We are in a zoo now, friends! We might as well pack up and go to Tralfamadore, which was Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional planet where humans were kept in zoos, because we were such a weird-ass species. Marjorie Taylor Greene has jumped the shark this time. Even for her this is batshit.

Mike Johnson is in on the plot, too. “Speaker Mike Johnson fully funded the DOJ and FBI plus new building and tied our hands behind our backs to hold them accountable. We have the power of the purse and Johnson has handed the purse to Chuck Schumer. All of this is unforgivable,” the tweet ends.

Here’s what got the ball rolling.

Apparently Julie Kelly works for American Greatness, which identifies itself as “the leading voice of the next generation of American Conservatism.” Now, while all these dummies who know nothing about the law are bouncing off the walls, the simple matter is that “deadly force” is a standard clause.

“Yep, every FBI operations order contains a reminder of FBI deadly force policy. Even for a search warrant,” wrote former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi. “Deadly force is always authorized if the required threat presents itself.”

“That is standard language in search warrants,” wrote Huffington Post White House correspondent S.V. Dáte. “They are, after all, dealing with suspected felons.”

“Trump wasn’t there,” former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) wrote in response to Greene’s “assassination” comments. “Everything was coordinated with Secret Service & local law enforcement. Even for you, this is a deeply irresponsible and dangerous thing to say.”

Even some right-wing commentators pointed out it was all a bunch of hysteria over nothing.

“I did some digging into the ‘deadly force’ verbiage that was used in court documents regarding Trump’s classified documents case,” wrote right-wing talk radio host Breanna Morello.

“Since 2000, every FBI Operations plan has had the ‘Deadly Force Policy’ section pre-filled in. All federal Agents are authorized to use Deadly Force in accordance with this policy. I’m told this is nothing unique and is pretty standard.”

This is what you get when you have rank amateurs get elevated out of the blue into positions of power in government, without knowing the rudiments of how anything works. This is MAGA. This is Trump.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. MTG is the poster child, or maybe the Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body bimbo model for the “People Who Don’t Know Shit Talking Shit” crowd.

  2. I think it’s safe to say that Empty Greene has taken the dumbest congress-critter crown that Louie Gomert had for many years.

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