For the GOP, it seems that "patriotic" has come to mean ignorant, deluded, and self-obsessed (and too often, violent as well). There's few sights more pathetic than the idiots calling themselves patriots these days.

Especially when it is well known they are armed. Anyone have a bet on when MTG starts shooting in the capital?

She won't do it. She has people for that.

I think the Obama administration had one person indicted after his administration for something unrelated to his government work. Trump just surrounds himself with criminals.

Birds of a feather and all.......

That’s one of the more remarkable things about the Republican party’s glorification of Trump. He’s a lifelong, unrepentant criminal.

Just because he plays like a comic book super villain doesn’t make his touch any less real.

Well, see...that's the problem. Why should he be repentant when he doesn't believe he's done anything wrong? For Trump, he truly believes that he's entitled to get away with whatever he does because he's special.

Yeah, he's just like them.

Agreed. People don't relise how important to the US..or any country...agriculture is. Too treat it like something the Marj could not do damage is pretty naive.

I am a skeptic when it comes to religion.but not sure it deserves to be ranked with personality cults and conspiracy theories.

She would be only one member of a committee of [*** stops to look it up ***] 52 representatives!! What serious damage could one person do?

If she can't accomplish anything anyway, why put in in the first place? And if 51 other representatives can keep her from doing damage, why worry about her now amongst so many? I suspect she could manage some damage just by opening her mouth.

Yes, there's a reason why foot and mouth virus was considered for biological warfare. When it doesn't even directly kill cattle. It causes massive harm to one of the most fundamental economic activities. All the rest are fripperies if you cannot eat. Something that most of us in the West have forgotten.

Indeed. It might also be seen as a reward for her.

Is she actually attending the committee meetings? She seems to spend all her time in Washington roaming the halls looking for people to harass and letterboxes to swear through while making Tik Toks.

Hopefully those absences will minimise any damage she could have done in any committees. Or the committee chairs could simply "forget" to include her on the meeting schedule. Either way, less harm done to the committees' work.

Clearly publicity is MTG's only aim, or at least notoriety. It seems to bring in the donations from the GOP faithful, which is kinda depressing. The GOP seem perfectly willing to forgive her sins, because her hero #45 has a much longer, fatter list and they doggedly ignored those.

Oh, she is out to build herself as a brand,no doubt about that, and has little interest in the nuts and bolts of legislating, which is hard work.
She is not the only one..and they are not all in the GOP, sad to say. Too many congressmen just see The House as a step on the road to bigger things.

I think most GOP congress critters know MTG is doing them no good with swing voters, and are tyring to pretend she does not exist as much as possible.

You obviously haven't read the post where I suggested this.

"Perhaps MTG now needs to be given some committee appointments so that she doesn't so much spare time on her hands."

I was merely making a (perhaps misguided) attempt to offer a way cut down on her spare time, so that she has less time to indulge in her, ahem, extracurricular activities such as harassing other congresspeople and going on tours with Snatchboy!

I don't see her having new assignments since she was booted from her two back in early Feb (12-14 weeks ago. Yeah, she's got too much time on her hands). Those look to have been Budget, and Education & Labor. Neither of which I'd want her greasy paws on (can't think of any I would actually).

She's not there to govern, she's not there for her constituents... she's building cred for her inevitable spot on OANN or NewsMax (or maybe Fox if they ever fall back in line again).

I think we can say with a fair degree of confidence that the rest of the Repugnican party would variously either say nothing, praise her, or deny that anything of the sort ever happened at all even if it was captured on video by every news outlet in the country.

In that specific respect, yes they do.

I mean really, maybe she is actually an ANTIFA plant trying to discredit herself?

The House of Representin'

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I'm gonna go out of a crazy limb here and go "Using a House of Congress as stepping stone to your eventual goal of *checks notes* being a talking head on a conspiracy news network" is a sign that certain systematic things be fixed.

That fact "Internet Troll Poster but Real Life" is now a viable demographic in our government is one thing. The fact that see it as just a temporary step onto higher things is another.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if SHE brought up that theory.

It's like having Leroy Jenkins at the Congressional sessions. What an obnoxious inconsiderate idiot.

You have slandered the good name of Mr. Jenkins.

Friendly FTFY, but I knew what you meant and I 100% agree. The fact that...

Conspiracy theorists such as Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Lauren Boebert, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul,
Racists such as Rick Santorum, Steve King and Mark Meadows,
Far-right nutjobs like Josh Hawley,
Nutjobs like Michelle Bachmann,
Total dumb-***** like Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert,
Crooks and outright mob-bosses like D.J T****

... can get elected to positions of great power in the country is a clear indication that the system is badly broken.

Sadly, I suspect it is more a matter of reverting to type.

In any long view reflection of American government, sanity, honor, and respect for human rights has always been more the exception than the rule.

The foundation of this broken system is the electorate. A people always gets the government it deserves. If the majority watch and not do, they have no one but themselves to blame. If the idiots outnumber the sane, then the idiots rightfully rule.

Not in the electoral system.

Exactly.

There are many states where Republicans have a majority of seats in the state legislature, but polled fewer votes in total than the Democrats.

Marjorie is at it again:
Yeah, Marge. Being asked to prove you've been vaccinated before being allowed to not wear a mask in the House chamber is exactly like being gassed to death in a concentration camp. We've all seen reps dropping like flies on the House floor from those Zyklon B infused masks Pelosi has forced everyone to wear.

And it was yellow stars anyway.

It shows us the warped thinking this people have. Wearing a mask as a public health measure is pretty benign so let's gin it up and equate it to Nazi oppression of jews.

She's too stupid to know that. She's likely conflating it with the Gold Star which her hero Trump probably thinks Fred and Mary Anne should have had in their window for his 'bone spurs'.

Well, they're both identifications, right?

She probably thinks that photo ID is the same, too.

The yellow stars were simply to identify Jews in public (so the mighty Aryan races could avoid touching them, I guess). A sort of public personal number plate. They were not specifically part of the selection process for the Holocaust.

And yet she has no trouble getting her fugly lantern-jawed mug out on press releases and FB and YT videos showing herself "bravely in action against the communists and gun-grabbers". It would seem that anything she doesn't understand, she hates. Hatred is her thing.

Feature, not a bug, as this maps with much of her constituency.

As I've often been hand slapped for...they're just stoooopid.

It's no accident that the shows that people like Greene bloviate on tend to have names like "Real America's Voice." These are the same sort of people that trot out the superficial "we're a republic, not a democracy!" thing when they get out-voted as a reason to ignore that result. What it all comes down to is that they are the Real Americans, with the proper values and objectives, that's what really matters, and any opposition is un-American, "socialist" or "communist," certainly ungodly. In essence, they feel that they own America, so it doesn't even really matter if they lose a vote, they're still entitled to act as if they won it. Ownership imposes an obligation to maintain itself, so just about any tactic for that righteous maintenance is by definition justified; and there's no obligation to share, so everyone else who wants in can just go hang.

If America changed to encompass things they don't agree with, it's not America anymore.