It's hard to figure out what happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene. By all accounts, she was a decent high school student and earned a degree in Business Administration from the University of Georgia. Somehow-- between the time she opened a CrossFit gym and when she started to become interested in politics, she turned into an ignorant, racist moron.
During her primary last year, numerous videos documenting her racist views were made public. She would often characterize the election of Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as “an Islamic invasion of our government,” claimed that Black and Hispanic men are held back by “gangs and dealing drugs,” and pushed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, collaborated with the Nazis.
Greene also is part of a growing list of candidates who have expressed support for QAnon, a sprawling set of delusional notions centered on the idea that President Trump is leading a fight against a “deep state” engaged in child sex trafficking, cannibalism, and Satan worship. Greene has also falsely linked Hillary Clinton to pedophilia and human sacrifice and suggested that Barack Obama plotted to kill a Democratic operative with the help of MS-13.
She posted wide-eyed videos on Facebook describing Q as someone who “very much loves his country” and is “on the same page as us,” and she wrote pro-QAnon articles for a far-right Web outlet called American Truth Seekers. Conservative commentator Erick Erickson, who is known for making his own inflammatory remarks said, “She’s bat-shit crazy,” referring to Greene.
None of Greene's public statements or beliefs seemed to hurt Greene during her primary in the heavily conservative district of northwestern Georgia. Her successful campaign was heavily self-financed-- thanks to her father, who sold her and her husband his highly successful construction company in 2002.
Nothing has seemed to change since she took office. She refused to wear a mask to the swearing-in ceremony, She objected to certifying the Electoral College vote after the January 6 coup, and after Trump was caught on tape trying to shake down election officials in her own state in his quest to find enough votes to overturn Biden’s lead there. She had her personal Twitter feed locked for 12 hours last weekend for continuing to spew nonsense about the election being stolen. And just today, she began a windmill-tilting expedition to impeach Biden.
But Greene may have really outdone herself earlier today. In case you missed it, on Tuesday Media Matters unearthed several old Facebook posts in which Greene called the Parkland shooting a “false flag.” Predictably, a number of Parkland survivors were not amused, and demanded her resignation. Today, Media Matters discovered that in 2018, Greene endorsed claims that 9-11 was an “inside job,” and that Sandy Hook was a false flag. She also once claimed that the California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers. Greene also has repeatedly liked or commented approvingly on Facebook posts that called for the execution of FBI agents, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
Greene responded by saying that "Communists bloggers . . . run the same playbook of lies and smears on people they feel threatened by." Boy, it's going to be a fun two years!
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