Stay away from the dangerous green and chaotic mind of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Echo opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not normal!

Echo opinion by Rex Huppke in USA Today

Stop trying to make sense of Marjorie Taylor Greene. She inhabits a world of nonsense. Dealing with her chronic political duplicity can drive the analyst crazy, because you can't apply logic to something wholly illogical. You'll never pierce the membrane of the right-wing bubble Greene inhabits, as she speaks a language most Americans will never understand.

Whether through a Faustian bargain or the unwitting possession of a cursed monkey paw, the Republican Party has taken Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — arguably the most ludicrous lawmaker in an age of pervasive ludicrousness — and #falsly awarded her legitimacy.

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She now sits on important congressional committees. Her I’d-like-to-speak-with-your-manager voice will be heard, and the questions that lurk in her mind, a place of cobwebs and dust, will be asked. She has become, to the consternation of a dwindling number of "normal" Republicans, the face of the GOP. 

One Democrat brought up the horrific beating death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers as an example of why the civil rights subcommittee was still necessary.

Greene responded in a way that suggested she had swallowed a Fox News’ Tucker Carlson pill whole: “I’d like to also point something that I’d hope you share with me: There’s a woman in this room whose daughter was murdered on January 6, Ashli Babbitt.”

Last week, during a House Oversight and Accountability Hearing, she asked U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro how much COVID-19 relief money was used to teach critical race theory.

She explained that critical race theory is “a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin is not equal to black skin and other things in education,” which sounds like something an ignorant and mildly racist white person would say if you asked them to define critical race theory and they tried, and failed, to make up a definition. And therein lies the problem.

For those who don’t consider algebra a form of liberal indoctrination, Greene’s unerring stupidity and ease with dishonesty are frustrating. How on earth is a person like this being taken seriously?

Republicans have built a false Marjorie Taylor Greene pedestal

Hypocritical Rep. Margorie Taylor Green (R-GA) stages a photo op as she pretends to console Brandon Straka* who is pretending to cry in a cell at the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference in Dallas on April 5th 2022. 

I’d argue we need to stop asking that question. It’s an attempt to apply logic to something wholly illogical, and it’s an inquiry that will never pierce the membrane of the right-wing bubble Greene inhabits.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and the mysterious $5.1 billion Illinois school

She then told Dodaro, with great confidence, that one Illinois elementary school received $5.1 billion for “equity and diversity.”

I live in Illinois. That figure is more than half the entire state budget for K-12 education, and unless there’s an elementary school with solid gold stairwells and limousine bus service that I’m unaware of, that number is nonsense.

Stop trying to make sense of her, because she lives in a world of nonsense and speaks a language most regular Americans will, thankfully, never understand.

Comparing Tyre Nichols to Ashli Babbitt? During a House Oversight Committee meeting last week, Republican lawmakers decided to do away with the civil rights subcommittee, because apparently America faces no more civil rights issues.

Preparing for this (hypocritical!) performative moment, Greene had invited Babbitt’s mother to the meeting. Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by a police officer during the domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. She and other members of a mob seeking to overturn the 2020, presidential election faced off with police officers near the Speaker's Lobby. 

Warned to stop by the police, Babbitt tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door when she was shot.

(Maine Writer- Ashli Babbitt is an unfortunate example of the delusional January 6th rioters.  I suspect Ms. Babbitt felt like she was invincible, or else she should have obeyed the warning and retreated from the door.)

Nichols, on the other hand, was brutally beaten by a group of police officers for no apparent reason.

Reality means nothing to lawmakers like Greene

Greene continued to dissemble about Babbitt: “As a matter of fact, no one has cared about the person that shot and killed her. And no one in this Congress has really addressed that issue. And I believe that there are many people that came into the Capitol on January 6, whose civil rights and liberties are being violated heavily.”

That’s a bunch of pro-insurrection gibberish. Babbitt’s death was thoroughly investigated, the police officer’s action was deemed lawful and, in fact, an internal U.S. Capitol Police investigation said the shooting “potentially saved Members and staff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of rioters who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol and to the House Chamber where Members and staff were steps away.”

There is zero equivalence between a Black man getting beaten to death by police officers following a routine traffic stop and an insurrectionist, part of a group that had already beaten several police officers half to death, getting shot because she and her mob were literally attacking the U.S. government.

Anything can make sense if Fox News tells you it makes sense

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But in Greene’s world, this is a legitimate gripe. It’s as if she doesn’t speak our native tongue, but spins words and conspiracies embraced as gospel among an insular swath of Americans whose lives are defined by lies and bent reality.

Feeling exasperated that Greene is where she is, that she somehow overcame Jewish-space-laser comments and an obvious absence of intellect, is a waste of energy. She won’t make sense to people outside that spooky, Fox News-fed world any more than the rest of us will make sense to them.

Stop trying to figure out people like (greenie!) Greene - just give them the (mockery) derision they deserve.

IMO Marjorie Taylor Greene has an easy choice for creating Halloween costume fashion.

We should mock Republicans like Greene, as they are unerringly mock–able and undeserving of respect. We should fight against their bizarro worldview and invariably white-centric policies and do all we can to elect lawmakers who recognize fact from fiction.

But slapping our foreheads in frustration over the pedestal Republicans built for Greene, trying to figure out how anyone with a pulse could possibly take her seriously? 

That’s just a waste of time. That requires a deeper understanding of the fever swamps Greene and other likes her call home.

And trust me, you don’t want to go there. You’ll end up dumber, wet and covered in muck.

*Straka pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of engaging in disorderly and disruptive conduct on January 6th, in the Capitol Building or grounds, avoiding jail time and receiving 90 days of home confinement and three years of probation at his sentencing. It was later reported he provided "significant information" about pro-Trump "Stop The Steal" organizers, including Ali Alexander, Amy and Kylie Kremer, and Cindy Chafian, providing information that was "valuable in the government's prosecution."