Marjorie Taylor Greene
United States Representative from Georgia since 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene(born May 27, 1974) is an Americanfar-rightpolitician, businesswoman, andconspiracy theoristserving as aU.S. representativeforGeorgia's 14th congressional district.A member of theRepublican Partyand a supporter ofDonald Trump,Greene was elected to Congress in November 2020 and sworn into office on January 3, 2021.
Quotes
edit2017
edit- What is the quickest way to wind up dead when you aren't suicidal and don't have any health problems? InvestigateHillary Clintonof course.
- American Truth Seekers (defunct website deleted post, [September 15, 2017]), as cited in"House GOP candidate known for QAnon support was 'correspondent' for conspiracy website"NBC News(August 14, 2020). Precise date from article's linked archive save.
- A reference to the "Clinton Kill List"conspiracy theory.
- [In the original source, Greene refers to news stories on websites likeBreitbart] disturbing behavior that seems to keep raring it's ugly heads.Child Sex,Satanism,and theOccultall associated with theDemocratic Party.
- American Truth Seekers (deleted post, [September 15], 2017), as cited in"House GOP candidate known for QAnon support was 'correspondent' for conspiracy website"NBC News(August 14, 2020). Precise date from article's linked archive save.
- Shockingly, the website tells about information that was only whispered about and calledconspiracy theoriesby allmain stream [sic] news media.
- [Links to a post on a Seth Rich conspiracy website falsely claiming aDNCstaffer was the source forWikileaks.] Yet when you go to the website, it tells as ifSeth Richis speaking from the dead saying all the horrible things are true. ThatHillaryrigged the election againstBernie Sanders.ThatJohn Podestahad him [Rich] murdered. That John Podesta is a pedophile andpizza gate[sic] is real.
- American Truth Seekers (deleted post, [November 15,] 2017), cited in"GOP candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene spread conspiracies about Charlottesville and 'Pizzagate'"CNN Kfile(August 25, 2020). Precise date from article's linked archive save.
2018
edit- Recently, there has been a lot of chatter in small circles among those who search for the truth [...] There has been an anonymous voice, with obvious intelligence beyond the normal person telling of things to come. They call themselvesQ.Make no mistake, Q is a patriot.
- American Truth Seekers post (January [30], 2018, deleted), cited in"House GOP candidate known for QAnon support was 'correspondent' for conspiracy website"NBC News(August 14, 2020). Precise date from article's linked archive save.
- Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly orliberaljudgeswould let them off.
- Facebook entry (April 2018) as cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress"CNN Politics: KFile(January 26, 2021)
- In response to a query ( "Now do we get to hang them?? Meaning H & O???" ) on theIran Deal."H & O" is a reference toHillary Clintonand PresidentBarack Obama.Greene responded on Twitter to a CNN query about her posts: "Over the years, I’ve had teams of people manage my pages. Many posts have been liked. Many posts have been shared. Some did not represent my views. Especially the ones that CNN is about to spread across the internet."
- As there are now over 70 people confirmed dead and over 1,000 missing, the fires inCAare a horrific tragedy. I’m praying for all involved!
I’m posting this in speculation because there are too many coincidences to ignore, and just putting it out there from some research I’ve done stemming from my curiosity over PG&E stocks, which tanked all week then rallied Thursday night after CA official announced they would not let PG&E fail. I find it very interesting thatRoger Kimmelon the board of directors of PG&E is also Vice Chairman of Rothschild Inc,internationalinvestment bankingfirm. I also find interesting the long history of financial contributions that PG&E has made toJerry Brownover the years and millions spent inlobbying.What a coincidence it must be that Gov Brown signed a bill in Sept 2018, protecting PG&E and allowing PG&E to pass off its cost of fire responsibility to its customers in rate hikes, and through bonds. It also must be just a coincidence that the fires are burning in the same projected areas that the $77 billion Dollar High Speed Rail Project is to be built, which also happens to be Gov Brown’s pet project. And what are the odds thatFeinstein’s husband,Richard Blumis the contractor to the rail project! Geez with that much money, we could build 3 US southern border walls. Then oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked likelasers or blue beamsof light causing the fires, and pictures and videos. I don’t know anything about that but I do find it really curious PG&E’s partnership with Solaren on space solar generators starting in 2009. They announced the launch intospacein March 2018, and maybe even put them up before that Space solar generators collect the suns energy and then beam it back toEarthto a transmitter to convert toelectricity.The idea isclean energyto replacecoal and oil.If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? Alaser beam or light beamcoming down to Earth I guess. could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not!That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brownwho sure does seem fond of PG&E. Good thing for Solaren that Michael Peevey is on their board since he is former President of California Public Utilities Commission, California’s most powerful energy regulatory agency. Great connections right there!
Also I will say whoever was able to buy that PG&E stock at the bottom before that announcement was made when stocks rallied sure did well on their investment. I wonder how you get privy to that kind of info? You must have to know somebody right? Seems like there’s a lot of connected people in this crowd. And with these space solar generators, I really hope they have very good aim beaming the suns power down to Earth…
But what do I know? I just like to read a lot.
2019
edit- She’s a traitor to our country, she’s guilty oftreason.[...] She took an oath to protectAmerican citizensand uphold our laws. And she gives aid and comfort to our enemies who illegally invade our land. That’s what treason is. And byour law representatives and senatorscan be kicked out and no longer serve inour government.And it’s, uh, it’s acrime punishable by deathis what treason is.Nancy Pelosiis guilty of treason.
- Comments aboutNancy Pelosiin a video posted on Facebook in January 2019 promoting a White House petition to impeach the House Speaker, as cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress"CNN Politics: KFile(January 26, 2021)
- Do any of you remember a day when talking aboutassassinatingthePresidentresulted in getting arrested? As in arrested in real life, notFB [Facebook]jail. When was that? Pre-2016 I think, right??? But if you are aconservativethat's a different story!
- Facebook post (2019), as cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress"CNN Politics: KFile(January 26, 2021)
- Transdoes not meangenderchange, it just means a gender refusal and gender pretending! Truth istruth,it is not achoice!!!
- in a March 2019Facebookpost according to"Marjorie Taylor Greene: How an outspoken MAGA fan built a following in a world of extremists"Southern Poverty Law Center(August 16, 2019).
2020
edit- The most mistreated group of people in the United States today arewhitemales.
- Quoted byDaniel Strauss (September 18, 2020). "QAnon conspiracy theorist to feel warm embrace of Republicans in Congress".The Guardian.
2021
edit- How stupid they [Democrats] are. They don’t even realize they’re helping me. I’m pretty amazed at how dumb they are.
- "Interview: Marjorie Taylor Greene shrugs, Democrats 'are helping me'",Washington Examiner(February 3, 2021)
- I think Republicans need to get back to who they are, and they need to stop talking and actually doing. AndKevin McCarthyand all these leaders, the leadership, and everyone is proving that they are all talk and not about action, and they’re just all about doing business as usual inWashington.And so, what’s the difference between them and the Democrats? There isn’t a difference
- "Interview: Marjorie Taylor Greene shrugs, Democrats 'are helping me'",Washington Examiner(February 3, 2021).
- I'm fine with being kicked off of my committees because it'd be a waste of my time. So now I have a lot of free time on my hands.
- Quoted byMarisa Schultz (February 5, 2021)."Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's 'fine' being ousted from committees: 'It'd be a waste of my time'".FOX News.
- How muchtaxesand how much money did the people back in theIce Agespend to warm up the earth?
- Maybe perhaps we live on a ball that rotates around the sun, that flies through theuniverse,and maybe our climate just changes.
- From a speech at Town Hall in Murray County, Georgia (March 24, 2021) cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene calls AOC a ‘little girl’ during climate denial rant at town hall"The Independent(London, March 28, 2021)
- This woman [Nancy Pelosi] is mentally ill [...] You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so thatthey were put in trains and taken to gas chambersinNazi Germany,and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
- From an appearance onThe Water Cooler with David Brodypodcast, as cited in"'Evil lunacy': GOP lawmakers slam Marjorie Taylor Greene's mask comparison to Holocaust"NBC News(May 23, 2021)
- House Speaker Rep Pelosi had indicated masks should continue to be worn on the House floor following concerns Republican representatives may not have been vaccinated. The comment "evil lunacy" is from a Liz Cheney tweet condemning Greene's comments. The "gold star" is a reference to theYellow starJews were ordered to wear as a badge of shame in Nazi occupied Europe.
- No, I don't buy it because I don't believe inevolution.I don't believe in that type of so-called "science"[uses air quotes]. I don't believe in evolution, I believe inGod.
- In a podcast withSteve Bannon(June 2021) cited in"Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Say She Doesn’t Believe in Evolution?"Snopes(June 12, 2021)
- January 6was just a riot at the Capitol and if you think about what ourDeclaration of Independencesays, it says to overthrow tyrants.
- "Marjorie Taylor Greene is now trying to justify the January 6 riot",CNN,quoting from a podcast withSteve Bannon(October 27, 2021)
2022
edit- There is no doubt thatPutin'sactions in Ukraineare despicable and evil. We weep when we see images of men, women and children wounded or killed. [...] If we truly care about suffering and death on ourtelevisionscreens, we cannot fund more of it by sending money and weaponry toUkraineto fight a war they cannot possibly win.
- In a Facebook video (March 16, 2022), as cited in"A layer cake of misinformation, dishonesty and pro-Russia apologism"The Washington Post(March 17, 2022)
- You see, Ukraine just kept poking the bear, and poking the bear, which isRussia,and Russia invaded. [...] There is no win for Ukraine here. Russia is being successful in their invasion.
- On Voice of Rural America, as cited in"Pro-Putin Republicans break ranks by heaping praise on Kremlin"Financial Times(March 26, 2022)
- I only believe in peaceful demonstration. I do not supportviolence:We saw a tremendous amount ofvoter fraud
- Satan's controlling the church, the church is not doing its job.
- Just so we're clear, bishops, when I said 'controlled by Satan,' I wasn't talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.
- "Marjorie Taylor Greene Clarifies How 'Satan Is Controlling' Catholic Church"Newsweek(April 27, 2022)
- Democratswant Republicans dead. They've already started the killings.
- "Marjorie Taylor Greene deceptively tells Trump rally that Democrat 'killings' of Republicans have already started",Business Insider(October 2, 2022)
- UnderviolenceRepublicans,not another penny will go toUkraine
- I come to Washington, I swear in on January 3, I get accused of giving insurrection tours which I thought was hilarious because I couldn’t even find the bathroom in the Capitol.
- Then January 6 happens, and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing along withSteve Bannonhere. And I gotta tell you something: If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would have been armed. Yeah. See, that’s the whole joke isn’t it?
- They say that whole thing was planned and I'm like, "Are you kidding me?" A bunch of conservatives, Second Amendment supporters went in the Capitol without guns and they think we organized that? I don’t think so.
- Comments about theJanuary 6, 2021 Capitol attackat a New York Young Republican Club gala dinner on December 10, 2022, as quoted in"Greene again downplays Capitol riot and says it would have been armed if she led it"CNN Politics(December 12, 2022).
- The White House needs to learn how sarcasm works. My comments were making fun of Joe Biden and the Democrats, who have continuously made me a political target since January 6th.
- In response to official criticism from the White House to her December 10 comments, as quoted in"White House rebukes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for saying she would have 'won' on Jan. 6"NBC News(December 12, 2022).
2023
edit- We need anational divorce.We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.
- Tweetcited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Civil War"The Atlantic(February 21, 2023)
- The tweet was posted onPresidents' Day.
- The whole point that we're over there in Ukraine is ridiculous [...] We are paying for... a proxy war with Russia, when I've never seen Putin actually show in any detail his plans to invade Europe.
- OnReal America's Voice,as cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene says claims that Putin wants to extend invasion further into Europe are 'lies'"The Independent(16 March 2023).
- [On New York City] The streets are filthy, they’re covered with people basically dying on drugs. They can’t even stand up. They’re falling over. There’s so much crime in the city. I can’t comprehend how people live there.
- [After participating in the New York protests againstDonald Trump's indictmentin theStormy Daniels hush moneycase] You see, they didn't want me to be able to protest and use my first amendment right. And they wanted violence. I think they wanted that to happen, because they want to repeatJanuary 6all over again, want all of us Trump supporters, Maga, basically Republicans and just good Americans to look like criminals, and that's what they do in communist countries.
- OnTucker CarlsonTonight(April 5, 2023) cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene calls New York City disgusting, filthy and repulsive"The Guardian(April 6, 2023).
- Jake Teixeirais white, male, christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to theBiden regime.And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more.
Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?- Tweet, as cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene defends alleged Pentagon leaker as 'white, male, christian, and antiwar'"The Independent(April 14, 2023)
- Jack Teixeirawas an airman in theMassachusetts Air National Guardwho was arrested in April 2023 for his alleged violation of theEspionage Actby a release online of several hundred classifiedPentagondocuments.
- The members are reminded to abide by decorum of the House.
- Presiding in congress during a disruption, as cited in"Democrats erupt in laughter after Greene calls for decorum in House"The Hill(May 24, 2023)
- Following Greene's intervention, many Democrats starting laughing; Greene attempted to restore order.
2024
edit- [ToEmily Maitlis] Why don’t you go talk about Jewish space lasers. And really, why don’t you fuck off? How about that?
- "MTG Rages at U.K. Journo’s Jewish Space Laser Question: 'F*ck Off'",The Daily Beast(March 6, 2024)
- God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens.
- "Marjorie Taylor Greene's Solar Eclipse Post Gets Brutal Fact-Check",Newsweek(April 6, 2024)
- If you think gas prices are high now, just wait until you're forced to drive an electric vehicle.
- Spoken at a rally in Las Vegas, 2024-06-09.Olmsted, Edith (2024-06-10). "Does MTG Understand How Electric Vehicles Work?".The New Republic.ISSN2169-2416.,Fraunfelder, Mark (2024-06-10). "Fact-free Marjorie Taylor Greene peddles delusional fantasy about electric cars".BoingBoing.
- Yes they can control the weather. Anyone who says they don't, or makes fun of this, is lying to you. By the way, the people know it and hate all of you who try to cover it up.
- Claim a week after the destructiveHurricane Helenehit southeastern USA, without specifying whotheyare,posted to her X account(October 3, 2024), as cited in"Marjorie Taylor Greene Doubles Down on Weather Comments After Backlash",Newsweek(October 6, 2024)
About Taylor Greene
edit- Jimmy Carterrepresents all that is good and decent in public life. And Marjorie Taylor Greene represents all that is sinister and despicable in public life.
- Jonathan Alter,as quoted in"The Peach State plummet, from Carter to MTG"Salt Lake Tribune(February 28, 2023)
- I miss Scott terribly, and Feb. 14 is a really hard day. So, you know what? I do say to Marjorie Taylor Greene... find your conscience. You're a mother, man up or woman up, whatever you want to say, and tell the truth.
- Mother ofParkland teacherScott Beigein"Parkland victim's mother urged Rep. Greene to stop saying shootings were faked"The Hill(February 1, 2021)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene is the QAnon congresswoman, a far-right influencer and gun fanatic who dabbles in anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bigotry. She endorsed violence against congressional leaders, claimed that the Parkland and Sandy Hook shootings were faked and once shared an anti-refugee video in which a Holocaust denier says that “Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation”...Although it is tempting to make this episode another parable exemplifying the “Trumpification” of the Republican Party, it’s better understood as yet another chapter in an ongoing story: the two-step between the far right and the Republican Party and the degree to which the former is never actually that far from the latter...Extremism has always had a place in mainstream conservative politics, and this is especially true at the grass-roots level. What’s distinctive right now isn’t the fact that someone like Greene exists but that no one has emerged to play the role of Buckley. A longtime Republican leader like Mitch McConnell can try — he denounced Greene’s “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer” on the party — but after he served four years as an ally to Donald Trump, his words aren’t worth much.
- Jamelle BouieArticle(2021)
- From my perspective, I think Marjorie Taylor Greene has demonstrated time and time again that she’s not fit to hold public office with some of her commentary that she has made, even previously.
- And so, therefore, I believe she should not be involved in any type of sensitive, classified information. And she does have some clearances because of her role within the Congress and position onthe committee.
- John Brennanin a MSNBC interview cited in"Former CIA chief says Greene 'not fit to hold public office'"The Hill(April 15, 2023)
- Following the arrest of Jack Teixeira, the alleged online leaker of hundreds of classified documents.
- The January 6 insurrection was an attempt to violently overthrow the government and overturn the results ofa free and fair American election.Close to 1,000 of the participants have since been indicted, and many have been convicted of serious crimes. Four people died that day, and five officers died in the days and weeks that followed, while more than 100law enforcementofficers were injured. Members of Congress — Greene’s colleagues — wound up running for their lives, hiding from the mobbing criminals who broke into the Capitol and explicitly threatened the lives of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Vice PresidentMike Pence.It’s time for Greene to go.Removing a member of Congress from office is not a decision that a party should take lightly. She was, after all, duly elected by her constituents. But a requirement of serving in elected office is defending theConstitution of the United States.In a few weeks, Greene will even lay her hand on a Bible and pledge to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same." How can she truly swear that oath when she is cheering on domestic enemies?
- Jill Filipovic"It’s time for Marjorie Taylor Greene to go"CNN(December 12, 2022)
- Greene's comments are among the mostanti-Americanever uttered by an elected official in my lifetime. They are nothing less than someone happy to foment insurrection and undermine this country’s most basic democratic traditions in an effort to install the losing candidate just because she shares hisideology.They are the words of a woman who will, on January 3, be lying when she places her hand on a Bible and swears that she is loyal to the Constitution. If the Republican Party has any shred of dignity left, and any vanishing claim to patriotism and devotion to the United States, it needs to act and make Greene the pariah any enemy of the state should be.
- Jill Filipovic"It’s time for Marjorie Taylor Greene to go"CNN(December 12, 2022)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene’s selfishness and narcissism is part of what is screwing over the Republican Party. And while it may be good for her, in a way, she is such an embodiment of their core values that they are trying to distract the public from.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezinterview(June 6, 2024)
- Assigning her to the Education Committee when she has mocked the killing of little children atSandy Hook Elementary School,when she has mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the Marjory Stoneman.
- Nancy Pelosiaccording to"Chorus of Condemnation Grows for New Congresswoman Seen Badgering Parkland Shooting Survivor"People(January 29, 2021)
- [Reps.] Marjorie Taylor Greene and[Paul] Gosar,I don’t know them. But I’m reminded of the old line fromButch Cassidywhere one character says, ‘Morons, I have morons on my team.’ I think anybody who would sit down withwhite nationalistsat their conference is missing a fewIQpoints.
- Mitt Romney,"'I Have Morons on My Team': Romney Takes on Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene Over White Nationalist Ties",Rolling Stone(February 27, 2022 11:46AM ET)
- Future republican star.
- Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!
- Tweet (August 12, 2020) from PresidentDonald Trump,as quotedCamila Domonoske (August 12, 2020). "QAnon Supporter Who Made Bigoted Videos Wins Ga. Primary, Likely Heading To Congress".NPR.
- Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors ofthe Holocaustwith wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling.
- Kevin McCarthy,"Statement from House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy"Kevin McCarthy Republican LeaderHouse of Representatives website (May 25, 2021)
- [T]he leaders of this insurrection, of whom there were a number, were among us on Facebook, on Twitter, on corners of social media that would make your stomach hurt. The evidence will show that Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of them.
- Ron Fein, a lawyer for the challengers"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene testifies she doesn't remember her actions leading up to January 6"CNN(April 22, 2022).
- Wouldn’t she be great?
- Donald Trumpquoted in"Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration"Rolling Stone(October 17, 2022).
- Reputedly said privately to an associate.
- If you’re going to be in a fight, you want Marjorie in your foxhole [...] When she picks a fight, she’s going to fight until the fight’s over. She reminds me of my friends from high school, that we’re going to stick together all the way through.
- Kevin McCarthyinterviewed for an article by Jonathan Swan and Catie Edmondson"How Kevin McCarthy Forged an Ironclad Bond With Marjorie Taylor Greene"The New York Times(January 24, 2023)
- [On Greene's tweet advocating a "national divorce".] Our country is governed by the Constitution [...] You swore an oath to support and defend theConstitution.Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.
- TweetfromLiz Cheney(February 20, 2023), cited in Summer Concepcion"Liz Cheney blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene's call for a ‘national divorce’ between liberal and conservative states"NBC News(February 22, 2023)