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Marjorie Taylor Greene excuses her comment about “Jewish space lasers” in a very Marjorie Taylor Greene way
Since taking office earlier this year, Georgia Republican Republic Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon conspiracy theorist, has been denounced for making a series of blatant racist and transphobic comments. Greene’s old Facebook posts showed his glorification of violence against Democratic politicians, supporting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and exhibiting disturbing thoughts about school shootings. In a post, in which New York magazine reported earlier this year, Greene suggested that the 2018 forest fires in California were started by space lasers controlled by bank firm Rothschild, rather than something more likely as climate change. The claim is rooted in a long history of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family, Vox reported. After NYMag writer Jonathan Chait described Greene’s theory of what he called “Jewish space lasers,” it wasn’t long before the term started to become a trend on Twitter. Now, Greene is ignoring these comments – but she is not taking responsibility for them. Instead, she is blaming the extreme right’s favorite bogeyman, the “radical left.” “This is the story that some left-wing ‘journalist’ – in fact, he is an activist – wrote a successful article about me and entitled ‘Jewish space lasers,'” Greene told TV Newsmax. “You know, the left-wing media, they just repeat the same lies over and over and call me anti-Semitic and say I said something like Jewish space lasers, and never did.” Greene told Ami Magazine, which serves the Orthodox Jewish community, that she did not know that the Rothschilds were Jews until recently – they may well have been non-Jews who started forest fires with space lasers, according to the congresswoman. She added, “It really hurts to be called ‘anti-Semitic’ or ‘racist’. No one has ever called me that before in my life, until the left media decided to attack me. ”Despite his attempts to appear otherwise, Greene is no less extreme than he was when he took office. This week, Greene voted against the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. To explain her vote, she made a transphobic argument on Twitter, writing that the project would be a violation of “the rights of girls and women by destroying God’s creation, male and female”. His office told CNBC on Friday morning that Twitter has suspended its account as a result. Meanwhile, House Democrats are moving to expel her from Congress for defending “violence against our peers, the House Speaker and our government,” said California Democratic Representative Jimmy Gomez, who presented the resolution on Friday. market. In February, the US House voted to remove it from its committee assignments because of statements that support conspiracy theories and advocate violence against other members of Congress. Like what you’re seeing? How about a little more kindness R29, right here? Marjorie Taylor Greene turned off a transphobic signalBiden is being a police officer over his staff Weed UseMan trapped outside Kamala Harris’ home