Secretive_Victoria
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Donald Trump has departed Washington, but he has left behind a new set of rules for Republicans. One of them is that words and deeds, no matter how reckless or disconnected from the truth, carry no consequences.
Which is how the party wound up with Marjorie Taylor Greene, a dangerous right-wing extremist whom the voters of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District decided to send to the U.S. House.
Before she was elected last year, QAnon devotee Greene made a name for herself by spreading crazy conspiracy theories, including that the school shooting tragedies in Newtown, Conn., and Parkland, Fla., were staged.
She has also embraced another one claiming that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton murdered a child during a satanic ritual and drank her blood.
And the crazy just keeps on coming. Newly unearthed are social media postings in which Greene appeared to endorse, through likes and shares and comments, the idea of executing Democratic leaders. One of the posts she “liked” suggested getting rid of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with “a bullet to the head.” CNN’s KFile also found a 2019 video in which Greene harassed David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting who was making the rounds on Capitol Hill to advocate for gun control. The congresswoman-to-be shouted lies at the teen and called him “a coward” for not responding to her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...how-it-got-stuck-with-marjorie-taylor-greene/
Which is how the party wound up with Marjorie Taylor Greene, a dangerous right-wing extremist whom the voters of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District decided to send to the U.S. House.
Before she was elected last year, QAnon devotee Greene made a name for herself by spreading crazy conspiracy theories, including that the school shooting tragedies in Newtown, Conn., and Parkland, Fla., were staged.
She has also embraced another one claiming that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton murdered a child during a satanic ritual and drank her blood.
And the crazy just keeps on coming. Newly unearthed are social media postings in which Greene appeared to endorse, through likes and shares and comments, the idea of executing Democratic leaders. One of the posts she “liked” suggested getting rid of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with “a bullet to the head.” CNN’s KFile also found a 2019 video in which Greene harassed David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting who was making the rounds on Capitol Hill to advocate for gun control. The congresswoman-to-be shouted lies at the teen and called him “a coward” for not responding to her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...how-it-got-stuck-with-marjorie-taylor-greene/
