MT Greene Spews More Holocaust/COVID Ignorant Bile, McCarthy Too Impotent to Stop Her

Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t talk about space lasers in her Tuesday morning riff on Twitter, but give her time, the day is young. Greene’s latest comment has been reported to Twitter, in the hopes that by being openly racist and furthering coronavirus disinformation, both against the rules, Jack Dorsey might do something to muzzle her. It seems to be a cinch that Kevin McCarthy won’t. He still hasn’t responded to her crazy town salvo from last week. Maybe he’s passed out somewhere from the shock of it all. Frankly, we wouldn’t blame him, this is simply incredible coming from a member of congress.

Vaccines save lives. Gold stars were placed on Jews to mark who were to be murdered in camps. Fuck you for real. Like seriously fuck you. You are a garbage human being who has never picked up a book but panders to other assholes. I truly despise you.

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) May 25, 2021

I put that response first because it pretty much codifies the reaction Greene is drawing this morning. First of all, it’s difficult to decide if this tweet is the more loathsome for its ignorance or for its callousness. Greene speaks of survivability of 99%. So that means she’s okay with 1% of the United States population dying? Which would be 3.3 million people? Because death is preferable to the “discrimination” of mask wearing or carrying a card showing you’ve been vaccinated? There are no words to describe this level of stupid. If she was a kid in middle school coming up with this nonsense, she would be admonished to study and to know something before she opens her mouth again on the subject. In a 46-year-old woman, a member of congress no less, this is unspeakable.

A party that wants this person as a member is a party that should never be allowed to govern. https://t.co/ZYecr0ZMGL

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 25, 2021

And what is up with Kevin McCarthy? Is he going to continue to hide out from this?

https://twitter.com/MattBoxer94/status/1397153764633686016

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The political tom toms are going to be beating out a message, “Where Is Kevin, Where Is Kevin?” That’s what you’re going to hear non stop and it’s up to McCarthy how long that refrain lasts. This was crazy last week and at the rate Greene is going, who knows how much crazier still it will get.

One thing I will say Greene accomplished that I didn’t think was possible: she has made Michelle Bachmann look tame by comparison. And back in 2015-16, Bachmann’s image was regularly photoshopped wearing a strait jacket. In Greene’s case, an entire mental hospital, better yet a chain of them, may have to be named after her.

Wake up, Kevin. This woman doesn’t belong in congress or in your conference, she belongs on a locked down ward.

Here are a few comments from Bess Levin at Vanity Fair on Space Laser Marjorie calling Nancy Pelosi mentally ill:

Just as an aside, let’s take a moment to appreciate Marjorie Taylor Greene describing someone elseas mentally ill. Moving on, as a secondary rule to not equating genocide with anything other than actual genocide, it should probably be written down somewhere, like on a sticky note in Greene’s office, that at no time should one ever suggest that requiring people to wear masks—for their and others’ safety!—is the same as sending them to concentration camps and gassing them alive. Is it completely insane that anyone needs to be reminded of that? Yes! Is Greene crazier than a shithouse mouse? Also yes!

Obviously those comments received widespread backlash, but rather than pause, reflect, and maybe even apologize for them—anathema to a professional troll like Greene—the congresswoman doubled down. “I stand by all of my statements; I said nothing wrong,” she told CNN affiliate KPNX. She added: “I think any rational Jewish person didn’t like what happened in Nazi Germany, and any rational Jewish person doesn’t like what’s happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies.” Greene, of course, does not speak for Jews, because if she did she might know that saying they “didn’t like what happened in Nazi Germany,” as if talking about not liking how one’s burger was cooked, is a very strange way to describe Jewish people’s feeling about the Holocaust, among other things.

Greene’s remarks were unsurprisingly condemned by numerous lawmakers, with Michigan rep. Peter Meijer telling CNN’s Dana Bash, “First off, any comparisons to the Holocaust, it’s beyond reprehensible. This is—I don’t even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that, frankly, amps up and plays into a lot of the anti-Semitism that we’ve been seeing in our society today. Vicious attacks on the streets of New York and in Los Angeles,” Meijer said. Rep. Liz Cheney called the comments “evil lunacy.” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who has previously spoken out against Greene, tweeted, “Absolute sickness,” alongside a clip of her statement. On the Democratic side, Rep. Jim McGovern called for Greene to resign and demanded that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy respond, though McCarthy, who is happy to allow the Greenes and Trumps of the world to take over his party, does not appear to have gotten around to it yet.

Sit back and watch. At the rate she’s going, Greene will conflate Jesus dying on the cross with somebody getting a paper cut from opening a mail-in ballot, thereby giving a basis for all mail-in ballots to be discontinued.

It’s not just Greene who is sick. Let’s face it, if there was any kind of leadership in the GOP, this would have been nipped in the bud long ago.