Evil
A video of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) confronting David Hogg, a gun control activist and Parkland shooting survivor, years ago surfaced online Wednesday, fueling a new wave of outrage over the Georgia Republican’s history of questioning a dark chapter in Florida that left 17 dead.
Greene, in the video, which was apparently filmed just weeks after the 2018 Parkland shooting, calls Hogg a “coward” because he walks away from her, and complains Hogg was able to meet with senators. “He had 30 appointments where he went around and got to talk to senators. I got to talk to none,” Greene said, adding “Guess what? I’m a gun owner. I’m an American citizen. And I have nothing. But this guy with his George Soros funding and his major liberal funding has got everything.”
And now she does get to talk to senators, because she is a representative, with a history of enthusiasm for talk about “executing” Democrats.
Guttenberg has been confronting the freshman lawmaker online for the past week, after social media posts surfaced from two years ago show Greene siding with conspiracy theories that the Parkland shooting was staged. He has vowed to eventually to meet Greene face-to-face so he can show her proof that his 14-year-old daughter Jaime was gunned down. The congresswoman has already become a political lightning rod for embracing the QAnon conspiracy theory and for a long string of racist comments before she was elected in a conservative district in November.
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The unearthing of Greene’s past comments has already caused a firestorm for Republicans from Democrats and their allies. A super PAC targeting Sen. Marco Rubio — “Retire Rubio” — questioned why the senator wasn’t condemning Greene’s “harassment” of Hogg.
She’s really appalling. She should be out of there.
Because she won’t do her damn job, because she’s there to trash everything.
Back to Politico:
When asked for comment about Greene’s video, her office pointed to a statement the Georgia representative put out last week on Twitter where she called “gun-free zones” a failure and blamed the Parkland shooting on school resource officer Scot Peterson. While the shooting was going on, Peterson took cover and retreated, according to the state commission set up in the aftermath to investigate the event.
Yes, every school should have at least ten cops present at all times ready to join a shoot-out. That’s how this should work.
If only that resource officer (whatever that is) had been Rambo Van Daminator armed with a dozen guns, none of this would have happened!
I hate how they make the officers actions out to be wrong.
He had a fear for his own life and safety. Would it have been better if he had acted and stopped the shooting? Sure – but he might as well have been shot!
We can’t both celebrate people who put themselves in harms way as heroes, and at the same time villify people who do not put their lifes at risk. Either it’s exceptional to risk your life, or it’s whats expected of you – it can’t be both.
I saw today that a motion has been filed to oust her. Good.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/gomez-oust-marjorie-taylor-greene-463350
Today’s Republican leadership is reminiscent of the old guard conservatives in Germany in 1933, who thought they could control Hitler. After four years of Trump, they still haven’t learned.