# 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:** 9
**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, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/162 "2021-02-05T15:40:56Z")
MTG has scheduled a press conference for today. Who’s going to be [threatened with a trespassing arrest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/133) this time? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/163 "2021-02-05T16:13:38Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > She will be a GA senator soon and stay there for a long time. In light of the most recent senate elections there, I’d be interested in hearing your reasoning for this statement. Switching gears a little, she’s already posted that Dems have made a mistake in freeing her up from committee assignments and in that I actually believe she’s telling the truth. It’s pretty clear that she doesn’t have the intellectual wherewithal to engage in the actual work of being a member of the House; she’s mostly interested in being the center of attention and cheerleading for Trump and his followers. ---
**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 5, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/164 "2021-02-05T16:26:07Z")
I was listening to soundbites on the news, and it sounded a lot like she was saying “I don’t actually believe those things - I was just saying them because my voters believed them.” Part of me is thinking “I hope those voters are listening now, and realize that she isn’t actually one of them”; the other part fears that because it means they’ll elect someone even crazier. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/165 "2021-02-05T16:42:34Z")
For sure if the R party as a whole comes out and says > All of us, from Southern Strategy to Gingrich and on through to Trump, MTG, and everyone in between has just been playing you fools and telling you what you all wanted to hear. … there’ll be an interesting reaction from those folks. For _very_ interesting values of “interesting”. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/166 "2021-02-05T16:49:26Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I think that’s the most blatant “I’m sorry other people did this” statement I’ve ever seen that has tried to pass itself off as an apology. Yeah I thought the same thing. Also don’t miss the “whataboutism” at the end, calling “the media” just as bad! Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/167 "2021-02-05T19:21:14Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Also don’t miss the “whataboutism” at the end, calling “the media” just as bad! Of course, some part of “the media” is just as bad, in fact, is a major propagator of the badness. Just doesn’t happen to be the part that her ilk are always attacking. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/168 "2021-02-05T19:37:50Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > There are some individual American conservatives who do actually like Israelis. Just not all of them. And likely a significant overlap in these, and the followers of Ben Shapiro. ---
**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, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/169 "2021-02-05T20:07:57Z")
> **[David Hogg wants U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize to Parkland...](https://www.wptv.com/news/political/david-hogg-wants-u-s-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-to-apologize-to-parkland-families)** > > David Hogg wants U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to apologize to the families of the Parkland school shooting victims. But the freshman congresswoman doesn't seem interested in obliging. > “I’m sorry for saying all those things that are wrong and offensive, and I sincerely mean that and I’m happy to say that,” Greene said. > “I think if Marjorie was truly apologetic, it wouldn’t have taken us literally removing her from her committees,” [Hogg] said. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/170 "2021-02-05T21:37:41Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Ah, the old “It’s their fault for letting me” defense! My youngest daughter pulls that sometimes. But she’s six years old and is learning it isn’t a valid excuse. So you can say MGT isn’t quite as mature as a six-year-old girl. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/171 "2021-02-05T23:54:05Z")
There really is a lot of kindergarten level morality, kindergarten level logic, and kindergarten level personal responsibility in the whole con that has become the RW world. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/172 "2021-02-06T01:26:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I regret MTG is “allowed to be out in public without a minder”. > > The people “allowing” her to “believe things that weren’t true” are the members of her own party and their pet media. The people attempting to NOT allow her to believe those things are the Democrats she keeps complaining about. Yeah, there’s no way to make the ‘allowed’ verbiage reasonable or logical. It’s just another way of evading personal responsibility–which is fast becoming a Republican signature move. By the way, I wish we weren’t giving that person the honor of the three-initial name (a la FDR and JFK). I realize that most people using it do _not_ intend it as an honor, but…even so. (Personally, I think “Empty Greene” makes more sense as a syllable-saving way of referring to that particular individual. Same number of syllables as in “MTG.”) ---
**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 6, 2021, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/173 "2021-02-06T02:42:46Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > “Empty Greene” Sounds like a certain golf course in Palm Beach County, Florida. Considering the number of people who canceled their memberships after 1/6. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/174 "2021-02-06T02:58:55Z")
I only use AOC because her lastname is long. Otherwise, as long as it’s clear who we’re talking about, I’ll treat her like any other politician and just call Greene. She doesn’t come up enough out of context for me to not just use her first name once. And I see no reason to use her middle name, as it’s not compound last name, and there are no other Marjorie Greenes I could be referring to I honestly don’t know why she uses her maiden name. It made sense that Sarah Huckabee Sanders used it so people knew she was Mike Huckabee’s daughter. But are we supposed to know anything about Robert Taylor? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/175 "2021-02-06T05:33:01Z")
I just think of her as Margie Q. P.S. I always got lame crap like pick-up-stix in the Hannukah grab bag at Hebrew school. Why couldn’t I have ever gotten something cool like a space laser? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/176 "2021-02-06T15:44:23Z")
It’s disturbing that there are so many republicans who still don’t have the courage to stand up to their own radical base. But someone has to do it, and it has to be the democrats. It’s a case of one group of voters basically saying to the other “Oh no you don’t - we’re not going to just sit back and let you run this train over the cliff.” I’m glad Democrats actually did have the courage to stand up not only to republicans in congress but also their voters and right wing media. It’s time to simply ignore the alternative facts universe and just get to work. Doing that is probably the way to move forward, with the understanding that there will always be detractors. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/177 "2021-02-06T15:55:02Z")
The thing is, I don’t think they really have a lot of core beliefs other than the belief that their clan should be at the top of the social/economic/political hierarchy. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/178 "2021-02-06T19:36:20Z")
They don’t. Something they never understand is even if they magically poofed the world into some white-only thing they want they would be very quickly at each-other’s throats for something else. Presbyterian vs Methodist or blue eyes vs brown eyes or Georgia vs Alabama…something. IIRC when loads of weekend warriors drove out to “protect” Cliven Bundy and his cattle and the police mostly left them alone it didn’t take long for them to start fighting amongst themselves. Nothing overly dramatic but these people just don’t play well with others no matter who that is. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/179 "2021-02-06T20:28:25Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > even if they magically poofed the world into some white-only thing they want they would be very quickly at each-other’s throats for something else. Presbyterian vs Methodist or blue eyes vs brown eyes or Georgia vs Alabama…something. This. This, this, this. If you put into power people who get their power from divisiveness, they will turn on you and on each other. You can’t get to safety that way. You can’t get to peace that way. You can’t get anywhere that way except smaller and smaller groups intent on destroying each other. I wish so much that we could somehow get these frightened people to look up and see that. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/180 "2021-02-06T20:37:11Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I honestly don’t know why she uses her maiden name. It made sense that Sarah Huckabee Sanders used it so people knew she was Mike Huckabee’s daughter. But are we supposed to know anything about Robert Taylor? Jesus fucking Christ. I’m no MTG fan, but a woman’s name may mean more to her than a chance to hype her tie to a man. It’s her name, not just her dad’s. And if a person wants to use three names, that’s fine. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/181 "2021-02-06T20:45:02Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Something they never understand is even if they magically poofed the world into some white-only thing they want they would be very quickly at each-other’s throats for something else. Presbyterian vs Methodist or blue eyes vs brown eyes or Georgia vs Alabama…something. Bingo. I’ve never understood why some who as much as damn near said that they want the US to be a christian theocracy never thinks that through. Catholic or Protestant, and which denomination thereof. Here in the “bobble beyelt” I’ve heard members of some of the latter’s sects spew as much hatred toward the former as they did the “mooslems”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=10)