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Once upon a time she was a far-right nutjob — now she's the Republican Party's biggest star. Who needs goblins?
All thanks to Elon Musk, who has revived the perfect word to describe what the Republican Party has in mind for us if they take over either or both houses of Congress in January: Hellscape. That's what they're planning to turn this country into — a nation that is already struggling with issues of race, economic inequality, gender, immigration and, yes, crime.
They've got plans for the hellscape they dream of: More guns on the street will solve the crime problem; going colorblind will wipe out issues of race; keeping the minimum wage right where it is will take care of economic inequality, which is exactly where they want it; passing laws against gender-affirming medical care will handle those scary trans kids; and accusing Democrats of "opening the border" should keep all those brown people on the other side of the wall they (sort of) built but have already forgotten is there, probably because it's a total failure.
The poster child for the Republican legislative future is Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. With Donald Trump already squawking about putting her on his ticket when he announces he's going to run for president — maybe as soon as next month — the Republican Party is planning on giving MTG some seat-time by electing her to the House Republican leadership in some as yet unnamed capacity.
It doesn't really make a difference what job they give her, because they don't want the first-term congresswoman's legislative experience.
They want her mouth.
In less than two years in the House, MTG has already provided us with a virtual encyclopedia of radical hate and lunacy. Let's take a look at her recent language about abortion to kick things off. The Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade was a "miracle" and a "blessing," Greene said. Last year, when arguing against exceptions to abortion bans for rape and incest, she called a fellow Republican lawmaker, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, "trash" for supporting the exceptions. "She is not conservative, she is pro-abort," Greene said of Mace on Twitter.
Earlier this week in an appearance on a radio show, when a woman called in and said, "My body is my body and I don't want the government telling me what I can do with my body," Greene reacted to the woman, who sounded as if she could be elderly, by saying, "Ma'am, are you having children any time soon?" When the woman brought up the case of a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio and had to go out of state to get an abortion, Greene again mocked the woman for not sounding as if she were of child-bearing age.
"Again, ma'am, I know you say it's your body, your choice, but I don't think you're having any children any time soon and I think we need to focus on the future of America and that's our children and the unborn, they're our future also. So let's focus on protecting their lives instead of being focused on the lie that abortion is women's health care, because that's not health care."
Greene of course voted against a recent bill in the House that would codify Roe v. Wade into law, and it doesn't sound like her sympathies lie with the nation's elderly, either, who may see their Social Security and Medicare benefits slashed if Kevin McCarthy takes over as the next speaker of the House.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/29/go...marjorie-taylor-greene-doesnt-need-a-costume/
All thanks to Elon Musk, who has revived the perfect word to describe what the Republican Party has in mind for us if they take over either or both houses of Congress in January: Hellscape. That's what they're planning to turn this country into — a nation that is already struggling with issues of race, economic inequality, gender, immigration and, yes, crime.
They've got plans for the hellscape they dream of: More guns on the street will solve the crime problem; going colorblind will wipe out issues of race; keeping the minimum wage right where it is will take care of economic inequality, which is exactly where they want it; passing laws against gender-affirming medical care will handle those scary trans kids; and accusing Democrats of "opening the border" should keep all those brown people on the other side of the wall they (sort of) built but have already forgotten is there, probably because it's a total failure.
The poster child for the Republican legislative future is Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. With Donald Trump already squawking about putting her on his ticket when he announces he's going to run for president — maybe as soon as next month — the Republican Party is planning on giving MTG some seat-time by electing her to the House Republican leadership in some as yet unnamed capacity.
It doesn't really make a difference what job they give her, because they don't want the first-term congresswoman's legislative experience.
They want her mouth.
In less than two years in the House, MTG has already provided us with a virtual encyclopedia of radical hate and lunacy. Let's take a look at her recent language about abortion to kick things off. The Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade was a "miracle" and a "blessing," Greene said. Last year, when arguing against exceptions to abortion bans for rape and incest, she called a fellow Republican lawmaker, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, "trash" for supporting the exceptions. "She is not conservative, she is pro-abort," Greene said of Mace on Twitter.
Earlier this week in an appearance on a radio show, when a woman called in and said, "My body is my body and I don't want the government telling me what I can do with my body," Greene reacted to the woman, who sounded as if she could be elderly, by saying, "Ma'am, are you having children any time soon?" When the woman brought up the case of a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio and had to go out of state to get an abortion, Greene again mocked the woman for not sounding as if she were of child-bearing age.
"Again, ma'am, I know you say it's your body, your choice, but I don't think you're having any children any time soon and I think we need to focus on the future of America and that's our children and the unborn, they're our future also. So let's focus on protecting their lives instead of being focused on the lie that abortion is women's health care, because that's not health care."
Greene of course voted against a recent bill in the House that would codify Roe v. Wade into law, and it doesn't sound like her sympathies lie with the nation's elderly, either, who may see their Social Security and Medicare benefits slashed if Kevin McCarthy takes over as the next speaker of the House.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/29/go...marjorie-taylor-greene-doesnt-need-a-costume/
