# Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene MUST GO **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895 "2021-01-31T00:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 54
**Author:** ![JenM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@JenM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JenM)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1065 "2023-02-05T03:42:29Z")
Any group of grown women calling themselves ‘the squad’ don’t belong in Congress. They belong in junior high, grow up. In addition, they are trouble makers and need to go. The ones I mentioned on the Republican side, add Jim Jordan to the list of trouble makers and oust him too. We need government, not Barnum and Bailiey or 90210 high school drama. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1066 "2023-02-05T04:05:26Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > Maybe being a Democrat is evidence of disloyalty to the country in and of itself. Clearly that’s the case. One doesn’t even have to know their names to conclude this. You know, the one from MI is certainly up to some shady shit. Whatever their name is. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1067 "2023-02-05T04:21:10Z")
There may (will?) come a time when being a Republican is grounds for being deemed anti-American. It won’t be fair, but it will be deserved. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1068 "2023-02-05T04:33:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > Members of the House of Representatives earn a salary of $174,000 a year. Additionally, the House[was in session](https://history.house.gov/Institution/Session-Dates/110-Current/) for 164 days last year, meaning Rep. Greene was required to work less than half the calendar year. > > Well, boo-effin’-hoo. You’re supposed to become a congressperson to make the country a better place (which you’re _not_, by the way), not to get rich. You only work half a hear? That’s an effective salary of $384,000 per year. If you don’t like it, get out. _That_ would make the country a better place! Defending anything to do with MTG is not my thing. However, this isn’t really accurate as a general proposition is it because you can’t be an effective congressperson and only work on sitting days? I fully understand that “effective” and “MTG” are generally not found in the same sentence but I think your comment is incorrect in principle. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1069 "2023-02-05T13:29:06Z")
> [@JenM](#): > > Any group of grown women calling themselves ‘the squad’ don’t belong in Congress. So you don’t like the name? If they threw in a “caucus” (like the Freedom people did), would they somehow be more to your liking? > [@JenM](#): > > In addition, they are trouble makers Go on! Do they shut off the lights when others are trying to use the bathroom? Do you touch all the food at the buffet line? Maybe they are like Japanese kids and think it’s funny to poke you in the butthole! > **[Kanchō](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanch%C5%8D)** > > Kanchō (カンチョー) is a prank performed by clasping the hands together in the shape of an imaginary gun and attempting to poke an unsuspecting victim's anus, often while exclaiming "Kan-CHO!". It is a common prank among children in East Asian countries such as Japan. In Korea, it is called ddongchim (Korean: 똥침). In China, it is popularly called qiānnián shā (千年殺), which was derived from the jutsu technique in the manga and anime series Naruto, in which it is known as 千年殺し (sennen goroshi In English-... Or, do you have some specific speeches or bills or something in mind? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1070 "2023-02-05T14:14:59Z")
I agree with very little of what “The Squad\*” advocate for, but every time I hear them talk, they are intelligent, passionate, informed, erudite, and poised. And then you have the equivalent fringe bunch on the right side of the aisle. And they’re just “Honey Boo Boo (or the Duggars) goes to Washington.” I feel like – since TFG took office – we should impose a strict moratorium against drawing equivalents where no equivalent actually exists. I’ll agree to some kind of sunset provision, but … we aren’t there yet. \*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1071 "2023-02-05T14:17:38Z")
> [@JenM](#): > > Any group of grown women calling themselves ‘the squad’ don’t belong in Congress. Alright. Any elected representative who places so much emphasis on empty symbols over substantive issues that they wear a flag pin on their lapel should likewise be barred from office. Your turn. [tossing in a /s for clarity] ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1072 "2023-02-05T14:21:59Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan) I get the reference to the OG squad, but you may be interested to know that it’s grown over time > [@](#): > > They have since been joined by [Jamaal Bowman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaal_Bowman) of New York and [Cori Bush](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cori_Bush) of [Missouri](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri)following the [2020 United States House of Representatives elections](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections), and [Summer Lee](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Lee) of [Pennsylvania](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania), [Greg Casar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Casar) of [Texas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas), and [Delia Ramirez](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Ramirez) of [Illinois](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois) following the [2022 United States House of Representatives elections](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections). > **[The Squad (United States Congress)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Squad_%28United_States_Congress%29&action=edit§ion=0)** > > Four founding members > Subsequent members > The Squad is an informal group of eight left wing Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was initially composed of four women elected in the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. They have since been joined by Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri following the 2020 United St... ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1073 "2023-02-05T14:32:21Z")
Well, crap. Truly grateful to be brought into this decade, but now I’ll have to go find clips from each of the newbies to see if my basic premise about erudition and eloquence can remain as is 😉 **[Gibbs’ rule](https://www.tvinsider.com/1024964/ncis-gibbs-rules/)** #8: never take anything for granted ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1074 "2023-02-05T16:12:22Z")
> [@JenM](#): > > Any group of grown women calling themselves ‘the squad’ don’t belong in Congress. What would you call them? [“The four horsewomen of the apocalypse”?](https://www.vox.com/2019/7/17/20696474/squad-congresswomen-trump-pressley-aoc-omar-tlaib) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1075 "2023-02-05T17:06:46Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Any elected representative who places so much emphasis on empty symbols over substantive issues that they wear a flag pin on their lapel should likewise be barred from office. Flag pin? That’s so 2020. We’re into AR-47 pins now. > **[This is why some members of Congress have been seen wearing lapel pins...](https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-members-ar-15-lapel-pins-2023-2)** > > Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde, who owns a gun store, has taken responsibility for handing out lapel pins in the shape of miniature AR-15 rifles. ---
**Author:** ![knavette57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knavette57/32/3871_2.png) [@knavette57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knavette57)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1076 "2023-02-05T17:30:03Z")
Cori Bush (D-MO) represents the bright blue area of the city of St Louis. The other bright blue area is in KC, and kind of purple around Columbia, a college town. I had no idea she was a member of the Squad. I hope this redeems MO a bit, we definitely have a problem here and need all the help we can get. As for the Squad members being controversial, well so the the MTGs and Bobos…and worse than controversial, those righties are damn dangerous. That is the difference to me, the Squad wants to improve America, the right wings want to tear it down and replace it with something terrible. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1077 "2023-02-05T19:15:05Z")
The Squad should rename themselves the New World Order just to own the fundies. And when they have a disagreement, they should split themselves into nWo-Hollywood and nWo Wolfpac to own the wrestling fans too. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1078 "2023-02-05T20:26:04Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > What would you call them? [“The four horsewomen of the apocalypse”?](https://www.vox.com/2019/7/17/20696474/squad-congresswomen-trump-pressley-aoc-omar-tlaib) That link is interesting, as it explains that the term “squad” was initially just a throwaway caption on a picture of 4 women, newly elected to congress, with a common ideology. It wasn’t originally some formal name they gave themselves; it was the equivalent of posting a picture with some colleagues and calling them your friends. It was the opposition to these 4 that then derisively called them the “squad”, which they leaned into and embraced. But these women didn’t come to congress and announce that they were the “squad”. So criticizing them for the term is nonsensical. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1079 "2023-02-05T22:53:20Z")
> [@JenM](#): > > We need government, not Barnum and Bailiey or 90210 high school drama. That criteria would eliminate more Congresspeople than the Martians did in _Mars Attacks._ ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1080 "2023-02-06T07:06:39Z")
Did “The Squad” coin that name for themselves? Bc I thought RWM gave them that name as a pejorative, and they (the squad) just sort of made it their own. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1081 "2023-02-06T07:36:47Z")
According to the wikipedia article it was first used by AOC in an Instagram post. Which seems pretty casual usage. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1082 "2023-02-06T17:45:13Z")
> [@omenran](#): > > According to the wikipedia article it was first used by AOC in an Instagram post. Reason 1,426 why politicians should ditch their social media outlets. ETA: Although I actually have no objection to the label “Squad” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1083 "2023-02-06T19:40:46Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > That link is interesting, as it explains that the term “squad” was initially just a throwaway caption on a picture of 4 women, newly elected to congress, with a common ideology. It wasn’t originally some formal name they gave themselves; it was the equivalent of posting a picture with some colleagues and calling them your friends. Exactly. It’s pretty … (I’ll be diplomatic) … questionable to criticize the appellation “The Squad” as that’s what was flung at them from the right and the media because of one casual caption on a photo. It’s like if I put up a photo of my like-minded friends and captioned it “homies” and all of a sudden, we’re “The Homies” and apparently unfit for Congress because we call ourselves that. It was a friendly little caption, not a formal autonym. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1084 "2023-02-06T19:42:22Z")
> [@Article that Johnny\_L.A quoted](#): > > Members of the House of Representatives earn a salary of $174,000 a year. Additionally, the House[was in session](https://history.house.gov/Institution/Session-Dates/110-Current/) for 164 days last year, meaning Rep. Greene was required to work less than half the calendar year. I guess that running the long con pays pretty well, then. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene). > [@](#): > > Greene was a top official of the Family America Project, a [conservative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States) group founded in January 2018. She was a moderator of the organization’s [Facebook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) group, in which members posted death threats against Democrats, bigotry directed at the [Obamas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama), and support for multiple conspiracy theories, including claims associated with the [John Birch Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society) about the [U.S. government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States) being infiltrated by [communists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism).[[46]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene#cite_note-MoJo_Faimily_American_Project-46)[[a]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene#cite_note-47) Not exactly what I would have thought of as high-paying positions. Oh, she and her husband (now ex) owned a construction firm they bought from her father. That’s (obviously) where her money is coming from. Hey, Madge, you do realize that 90%+ of the country makes less than $174k / half-year. If that’s all you care about, go back to (not) running a construction firm and grifting the rubes in your district. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=55)