Calling Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ignorant is like calling an iguana an … iguana. Her life has been one silver-spooned race to outpace the demons she perceives are chasing her. Those demons are likely a mixture of anger and self-hatred, but it is what it is. When the Georgia carpetbagger isn’t harassing teen gun violence survivors, she’s promoting bigotry.
Frequently, Greene uses what has become pretty standard GOP practice: Spew some vague and easily debunked conspiracy theories that include Jewish space lasers, but make sure you say you are just asking questions or something to that effect. That way you can sort of deny you are promoting some next-level bullshit because you don’t have the intellectual facilities to do the hard thinking it takes to solve real problems.
Mass shootings in New York and Texas were followed up with two shootings during July 4 festivities. Greene went to her Facebook account to do a live show about it all on Tuesday. Greene’s a real messed up person, as people used to say.
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First Greene proposed that Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooter Robert E. Crimo III was a “leftist” (even though there is video and photographic evidence he was a Trump supporter). Her reasoning was that he followed the World Health Organization on his social media accounts and seemed to have “liked” a story about Greene being fined for refusing to wear a mask in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, after settling on the “fact” that Greene deemed Crimo a “leftist” and a “run-of-the-mill Democrat,” she wondered how and why he wore an FBI hat, saying she only knew FBI people who wore FBI hats. Of course, this will be news to the manufacturers of one of the over 1,000 FBI hats you can buy on Amazon. But Greene is working towards something here. She offered up this theory on gun violence:
“Two shootings on July 4, one in a rich, white neighborhood and another at a fireworks display. It almost sounds like it’s designed to persuade Republicans to go along with more gun control. We didn’t see that happen at all the Pride parades in June, but as soon as we hit MAGA month, the month that we’re all celebrating loving our country, we have shootings on July 4.”
She also scattershot “questions” about pharmaceutical drugs, gun laws, mental health issues while importantly not offering up a single whiff of an idea of what she would do to fix these conspiracy theory issues. She alternately asks why law enforcement didn’t stop this shooting and why red-flag laws didn’t work, but not because she thinks they are incompetent or that red flags don’t work, but because they clearly purposefully let it happen. At least that is the implication she is hammering with her lowest common denominator ideas.
This live broadcast of bullshit comes hours after Greene posted a very fake image of Crimo in what looks like a jail cell. Her post at the time promoted the image as real and tried to drive home the narrative that mental health issues were the single determining factor in the Highland Park shooting. Not the guns and the ammo and the easy loophole in the law that got those weapons into Crimo’s hands in the first place.
Considering she has voted against regulating the pharmaceutical industry and has voted against increasing funding and access to mental health, it makes it pretty clear what she thinks of her own ideas.
If you really really really want to punish yourself, you can watch her one-hour-and-almost-10-minute rant here.
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