Posted on 02/05/2021 6:27:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Several recent precedents offer House Republicans a clear roadmap on how not to deal with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene:
Under no circumstances should the Republican minority leader appear on glossy magazine covers celebrating the ascendancy of the radicals in the party as Nancy Pelosi did with The Squad. That's an easy one. Don't mainstream them.
Republicans should never elevate anyone who believes that Jews are imbued with the power to hypnotize the world and/or armed with massive lasers -- though, as a Jew, I believe both could be quite useful -- as the House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats did with Ilhan Omar. This is something you might see in an idiocracy, not in the world's greatest deliberative body.
Nor should Republicans pass resolutions shielding their members from taking responsibility for their crass anti-Semitic or bigoted sentiments as Democrats did with Omar. Not only would that be an act of sheer cowardice; it normalizes such rhetoric. Only leaders who place partisanship above decency would do something of that nature.
Republicans should eschew elevating any freshman member with puerile, half-baked, wish-casting economic theories into places like the powerful Financial Services Committee as Democrats did with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It's true, of course, that long ago a Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who believed that the CIA had created the crack epidemic to kill Black men, was its ranking member. That was a national embarrassment.
Never allow the mad ravings of a first-term congressperson -- who, let's say, wants to ban meat and airplanes, or create a Ministry of Truth, etc. -- to be used as the "framework" for the nation's entire energy policy as is the New Green Deal.
Do not be tempted to rationalize or excuse the insanity of such members, even when they accidentally trip over the truth from time to time. When it comes to conspiracy theorists, there are always some plausible snippets of reality undergirding these beliefs. Take Greene, for example, who seems to believe that Hollywood celebrities are Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles, which everyone knows is only two-thirds true.
Any loon who entertains the views expressed in the 314th comment in a subreddit on "globalism" doesn't deserve your respect, no matter how many people voted for her or who hates her. The GOP should do whatever it can to marginalize her. What Republicans shouldn't do is allow the press to create the impression that this powerless backbencher who ran virtually unopposed in a heavily Republican district matters very much. She doesn't. No more than did fellow Georgian Cynthia McKinney, who served six terms in the House, and a lot less than the Squad.
Even if we concede that MTG, if I may, is a grade or two more outlandish than others, the fact is elected Republicans aren't treating Greene as the future of their party. While Chuck Schumer tiptoes around AOC, Mitch McConnell has called Greene a "cancer" -- harsher rhetoric than he's used to attack someone on the other side like Ilhan Omar.
Of course, if you fail to exhibit the requisite intensity in calling out the loony statements of this freshman member, Democrats will claim you are complicit in the riots and worse. Unless you incessantly wring your hands over this one representative, the self-appointed conservative-morality police will latch on to some silly formulation, like "anti-anti-Taylor Greene," to attack you. These are addicts jonesing for more Donald Trump. Sorry, but Greene will never be more than methadone.
Don't get me wrong: There is no doubt that Greene's comments are legitimate news and that her presence hurts the GOP. Republicans should do better self-policing for their own sake. The media's daily, front-page obsession with her, however, is a transparent attempt to make her the face of the party and divert attention away from Joe Biden's disastrous start -- his unprecedented number of unilateral actions, terrible nominations, placating of Iran and funding of abortion around the world, just for starters. All of these issues are far more important than Taylor Greene's comments. Liberals want to create the impression that fringe QAnon-ers are the driving force in American conservative politics.
No amount of conservative self-flagellation will ever be enough to appease them.
This author is actually disgusting
Pile of lies.
Disgusting is much too nice a word to describe this idiot.
Is this what you call a cancel culture republican? I’ll be honest, I haven’t followed the story on what she said, I don’t really care anymore, but because she said something, at some point in time, someone found offensive, she has to be eliminated? Show me where the Democrats embracing their insane members has hurt the party? And there are far more lunatics than just the squad. If Republicans do return to power in Congress in two years it won’t be a result of anything they did, it will be simply to stop Biden.
If there were "no doubt", why write about it?
No amount of conservative self-flagellation will ever be enough to appease them.
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But the author gave it a good try anyway.
What a disgusting elitist snob.
>>Republicans should never elevate anyone who believes that Jews are imbued with the power to hypnotize the world and/or armed with massive lasers
A gross mischaracterization.
There are some who say that ANY criticism of George Soros is also antisemitism.
The crack theory is not far off.
There is no doubt that the DS colludes with drug rich corrupt governments (e.g., Mexico).
The cartels control the Mexican government up to the highest echelons. This has been the case for many years. Now, China has involved itself in cartel activity.
Mexico did not even have a National Guard until 2019 when President Trump demanded it. The Guardia along with the military and the non-corrupted pieces of law enforcement are seriously out-gunned.
Cartel sicarios run military style ops with serious firepower, including military helicopters. I believe at least one has a Blackhawk.
(You can get a lot of detail on this and good videos from YTer OG Shadow, former Sinaloa cartel member. His own father dragged him into the life. He got out and now helps others do the same).
The cartels *could*, however be smashed, but, only if our military went into do it. Our troops could flatten them. The sicarios are powerful against la gente and la policía. Against the US Marines, it would be laughable.
Blast the fields and their work would be pretty much done, I suspect. Give proper aid and warnings to the innocent citizens, of course. They have been terrorized long enough.
The point is, this all *could* have been done, yet never was. I know nothing about military ops, so I could be way off, but, this seems fairly low risk for our team.
I also suspect that Trump 2.0 and AMLO may have pulled off something along these lines. They got along extremely well behind the scenes.
My hypothesis is that the DS is very invested in keeping the masses close to their opiates, theological or chemical.
Hence, people with legit chronic pain can no longer get meds, but, every drug imaginable is flowing through the middle schools. Look squirrels.
The US has, for decades, had the ability to go in and smash the cartels any time, with or without cooperation.
What’s the worst that would have happened? Mexico would get mad at us? Pfffffffffft.
It’s an open question, is it not?
Michelle Bachman deja vu.
Everyone is catching on that the dems are not our problem. Being shocked and horrified by them is like being angry when you pick up a rattlesnake and it bites you.
Our mortal enemies are republicans, my friends. The same republicans who rode in on President Trump’s very long coattails, then took a machete to those same coattails.
Remember then Omar, on speaking of 9/11 said.
‘some people did something’?
What did the ‘rat leadership do??
Nothing!
wonder if it would piss them off if Trump made her the VP nominee in 2024?
I think he is trying to point out the hypocrisy of how the Dem’s treat their crazies vs. ours but you have to read the article carefully. He offers no real support for Greene so that’s the disgusting part. My view is that they are simply trying to “Palin”-ize her. Her voters had access to her views before the election; that’s why they voted for her.
Everyone is catching on that the dems are not our problem. Being shocked and horrified by them is like being angry when you pick up a rattlesnake and it bites you.
Our mortal enemies are republicans, my friends. The same republicans who rode in on President Trump’s very long coattails, then took a machete to those same coattails.
Dems are the big tent party now. Dems don’t consider any other Democrats their enemies.
OTOH, the GOP considers their biggest enemies to be fellow Republicans on the right. GOPe spent the past 4 years colluding with progressive Democrats to thwart the MAGA agenda of a record number of GOP primary voters. How pathetic is that?
Greene: Congress Wants to ‘Crucify Me,’ Yet Tolerates Members Who've ‘Condoned Riots’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Congress wants to “crucify” her yet tolerates members who have “condoned riots.”
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