“The only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood.”
That’s what Marjorie Taylor Greene — the deranged Trump adherent just elected to Congress from the state of Georgia — told firearms fanatics one week before Election Day (as first reported yesterday by Mother Jones).
This maniac must not be allowed to serve one more day in Congress.
Tell Congress:
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a danger to everyone who works on Capitol Hill, to the American people at large, and to the basic tenets of democracy. She must be expelled from Congress as quickly as possible.
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See my previous message about how dangerous Greene is (copied below in case you missed it).
- Robert
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Do you know who Marjorie Taylor Greene is?
She is a diehard Trump cultist and a true believer in countless right-wing conspiracy theories who was just elected to the United States House of Representatives.
It can be tempting to scoff at Republicans like Greene and assume they won’t be taken seriously.
Of course, that’s what far too many people — politicians from both sides of the aisle, along with Beltway pundits and liberal journalists — did after Donald Trump announced his candidacy back in 2015.
Greene is absurd. But she is also truly dangerous:
- In January 2019, she “liked” a comment on Facebook advocating “a bullet to the head” of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
- Last September, she posted a graphic on her Facebook page in which she holds a military-grade assault rifle that appears to be pointed at congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib with the caption “Squad’s worst nightmare.”
- She thinks mass shootings at schools — like Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — were “false flag” operations carried out to foster support for gun control.
- She thinks the California wildfires were intentionally started by Jewish bankers (specifically the Rothschilds) using a secret space laser. (I’m not making this up — Google it.)
- She believes that Muslim Americans should be prohibited from serving in the U.S. government and once roamed the halls of Congress with the intent of forcing Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — whose election in 2018 Greene called part of “an Islamic invasion of our government” — to retake their oaths of office on a Bible instead of a Quran.
- She believes that “the most mistreated group of people in the United States today are white males.”
- She claims the Capitol insurrection — that she herself helped instigate by perpetuating the “Big Lie” that Trump won the 2020 election — was actually carried out by Black Lives Matter activists.
- She was one of several Republicans who refused to wear a face mask while members of Congress were huddled together during the seditionist rampage (following which, several of her House colleagues tested positive for COVID-19).
And those are just a few “highlights.”
Like Trump, Greene seems almost pathologically susceptible to the psychological phenomenon called projection, where someone accuses others of something they themselves are doing.
On January 7 — the day after the Capitol insurrection — Greene said this (on Twitter, of course) about Democrats in the House, who she claims were really responsible for the violence:
“Those who stoke insurrection & spread conspiracies have blood on their hands. They must be expelled.”
Well, like the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day, a conspiracy-addled Trump sycopoop (that’s “sycophant” merged with “nincompoop”) isn’t always wrong.
In this one instance, Greene — whether she meant to be or not — is right.
Members of Congress who incite violence against their own colleagues and in the United States Capitol should be expelled from Congress.
Tell Congress:
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a danger to everyone who works on Capitol Hill, to the American people at large, and to the basic tenets of democracy. She must be expelled from Congress as quickly as possible.
Add your name.
Thank you for taking action.
For justice,
- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
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