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The Gist

Stand By Your Lunatic: Republicans Want Marjorie Taylor Greene to Keep her Committees

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, stripping Majorie Taylor Greene of her committee membership, but Republicans still want to keep her around. In the Interview, it's coup talk. It's part one of an interview with Jonah Blank, an anthropologist, writer, author, and former policy director for South and Southeast Asia on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Blank joins Mike to talk about the Myanmar coup, the default of cheering on populism, conflicts and communal violence, and the threat to democracy. Blank is author of Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, and Mullahs on the Mainframe, and currently based in Singapore. He'll be back on the show next week. In the spiel, Representatives Nancy Mace and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are fighting. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Cheyna Roth. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'd like to warn you about the explicit nature of the show, but I'll just tint that you

0:04.3

know what you're in for, making this an implicit explicit warning.

0:08.1

It's Thursday, February 4th, 2021, from slated to just I might pesky, you know, a lot of

0:17.2

people are losing family members and friends to QAnon.

0:21.3

And lost is the right verb.

0:23.0

This people begin chasing theories on the internet, spending more and more time online.

0:27.2

They become remote withdrawn, and then they're talking in a different language.

0:30.9

They're obsessed with crazy ideas.

0:32.6

It's like a kidnapping or a brainwashing.

0:35.5

You hear stories like this about daughter, son, parents, old friends.

0:38.5

There's a whole reddit board dedicated to strategies of getting people out of the clutches

0:43.4

of QAnon.

0:44.9

But now we seem to have found what is the only foolproof plan, 100% efficacy.

0:52.4

It's a simple three step process.

0:55.2

To get out of QAnon one, get elected to be a member of Congress two, keep up the bullshit

1:01.4

while a member of Congress three, then in your fourth week on the job, when you're called

1:06.6

out on it, get over 200 of your colleagues into a meeting and then announce you're no longer

1:13.2

a member of QAnon.

1:15.0

You've rejected QAnon.

1:17.0

I'm not that asshole anymore.

1:18.9

I thought I'd wait till now to tell you because that is what representative Marjorie

1:23.3

Taylor Green did.

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