Commentary: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Out There Where The Trains Don’t Run
By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS—Embattled U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, has an interesting collection of face masks.
Many of them, of course, just tout her political allegiances. She has an array of them that proclaim her devotion to the twice-impeached former divider-in-chief, President Donald Trump.
But those aren’t the truly intriguing ones.
Greene also has at least one mask that says, “Censored.â€
She also has another that says, “Free Speech.â€
The implication is that her ability to express herself somehow has been suppressed. That she somehow has been shut up, ground down into the dirt by the harsh, hard boots of oppression.
Good lord, where do we find these people?
The truth is that, until last year, most of the relatively few people who had heard of Marjorie Taylor Greene lived, to use my late grandfather’s apt and elegant phrase, “out there where the trains don’t run.†She existed in that sealed space where deluded people breathe the same air and recycle the same dark fantasies over and over until they are completely detached from both reality and sense.
But then she won a primary in a heavily Republican district—thank you once again, gerrymandering, for corrupting the process and mortifying the nation—and she found herself on the path to Congress.
Now, much of America has been exposed to the stimulating nature of her thought, such as it is. She has a larger audience and a bigger platform than she’s ever had in her life.
It’s a platform she has used.
We have learned from her that the wildfires in California can be explained not by circumstances of wind, aridity and other weather conditions but instead are a product of Jewish space lasers.
We also have been instructed that the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. by plane crash was not a case of a relatively inexperienced pilot trying to fly in conditions more dangerous than he realized but instead was a murder perpetrated by the Clintons.
And we have been told that the school shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland were fictions, made up just so dark forces could seize the guns of good and righteous Americans. Greene felt so strongly that this was the case that she hounded and harassed David Hogg, a young man who survived the Parkland shooting and still mourns the loss of friends and schoolmates.
She also has endorsed on social media the idea of assassinating former President Barack Obama and some members of the same Congress in which she now serves.
What a sweetheart Marjorie Taylor Greene is.
Her contention is that she is being censored because some people—well, actually, many, many, many people, the ones living and operating in the realm of sanity and reason—do not agree with what she has said and done.
In fact, they object in the most forceful terms.
This wounds Marjorie Taylor Greene to her core. Like so many self-proclaimed freedom fighters on the far right, she seems to think that liberty is a matter of her being able to say whatever crazy or mean-spirited thought pops into her angry head.
And that no one ever should be allowed to disagree with her.
If anyone calls her on her whacky notions or spitting nastiness, that person is guilty of being “politically correct.â€
Or of censoring her.
She’s allowed to scream whatever garbage she wants, but the people who disagree with her … well, not so much. They’re just supposed to swallow whatever swill she dishes up, no matter how foul the taste.
What nonsense.
The truth is that the system is working the way it is supposed to.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has had an opportunity to advance her peculiar and noxious ideas. Most Americans have not been persuaded of the wisdom of her thought. In fact, they have rejected her arguments in no uncertain terms.
And the House of Representatives, absent any leadership from the Republican caucus, has decided by majority vote that a person who lives in a fact-free zone and advocates for shooting co-workers shouldn’t be entrusted with responsibility.
In other words, Marjorie Taylor Green made her case.
She lost.
That’s not censorship.
That’s the way free speech works.
The fact that it worked this time is the real reason Marjorie Taylor Greene is so upset.
FOOTNOTE; John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
The City-County Observer posted this article without bias or editing.
Comrade Krull’s goal must be to be a left wing talking head on MSNBC. Listen to or read below the transcript of Rep. Greene’s speech and then decide if you agree with Comrade Krull and his buddies in the left wing media mob.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (00:00)
Madam speaker, my Democrat colleagues, Republican colleagues, my district back home and Georgia 14, to the American people, to my mom and dad and my husband and my children. I’ve been here for one month and a day and I’ve gotten to know part of my conference, my Republican colleagues, but not even all of them yet. I haven’t gotten to know any of my Democrat colleagues and I haven’t had to had have any conversations with any of you to tell you who I am and what I’m about. You only know me by how media matters, CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the mainstream media is portraying me. What you don’t know about me is that I’m a very proud wife of almost 25 years, that I’m a mother of three children and I consider being a mother the greatest blessing of my life and the greatest thing that I’ll ever achieve. I’m proudly the first person to graduate college in my family, making my parents very happy and proud.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (01:06)
I’m also a very successful business owner. We’ve grown our company from one State to 11 States. I’m a very hard worker. I’ve always paid my taxes. I’ve never been arrested. I’ve never done drugs, but I’ve gotten a few speeding tickets in my day. What you need to know about me is I’m a very regular American, just like the people I represent in my district. And most people across the country, I never, ever considered to run for Congress or even get involved in politics. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t a political person until I found a candidate that I really liked and his name is Donald J. Trump when he ran for President. To me, he was someone I could relate to, someone that I enjoyed his plain talk, not the offensive things, but just the way he talked normally. And I thought, “Finally, maybe this is someone that will do something about the things that deeply bother me.â€
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (02:06)
Like the fact that we’re so deeply in debt, that our country has murdered over 62 million people in the womb. The fact that our borders are open and some of my friends have had their children murdered by illegal aliens, or perhaps that maybe we can stop sending our sons and daughters to fight in foreign Wars and be used as the world’s police basically. Or maybe that our government would stand up for our American businesses and our American jobs and make the American people and the American taxpayers, their focus. These are the things that I care about deeply. So when we elected President Trump, and then I started seeing things in the news that didn’t make sense to me like Russian collusion, which are conspiracy theories also, and have been proven so, these things bothered me deeply, and I realized just watching CNN or Fox news, I may not find the truth.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (03:07)
And so, what I did is I started looking up things on the internet, asking questions, like most people do every day, use Google. And I stumbled across something and this was at the end of 2017 called Anon. Well, these posts were mainly about this Russian collusion information. A lot of it was some of what I would see on the news at night and I got very interested in it, so I posted about it on Facebook. I read about it, I talked about it. I asked questions about it, and then more information came from it. But you see, here’s the problem, throughout 2018, because I was upset about things and didn’t trust the government, really because the people here weren’t doing the things that I thought they should be doing for us, the things that I just told you I cared about. And I want you to know a lot of Americans don’t trust our government and that’s sad.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (04:03)
The problem with that is though is I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them. And that is absolutely what I regret, because if it weren’t for the Facebook posts and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn’t be standing here today and you couldn’t point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong because I’ve lived a very good life that I’m proud of. My family’s proud of, my husband’s proud of, my children are proud of and my that’s what my district elected me for. So later in 2018, when I started finding misinformation, lies, things that were not true in these Qanon posts, I stopped believing it. And I want to tell you, any source, and I say this to everyone, any source of information that is a mix of truth and a mix of lies is dangerous no matter what it is saying, what party it is helping, anything or any country it’s about, it’s dangerous.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (05:05)
And these are the things that happen on the left and the right and it is a true problem in our country. So I walked away from those things and I decided I’m going to do what I’ve done all my life, I’m going to work hard and try to solve the problems that I’m upset about. So I started getting involved in politics. You see, school shootings are absolutely real. And every child that has lost those families mourn it. I understand how terrible it is because when I was 16 years old in 11th grade, my school was a gun free school zone. And one of my school mates brought guns to school and took our entire school hostage and that happened right down the hall from my classroom. I know the fear that David Hogg had that day, I know the fear that these kids have, and this is why and I say this sincerely with all my heart, because I love our kids, every single one of your children, all of our children.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (06:04)
I truly believe that children at school should never be left unprotected. I believe they should be just as protected as we were with 30,000 national guardsmen. Our children are our future and they’re our most precious resource. I also want to tell you, 9/11 absolutely happened. I remember that day, crying all day long and watching it on the news and it’s a tragedy for anyone to say it didn’t happen. And so, that I definitely want to tell you, I do not believe that it’s fake. I also want to tell you that we’ve got to do better. You see, big media companies can take teeny tiny pieces of words that I’ve said, that you have said, any of us and can portray us and to someone that we’re not, and that is wrong. Cancel culture is a real thing. It is very real. And when big tech companies like Twitter, you can scroll through and see where someone may have retweeted porn. This is a problem.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (07:09)
This is a terrible, terrible thing. But yet when I say that I absolutely believe with all my heart that God’s creation is he created them male and female and that should not be denied, when I am censored for saying those types of things that is wrong. You see, here’s the real situation. I decided to run for Congress because I wanted to help our country, I want Americans to have our American dream. I want to protect our freedoms. This is what I ran for Congress on. I never once said during my entire campaign, QAnon. I never once said any of the things that I am being accused of today during my campaign. I never said any of these things since I have been elected for Congress. These were words of the past and these things do not represent me. They do not represent my district and they do not represent my values.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (08:09)
Here’s what I can tell you. I am beyond grateful for this opportunity and I’ll tell you why. I believe in God with all my heart and I’m so grateful to be humbled, to be reminded that I’m a sinner and that Jesus died on the cross to forgive me for my sins. And this is something that I absolutely rejoice in today to tell you all and I think it’s important for all of us to remember none of us are perfect, none of us are. And none of us can even come close to earning our way into heaven just by our acts and our works but it’s only through the grace of God. And this is why I will tell you as a member of this Congress, the 117th Congress, I am a passionate, I’m a competitor, I’m a fighter. I will work with you for good things for the people of this country but the things I will not stand for is abortion. I think it’s the worst thing this country has ever committed.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: (09:11)
And if we’re to say in God we trust, how do we murder God’s creation in the womb? Another thing I will say to this body is I want to work with all of you for our people. It should be America first, always, always and there’s nothing wrong with that. And if this Congress is to tolerate members that condone riots that have hurt American people, attack police officers, occupied federal property, burned businesses and cities, but yet wants to condemn me and crucify me in the public square for words that I said, and I regret a few years ago, then I think we’re in a real big problem, a very big problem. What shall we do as Americans? Shall we stay divided like this? We allow the media that is just as guilty as QAnon of presenting truth and lies to divide us? Will we allow ourselves to be addicted to hate and hating one another? I hope not because that’s not the future I want for my children and it’s not the future I want for any of your children. I yield back my time. Thank you.
Krull is left of AOC and Bernie
Great commentary!
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a QAnon Cult Kook.
Q is a disproven and discredited far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotted against former U.S. president Donald Trump while he was in office.
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