What happened next was Georgia Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor-Greene stood up on the floor of the United States House and said everything she has posted on social media the last four years, or so was wrong. According to her she had found the QAnon conspiracies fascinating, easy to believe, but ultimately false. She also pointed out that during her campaign she never mentioned Q, or any other magical, mystery person, unless you count Donald John Trump.
The democrats weren't buying her excuses. They, along with eleven republicans, voted to remove Taylor-Greene from her committee assignments, proving even the phoned in support from the former President doesn't count for squat these days.
In fact, the day went so poorly for the Representative some of the true believers accused her of selling out.
One wrote, "You just cucked out and are letting them win. What a great concession speech. Did they get to you already? One month in congress was all it took? What blackmail did you take?" Another posted, "You just apologized for your beliefs to appease the swamp. I don't think you're much better than them at this point. And finally this, "You conned Patriots into giving you $150,000. You are now part of the swamp, Felicia Greene!"
Yes, the MAGA crowd is an unforgiving lot--not surprising considering they're hard core fascists. Which probably explains why today Taylor-Greene went on Twitter to call the democrats and republicans who voted against her, "morons." She added that being a conservative on a committee in the democratically controlled congress had no meaning, that all her enemies had done was free her up to constantly--endlessly--speak her mind
In other words, No matter what I said, I didn't want to be on your stupid committees anyway. Now I'll take my ball and go somewhere else on the playground.
Not to worry though. My Pillow CEO, Mike Lindell is still working on the surreal phantasm and unlike Taylor-Greene he isn't backing down an inch. Over the last five days Brother Lindell has put together a three hour epic, "documentary." He says it will, "absolutely," prove deliberate voter fraud involving Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines, not to mention the Chinese and corrupt Georgia republican elected officials.
The, "documentary," will air tonight on the obscure alt right news outlet, OAN. Of course OAN is a tad jittery about the broadcast since both corporations are suing the living shit out of just about everyone who has pushed conspiracies involving their machines. Forbes is reporting the network will issue an on air disclaimer before broadcasting the event which says, among other things, Lindell is solely and exclusively responsible for the content and that the My Pillow guy paid the network for the air time. OAN goes further by saying it, "does not adopt or endorse," any claims made by Mr. Lindell.
Forbes also reported the chief legal counsel for Dominion issued a statement basically telling OAN if they air the program they own responsibility for it. It's not an idle threat. Dominion has already filed a $1.3 billion law suit against Trump shills Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. Smartmatic has recently sued both Powell and Giuliani plus Fox News and three of its anchors for $2.7 billion.
Mike Lindell isn't phased by any of the financial dangers he might be facing. He is on record as saying he welcomes possible legal actions.
Hey, in for a penny, in for $2.7 billion, right?
Meanwhile The Big Orange Guy has reportedly told fellow Mar a Lago exiles he is confident Joe Biden will be unseated and by sometime in March he will return to the Oval Office gloriously triumphant. The current QAnon date for this fabulous resurrection is March 4th.
Well, as they say, crazy is as crazy says and does.
And right now there are some seriously crazy people in this country.
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I would make a lengthy comment, but just don't know what to say. The last few years have numbed my senses, not surprised or shocked by much anymore. Perhaps this is the most telling comment of all. So, as a moderate liberal, would like to see the GOP split into two parties, and leave the far right as a smaller entity. I have said for several years, we need a viable third party to keep the traditional parties on their toes. Well, far right extremism is not quite what I had/have in mind, but I doubt we would have two democrat senators in Georgia without its backlash. Interesting times, these.
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