GOP Meets QAnon In A Dark, Dumb Corner Of Georgia
On Friday, the House “Freedom” Caucus discussed booting Marjorie Traitor Greene and then took an informal vote. The vote was close but if it becomes formal, she’s out. Members who concentrate on the nihilism that has driven the caucus to see McCarthy as their enemy, are furious that Greene has attached herself to the Speaker and always take his side when he’s at odds with the far right fringe. It isn’t that different from Gym Jordan, but Jordan is liked and respected by the members. Greene is neither liked nor respected by anyone. “Marjorie,” one top staffer for a caucus member told me last night, “is one baby step away from being George Santos… She embarrasses everyone when she runs her mouth… [T]hat ‘little bitch’ incident with Lauren last week didn’t go down well, especially not the threats. It makes us all look bad.”
A couple days ago, when former member of the J-6 Committee Adam Kinzinger— no fan of Traitor Greene— listed 27 QAnon conspiracy theories that popped into his mind, he forgot Greene’s Jewish space lasers.
1) JFK is alive
2) the vaccine has microchips in it
3) the vaccine is magnetized
4) the vaccine causes every death since it was created
5) Covid caused by 5G towers
6) Covid was the flu
7) Covid doesn’t exist
8) Trump won the election.
9) Italy hacked with spy satellites
10) but wait it was the CIA
11)Trump is still president
12) Michelle Obama is actually a man
13) Adam Kinzinger created ISIS (well just sort of)
14) Jan 6th didn’t happen. But it did happen because it was a) the fbi or b) antifa or c) Ray Epps or d) amazing patriots who love our country
15) the Feds organized Jan 6 using antifa and amazing patriots who love our country
16) RFK Jr will be trumps running mate.
17) Democrats and RINOs like me drink babies blood and scare them so we can harvest adrenalchrome (it’s eerily the same plot from monsters Inc…lol)
18) Putin is trying to stop the one world order
19) the luminati is real and I’m a member
20) the UN is taking over America
21) 8 years ago Jade Helm was when the Feds took over the state of Texas. Thank god for patriots like Louie Gohmert and Greg Abbot who stopped it
22) the US caused the coup in Russia but it failed so it wasn’t the US it was that Putin is so amazing
23) Elon Musk loves free speech and isn’t an addict to cheap dopamine hits
24) Twitter is succeeding
25) Congressmen get their pensions for life.
26) The US forced Russia to attack Ukraine
27) Bio-labs, because the US just has a deep interest in producing WMD in Ukraine
One of Traitor Greene's roles in Congress is queen of frivolous resolutions. She keeps introducing them and everyone ignores her. Her first resolution to impeach Biden wound up with one co-sponsor, the Hitler-quoting fellow QAnon crackpot Mary Miller from Illinois. Greene flipped out when “Freedom” caucus members Matt Gaetz, Eli Crane, Andy Biggs and Cory Mills co-sponsored the Biden impeachment resolution she claims Boebert stole from her (HR 503). But her latest stunt was to team up with North Country crackpot Elise Stefanik to introduce two resolution to expunge Trump’s two impeachments. Stefanik is listed as the sponsor and Greene the original co-sponsor on one. There are no other co-sponsors. On the other, Traitor Greene is listed as the sponsor with Stefanik as the original co-sponsor. Marge has pressured Mary Miller and fellow Georgia crackpot Mike Collins to sign on as co-sponsors. But no credible members have joined this merry band of misfits yet.
No doubt Trump is happy his two girls in the House made the move, but GOP members are not happy about it. Yesterday, Punchbowl reported that the only two Republicans in the House who voted to impeach and survived— Dan Newhouse (WA) and David Valadao (CA)— would be put in an awkward political position, not to mention the 2 dozen swing district Republicans who find these kinds of votes disrupted and distracting. Don Bacon (R-NE) already said he wouldn’t vote for it. Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan wrote that “this episode neatly encapsulates the House Republican Conference in 2023. It’s a constant tug-of-war between moderates looking to govern and hardline conservatives looking to score political points or settle grievances— especially those involving Trump.”
Max Cohen interviewed endangered GOP freshman John Duarte— who only won (by 564 votes in a district with a D+7 partisan lean and the lowest voter turnout in the country) because the DCCC managed to find a greater evil, Adam Gray, to nominate. Note: the DCCC has recruited Gray, best known as one of the most corrupt and conservative Democrats in the state legislature, to run again next year, virtually guaranteeing Duarte’s reelection. Anyway, Duarte called Traitor-Greene’s and Boebert’s MAGA-messaging resolutions “silly [and] not a big deal.” Referring to either Traitor Greene or Boebert said he doesn’t “want to blow up the Freedom Caucus” just because “one individual over there jumps the gun on wanting to impeach Biden, for her own personal issues…”
And speaking of her own personal issues, Traitor Greene was the focus on Judd Legum’s Popular Information yesterday— The House of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Legum’s team reported that “In pushing Garland's impeachment for the ‘weaponization of the DOJ,’ McCarthy is advancing the agenda of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Previously, Greene was known for promoting unhinged conspiracy theories, bigotry, and violent rhetoric. But she played a key role in securing the votes for McCarthy to become speaker. Greene is still an extremist, but now she is one of the most powerful members of the House and maintains a close relationship with McCarthy.
On May 15, Greene introduced articles of impeachment against Garland, alleging that Garland is "facilitating the weaponization and politicization of the United States justice system against the American people" and "engaged in abuse of power by becoming a tool of the Biden regime’s two-tiered justice system." Among other things, Greene's impeachment resolution says that Garland should be impeached for prosecuting the January 6 rioters instead of "Antifa."
Rather than focusing on prosecuting Antifa and Black Lives Matters rioters that have desecrated American cities and caused billions of dollars worth of public and private property damage, Attorney General Garland has overseen the persecution of Americans for participating in political protest.
Greene also says Biden should be impeached for "persecuting" Trump, even though Biden has appointed a special counsel to lead the investigation.
In previous years, Greene's impeachment resolution might have been ignored by Congressional leaders. Today, Greene is calling the shots. “I will never leave that woman,” McCarthy reportedly said of Greene. “I will always take care of her.”
Greene is notorious for repeating and amplifying conspiracy theories, including QAnon. Following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, which was the deadliest mass shooting in modern America, Greene “suggested that the shooting might have been staged.” She made a similar comment about the Parkland school shooting, calling it a “false flag” by the government. “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 claimed in a Facebook post. She also endorsed the conspiracy “that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was videotaped murdering a child during a satanic ritual and she then ordered a hit on a police officer who had seen the video to cover it up.”
In 2018, Green blamed the California wildfires on space lasers controlled by the Rothschild family, who are Jewish. Previously, Greene has also suggested that 9/11 was staged and has called QAnon “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out.” In 2021, Greene claimed she stopped believing in some of these false conspiracies— but she has yet to offer an apology. Just this month, Greene suggested that her TV was spying on her.
Greene also has a history of racism, anti-semitism, and islamophobia. In 2022, the lawmaker spoke in person at the America First Political Action Conference, a convention organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. She addressed the crowd as “canceled Americans” and told them that they’ve “been handed the responsibility to fight for our Constitution and stand for our freedoms.” Greene insisted at first that she did “not know Nick Fuentes,” but eventually went on to defend her participation. She criticized the “establishment” for canceling the white nationalist group and spun attacks against her as “identity politics.”
She’s also been photographed alongside Chester Doles, a former KKK leader and member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. In 2019, Greene called George Soros, a Holocaust survivor and billionaire philanthropist, a “Nazi.” She has also speculated that the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was an “inside job.”
In 2018, when the first two Muslim women were elected to Congress, Greene argued it was part of an “Islamic invasion.” According to Greene, “anyone that is a Muslim that believes in Sharia law does not belong in our government.” She filmed herself trying to get Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to retake their oaths on a Bible.
Greene is also known for her staunch anti-LGBTQ views. Last year, she baselessly claimed that “in about four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore. Everyone will be either gay or trans or non-conforming.” She believes transgender people should not be allowed to use public restrooms, tweeted that discussing gender identity with your children is “child abuse,” and once said during a speech that supporters of same-sex marriage “don’t love God.” Earlier this year, Greene co-sponsored a federal book ban bill that would restrict access to books discussing LGBTQ topics.
In 2018 and 2019, Greene has expressed open support for “executing prominent Democratic politicians." On her Facebook page, she liked a comment that called for a “civil war 2.0” to begin, another comment that said “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove Nancy Pelosi, and several comments that urged for the hanging of officials, among others. In 2019, when recruiting attendees for a “Fund the Wall” march, Greene urged her supporters to “flood the Capitol building” and “use violence” if we have to. She’s also said that if she and Steve Bannon organized the January 6 insurrection they “would have won” and “would’ve been armed.”
McCarthy has adopted numerous policies originally pitched by Greene. Greene told the New York Times that McCarthy’s agenda, “if he sticks to it, will easily vindicate me and prove I moved the conference to the right during my first two years when I served in the minority with no committees.”
On May 18, 2021, Greene called the commission investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection a “big smoke screen and witch hunt.” According to the New York Times, Greene told McCarthy that many “many people imprisoned for their actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were being victimized” and called for a reinvestigation of the Capitol insurrection “to show what she has called ‘the other side of the story.’”
On November 16, 2022, the New York Times reported that Greene and other right-wing lawmakers “extracted a promise that their leaders would investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Justice Department for their treatment of defendants jailed in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol” in a closed-door meeting. Just over two weeks later, on November 30, 2022, McCarthy sent a letter to the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, “demanding that it preserve all records and transcripts and vowing to hold hearings next year on the security failures that led to the US Capitol breach.”
Greene also vehemently opposed sending money to Ukraine, tweeting on May 19, 2022, that “$40 BILLION to Ukraine is an American last failure.” On November 13, 2022, Greene began calling for “an audit of where every single penny has gone in funding to Ukraine.” Greene reportedly told McCarthy that “the party faithful could not understand why Congress continued to send money to help Ukraine secure its borders, when the United States’ southern border was not secure.” McCarthy then “helped pave the way” for Greene to introduce a bill in the Foreign Affairs Committee on November 17, 2022, demanding a Congressional audit of money sent to Ukraine. Greene reintroduced the legislation on February 24.
On July 18, 2022, Greene said that she voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual budget for the Department of Defense, partially due to the mandatory COVID vaccine requirements. On December 6, 2022, McCarthy celebrated the “elimination of the COVID vaccine mandate in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act,” stating, “[l]ast week, I told the president directly: it’s time to end the COVID vaccine mandate and rehire our service members.”
