Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “loony lies”
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Back in August of 2020, we did an episode titled What Is QAnon? |
| 0:11.2 | The answer? |
| 0:12.2 | A conspiracy theory cult that believes Donald Trump is on a mission to defeat a liberal |
| 0:16.8 | league of cannibalistic pedophiles. |
| 0:19.4 | The reason we decided to make that episode was because a member of Q had just won a primary |
| 0:25.2 | in George's 14th and was all but sure to be elected to Congress. |
| 0:29.9 | Her name, Marjorie Taylor Greene. |
| 0:32.6 | Or should I say now, representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene. |
| 0:37.6 | Since entering office, she's filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, realized |
| 0:42.2 | that impeaching someone is actually a lot of work, and bid on the defensive over a long |
| 0:46.4 | history of what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell himself has called loony lies that |
| 0:52.1 | are a cancer on the GOP. |
| 0:55.0 | How loony, how about Jewish space lasers are responsible for California's wildfires? |
| 1:02.5 | Just weeks after the head of their own party called for an insurrection, the GOP has been |
| 1:07.8 | forced into a reckoning over a freshman representative from George's 14th, and House Democrats have |
| 1:13.9 | called a vote on Thursday to strip her of her committee positions, forcing Republicans |
| 1:18.3 | to formalize their positions on the controversy. |
| 1:21.5 | Aaron Rupar has been covering green for Vox. |
| 1:25.0 | Last week there was an explosion of scandals surrounding her day after day of revelations |
| 1:32.2 | of things that she said that were outrageous, of things that she did that went beyond social |
| 1:37.9 | media that were outrageous. |
| 1:39.4 | So it's led this week to kind of a standoff where House Democrats and some Republicans |
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