Person: "I was taken out of context."
Society: "Are you going to clarify the context that you meant it in and that it wasn't horrible?"
Person: "LOL No."

Indeed yes.

If that's not you Gigi, you wouldn't have done this in the first place!

These aren't attempts at a genuine defense--they're just incantations that allow their supporters to keep supporting them. Their marks will invent whatever justification is needed to satisfy themselves.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted

@RepMTG
Today, I sent this letter to Joe Biden to demand an immediate investigation into Anthony Fauci’s lies and his potential involvement in the cover up of the origins of the China virus.

The American people deserve answers on the Wuhan lab & Fauci deserves to be held accountable!

(Text of letter in link)

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1400916114620702729

She wants an answer by June 31st!

In addition to Marj wanting an answer "by June 31st," she also wrote, "According to the Center for Disease Control, as of June 3rd...593,000 people have died..." We actually passed 593,000 on May 4th. Below is Resume's post in the coronavirus thread from May 5th.
As of June 3rd the death total was actually over 611,000. :(

"Dear Ms. Greene. Start by using the actual name of this disease, and I'll consider reading the rest of your letter. Thanks."

Fine. We can start with Trump's dismantling of the infectious disease docs in place in China. Among other things.

FactCheck.org has found that "Conservative pundits and viral social media posts have now mischaracterized some of those emails in an effort to discredit Fauci." For a more detailed explanation of what actually happened, read the entire Fact Check article provided.

19 more MTGs on the way?

https://www.mic.com/p/there-are-alre...-2022-81091989

One of them is MTG herself and another is already in Congress, so it's actually just 17 more, but yeah.

Look up Popehat's Rule of Goats.

Promise her an answer on 31 June.

Candidates. Hopefully zero elected.

Yes.

But Trump is busily stumping for that sort of candidate, one GOP get-together after another. (E.G., an hour and a half speech just yesterday at the North Carolina Repugnican Party State Convention.)

And that's the important part. MTG didn't win just because she is a wacko nutcase. She is a wacko nutcase who got the Repugnican Party's backing. At which point she was a shoo-in in a district which was much more than comfortably red.

Trump remains the Pied Piper to the leadership of the GOP. As long as that remains true then this sort of candidate will always have a chance of winning.

A good chance, sadly.

True. But when even Corey Lewandowsky is telling the Mango Moron that he did NOT win the last election, and will NOT be reinstated come August, the remaining candidates the Donster Monster is stumping for are being whittled down to a bunch of flat-out cross-eyed toothless loons and morons, barely better than farm animals, who make even MTG look half sane and reasonable. At some point, even the current GOP will say "We want to actually win, not get our people out of the County looney bins, Don. We'll take it from here..."

How many votes can Corey Lewandowsky bring to the polls?

A significant percentage of the electorate are Trump devotees first and Party faithful afterward. And that percentage also constitutes a very large chunk of the GOP base.

Going against Trump requires both personal integrity and a spine on the part of any GOP hopeful.

Would you like to discuss how prevalent those qualities are within the leadership of the Repugnican Party? Or how much they are welcomed and respected by them?

The forgiveness concept lowers the bar so that more people will join the church and put cash in the collection plate. What a great club where you can screw up as bad as you want and still be considered a great person!

It's like a diet where you can eat all you want and still lose weight. Total scam.

I understand fully. And yet the T**** era is starting to fade into the rear-view mirror if Lewandowsky is openly disagreeing with him.

It appears the GOP as a party is shrinking, leaving moderates out more and more because they don't kowtow to the Divine One's imperial words any more. Even Mike Pence, his own veep and right-wing wimp, is distancing himself.

That leaves a just core of hard-case reeking stupid with T**** as the kernel, and there are pockets of geography where these people are known to congregate. At this time this core of nutters is sizeable, but even so the level of actual T****'s personal support has already shrunk from the 2020 levels and especially after 6-Jan. Witness his failed blog website - clearly his hard-core supporters were not flocking to his word there.

Those who have moved away may well be seeking other far-right gurus, and some GOP candidates are positioning themselves as the T****-alternatives. MTG is one of these - I'm sure she has enough chutzpah to want to take over that crown. Although she clearly hasn't the brains.

Judging by the last administration, there doesn't seem to be any actual evidence that this is a necessary prerequisite.

Yeah, good point.

*SIGH*

Greene says that SARS-CoV-2 must be a bioweapon because God wouldn't create it and she doesn't believe in evolution.

*Shrugs* Most of Congress probably doesn't believe in Evolution, just by playing the statistics. She's not worst for saying it out loud.

So how does she explain the Spanish flu, smallpox, etc.?

Or the ten plagues?

I wonder how all those viruses like smallpox and flu and that killed people before the 20th century were created by humans? Those scientists in the Middle Ages had far more sophisticated labs than we knew!

Does she also think God didn't invent bacteria or just viruses?

MTG doesn't think "God would do that" but I'd bet you she thinks God created the HIV virus to punish all those 'sinning, pervert homos'.

MTG is really working hard for the title of "Most Stupid Person in Congress" title. Gohmert had better watch out as she's coming up fast.

Yeah we've literally put more actual thought into it in the last 4 posts than she has her entire life.

God works in mysterious ways, what more do you need?

HIV, of course, is easy. It's God's punishment for gay people. And heterosexuals in Africa.

Accuracy requires that attributing the bolded part to her is a stretch beyond her words, even if one suspects she believes it.

Yes, that was my translation of "I believe in God and these viruses were not making people sick until they created them".

Imagine having to host a press conference to announce you just learned the Holocaust was very bad

Wow, MTG just showed a near human self-awareness.

She is not self-aware, she is a P-Zombie.

The bubonic plague was around long before Wuhan labs was built. LONG before. So I guess that God gave rats and fleas microbiological warfare technologies??

If you brought that up to MTG, she'd claim that she was talking about viruses only and that the plague is caused by a bacteria (after someone with some intelligence explains to her the difference between a virus and bacteria).

So... Smallpox? Syphilis? Other diseases of ancient lineage?

She is a walking pit of ignorance.

Of course she is. She's an idiot. I'm certainly not arguing that she isn't. But nitpicking: syphilis is also not a virus but caused by bacteria.

To her, it is a "Chinese virus" even if it is an actual virus, bacteria, or tapeworms.

She probably thinks Sweet and Sour Chicken is a bioweapon.

if it is, I don't wan't to know.

Everyone knows Sweet and Sour Chicken isn't, but burritos are definitely bioweapons. :D