacking Robert Reich as a “coastal elitist” in response to an August 23 tweet in which the liberal economist, UC Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration described far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a “fascist.” Reich’s MAGA critics have been arguing that his condemnation of DeSantis, former President Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans is painfully out of touch with Main Street America — and that Reich and other liberals and progressives simply don’t understand conservative values.

But Reich’s MAGA critics are ignoring or overlooking the fact that anti-MAGA arguments are hardly confined to the left. A long list of right-wing Never Trump conservatives, from attorney George Conway to The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes to Washington Post columnist Max Boot to former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough (a former GOP congressman), have been attacking MAGA as a movement that favors far-right authoritarianism rather than traditional Reagan/Goldwater/McCain conservatism. And William Saletan, a writer for the conservative website The Bulwark, defends President Joe Biden’s anti-MAGA use of the term “semi-fascism” in an article published on September 1.

“Republicans are furious over President Biden’s recent remarks linking Donald Trump and his supporters to ‘semi-fascism,’” Saletan writes. “For days, they’ve been all over TV and social media, denouncing Biden’s use of the F-word. But Biden was right. Many of the ideas and tactics deployed by Trump and his apologists, including those who decry Biden’s comparison, fit the dictionary definition of fascism.”

Saletan stresses that refusing to accept democratic election results, which is what Trump and his followers did after the 2020 election, is an “authoritarian” act.

“A stickler might say that an attempt to overturn an election isn’t really fascist unless it involves the use of state power or mob violence, but Trump and his allies tried to use both,” Saletan explains. “Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s right-hand man in several abuses of power, says it’s Biden, not Trump, who runs America like ‘a damned dictatorship.’ But in December 2020, after the Electoral College had certified Biden’s election, Giuliani — at Trump’s direction — phoned the acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security to ask whether DHS could seize voting machines from states. Then, at Trump’s January 6th rally on the Ellipse, Giuliani exhorted the crowd: ‘Let’s have trial by combat!’”

Saletan adds, “Giuliani didn’t just help to incite the attack on the Capitol. To this day, he continues to whitewash it and excuse the perpetrators.”

The Bulwark writer cites other examples of “authoritarian” behavior from MAGA Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wondering how long it would be before “we get to hang” former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be executed for treason.

“The dictionary definition of fascism doesn’t just talk about autocracy,” Saletan notes. “It also includes ethnic nationalism. But by this standard, too, Trump and many of his propagandists are semi-fascist. Kayleigh McEnany, who served as Trump’s White House press secretary, calls Biden’s reference to fascism a baseless ‘message of hatred.’ But in the summer of 2016, Trump, the de facto Republican presidential nominee, declared a federal judge unfit to preside over a fraud case against Trump University because ‘he’s a Mexican.’ And McEnany defended this attack…. You could argue that an out-and-out fascist would use nationalist bigotry to persecute a whole minority group, not just a single judge. That’s what Trump did in 2015, when he called for a ‘complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.’”

According to Saletan, “Trump’s cult” contains many “components” of fascism, including “paranoia, fantastic lies, anti-intellectualism, a mythologized national past, selective appeals to law and order, and propaganda about enemies of the state.” Another is “invocation of mob violence to protect the movement’s leader.”

“But the clearest illustration of the MAGA elite’s descent into fascism might be its embrace of a like-minded leader from another country: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán,” Saletan writes. “As Cathy Young, Charles Sykes, David Baer, and other writers have explained in The Bulwark, Orbán is an increasingly authoritarian ethnonationalist. In a speech on July 23, he warned, ‘There is a world in which European peoples are mixed together with those arriving from outside Europe.’ Orbán called this a ‘mixed-race world’ and concluded, ‘We are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.’”

Saletan continues, “Orbán’s speech was so grotesque that one of his own advisers resigned, [briefly?] calling the speech ‘a purely Nazi diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels.’ But a week later, Orbán was welcomed as the keynote speaker at a Dallas meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, which reveres Trump and is one of his favorite venues. Two days after that, Trump spoke to the same gathering. The two aspiring autocrats were warmly applauded. This past Monday, CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp stoutly defended Orbán.”

READ MORE:The Republican Party belongs to Viktor Orbán: conservative columnist

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is at the center of controversy yet again for her recent remarks inadvertently exposing the truth about the Republican Party. A new political ad released by the political action committee (PAC), Meidas Touch, highlights the Republican lawmaker's controversial remarks.

According to HuffPost, the clip of Greene's remarks who have publicly discussed the Russian military's invasion of Ukraine.

The clip also highlighted grotesque remarks from Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) who could be heard describing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “thug” as former President praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine; disturbing behavior and leadership the former president has described as “genius [twt vid]

at another point, the clip also featured a portion of a recent interview Greene conducted where she insisted that Ukraine was to blame for the Russian invasion. "You see Ukraine just kept poking the bear, poking the bear, which is Russia, and Russia invaded," Greene said, adding, "And the hard truth is ... there is no win for Ukraine here. Russia is being very successful in their invasion."

The video clip, which was released on Tuesday, March 22, quickly began circulating on Twitter and garnered more than 325,000 views in less than 12 hours. Despite Greene's arguments, HuffPost pointed to the assessments from independent reports on the tension between Russia and Ukraine. Based on those reports, it appears "Russia misjudged the strength of Ukrainian resistance and is incurring higher casualties than expected."

The latest clip follows multiple incidents where Greene has been criticized for backing conspiracies and making baseless claims about a number of key issues. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to vaccines and the presidential election, Greene has often made remarks that have led to extensive fact-checks and opposition on social media.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Uvalde Students Needed JR-15s for Defense

BY AILA SLISCO ON 7/29/22

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE

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Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says that the elementary school students killed during the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, earlier this year could have "defended themselves" had they been armed with assault weapons marketed to children.

Greene, who represents Georgia's 14th Congressional District, said that the Robb Elementary School victims "needed" to be armed with JR-15s, a small semi-automatic rifle modeled on the AR-15 and introduced earlier this year with a marketing campaign targeting children.Greene made the suggestion on Twitter while the House was meeting to debate an assault weapons ban, which included a moment where Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi denounced JR-15s as "disgusting."

"The kids at Uvalde needed JR-15s to defend themselves from the evil maniac that didn't care about laws," Greene tweeted while sharing a photo of Pelosi next to a JR-15 poster during the House hearing. "At least they could have defended themselves since no one else did, while their parents were held back by police."

"'Give the guns to the government' & they'll protect you," she added, alongside a "face with rolling eyes" emoji.

Greene's Communications Director Nick Dyer declined to comment when asked by Newsweek whether the congresswoman supported all elementary schoolchildren being armed with assault weapons as a tactic to defend against mass shootings.

The Uvalde shooting was the country's second-most deadly elementary school shooting, resulting in the deaths of 19 children and three adults including the shooter. The deadliest elementary school shooting—the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut—left 20 children and eight adults including the shooter dead.

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the victims of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, "needed" assault weapons marketed to children. Greene is pictured during an event in Newark, Ohio, on April 30, 2022.

Weapons manufacturer Wee1 Tactical's JR-15 poster describes the firearm as an opportunity for children to acquire a real semi-automatic assault weapon that "looks, feels, and operates just like Mom and Dad's gun."

The company also said that the JR-15 was intended to serve as an early introduction to guns that would lead to children becoming lifelong customers of the firearms industry.

"We believe that this introduction early on will produce a deep respect for firearms that continue and last for a lifetime of safety," Wee1 Tactical said in a press release that has since been removed from the company's website, according to Insider.

Pelosi expressed astonishment at Wee1 Tactical's JR-15 marketing campaign during Thursday's House hearing. The California Democrat spoke about the campaign while next to large reproduction of the company's colorful promotional poster, featuring cartoon images of girl and boy skull characters.

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"It's particularly sickening to now see these same deadly weapons—are you ready for this?—being marketed to children," Pelosi said while discussing the poster. "Here's an advertisement for a JR-15, designed to be a so-called 'smaller, safer, lighter' version of the horrific AR-15, which has been used to murder so many of their playmates and friends."

"Look at this...these little skulls with ponytailsand that," she continued, pointing out the cartoon characters on the poster. "This callousness is disgusting. It's despicable and it reminds us that the crisis of gun violence requires action."

Newsweek reached out to Pelosi's office to comment.

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Last night’s hearing, however, suggested one more layer.

A cover-up of the congressional coup.

By the Congress.

Hinting hard

The goal appears to have been getting enough members of the US Congress to vote to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The GOP had a Senate majority at the time. They could have, in theory, overruled the will of the people, at least temporarily. Ultimately, however, just 147 Republicans, including eight senators, objected.

I don’t know, had they amassed enough votes in the Senate, where things would have gone after that. Perhaps it would have triggered the 12th Amendment. Perhaps it would have thrown the process back to red states that Joe Biden had won, where friendly Republican legislators would have fixed things so Trump could stay in office.

In any case, the former president spent a lot of time talking about congressional Republicans and talking directly to congressional Republicans to such a degree as to suggest there was another layer of his grand seditious conspiracy that’s only now coming into light. That’s certainly what the J6 committee has been hinting hard at.

Co-conspirators?

Last week, the panel’s Stephanie Murphy saidTrump met in late December with US Reps. Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Brian Babin, Jody Hice, Louie Gohmert, Andy Harris, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Scott Perry and Jim Jordan. Margaret Taylor Greene *was there. So were Mike Pence, Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani. (Seven of these members asked for pardons. Ditto Meadows, Giuliani and Greene.)*

They tried getting the former vice president to go along with the conspiracy. It called for him to reject the count all by himself or send it back to the states where state GOP legislators were waiting.

Pence had refused before. I’m guessing those at the meeting expected him to again. He did. The next step was finalizing a scheme to bring tens of thousands of Trump loyalists to the capital, including armed paramilitaries (eg, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers), in order to terrify not only Pence but GOP senators into reinstalling Trump.

Terrifying GOP senators

According to the J6 committee’s Elaine Luria, Trump was told 15 minutes after returning to the White House after his speech on the Ellipse that the US Capitol was under siege by an armed mob. After the briefing, Luria said, Trump began calling GOP senators for the purpose of persuading them to overrule the results of the election.

On the one hand, the former president had insurgents sacking and looting the seat of government, threatening lawmakers with death – in Mike Pence’s case, with hanging from a makeshift gallows. (It was revealed last night that Pence’s Secret Service detail believed they were going to die. They sent messages of love to their families.) On the other, Trump pushed GOP senators by phone to get on board.

During that time, White House staffers tried and failed to persuade Trump to respond to the assault. (He did not issue orders to anyone, not the secretary of defense, the secretary of homeland security, the attorney general, no one.) Instead of telling them to go home, as staffers had hoped, he posted a tweet accusing Pence of betrayal.

After “pouring gasoline on the fire,” as witness Sarah Matthews said, the former president made more phone calls to Republican senators. Later that evening, after Trump had called for the insurgents to go home, Rudy Giuliani made even more calls to Republican senators.

Indeed, the J6 committee’s Adam Kinzinger named them. They were: Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz,Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville and Lindsey Graham. Of that number,only three voted to overturn the results of the election: Cruz, Tuberville and Hawley.

The cover-up

Giuliani also called US Rep. Jim Jordan.

Jordan, as I wrote last week, was nominated to serve on the initial select committee to investigate J6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed his nomination, though. Good thing she did. The current committee would have been compromised by the presence of a congressman who was a serial witness to the serial crimes under investigation.

Jordan was nominated by Kevin McCarthy. As the J6 committee reminded us last night, the House minority leader talked to Trump after the attack. He said Trump said he had “some responsibility” for J6. McCarthy said he told Trump that the House Democrats were likely to pass an impeachment resolution and that he should resign.

Trump didn’t resign, of course.

Perhaps the fix was in.

Implication by omission

Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the J6 committee, reminded us that the committee’s work goes on. Hearings will resume in September, she said. Then the Wyoming congresswoman used some curious math:

Today, we know far more about the president’s plans and actions to overturn the election than almost all members of Congress did when President Trump was impeached on January 13, 2021, or when he was tried by the Senate in February of that year.

Fifty-seven of 100 senators voted to convict President Trump at that time, and more than 20 others said they were voting against conviction, because the president's term had already expired.

Cheney said “almost all,” I think, because a dozen GOP members had been deeply involved in or material witnesses to Trump’s conspiracy.

She said “57 of 100,” I think, because it takes 67 senators to remove and convict a president. She said “more than 20 others,” because she’s apparently giving these GOP senators the benefit of the doubt.

But that still leaves around 20 unaccounted for. Why?

Perhaps because some, or all, of these 20 or so Republican senators had been in contact with the former president as the insurrection was unfolding and therefore potential co-conspirators in the crime.

Perhaps because some, or all, of these 20 or so Republican senators voted against conviction, thus taking steps to cover up the crime.

In any case, it was implication by omission.

The appearance of a conspiracy

We know at least six of them were evidently in both camps. On the evening of J6, Rudy Giuliani called Blackburn, Hawley, Cruz, Hagarty, Tuberville and Graham hoping they would object to the vote count. (Three did.) This same group voted to acquit Trump of treason.

If that’s not a rigged outcome, it sure looks like one.

Liz Cheney seemed to be inviting us to put the former president’s second impeachment trial in light of what we know now.

She seemed to be asking us to consider what it means when at least a dozen sitting members of the House were material witnesses as well as grand jury members deciding on an indictment (impeachment).

She seemed to be asking us to see that at least six of those Senators were materially involved in a crime of which they sat in judgment.

If that’s not a conspiracy, it sure as hell looks like one.

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United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) on Sunday offered some unusual advice for her fellow Americans as they gear up to recognize the 246th anniversary of the nation's independence from imperial Great Britain.

On her podcast, the right-wing freshman lawmaker, conspiracy theorist, climate change rejecter, and backer of former President Donald Trump's attempt to steal the 2020 election said that the country is teetering on the brink of collapse and that there is no reason for citizens to express their domestic pride.

"It's just, you can't be this arrogant. You can't be this arrogant. Anyone that is a student of history has to understand that nations rise and nations fall. And we have enough problems here in the United States of America and we're in a very fragile state," Greene said. "We are not too big to fall. But being arrogant is definitely the way to get there. We all know one thing is true. Pride comes before the fall. And America has definitely become prideful."

Continuing her rant on Sunday, Greene said that "we shouldn't fall" because "the American people want good things for our country, good things for our people," and "good things for our children's future."

She added that "we do not want what our government is doing to us."

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Perhaps coincidentally, if not ironically, Greene's remarks landed less than a week after the conclusion of Pride Month, which she demanded an end to in a Twitter post on June 1st.

“Only one day each year, we honor military members who died serving our country for ALL of us to be free. An entire #PrideMonth and millions in spending through corporations & our government on LGBTQ sexual identity needs to end. The movements [sic] goals were achieved, were they not?” she tweeted.

Around that same time, Greene made the bizarre prediction that “probably in four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore. Everyone will be either gay, or trans or non-conforming, or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are.”

The timing of Greene's comments is also vexing for a couple of seemingly self-defeating reasons.

The first is due to their proximity to the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe versus Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey on June 24th, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion and fulfilling the Republican Party's decades-long prophesied victory over women's bodily autonomy.

The decision in Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health versus Jackson Women's Health Organization has ignited celebratory fervor and manifested invaluable political theater among conservatives throughout the alleged Land of the Free.

The second is that Greene supported Trump's insurrection and failed coup to overthrow the federal government to keep himself in power. Ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the House January 6th Select Committee that Greene sought a pardon from Trump, and although Greene has said she did not, she was nonetheless in lock-step with other GOP House members who approached Trump for clemency to absolve their irreverent collusion.

The real kicker, however, is that Greene has obstructed President Joe Biden's efforts to ease at least some of the economic – and indeed existential – pain that Americans are feeling.

Greene voted against three pieces of legislation that would have a) allowed for the import of baby formula, b) forced fossil fuel producers to end price gouging, and c) imposed modest restrictions on handgun purchases to ensure that individuals with harmful intent are denied access to weapons.

Finally, every person is entitled to their own opinions about July 4th and how to observe it or dismiss it. What is shared, though, is a complex collective history that people like Greene want to whitewash. On Monday, let us all find a way to enlighten ourselves; for our health, our friends, our neighbors, our communities, and our imperfect union.

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the consequences of anthropomorphic climate change, due to the carbon dioxide and methane waste produced by humanity's relentless burning of fossil fuels, are becoming more pronounced with each passing year. Record heat waves, extreme cold, prolonged droughts, powerful storms, torrential precipitation, crop failures, wildfires, melting ice caps, sea-level rise, and biodiversity loss are all symptoms of modern civilization's seemingly unbreakable addiction to oil. The data, according to the planet's scientists, is as irrefutable as the most successful scientific theories like the Standard Model of Particle Physics and Quantum Mechanics.

That conclusion is not limited to academia, however. Last year, the office of the Director of National Intelligence published a 27-page report outlining in no uncertain terms the risks that climate change poses to the security of the United States and beyond.

"We assess that climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to US national security interests as the physical impacts increase and geopolitical tensions mount about how to respond to the challenge," the document's opening brief states.

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wrote in its 2022 assessment:

Climate change impacts and risks are becoming increasingly complex and more difficult to manage. Multiple climate hazards will occur simultaneously, and multiple climatic and non-climatic risks will interact, resulting in compounding overall risk and risks cascading across sectors and regions. Some responses to climate change result in new impacts and risks.

It is unequivocal that climate change has already disrupted human and natural systems.Past and current development trends (past emissions, development and climate change) have not advanced global climate resilient development (very high confidence). Societal choices and actions implemented in the next decade determine the extent to which medium- and long-term pathways will deliver higher or lower climate resilient development (high confidence). Importantly climate resilient development prospects are increasingly limited if current greenhouse gas emissions do not rapidly decline, especially if 1.5°C global warming is exceeded in the near term (high confidence). These prospects are constrained by past development, emissions and climate change, and enabled by inclusive governance, adequate and appropriate human and technological resources, information, capacities and finance (high confidence).

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden, who campaigned on a commitment to renewable energy, is receiving an enormous amount of flak for issuing permits for expanding exploration and drilling on public lands to mitigate historically high gas prices, which are linked to price gouging by oil producers. But, earlier this month, House Republicans – entrenched in their credo of blaming Biden for everything – unanimously voted against a measure that would have curbed corporate exploitation.

Additionally, the Supreme Court's right-wing majority is expected to issue a ruling on Thursday that would cripple the Environmental Protection Agency's legal authority to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from some of the nation's worst polluters.

[MORE: Conservative lays out 5 reasons why Cassidy Hutchinson's 'stunning' testimony was so damning for Trump and his allies

Despite the accelerating frequency and intensity of climate-driven emergencies, as well as the unanimous warnings that have been ringing from credible experts in their respective fields, the Republican Party at large continues to sow doubt that the problem exists. The GOP is currently the only major political organization in the industrialized world that refuses to acknowledge the reality of manmade climate change, with some of its members going so far as to call it a hoax – and demanding even greater consumption of dirty hydrocarbon power – while their constituents and communities suffer.

That brings us to today.

On Wednesday afternoon, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) – an outspoken conspiracy theorist and defender of the fossil fuel cabal – authored a Twitter post that captured the cognitive dissonance within the American conservative movement.

"Why are so many food manufacturing and processing plants catching fire? Why did thousand of cattle all die in a heat wave? Usually just the old, sick, or weak die in stressful conditions, not the whole herd. Food security is national security," the freshman lawmaker tweeted.

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This was not the first instance of outright denial by Greene. On June 13th, she told the Right Side Broadcasting Network that dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is actually a positive development.

“The temperature tracking is from the 1800s. We’ve already warmed 1 degree Celsius and do you know what’s happened since then?” she said. “We have had more food grown since then, which feeds people. We are able to produce fossil fuels, keep people’s houses warm in the winter. That saves people’s lives, people die in the cold. This Earth warming, and carbon, is actually healthy for us. It helps feed people, it helps keep people alive.”

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Trump told Congressional cronies how to get pardons for aiding his bogus election scheme, GOP Rep. says

Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are panic-tweeting after revelations they sought pardons

Conservative insider denounces Republicans who wanted Trump to provide pardons for their involvement in his election scheme

Mo Brooks texts email to CBS containing instructions from Donald Trump on how to request pardons

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lawyers working on efforts to get Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) booted off the ballot as she seeks her second term filed a brief on Friday saying she lied under oath when talking about the Jan 6th insurrection with texts she exchanged withformer White House chief of staff Mark Meadows proving she was not being truthful.

Just over a week ago the controversial Georgia Republican sat before an administrative law judge in Georgia and was questioned about Jan 6th and statements she made before and during the Capitol riot that sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives....

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D’Souza thinks that conservatives should “deliver a giant UP YOURS” to the Jan. 6 Committee by lining his pockets by watching his Big Lie documentary.
Prior to landing his “internship” with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Milo Yiannopoulos nuked all of his social media accounts, but apparently forget to purge his Parler account.
Speaking of Yiannopoulos, he could repeatedly be heard off-screen helping to produce Greene’s response to Jan. 6 Committee’s Thursday night hearing.
MAGA pastor and GOP congressional candidate Mark Burns declares that the proper solution to the issue of gun violence in America is “simply add more guns.”
Finally, since seemingly every Republican candidate who loses now claims their election was stolen and refuses to concede, Rachel Hamm is alleging fraud in California’s secretary of state election, which she lost by hundreds of thousands of votes.

Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Marjorie Taylor Greene Mark Burns Milo Yiannopoulos Rachel Hamm Leftovers

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has hired a far right-wing agitator and activist who appeared to support sexual “relationships” between boys as young as 13 and older men.

In 2016 Milo Yiannopoulos said, “I think in the gay world some of the most important, enriching and incredibly life-affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men.”

Those remarks were part of a video in which “Yiannopoulos discussed romantic relationships between teenage boys and adult men while being interviewed for the Drunken Peasants podcast in early 2016,” NBC News had reported in 2017. “Asked whether he was advocating for ‘cross-generational relationships,’ Yiannopoulos said: ‘Yeah, I don’t mind admitting that.'”

At that time, Heavy also reported: “In the video, Yiannopoulos describes how he feels sexual relationships between boys and older men can be positive. He denies he was defending pedophilia in the video, saying that term refers to younger children, not ‘someone who is 13-year-old, who is sexually mature.’ He also says, ‘We get hung up on this sort of child abuse stuff to the point where we are heavily policing consensual adults.'”

Yiannopoulos said in an apology, “I do not advocate for illegal behavior,” and, “I do not support child abuse. It’s a disgusting crime of which I have been a victim.”

Monday afternoon The Hill reported: “Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is working as an unpaid intern in the Congressional office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).”

“Yiannopoulos, 37, announced the job on his Telegram account Monday with a photo of his official intern congressional badge,” The Hill added, noting “Greene’s office confirmed to The Hill that Yiannopoulos is indeed their intern.”

“At the end of April,” The Daily Beast also reports, “the hate-spewing ideologue—once a ubiquitous MAGA figure until he appeared to defend pedophilia in a YouTube video—attended a Greene press conference and, after it wrapped, was escorted with the congresswoman into the Capitol building through a ‘members only’ entrance.”

Rep. Greene has repeatedly attacked the LGBTQ community, and expanded her attacks to the larger liberal voting bloc, suggesting Democrats and anyone who supports LGBTQ people is a pedophile or supports pedophilia. Earlier Monday she posted this, one of several of her tweets calling people “groomer” or using the term “grooming.”

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Gates wants to control people with monkeypox & force them to drink 'poop water': MTG

https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/majorie-taylor-greene-bill-gates/

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who wouldn’t like to see Marjorie Taylor Greene’s career-ending after one uselessly nauseating term in the US House of Representatives?

Who wouldn’t like to see her spending more time chilling with Putin-loving white nationalists, harassing kids who survived school shootings, or groping photoshopped cutouts of Donald Trump?

It’s just the way our brains need things to work.

Q-curious spreaders of Jewish Space Laser conspiracies who incite violence against public servants aren’t supposed to win reelection.

They’re supposed to be defeated – forced to fly away to an even worse fate, like fleeing Congress to run Trump’s failing fake Twitter site.

Our brains are so desperate to make this true that Marcus Flowers, a possible Democratic opponent, has raised almost $5 million with 87 percent coming from donations of less than $200 – even though his home seems to no longer be in Greene’s district in Georgia.

To be honest, it wouldn’t matter whether Flowers, or any Democrat, raised $50 million or even the more than $90 million Amy McGrath spent to lose to Mitch McConnell in 2020, Greene is going to win – likely by more than the nearly 20-point margin, McGrath lost by.

Why?

Because gerrymandering doesn’t care about your feelings.

If picking your voters didn’t work, Republicans wouldn’t bother rigging maps. No one knows better than Republicans that their future as a party depends on turning fewer (and whiter) votes into more power.

A genius candidate with a bursting war chest could overcome a five-point or 10-point or possibly even a 20-point advantage if everything including the earth’s axis swings to her advantage.

But no candidate is going to overcome a 45 percent Republican lean, not in a country whose largest export is now negative partisanship.

Greene could marry Hunter Biden, put her pronouns on her Twitter bio and give herself a real-time abortion on Tucker Carlson’s desk while wearing a rainbow-colored N95 mask – she’d still win.

All she needs are the votes from her party.

They’d vote for a cumquat as long as it had an “R” next to it.

The urge to lance this human boil from our body politic is obviously born of the best intentions. Democrats must contest every race, including in the second-most Republican House district in Georgia. Remember the success of Howard Dean’s “50-state” strategy?

A “whole ballot” strategy is crucial to confronting the menace of a GOP that has chosen Trumpism (aka American Putinism) over democracy.

You could even argue that investing millions in Georgia’s 14th could end up helping Georgia’s Senator Raphael Warnock, whose race could easily decide control of the upper chamber of the Congress, or Stacey Abrams, who lost to Brian Kemp in her first effort to become the first Black woman governor in US history by a mere .4 percent in 2018.

But whoever runs against Greene is going to have plenty of cash – too much cash, in fact – so why not just give to Warnock or Abrams!

Better yet, donate to Democrats in the House majority who face tight races, including 13 whose races are deemed toss-ups by the Cook Political report. Those races could decide control of the lower chamber of Congress. Even better, how about helping the effort to take control of at least one state House in every key swing state?

I hate lecturing anyone on the best ways for doing politics given the last election I won was for the honor of “Most Talkative” in the ninth grade. But I know one thing. Democracy is on the ballot in 2022.

If the GOP takes both chambers and retains control of legislatures in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan, the chances of a Democrat being fairly elected president in 2024 will veer dangerously close to zero.

Don’t believe me. Believe election law expert Rick Hasen. He fears that Republicans could swipe the presidency in one of two ways.

Try employing an absurd legal theory giving state control of elections that has support from at least four Republicans on the Supreme Court.

Or try swaying the actual vote count by corrupting state and local election officials or by threatening their non-corrupt counterparts.

All that’s holding up Nightmare No. 1 is Democratic governors in blue states, all of whom are running for election and facing tight races.

Steve Bannon is aiming for Nightmare No. 2 with a laser focus on local elections to pick the hands that guide the machinery of democracy.

On the Democrat’s side, there’s no national figure trying to rally the party in preparation for a full-ballot assault favoring democracy.

Run for Something is an incredible organization. It’s focused on helping young progressives get on the ballot and win.

But Run for Something’s national budget in the last election was less than half of what Marcus Flowers has raised to lose to Greene.

By November, the millions spent on Flowers’ already-decided race may exceed the $39.3 million spent on all the 2020 races for the Michigan House. And Democratic control of the Michigan House could stop the Trump effort to steal that state in 2024 through the legislature, cold.

Patriotic Democrats should have no delusions about the enormity and importance of the challenge they face.

No Democratic president has seen his party hold both chambers of the Congress through his first midterm election since 1978. Rick Hasen has said that if Kevin McCarthy – who’d likely be the Speaker of the House were the Republicans to win in 2022 – were in chargeback in 2020, “I don’t know that we’d have a President Biden right now.”

You can’t beat Marjorie Taylor Greene.

But you can do even better.

You can help stop a plot to destroy democracy. You might even keep Greene mostly irrelevant with zero committee assignments.

This will require matching, then exceeding Republicans’ ruthless focus on winning. That begins with fixating on where our democracy is decided, not burning money to make our brains feel a little bit better.

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Republicans just voted against two bills to ease the baby formula shortage they have spent weeks falsely trying to pin on President Joe Biden.

In tweets and in floor speeches, Republicans have been attacking President Biden for the nationwide baby formula shortage caused by one manufacturer’s recall and closure of its plant for bacterial infection after two infants died.The shortage has been exacerbated by a trade agreement signed by then-President Donald Trump that makes it extremely difficult and expensive to import formula from other countries, and the fact that 90 percent of baby formula in the U.S. is manufactured by just four companies. Also, hoarding, and price-gouging.

Last week President Biden sat down with manufacturers and retailers to map out a plan to get more formula onto store shelves immediately and directed the Food and Drug Administration to help get the plant reopened. This week he went two steps further: he invoked the Defense Production Act to force manufacturers to produce more formula and produce it ahead of other products and created a program to use federal planes to import baby formula from other countries.

House Democrats last week also opened an investigation into the baby formula shortage.

On Wednesday the House voted on two emergency bills to further ease the shortage.

One example of Republicans falsely attacking President Biden and the left is House GOP Caucus chair Elise Stefanik‘s now-infamous tweet accusing Democrats of having “no plan” as she labeled them “pedo grifters.”...

one bill would give FDA $28 million to add staff, work to help get more formula to consumers, and create a long-term strategy, including increased safety inspections so this cannot happen again. The second would dramatically increase supply from foreign sources to consumers using the federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program.

192 House Republicans voted against giving FDA $28 million to help fix the crisis and ensure it does not happen again.

Nine House Republicans voted against making it easier for WIC customers to get access to baby formula.

Many Americans are becoming outraged as the news from last night’s votes is spreading online.

[Here’s the list of 9 members of Congress (all Republicans)who voted NO:

Marjorie Taylor GreeneMatt Gaetz Louie Gohmert Lauren Boebert Paul Gosar Thomas Massie Andy Biggs Clay Higgins Chip Roy.]

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Lawyers working on efforts to get Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) booted off the ballot as she seeks her second term filed a brief on Friday saying she lied under oath when talking about the Jan 6th insurrection with texts she exchanged with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows proving she was not being truthful.

Attorneys handling the case now contend they can prove Taylor Greene lied while being questioned.

According to the Guardian's Martin Pengelly, Attorneys for Free Speech for People alleged in their Friday brief that the GOP lawmaker was being dishonest when answering questions.

The attorneys' contention rests on texts released this week that undercut her answers from just days before.

According to Pengelly, "In the text message released this week, Greene told Meadows on 17 January 2021, 11 days after the riot and three days before Biden’s inauguration: “In our private chat with only Members several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call Marshall [sic] law. I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next.”

In their brief, the lawyers contended: “Greene’s testimony at the hearing that she could not remember discussing martial law with anyone was already dubious," before adding, "This text with President Trump’s chief of staff makes her testimony even more incredible because it seems like the kind of message with the kind of recipient that a reasonable person testifying truthfully would remember.”

Attorney James Bopp Jr., who is representing the Georgia lawmaker has since fired back, issuing a statement that asserts: "The text very clearly said she doesn’t know about those things. It couldn’t be clearer. Tt’s just another outrageous fabrication that we have been seeing from the other side throughout this case, because they don’t have the law on their side.”

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Thousands of newly revealed text messages show former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was in contact with Donald Trump's family, Republican lawmakers, conservative media figures and election fraud conspiracists between the November 2020 election and President Joe Biden's inauguration.

CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages between Meadows and various figures in Trump's orbit, including the former president's children and more than 40 current and former GOP lawmakers -- such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

"Mark I was just told there is an active shooter on the first floor of the Capitol Please tell the President to calm people," texted Greene at 2:28 p.m. as the Jan. 6 insurrection raged. "This isn't the way to solve anything."

Greene had helped plan the congressional objections to Biden's certification, and she was among numerous other Trump allies who pleaded with Meadows to get the president to call off the mob -- or spread conspiracy theories about them.

"Mark we don't think these attackers are our people. We think they are Antifa," Greene texted at 3:52 p.m. "Dressed like Trump supporters."

However, the very next day Greene sent an apology that the effort to block Biden's certification had failed.

"Yesterday was a terrible day," Greene texted on Jan. 7, 2021. "We tried everything we could in our objection to the 6 states. I'm sorry nothing worked. I don't think that President Trump caused the attack on the Capitol. It's not his fault. Absolutely no excuse and I fully denounce all of it, but after shut downs all year and a stolen election, people are saying that they have no other choice."

"Thanks Marjorie," Meadows replied.

Other text messages show Greene had been deeply involved in the fight to keep Trump in office despite his election loss.

"Good morning Mark, I'm here in DC," Greene texted on Dec. 31, 2020. "We have to get organized for the 6th.I would like to meet with Rudy Giuliani again. We didn't get to speak with him long. Also anyone who can help. We are getting a lot of members on board. And we need to lay out the best case for each state."

Greene was elected in November 2020 but was not sworn in as a member of Congress until Jan. 3, 2021, and she continued to fight Biden's election win until just ahead of the Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration.

"In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall (sic) law," she texted Meadows on Jan. 17. "I don't know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!"

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-legal-challenge-to-take-her-off-the-ballot-is-a-globalist-ploy-for-a-one-world-government/

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rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene testifies in a Georgia courtroom today in a hearing to determine whether the far-right congresswoman can be barred from running for reelection for her role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. In preparation, she spent the day prior with Alex Jones—the radical conspiracy theorist who is underinvestigation for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection—insisting that the legal challenge to disqualify her candidacy is all part of the “globalist” ploy for a “One World Government.”

Georgia voters and a supporting legal group, Free Speech For People, filed the challenge against Greene, winning a victory last week when a federal judge ruled that the case could proceed. At the heart of the case is a provision in the 14th Amendment that forbids any member of Congress who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” from serving in office. The provision was passed years after the Civil War to prevent former Confederates from returning to their seats in Congress.

In making their case, lawyers for Free Speech For People point to evidence like a Jan. 5 tweet by Greene calling Jan. 6 a “1776 moment.”The judge on the case will make a recommendation to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who will then decide whether Greene remains on the ballot.

On Jones’ “InfoWars” Thursday, Greene insisted that the hearing was a “show trial” that has “nothing to do with Jan. 6,” and that she did nothing wrong. “They know there was no insurrection,” she told Jones. “That is their big lie.”

Jones agreed that the challenge was “so villainous,” declaring, “this is next level tyranny.”

“Clearly the globalists want to implode the country, Cloward and Pivento make us dependent and take control. And all the polls show a total collapse and realignment of Republicans,” Jones said. “How do you think the Democrats and the deep stateare going to try to stop this populist peaceful uprising?”

“They don’t want me in there,” Greene said. “So theseglobaliststhat are completely trying to destroy our country and move us into their global economy and theirOne World Government to where NATO is telling us what, who they should go to war with, and the UN is running the entire world. This is what Democrats want. They know to achieve these goals they have to get the strongest fighters out. That’s why they’re coming after me, and they’re coming after Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, they went after Madison [Cawthorn].”

And who does Greene believe is behind it? Greene claimed that the attorney group lodging the challenge “is totally funded by George Soros dark-money groups.”

“They hope that we have a civil war,” Jones said, adding that it was the “devil system.”

Earlier in the show, Jones also compared Greene’s hearing to his own legal troubles stemming from comments he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.

“Well, I’m dealing with the same thing where I was found in default in a case of not giving them documents, but they have all the documents, and then I’m supposed to have a jury trial about how guilty I am but were not even allowed to speak at that trial,” Jones protested.

In addition to being investigated by both the House select committee and the Department of Justice for his role in instigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Jones is facing multiple defamation lawsuits after he called the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting a “hoax” and accused the parents mourning the death of their children of being paid actors.Jonesfailed to turn over documents to the judge in one of those cases and failed to show up to a hearing.

Toward the end of the show, Greene expressed her admiration of Jones. “I love those T-shirts, ‘Alex Jones was right,’” Greene said. “I need to get one of those.”

Tags: Alex Jones Marjorie Taylor Greene Capitol Insurrection conspiracy theories Georgia Jan. 6 InfoWars

UN = NATO = NWO = Nazi?

https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-likened-nato-to-nazis-less-than-12-hours-after-russian-state-tv-did-the-same-thing-reports/

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uS. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is once again being heralded as a hero after his impassioned speech on the House floor Thursday, during which he blasted Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for, among other vulgarities, likening NATO to the Nazis.

"She talks about NATO Nazis. Does the minority believe that our allies in NATO, who are trying to defend the people of Ukraine are Nazis? Has it come to this?" Raskin asked on Thursday.

"She said the aid that the taxpayers of America are sending to the people of Ukraine to defend themselves against Vladimir Putin and the Russian army falls into the hands of Nazis. I want to see her proof. Where's her evidence?"

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pointing to an article on Rep. Raskin's remarks criticizing Greene, attorney, professor, and author Seth Abramson shed a great deal of light on the Georgia Republican Congresswoman.

"I wonder how many Americans know Greene did this," Abramson asked, referring to Greene likening NATO to Nazis, "less than 12 hours after the top primetime Kremlin TV program compared NATO to the Nazis."

"I also wonder how many Americans know that one of Greene’s top advisors has been a Kremlin-connected guy for decades," he added.

Probably not many.

Urging people to "Google both those things," Abramson writes: "Greene is advised by a Kremlin-connected individual in the same way that Trump was in 2016—and if you think it’s a coincidence she’s parroting Kremlin propaganda in real time the way Trump did you need to follow golf instead of politics."

He points to a March article at The New Republic titled, "How Republicans Spent Decades Cozying Up to Putin’s Kremlin," that begins: "The man who once worked to connect Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff to Russia is now chief of staff to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Any questions?"

It gets worse.

"Take Ed Buckham, the recently appointed chief of staff for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene," The New Republic piece continues. "Today, Buckham handles a congresswoman who proudly attends 'white supremacist, antisemitic, pro-Putin' rallies, as Congresswoman Liz Cheney characterized them, and has become renowned for touting conspiracy theories about how the California wildfires were started by Jewish space lasers. On Thursday, when the House of Representatives voted to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, Greene, not surprisingly, was one of eight Republicans who voted against it."

Abramson also links to video, and writes: "And here is Kremlin TV calling NATO the world’s 'collective Hitler' just hours before Greene did the same thing while advised by a Kremlin-connected chief of staff. Greene has thrown in her lot with the Kremlin. She wants *election aid* from Russia."

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Guy Reschenthaler’s face looked beat up. I almost felt sorry for him. The Pennsylvania congressman was forced to explain Thursday what he and his conference were doing in the House after Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, in short order, tore three of them down.

By the time Raskin was finished with Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the carnage was so bad Reschenthaler demanded that Raskin’s word “be taken down.” That’s a House rule disciplining members who use “inappropriate words in debate.”

(In this case it was over passage of the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend Lease Act, a $33 billion aid package requested by the president to continue helping Ukraine fight and repel the invading Russian army.)

Raskin conceded that he used “unparliamentary language to make my point.” Though Raskin was scolded, it was Reschenthaler who looked warmed over. Before moving on, he explained that his conference wasn’t debating the substance of the bill. (It has majority support, he said.) His conference was merely debating the rule leading to passage.

OK then.

In truth, Elise Stefanik of New York, James Comer of Kentucky and Greene of Georgia were following a play devised by colleague Jim Jordan. The idea, according to a leaked memo, was making everything about immigration for the benefit of the viewers of rightwing media. So they were long on “open border policy” and the “invasion of the southern border” and short on anything having to do with Ukraine.

It was like Raskin saw that bullshit coming.

In what looked like a masterclass on defusing and dismantling rightwingers and their fascist rhetoric, Raskin 1) put the Republicans in a broad context with the highest of stakes, in this case Ukrainian democracy against Russian autocracy; and 2) found a Republican, in this case Marjorie Talyor Greene, who has said things you say only when your love of democracy is subordinate to your lust for power.

Raskin boxed them in.

Then he stomped the box.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of Raskin's response to statements made by Stafanik, Comer and Greene, in that order.

Responding to Elise Stefanik

I think that all of these efforts to distract us from the issue at hand are meant to cover up the very clear pro-Russian and pro-Putin faction at the heart of their side of the aisle.

Last month, the very distinguished gentlelady fromGeorgia went on a radio show called The Voice of Rural America. She followed Donald Trump’s sickening appeasement of Vladimir Putin and blamed Ukraine for the situation.

She said, “You see, Ukraine just kept poking the bear and poking the bear, which is Russia, and Russia invaded. There is no win for Ukraine here. Russia is successful in this invasion.

When members of Congress, who are cheerleaders for Vladimir Putin, and are voices have nothing but defeatism, fatalism and pessimism for democracy in Europe – so they try to distract us with a lot of phony rhetoric about other issues.

She also said, “NATO has been supplying the neo-Nazis in Ukraine with powerful weapons and extensive training on how to use them. What the hell is going on with these NATO Nazis?”

My friends, we got to decide which side we're on.

When Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt looked at what was happening in Europe during World War Two and they saw Nazis marching down the street, they did not see very fine people on both sides of the street.

They did not start cheerleading for Mussolini and Hitler and Franco.

Yet we have people here who speak on the side of Vladimir Putin and on the side of Russia. Let's pass this Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend Lease Actto show where America is.

We are not cheerleaders for Vladimir Putin.

We are not going to follow the Trump-Putin axis down the road towards autocracy and kleptocracy and sedition and insurrection and corruption and coups in the United States.

That's not where we're going.

This is the land of the free, the home of the brave.

We stand for democracy here.

Not Vladimir Putin.

Responding to James Comer

We're here to talk about aid to Ukraine, how to streamline and expedite aid to defend the people of Ukraine. And they will talk about anything but.

I was willing to believe the distinguished gentlelady from Georgia, and several other members, were isolated in their conference.

Now I'm starting to think maybe they're speaking for the whole conference.

I wonder if my good friend from Pennsylvania would explicitly repudiate some of these statements made by the gentlelady from Georgia.

Does the minority conference agree that NATO has been supplying “neo-Nazis in Ukraine” with powerful weapons?

Does the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania support or dissociate himself from the argument that the aid that we sent to Ukraine falls “into the hands of Nazis”? – a statement made by the gentlelady from Georgia echoing Putin’s filthy claim that his war on the sovereign democracy of Ukraine is in fact an attempt to de-Nazify the country.

We hear distinct echoes in everything that we get from the erudite gentlelady from Georgia.

Does the minority agree that Putin invaded because Ukraine repeatedly poked the bear?

I can't understand why they won't talk about defending Ukraine. That's what this legislation is about. That's what this rule is about.

They want to talk about anything other than that. We can debate all of those other important issues in other contexts at the right time. This is how the House of Representatives works.

But why are they covering up for the pro-Putin faction within their conference? I would like them to dissociate themselves from the people who were blaming Ukraine for Russia's bloody imperial invasion and war of human rights violations and atrocities against the people.

Responding to Marjorie Taylor Greene

Mr. Speaker, the United States of America just witnessed the most astonishing spectacle.

We are here to debate aid to the people of Ukraine defending themselves against a massive invasion by Vladimir Putin and his army.

Then, the minority puts up the distinguished gentlelady from Georgia who does not mention Ukraine once. She does not mention the thousands of Ukrainian civilians who’ve been slaughtered by Putin's army.

She does not mention more than 100 Ukrainian children who've been shot and killed by the [Russian] army.

Instead, she talks about a massive invasion at the border, a massive invasion which their own speakers have said today hundreds of thousands of people have been apprehended in.

That's very different from a military invasion.

The one in Ukraine, of course, the gentlelady is not going to talk about that.

She had a lot to say the other day when she heckled me continuously. When I came to the floor, it was like the Rocky Horror Picture Show in here with her chanting about the Russia hoax and Russia this and Russia that.

Now she has the opportunity to tell the world what her views about Russia are. I put them out there, exactly what she said.

She said that the aid that the taxpayers of America are sending to the people of Ukraine to defend themselves against Vladimir Putin and the Russian Army falls into the hands of Nazis.

I want to see her proof.

Where's her evidence?

She talks about NATO Nazis.

Does the minority believe our allies in NATO, who are trying to defend the people of Ukraine, are Nazis?

Has it come to this?

Gentlelady talks about a massive invasion – we had a massive invasion of our own chamber.

She continued to be a cheerleader for the insurrection.

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