Before she ran for congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene fancied herself as a journalist. According to Wikipedia she wrote nearly 60 articles for a conspiracy website called, American Truth Seekers. In 2017 she was a frequent contributor to Law Enforcement Today, which Wikipedia describes as a pro police fake news site. By 2018 she was a heavy hitter for what was called The Family America Project. She moderated, to use the word loosely, the outfit's Facebook group which routinely contained death threats against democrats, vile, racist attacks directed at the Obamas and various conspiracy theories.
Given the content of some of her rants back in those days we might well call this period, MTG's Jewish Space Laser phase.
Taylor Greene still dabbles in far right phobias and conspiracies on occasion. The other day she left a social media post for, "Moms and Dads," telling them not to be offended by physicians who disapprove of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. She went on to assure her audience she never hesitated when it came to not allowing pediatricians to vaccinate her own children. She even declared, "Kids aren't at risk for COVID but they face risks from COVID vaccinations."
The Congresswoman failed to mention what those risks are, but as she no doubt learned during her Pizza Gate reporting for American Truth Seekers, details will often ruin a deliciously lurid story.
Despite these brief flights into conspiratorial paranoia, these days Marjorie Taylor Greene is more focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The short version is she thinks the invasion is great and apparently hates Zelenskyy.
It isn't entirely clear why Congresswoman Greene is such an avid fan of Russian aggression. One suspects it is multi layered. It may have started when she realized the guy she'd love to give a BJ to, Don Trump was happily doing the same thing to Vladimir Putin. Indeed, there might be fantasies of a twisted three way fueling her obsessive attraction to the two.
Zelenskyy's refusal to manufacture dirt on Hunter Biden for Trump certainly has something to do with it. Anyone who refuses to do Trump a favor automatically becomes his enemy and therefore Marjorie Taylor Greene's enemy. We can only imagine Trump's fury when he saw his carefully crafted plans to gut NATO fall apart when Joe Biden rallied the alliance from the brink of extinction and unified it like it hasn't been since the cold war. Big Don's rage had to have filtered down to Greene.
Late last month the congresswoman posted on social media, "Anyone who votes to fund Ukraine is funding the most corrupt funding scheme of any foreign war in our country's history. And forcing the American people to pay for it." To back up her accusation she provided a link to what is called the Strategic Culture Foundation. Sounds impressive, right? The SCF as it is known has been identified as a propaganda arm of the Russian Foreign Ministry. It has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for deliberately spreading disinformation and interfering in American elections. The first real splash it made was during the COVID crisis. The SCF ran with a story which claimed a COVID vaccine being developed by Bill Gates would contain itty bitty tracking devices the government would use to keep tabs on you and everybody else.
This latest post follows others by MTG which have promised American sons would be sent to die in Ukraine, and Americans were paying for a war the Ukrainians couldn't possibly win. Not to mention a couple which said that by funding the Ukrainian military we are causing needless death and suffering in the entire region.
All of which tends to ignore one paramount fact. There wouldn't be any death and suffering or need to finance the Ukrainian military if Russia hadn't invaded the fucking place to begin with.
Ah, once again those damned details.
At this point the only real question we should be asking about Marjorie Taylor Greene is how much are the Russians paying her and where is all the cash being stashed? Well, that and what charges should a member of congress face when she, or he becomes an agent of a foreign power?
12-5-23
I cannot think of anything to say you have not already said. I just don't understand the MAGA crowd.
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