Masks are like yellow stars
MTG is doing outrage theater again.
House Republican leaders have condemned incendiary remarks from GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene five days after she first publicly compared Capitol Hill mask rules to the Holocaust, amid a wave of criticism from Republican and conservative critics as well as Jewish groups aimed at the Georgia congresswoman and the party leaders’ silence.
I missed it; what did she say?
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, during an interview on a conservative podcast this week, compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to continue to require members of the House to wear masks on the chamber floor to steps the Nazis took to control the Jewish population during the Holocaust.
Let’s think about that. Is the mask requirement a step leading to the systematic murder of all members of the House? No. Is it a step leading to the systematic murder of anyone? Anyone at all? No. Is it a step leading to society-wide ostracism and persecution of all members of the House? No. Of anyone? No.
She has her chain of reasoning though. She’s thought about it.
Greene, in a conversation with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody Real America’s Voice TV show “The Water Cooler,” attacked Pelosi and accused her of being a hypocrite for asking GOP members to prove they have all been vaccinated before allowing members to be in the House chamber without a mask.
“You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” Greene said. “And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Actually the extermination camps were in Poland, but never mind that – the point is – no, it really isn’t. That word “exactly”? It should be “not in any way.”
Back to today’s story.
“Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling,” House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement five days after Greene’s original comments and after she made similar comparisons Tuesday. “Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.”
Nuh uh, says MTG.
On Tuesday, Greene continued to ramp up her rhetoric, tweeting once again her thoughts about vaccine requirements and the Holocaust.
“I never compared it to the Holocaust, only the discrimination against Jews in early Nazi years. Stop feeding into the left wing media attacks on me,” Greene tweeted. “Everyone should be concerned about the squads support for terrorists and discrimination against unvaxxed people. Why aren’t they?”
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Earlier Tuesday, Republican and conservative critics drew special attention to House Republican leaders for their silence following Greene’s latest tweets.
Trump wing v Never Trump wing.
“A new comment by @mtgreenee sticking with the Nazi comparison. I’m sure Republican leadership hasn’t seen it yet, so wanted to alert @GOPLeader, @SteveScaliseGOP, and @EliseStefanik so they can hop into action,” tweeted Bill Kristol, director of Defending Democracy Together, a conservative advocacy group.
Maybe she’s there to make the rest of them look respectable.
The GOP needs a rodeo clown to distract attention from their own nastiness. With Trump gone, they need Greene. She’s unhinged, impolite, uninformed, and barely literate. Just perfect for their purposes.
Apparently the gop leadership has found a line that they will not cross. And it took them just five days to find it.
MTG the rodeo clown – that’s PERFECT.
Sigh
MTG would just be an embarrassment save for for one little thing: (http://farcornercafe.blogspot.com/2021/05/we-are-sooooo-f.html)
MTG – Jews were treated like they were a plague on humankind – As opposed to your maskless enablers who continue to spread an actual, you know, plague.
I am a little uncomfortable with a common denigration of “plague rats” but it really is a pretty apt description. They *should* be shunned as potentially disease carrying creatures. Nonetheless it’s pretty dehumanizing.
The icing on the cake of stupidness is she calls it “a gold star”, like what your teacher put on your good spelling test in first grade.
‘Plague rat’ IS uncomfortable as it veers into dehumanizing the wicked and stupid.
I am surprised that ‘Typhoid Mary’ hasn’t been revived. She has all the qualifications: Ignorant, reckless, defiant in the face of basic science, no conscience about endangering or killing others…AND held up as a libertarian martyr by people more dangerous than she was.
After years of agonised soul-searching and study, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that as a collective, we citizens of the world’s representative democracies get the politicians we deserve. Sadly, MTG does nothing to raise the slightest smidgin of doubt in my mind on this point.
The sacking of a tyrant always requires a civil war; Syria being just the latest example in the news. Getting rid of an MTG requires those who voted her in to admit to themselves in sufficient numbers that there is a chance of a possibility that they just might have made a tiny bit of a mistake in voting for her in the first place. Failing that, some Bastille or Winter Palace somewhere has to be stormed.