You have all heard by now of the political lounge act at The Villages in Florida recently, where Marjorie Taylor Greene started out with, “Whose your president?” to cue the audience to shout back, “Donald Trump.” Nothing seditious about proselytizing the Big Lie, that happens every day. But what came later on, jokes about bombing the Capitol, was a bit different.
Marjorie Taylor Greene making a quick little joke about a bomb going off in the capitol pic.twitter.com/hEzCRYoSKA
— Roger Sollenberger is one dose from immortality (@SollenbergerRC) May 8, 2021
From a neurologic perspective, this is extremely telling.
It points to a fixation on the currently unidentified bomber. Greene likely has knowledge of the person's identity.
It's known as a slip indicator in pathology. Specifically, slips occur in "comfortable" spaces.
— Alexia wants Rudy ARRESTED (@AlexiaSchlueter) May 8, 2021
Let me make the disclaimer, that this is purely Twitter speculation and it is pretty far out there. This is how CT gets started. I’m not inferring that Greene is the pipe bomber. What I am saying is that her joking about something that serious and unfunny opens the door for these kinds of comments and this just takes us further down the rabbit hole. But with both Matt Gaetz and Greene, the rabbit hole is where they live. They love it down there. So this is right up their alley.
This dumbass has no business being in congress.
She’s not just dumb.
She’s dangerous.
A joke about a bomb after the events of January 6th?
And the crowd laughed?
Absolutely sickening.— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 8, 2021
This is what I’m saying. Greene making a joke out of the pipe bomber simply coarsens the national discourse and normalizes that kind of an horrific event.
Note the facial smirk & body language as Rep. Greene “jokes” about a bomb going off at the Capital building—
a wink & a nod to violent insurrection pic.twitter.com/oudZQ4o8sC— Joe Rosen (@joro1) May 8, 2021
If you check out The Villages’ newsletter, the headline reads “Gaetz and Greene Declare War In America First Launch In The Villages.” The article goes on
Two of the most controversial members of Congress declared war on the establishment in the launch of their America First tour Friday night in The Villages.
Congressman Matt Gaetz, embroiled in a sex trafficking scandal, and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, stripped of any committee assignments, wore their renegade status as a badge of honor before a mostly maskless red-white-and-blue packed house at the Brownwood Hotel & Spa. […]
Greene, a first-time politician, mother and businesswoman, gleefully bragged about gumming up the works in Congress by calling for recorded voice votes. She considered it revenge on the Republicans in Congress who were more hindrance than help to President Trump when he initially took office.
Gaetz also delighted in playing the spoiler.
“They lie about us because we tell the truth about them,” he said.
Gaetz and Greene have vowed to take their America First tour to every place in the country that remains loyal to Donald Trump, who they see as the rightful president of the United States.
This is the new abnormal. Members of Congress making stand up comedy out of seditious violent behavior, and endorsing the Big Lie. They know perfectly well that Trump is not the rightful president. But they choose to embrace the Big Lie as a way of manipulating Republican voters. They are openly conning their constituents. Who thought we would ever see the day when our elected lawmakers were as scary, if not more so, than law breakers?
This is the GOP. Rich a$$holes, frat boys and gun fetishists, out there playing populists to the rubes. And the rubes are buying it. It doesn’t matter what you are, it only matters what you can make people believe. Elected office has become an acting job on reality TV. At least, that’s how the GOP is playing it.
