# 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:** 84
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1665 "2024-04-22T11:26:20Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Because the Rosenbergs were not charged with treason; their case was one of espionage. And potentially that could be the kind of charge someone in Congress could face if they are working on behalf of Russia. I see no evidence that MTG, or staff members, are giving a foreign government defense information, or [doing anything else in the current Espionage Act](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-37). The worst I suspect her of is being an agent of influence, introducing legislation with wording they gave her staff, and AFAIK that’s legal if done without payment. > [@DesertDog](#): > > Why pay her when she’s doing the job for free? The theory historically been that without payment, you have no hold against Americans should they change their mind about cooperating. Remember that the outcome of a war, large numbers (123,000 so far by one BBC estimate) of Russians are dying in, likely depends on Trump winning and the GOP then cutting off Ukraine funding. They would be fools not to consider controlling the American congress as a priority. Maybe Putin’s successor regime will reopen Russian intelligence archives. Without that, it is all speculation. Republicans are deterring the FBI from investigating. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1666 "2024-04-22T11:30:59Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > The average MAGA hasn’t even a clue where Transcarpathia The average MAGA would start ranting about “Why isn’t it just Carpathia? Why’d they have to go changing its gender?!?” ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1667 "2024-04-22T11:46:35Z")
They’d insist it use the appropriate restroom. And not compete in sports with cisCarpathians. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1668 "2024-04-22T11:59:59Z")
How it must feed her ego to be surrounded by microphones every time she exits doors. To go from a being a shrill Q spouting nonentity to someone whose words the national news media actually quotes. I assume she’ll be booted from every committee once the Dems take over the House. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1669 "2024-04-22T13:12:46Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I assume she’ll be booted from every committee once the Dems take over the House. “Why am I being silenced? Why are they afraid of what I have to say?” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1670 "2024-04-22T13:52:23Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > “Why am I being silenced? Why are they afraid of what I have to say?” I would have a response to that, but I consider myself a gentleman. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1671 "2024-04-22T14:52:34Z")
> Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene MUST GO Ladies room is just down the hall, on yer left. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1672 "2024-04-22T20:53:45Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I assume she’ll be booted from every committee once the Dems take over the House. I’m a little vague on the procedure but I had the impression the representative’s party decided who got on which committee. “We have five seats to fill on the Ways and Means Committee so we’ll fill them with Representatives A, B, C, D, and E. Sorry, Mr. F but this being your first term, we’ve putting you on Ethics and Natural Resources.” ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1673 "2024-04-22T21:05:11Z")
The unfortunate thing about MTG is that she’s shown that the way to command 30x more influence than any of your House peers is to be as crazy as possible. She’s only 1 out of 435. There’s technically nothing that gives her more power than the other 434. But yet she is kind of like a second-in-command among Republicans in the House. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1674 "2024-04-22T21:08:02Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Sorry, Mr. F If that was on purpose, I see what you did there. > **[https://preview.redd.it/4o63z6sn2dxb1.jpeg?width=670&format=pjpg&auto=we...](https://preview.redd.it/4o63z6sn2dxb1.jpeg?width=670&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c30cd7205a1ceca65b7264817c439922ba288971)** ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1675 "2024-04-22T21:18:50Z")
It’s because she does Trump’s bidding. She has the Republican power of Trump behind her. Never forget the man behind the curtain. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1676 "2024-04-22T21:26:21Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I’m a little vague on the procedure but I had the impression the representative’s party decided who got on which committee. “We have five seats to fill on the Ways and Means Committee so we’ll fill them with Representatives A, B, C, D, and E. Sorry, Mr. F but this being your first term, we’ve putting you on Ethics and Natural Resources.” Typically it works like you describe – at the start of each Congress, the two parties negotiate how many seats each party will have on each committee, and then each party’s leaders decide who specifically will serve in those seats. Then the whole House adopts a resolution to confirm those choices. But in the House, whatever a majority votes for is what matters. The majority party could refuse to go along with a specific member being assigned committees in the initial resolution, or – more likely – pass a subsequent resolution to remove a member or members from their committee assignments. MTG herself was stripped of her committee assignments during Nancy Pelosi’s Speakership, and Ilhan Omar was subsequently booted off Foreign Affairs when Kevin McCarthy took over. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1677 "2024-05-02T19:19:38Z")
[Now what?](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/video/marjorie-taylor-greene-antisemitism-bill-vote-zanona-sot-ebof-digvid) (The quick version, from what I understand: MTG voted against an anti-Semitism bill because the definition of anti-Semitism that it uses "could convict Christians…for believing the Gospel that Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews.) ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1678 "2024-05-02T19:30:37Z")
I guess the message intended by the ACLU got garbled by MTG’s lunacy. > **[US House passes controversial bill that expands definition of anti-Semitism](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/1/us-house-passes-controversial-bill-that-expands-definition-of-anti-semitism)** > > Rights groups warn that the definition could further chill freedom of speech as protests continue on college campuses. > In a letter sent to lawmakers on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged House members to vote against the legislation… > “[The bill] would likely chill free speech of students on college campuses by incorrectly equating criticism of the Israeli government with anti-Semitism.” ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1679 "2024-05-02T19:44:46Z")
Matt Gaetz offered the same justification for his vote against the bill — that the bill would codify a definition of antisemitism that recognizes “the Jews killed Jesus” as an antisemitic trope. According to Gaetz, that goes against the Bible. I don’t know enough about the bill to say whether it’s worth supporting (although it’s clearly a cynical play by Republicans to jump on the current campus protests). But it is delightful to see Gaetz referred to as an “antisemitic pedophile” in print. [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/01/mccarthy-ally-goes-for-gaetzs-jugular-00155605](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/01/mccarthy-ally-goes-for-gaetzs-jugular-00155605) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1680 "2024-05-02T19:46:42Z")
Thought this bump was going to be about MUGA. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene Changed 1 Letter In 'MAGA' — And It Didn't Go So Well](https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-changed-1-184453651.html)** > > The Georgia congresswoman awkwardly placed a blue and yellow "MUGA" hat atop a poster of House leaders Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1681 "2024-05-02T19:54:00Z")
Where can I buy myself a MUGA hat? I’d wear it with pride. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1682 "2024-05-02T19:54:38Z")
MTG is crazy but this is indeed a bad bill/law and there are valid reasons to vote against it. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1683 "2024-05-02T19:55:18Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Thought this bump was going to be about MUGA. I was just happy MTG didn’t molest the big photo of Jeffries like she did the cutout of Trump. And seriously, just how much traction is this Uniparty idea getting? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1684 "2024-05-02T20:42:26Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > just how much traction is this Uniparty idea getting? The Uniparty is a vast organization with thousands of members, none of which have ever become disillusioned with their party or had substantial disagreements with their leaders, and party discipline is such that LaCosaNostra’s _omerta_ is as nothing compared to their apparent vows of silence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=83) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=85)