Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected to serve in the House of Representatives from Georgia.  Prior to the election Ms. Greene claimed membership in QAnon and repeated many of QAnon lies.  When called to task by the House Ms Greene  told the House that she had broken away from QAnon in 2018. “I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true,” she said, “and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret.”  One has to question the intelligence of anyone depending upon an organization like QAnon for truth.  Virtually every media source has questioned the veracity of QAnon claims and one would hope that anyone aspiring to be elected to a position of Representative would have the intelligence to determine fact from fiction.  Furthermore, her claim of change does not square with a series of social media posts she made in 2019, including liking a Facebook comment that endorsed shooting Ms. Pelosi in the head and suggesting in the same year that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been replaced with a body double, an element of QAnon’s fictional story line.  Representative Greene lashed out at Democrats on Friday in her first comments after the House voted to strip her of her committee assignments — defiantly making a case to help lead the clamorous Trump wing of the Republican Party.  “I woke up early this morning literally laughing thinking about what a bunch of morons the Democrats (+11) are for giving some one like me free time,” she wrote on her personal Twitter account. “In this Democrat tyrannical government, Conservative Republicans have no say on committees anyway,” she said, adding, “Oh this is going to be fun!”  Ms. Greene is responding to her public reprimand in much the same way that former President Donald J. Trump, a role model and ally, reacted to his — by hurling insults.  Unlike Mr. Trump, she pulled back the curtain to reveal her political approach, admitting that Democrats were helping to amplify her importance on social and mass media.  Ms. Greene cast the saga as a battle for free speech in a news conference on Capitol Hill, lamenting that Republicans “are being told that their white skin makes them inherently racist,” in her first extensive remarks since she was stripped of her committees a day before.  Ms Greene comes up for re-election in 2022 and one can only hope voters in her district in Georgia come to their senses before then and elect an individual with enough intelligence to discern fact from fiction and to ignore conspiracy theories with no factual content.