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Msg ID: 2693983  +2/-0     
Author:TheCrow
6/24/2021 10:34:31 AM

Pooe Jewish Space Laser Marjorie Greene Taylor Greene now has some competition in the craziest Trumpist fanatic race: Andrew Clyde.

S.E. Cupp: Marjorie Taylor Greene pollutes the Republic

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After the freshman congresswoman from Georgia recently lit a firestorm comparing mask mandates to the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust, she came out with a fresh batch of crazy. In the early morning hours on Tuesday, Marjorie Taylor Greene took to Twitter to double down on the obscene remarks she made to Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody.

Her first tweet to greet the day: ”Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s (sic) forced Jewish people to wear a gold star. Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.”

Her next tweets after that weren’t much better.

 

In response to a report that the University of Virginia is requiring vaccines for all in-person learning next year — students can request medical and religious exemptions — Greene tweeted: “Well hate freedom media would you look at this story. It appears Nazi practices have already begun on our youth. Show your VAX papers or no in person class for you. This is exactly what I was saying about the gold star. This is disgusting!”

 

Having insufficiently insulted the world’s Jewish population, apparently, Greene decided it was a good idea to target two prominent Jewish members of the media for disagreeing with her vulgar comparisons.

To Ben Shapiro, founder of the Daily Wire, she tweeted, “I never compared [mask and vaccine mandates] to the Holocaust, only to the discrimination against Jews in early Nazi years. Stop feeding into the left wing media attacks on me.” And to Jake Sherman, a reporter at MSNBC: “You are a liar. Stop twisting my words.”

 

To quote Shapiro, Greene’s thinking is indeed “demented nonsense.” It’s also so obviously out of bounds, it should be easily and roundly condemned by Republican leadership.

Yet there were crickets from Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after her initial comments. Finally, in the wake of these new ones, McCarthy released a statement and a tweet, which read in part: “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.”

 
 

Good. Now what? Will it call for her censure? Better yet, her expulsion?

Jewish groups and leaders immediately condemned the initial remarks that McCarthy couldn’t bother to.

 

“Such comparisons demean the Holocaust and contaminate American political speech,” said the American Jewish Congress, demanding an apology.

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, also reminded CNN viewers that Greene has trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories before.

“This is a woman who thinks there are Jewish space lasers starting forest fires. She’s a QAnon enthusiast. She is offensive in almost everything that she does.”

 

To which Greene’s ever-impolitic and loyal goose stepper Nick Dyer responded, with another tinge of anti-Semitism: “The people of Northwest Georgia aren’t interested in the opinions of a radical leftist.”

How long will Republican leadership allow this horror show to play out?

 

While Democrats forced McCarthy to strip Greene of her House committee assignments the first time around, after threats of violence against Democratic members of Congress surfaced, the party has otherwise left her alone to keep peddling this kind of filth — and raise a whopping $3.2 million in her first three months in office.

Just like the party decided in 2016 that it needed the white supremacists and bigots Donald Trump was courting to win an election, it seems to believe it needs Marjorie Taylor Greene’s anti-Semites to win again. What else could explain its muted response to Greene’s garbage?

 

What a disgrace.

As anti-Semitic attacks rise all over America, a U.S. member of Congress is loudly and repeatedly comparing mask and vaccine mandates — meant to keep every American safe from COVID-19 — to the tactics used by Adolf Hitler to persecute the millions of Jews sent to their deaths in the Holocaust.

She’s doing it for three discrete reasons, all of which are despicable. First, because she’s an anti-Semite, an undeniable fact she’s proven over and over again. Second, merely to own the libs with anti-science, culture-war red meat. And third, to become famous, the only way she knows how.

 

Those of us in the media are regularly scolded for columns like these giving her oxygen. But the idea of not covering a rabid lunatic with a seat in Congress and obvious fundraising power wouldn’t just be pointless, it would be malfeasance.

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a scourge and a cancer on the Republican Party. That much is obvious. But as long as the Republican Party tacitly accepts her for her voters and her money, the Republican Party is also a scourge and a cancer on America.

 

S.E. Cupp is the host of “S.E. Cupp Unfiltered” on CNN.


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Msg ID: 2693985 Andrew Clyde Challenging Marjorie Taylor Greene for Mantle of Most Extremis +2/-1     
Author:TheCrow
6/24/2021 10:42:46 AM
Reply to: 2693983

The cult of personality, Trumpism has severely damaged the Republican Party. They have guaranteed a Democratic president in 2024 if they nominate Trump.

Andrew Clyde Challenging Marjorie Taylor Greene for Mantle of Most Extremist Georgian in Congress

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Clyde really does have the hostile, paranoid glare down pat. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag

About a year ago, I wrote a piece about various right-wing extremists running for Congress in the mountains of North Georgia — ancestral territory for me, but now a veritable burnt-over ground of radical “populist” conservatism. I began by noting that the dean of Georgia congressional wing nuts, Paul Broun Jr., had lost a comeback effort, despite one of the most incendiary ads ever:

The star of the story was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who at that point was in a Republican runoff in a Northwest Georgia district. She went on, of course, to instant infamy in Congress, along with the loss of committee assignments before she even had them and at least two rebukes from House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who isn’t exactly a proponent of social justice himself.

But there were other political beasts roaming through the hills last summer, including both runoff candidates for the Northeast Georgia House seat being abandoned by Doug Collins, who was busy savaging Kelly Loeffler in a Senate primary as a RINO swamp creature (a line of attack Loeffler parried in part by securing an endorsement from Greene). The one who got the most attention was state legislator Matt Gurtler, a Ron Paul acolyte who seemed uncomfortably cozy with white supremacists. But the candidate who beat him was gun dealer Andrew Clyde, whose claim to fame was a legal crusade against the IRS (or, as its agents are sometimes known in Appalachia, the “revenuers”). Clyde styled himself as a MAGA bravo, a Second Amendment absolutist, and a proponent of a total no-exceptions ban on abortions. At the same time, without irony, he described himself as someone who was “standing up to big government.” But these being fairly standard Republican positions at the moment, it was not yet clear that the new representative from the Ninth District of Georgia would threaten Marjorie Taylor Greene’s mantle as the most extremist member of his state’s congressional agenda.

Clyde’s getting some attention now. Some of it is over his bizarre lawsuit to fight the screening devices used to keep anyone from carrying weapons into the House chamber, as reported by Roll Call:

Clyde, along with Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican fined $5,000 for circumventing the security screening, filed a lawsuit Sunday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the House rule that imposes such fines violates the Constitution …

 

“House Resolution 73 (H.Res. 73) detains members from engaging in their duties to those they represent, in clear violation of Article I of the Constitution, and seeks to fine Republicans, in violation of the 27th Amendment, to gain undue influence over their behavior and to further Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s false political narrative,” Clyde said in a statement Monday.

Perhaps Clyde is thinking of the January 6 attack on Congress in asserting his need for shooting irons on the floor? Certainly not: He has also been very outspoken about the Capitol riot being a “normal tourist visit,” and has demonized the Capitol Police and their conduct on January 6. That meant, most recently, some personal disrespect for a cop severely injured during the insurrection, as Axios reported:

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) on Wednesday refused to shake hands with D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack and traumatic brain injury after he was assaulted while protecting the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, Fanone told CNN …

 

Clyde is among the 21 Republicans who voted against awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to officers who defended the Capitol during the riot.

Also this week, Clyde managed to get decisively to the right of Greene when he became one of 14 House members to oppose the designation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday. Remarkably, Greene voted for it.

But the irrepressible Greene has already reclaimed her extremist mojo, and on Clyde’s ideological home turf:

Greene also voted against the award for Capitol police, and is engaged in an effort to suggest the FBI was really responsible for turning that innocent rally for election integrity on January 6 into something violent:

Between Greene and Clyde, it’s easy to forget that Georgia’s congressional delegation also includes Jody Hice, Donald Trump’s designated vehicle for purging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for the sin of doing his job and confirming the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. The first time Hice, a vocal Christian right minister, ran for Congress in 2010, he had a billboard with the legend “Had Enough of Obama’s Change?” with the “C” in “Change” turned into a hammer and sickle.

And who’s in the field to succeed Hice in Congress? None other than Paul Broun Jr. Soon enough, he may pass for a Republican moderate.

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