Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made an interesting pivot for a very short period of time, where she pretended she might be a serious person in the House of Representatives. This was during that week or so that Kevin McCarthy was attempting to rally his disparate political party of garbage-fire clowns to vote him Speaker of the House. The concessions McCarthy made included getting Rep. Greene important committee assignments.
Very quickly, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resumed her grotesque default of being racist and offensive and not smart. She has followed that up with similarly grotesque and offensive displays of what Pope Gregory I’s Moralia would have called “vain glory,” “envy,” “anger,” and “avarice.”
On Monday, right-wing video watcher PatriotTakes put out a video showing that not only is Ms. Taylor Greene still offensive, she’s still peddling somewhat incoherent conspiracy theory hooey to her base. This time she connects the reported Chinese spy balloon with 9/11 Flight 93 to explain how the Biden administration is maybe doing something diabolical, or it isn’t, or it is ...n’t…?
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In the clip, Greene is speaking to Idaho conservatives at some event. She is doing her thing where she ineloquently attempts to walk the audience through one of her mind-palace-logic-labyrinths. She explained something about the big balloon that was shot down. We catch her in the middle of her reporting the balloon’s journey, “and then it finally leaves the coast, and then oh, they shot it down.” Listening to Rep. Greene speak is always like walking into the middle of someone having an argument with someone else and being unable to articulate themselves well because they are too angry to collect their thoughts.
Here’s the rub for Greene. After she and the entire Republican media operation complained that President Biden needed to shoot down the balloon—he shot it down. Never fear, Greene is here to explain that even shooting it down is a suspicious activity, just like not shooting it down was. “They shot it down?” The question mark is hit hard here by Rep. Greene, and you know what that means?
Space lasers! Maybe? Maybe not. We shall see!
“The excuses that were given on this were pathetic!” Ooookkaaaaaay? “Absolutely pathetic.” Already said this with a hard enunciation of the C; move it along, Greene. “They said it was too risky. Oh, it was too risky?”
That’s what they said because it was too risky to have an estimated 1500-meter debris field over a populated area. Not good enough for Ms. Greene. “Do you know what a bunch of bullshit that is? It’s three school buses. it’s three school buses wide.” Hehe. You have to love her use of the imagery of a balloon coming down out of the sky and destroying three school buses of children because Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to fundraise.
“Okay, do you remember on 9/11 when an airplane crashed in Pennsylvania?” I do. Most of us who were alive and conscious remember that. “A jetliner. Remember that?” Yes. We remember. “It didn’t kill anybody on the ground—it killed everyone on board—but it didn’t kill anybody on the ground.”
When Flight 93 was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania by passengers who teamed up and overtook the hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001, the only silver lining was that the plane did not kill anyone in the surrounding areas. There were schools just a few miles away from the crash site.
Greene explains that the fact that Flight 93 came down and didn’t kill anyone is proof that “they’re liars.” But here Greene ups it to Marjorie-levels of incoherence by explaining, verbatim, “You can only see it two ways: Either they’re liars, or they’re cowards. Or our president is sold out to China.” That’s three ways, with you using the “or” and all. Just sayin’.
Then Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sticks the landing: “And you know what? I’ll go with all three.”
Yes. That’s how she literally ended that run.
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