It's hard to overstate MTG's threat to America | The Mehdi Hasan Show

What can I say about Q Anon that hasn't been said before for years? We've dealt with this strange web of false conspiracy theories and fantasies of bloody conquest spread by Donald Trump's most deluded fans, but have you heard of Frazzle Drip, that's the name? what Q Anon Believers have for a video that doesn't exist according to the anti-defamation league frazzled rip is a rumored quote is a dark web snuff film

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ing Hillary Clinton and her former aide Homer Aberdeen sexually assaulting and murdering a young woman drinking blood and taking tours using the skin of his face as a mask, the ADL reports that exhausted drip devotees believed the video was found on former Congressman Anthony Weiner's laptop and that police officers who saw the video they were so horrified that they were driven away. a Suicide, all the fake, deranged nonsense, there's no video, this didn't happen, it's just the most grizzled and possibly silliest of the pro-Trump Q Anon theories that paint Democrats as children slaughtering cannibals, but that's not stopped the trickle from spreading online like in May 2018.

When a Georgia woman posted a photo on her Facebook page of Trump with a police detective who was later killed in the line of duty, a friend responded: "This is the mother of the NYPD officer who watched a horrible video seized on Anthony Weiner's laptop of Homer and Hillary filleting a child's face, this was another Hillary hit, let me stop here, the officer in the photo The original was shot and killed in the Bronx in 2017. She didn't die by suicide, but that fact didn't stop the original poster on Facebook from liking her exhausted drip conspiracy theory commenters and adding a quote to it, yes, Family, she added.

Sometimes I say I post to see who knows things, most of the time people don't. I'm glad to see your comment. I've decided it's time to start. making a lot more videos and getting more involved in the fight, most people honestly don't know that much about the misinformation from the mainstream media. The war has been won for too long, why am I telling you about a conversation between apparently exhausted believers on a random Facebook page from 2018 because of who the original poster was, which was future Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green? Are you surprised that Green has endorsed some of the most extreme, ridiculous, and dangerous conspiracies created in the world of Q Anon, a world he has distanced himself from but never denounced?

You probably won't be surprised and that's the problem because at this point she is now the face of the modern Republican Party and she's everywhere, she's back on Twitter thanks to CEO and alt-right friend Elon Musk and this conspiracy theorist is also back. influential committees in the House, including the Oversight and Homeland Security Committees, thanks to what the New York Times recently called her ironclad bond with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whom, let's not forget, she helped get into office. mallet. I will never leave that woman that the times quoted. McCarthy is privately telling a friend about the green quote I will always look out for her underneath it all there are years of crazy and incredibly racist conspiracy theories

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s chaos ignorance see the political and media cultures in this country have never had to deal with a figure like Marjorie Taylor green before, when it comes to someone with so much influence on Capitol Hill, we are simply not equipped to cover this level of insanity and extremism without making it seem like a normal element of our politics.

This is a woman whose run for Congress in 2019 was first announced in the Atlanta Journal Constitution with the head of the company, the owner enters the Republican race for six districts, would commit to cutting spending and today we have not improved a lot, we have not been able to cover it adequately in just the last year, Associated Press. has called Green cites defiant just one cites Congresswoman Firebrand who had a turbulent first term elsewhere, the AP has reported that cites Green had espoused a number of conspiracy theories before winning the election in 2020, which, although she was also once cited as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric, but what extremist rhetoric they don't say, look, it's not the fault of any media.

MTG, as it is known, has taken Steve Bannon's old advice of flooding the Zone with you know excrement to a completely different level in In fact, it was exactly two years ago that I tried to list as many of his strange beliefs and statements as possible possible in 60 seconds. It was not possible. Then it's even more difficult. Now no one, no one, can summarize his madness, his ignorance, and his danger to the United States. A single paragraph cannot summarize the influence he now has among Republican voters in a neat sentence, so much dirt has been buried under his recent success that there is a danger of being forgotten, so today we want to take the time to remind you with great and gory details about who Marjorie Taylor Green is from start to finish and remind you why she's important, why she's sad, frustrating, and strangely important.

Let's go back to 2020 because that's when she first burst onto the scene almost out of nowhere, it hasn't even been three years. I'm running to stop gun control open borders New Deal green socialism who was a candidate Marjorie Taylor ran green for Congress for the first time before she was a little-known CrossFit instructor and owner of a multimillion-dollar construction business that her father founded with almost no social media presence until 2017. When Donald J. Trump became president that year, he became a correspondent for American Truth Seekers, a conspiracy website where he wrote dozens of articles suggesting things like Hillary Clinton was a murderer and that the mass shootings were fake.

Banderas perpetrated through weapons hoarding. leftists in 2018 she was live streaming the craziest conspiracy theories: They want to kill you if you're not Muslim, that happened during Barack Obama's presidency, yes I think he's Muslim and yes, Valerie Jarrett is basically for MS-13 . as if they were the kind of Obama administration henchmen who did much of the dirty work. Seth Rich Seth Rich was murdered by two members of the MS-13 gang. I'm not going to dive into the 911 conspiracy and the so-called airplane. that crashed into the Pentagon it is strange that no evidence of a plane in the Pentagon has ever been

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n Muslim Obama got MS-13 to assassinate Seth Ridge who the following year ran green for Congress looking for a district and finally decided for an open red seat in Georgia's No. 14, this populist working-class tribune loaned her campaign nearly $1 million, including $450,000 she gave herself after her company obtained a PPP loan from six figures during the pandemic, a point highlighted by his Republican primary opponent, neurosurgeon John Cowan. on the campaign trail and even when she edged out Cowan in the GOP primary runoff, more crazy, hateful videos continued to surface.

There is an Islamic invasion in our government offices right now. Sorry, anyone who is Muslim and believes in Sharia law does not. They belong in our government Black and Hispanic men, want to know what's stopping them? gangs the gangs are holding them back they are not the whites they are not the whites green campaigned especially

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against the non-white squad of the democratic party she published a campaign of her wielding an AR-15 alongside the women of the team and encouraging her followers to act in offensive quotes, sorry, against these socialists. It's worth remembering at this point that many in the Republican establishment didn't want the Greens to win major Republican deals, they wouldn't.

Give her Georgia Republican pundit Eric Erickson called her crazy and the GOP is number two in the chamber Steve Scalise backs his opponent Cowan by calling Green's comments disgusting Kevin McCarthy said he didn't condone them but conveyed that he conveniently remained neutral in that primary race which would be useful in the future, but even back then Green had a key ally, even when other Trump-loving Republicans wanted to turn the page on Green, the sitting president backed her and even invited her to be candidate for the first time with a disturbing extreme hatred. She filled her views as an RNC guest despite the objections of many in her party.

Think about that in August 2020, Marjorie Taylor Green even sitting in an RNC hearing was controversial, she was an unwelcome presence, but that would quickly change the normalization was beginning by On Election Day, her Democratic opponent had abandoned the race and Marjorie Taylor Green became the first pro-frazzle drip congresswoman-elect in American history, which is bad enough as a sinister racist conspiracy on her way to Congress, but even before she took office, she was looking to increase your power and that of Donald Trump today I will oppose a stolen election, we cannot allow this to happen, this was MTG on January 6, 2020 provoking one of its first acts in Congress voting against the certification of the elections 2020, yes, the same election that sent her to Congress, but work on that front began long before she was sworn in.

She was instrumental in spreading the big lie and helping Trump's team in the run-up to the capital's insurrection. I know for a fact that there was so much wrong in that election and I believe it was stolen. I know how? No, I don't know how well she was in the meetings where Trump came up with some of those houses, specifically in three White House meetings on December 21, 2020, including one with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, Why have a back-and-forth over planning and strategy for January 6? Organizing Congressman Mo Brooks told Politico that the meeting included 10 Republican members of Congress and Marjorie Taylor Green, who was still just a small business and crossfitter waiting to be sworn in, is she doing there and why is she saying this on 5 January 2021?

This is our moment from 1776. Was it really? If so, why after the January 6 violence did Green supposedly apologize to Trump? with five other House Republicans as former aide Cassidy Hutchinson said she heard something green or nice and why, according to messages reviewed by CNN, she texted Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows on the 17th January 2021 after the insurrection that Republican House members told him about. the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for martial law, not Marshals the clothing store, but Marshall m-i-r-t-i-a-l, as it is spelled correctly, as in military government, that is what this woman was who had not yet lent sworn in as a member of Congress. seeming to endorse with her misspelled text in that dangerous moment for American democracy because of the way misspelled Marshall is part of who is green, humiliates herself again and again publicly, whether on purpose to serve some populist narrative false, I can't tell you, but from martial law, to calling in the Nazi gestapo, the gazpacho police, to thinking that a petri dish was a peach tree dish, to when he visited a civil war monument to pay tribute to the traitor Confederate soldiers not realizing that the monument was dedicated to Union soldiers. at least expect a

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core conspiracy theorist to know how to pronounce cabal.

There is a once in a lifetime opportunity to take down this global cable of Satan worshiping pedophiles. It's easy to laugh at Green, but the fact that she says and does idiotic things should. She does not distract us from the danger she represents to our democracy with her endless conspiracies, false accusations, hate-filled rants and open intolerance. Post on January 6, her swearing-in people began to notice that even in a House of Representatives, the cork is full of green far-right figures. seems to be in her own extremist league, that's when we first heard about Jewish space lasers, namely her 2018 claims that the California wildfires were caused by a space laser that she claims was connected to the Rothschild family and that the Clintons murdered.

JFK Jr and that the Democrats used the Dhaka program for human trafficking, pedophilia and organ harvesting. We also learned that she had liked posts calling for the execution of Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, before joining Congress, something she blamed on her social media team. Let's pause again for a moment before 2021, how many members of Congress had heard of the republic's warning that the leader of the opposing party was not normal, something she should have been able to get away with? Old videos also resurfaced showing agreen private citizen stalking AOC and Maxine. Waters walks the halls of Congress in another video, chasing Democrats ilhan Oman Rashida to let both Muslims with a Bible we are going to explain to them how you can't swear on Koreans and we are going to have the Bible and ask I would ask them if they would swear about the Bible and would even chase Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg in the street, calling him a coward and suggesting the shooting was a false flag, something he also said about the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip in 2017 that left 60 people dead. .

It's always a false flag, as Democrats moved to remove Green from committee assignments at the time and some even suggested removing her from office. She began to publicly push back on some of the craziness. A small part. I am a very normal American. I was allowed. to believe things that weren't true, you see that school shootings are absolutely real. I also want to tell you that 911 absolutely happened. What's worse than a member of Congress 20 years after 9/11 having to say that he believes it happened or that he can't stand it? responsibility for not believing it happened I was allowed to believe that the things allowed still survived, he lost his committee seats but was able to maintain his high-profile platform as a congressman and in the two years since then the Republican Party has moved further and further in a disturbingly green far-right leadership I am a Christian nationalist.

I have nothing to be ashamed of because that's what most Americans are. We are proud of our faith that will make America great again when we stand on biblical principles. Is there anything wrong with loving God and loving others? What does this Christian who loves others look like? How does he feel, for example, for lgbtq people when he stops them while pedophiles label a gay legislator? A hairdresser falsely claims a school shooter was trans. quote normalizing transgender people in children is child abuse falsely says gay sex orgies are to blame for monkeypox and tells a crowd this about the most prominent gay man in the president's cabinet and you know what Pete Bootage he can take his electric vehicles and his bikes and he and his husband can stay out of our girls bathrooms really disgusting how do mtg christian nationalist love parents feel towards jews when he calls out george soros and quotes the nazi himself trying of continuing what was not finished or when you compare masking in a pandemic with yellow stars?

Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust and then issues an apology from Tert, but only after stating that quote, any rational Jewish person must agree with her, how does her love for others feel to Muslims who Have you heard them called invaders and falsely claiming that your party is democratic? his colleague Ilhan Omar is trying to impose Islam on the world. Who heard Green Level make this damn false accusation against his colleagues? These were terrorist-supporting members of Congress, and how should we non-whites feel when Marjorie Taylor Green was accused of involvement in launching an America First caucus in Congress aimed at protecting Anglo political traditions from the 2021 plan? was thankfully sunk, but do you remember even hearing about it from your critics, who say you're busy holding rallies and tweeting instead of legislating the congresswoman?

Green could point to a whopping 31 articles she sponsored in the house, some big stuff, like five bills to impeach Biden, one to impeach Merrick Garland, two to attack Maxine Waters, one to fight Anthony Fauci, one to eliminate the ATF, one to give him a gold medal. Carl Rittenhouse, yes Rittenhouse, one for banning lgbtq flags in the three undercover vaccines attacking the US embassy and another praising the University of Georgia, his alma mater, for winning a national football championship , and the rest have titles like the Protecting Mothers and Babies from Terrorism Act, actually, and none of them.

Although you'll be surprised to hear them. To be fair, he managed two minor language revisions in a GOP energy bill last week. Baby steps, look, it's hard to fit a lot of legislation into the day when you're busy weaving dangerous conspiracies. theories about the covert pandemic and climate change while comparing Anthony Fauci to a Nazi eugenicist and attacking scientists, teachers, public officials and reporters simply for doing their jobs, there have been so many crude and crazy outbursts, especially the election lies, the hidden lies, the immigration lies and us. I have seen people in the US carry out violence in the name of Lies like those Green spreads, how much responsibility does she have for them?

I don't know, but I do know that Marjorie Taylor Green said this just three years ago in a clip that isn't aired enough in the media and isn't talked about enough once it's gone. Freedom doesn't come back on its own. way to regain your freedoms is to win them with the price of blood the price of blood and just before in the elections last November she told this incredible lie: I am not going to win huge words with you all the Democrats want the Republicans to die and The murders have already begun. She is not going to say minutes of words, but she is going to lie to them all.

I just moved on from that outburst. I have never heard any senior Republican asked to explain that the disgusting and dangerous mayor you just heard from Green, the Democrats have started killing Republicans, which only incites fear, violence and paranoia on their side, and then This happened a month after the election when she joked about how the Insurrection could have worked with her in charge to mention that they would have been armed. nothing about self-described Christian nationalist Marjorie Taylor Green's time in the public. his own leadership of the party was just a year ago Green spoke at a white nationalist summit held over the Holocaust denying podcaster Nick Fuentes at the time Kevin McCarthy had strong words for his quote there is no place in our party for any of this the party should not be You are associated on Anytime Anyplace with someone who is anti-Semitic, this is unacceptable. 11 months later, she won reelection with 70 of the votes; she sits on several influential congressional committees;

In fact, the country's loudest undercover conspiracy theorist is now on the panel that will lead the GOP investigations into the pandemic. On Monday, she did a victory dance on Twitter. This week we are eliminating authoritarian Democrat policies and officially declaring that greed is over and where is Kevin McCarthy, the man who less than a year ago? He said the party should not be associated anytime, anywhere with the kind of hatred that the Greens associate with the man who needed 14 votes and ultimately the support of the Greens to finally reach the speaker's rostrum now. he says she's just asking questions, she compared mask requirements to the type of abuse jews were subjected to during the holocaust, she called for fauci to be arrested and imprisoned and spread conspiracy theories, how is anyone supposed Should you take that job seriously and find out that we are credible? all the questions out there, I think Americans think they're legitimate questions.

I think what the American public wants to see is an open dialogue in the process, this is a select committee where people can have all the questions they want and you see the result they are just asking questions trust the process the process to systematically convert to this rich conspiracy theorist from Georgia into a kingmaker in Congress the process that Kevin McCarthy has adopted because he knows the base wants MTG look here was the line to meet the green last summer at the extreme student summit right Turning Point USA, just months before she spoke at a white nationalist rally, just weeks before she falsely claimed that Democrats had started the murders, all of this makes me think of another woman who was once barely consistent with populism far right. brought her to the pinnacle of American politics because that's what our country needs right now: fighters who are willing to go rogue and go out and fight for what's right to save our country because you all know, you all know the trajectory that our country is following. right now it's not very good, you remember Sarah, go away Rogue Palin, right?

A midterm Alaska governor elevated to John McCain's vice presidential running mate in 2008, she became a joke, a disaster. I remember being a journalist at the time in the UK when she lost that race when McCain and Palin lost to Obama and Biden and my colleagues told me, well, at least we'll never hear from Palin again. He was not so sure and, in fact, driven by his ego and his moment in power. The spotlight and the Tea Party Palin became a nexus of anti-Obama conspiracy theories, a fixture on multiple reality shows and far-flung podcasts, and the presidential candidate again narrowly lost a special election for the House seat.

Alaska Soul House last fall. Sarah Palin never left us. after losing her bid to get within a stone's throw of the Oval Office, so I should probably tell you now that Marjorie Taylor Green, the new far-right demagogic darling, is looking to be Donald Trump's pick for vice president in his 2024 presidential run. , multiple sources told NBC. News, one of those sources is Steve Bannon, citing that she sees herself on Trump's vice presidential short list, he added. Quote When MTG looks in the mirror, she sees a potential president smiling back at her just like Sarah Palin did, but if this journey through the last five years has taught us anything, it's that MTG makes Palin look like Eleanor Roosevelt, but both Palin and Roosevelt, here's the thing, might be jealous of the influence of Marjory Taylor Green, a woman who recently told the New York Times' Robert Draper that she, not Kevin McCarthy, had all the power . the house rules letters like this and I quote, I think that to be the best speaker in the house and please the base is going to give me a lot of power and a lot of freedom, he predicted with a flat and impassive voice, he added and if not, they will not be very dissatisfied. that's why.

I think that's the best way to read that and it's in no way a

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. I just think it's reality. I think that's the first real thing I heard him say. Look. a conspiracy that spews a bile-filled Christian nationalist style that has been popularized by journalists and elevated by Republicans and the GOP base and that could only get worse if Verde becomes the Republican vice presidential candidate that journalists will have the courage to to sit. Let's go down with her and go over her record like we have today, ask her if she still believes this tired trickle-down conspiracy theory that Aberdeen and Hillary Clinton wear the skin of slaughtered children simply by saying it out loud, and what if she puts? look even higher who is going to stop her in her party, let's be fair, Donald Trump's star is fading fast in the Republican Party Ron DeSantis and his Sunshine State authoritarianism are not yet taking over the national movement Maga Mike Pence, no make me laugh if anyone captures the energy and dynamism of the Maga Base today with all its delusions and resentments it's Marjorie Taylor green if the Republican Party completely transforms into a far-right white supremacist party it will be thanks to MTG and people like her Since Palin may never be vice president, she will never give up the spotlight and she doesn't have to either because unlike Palin, Marjorie Taylor, Green isn't simply the future of the Republican Party, she is the Republican Party coming together. me now to discuss this and more, Dr.

John Cowan, who was a candidate. against Marjorie Taylor Green in the 2020 Republican primary for Georgia's 14th District. Thank you very much for attending the program. You and Marjorie Taylor Green really weren't that far apart in politics when you ran in that 2020 primary, so why did she end up? the support of Trump's key allies and base at the time, is that okay with you? In that race, she had already been campaigning for about nine months before, in a different district, so she came to our district having changed after she saw that she was clearly not going to win her metro Atlanta district and came to Northwest from Georgia, where it was going to be difficult to catch up with his money and leak it to everyone else.

She had the backing of Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows at the time, who were trying. to get another member of the Freedom caucus and she really came to our district like a freight line, let's go back to that summer of 2020 Marjorie Taylor Green just beat you in the primary runoffTrump invites her to the RNC and it's actually controversial, there's a scandal. about this a few months later, although she sent a stage at the party, she is a rising star in Congress, Trump called her on stage at a Kelly Leffler rally, how did it all happen so quickly?

You think I don't know, but I think all those candidates would regret bringing her Trump lost the election Lefler and Purdue lost their runoffs in large part because of the rhetoric Green spewed to stop the steal and deterred many people who voted earlier to go out and vote, so I actually put a lot of blame on the Republicans for losing the Senate to her, Leffler and Purdue and, frankly, even Trump should be careful about that. I see your point, but she is still a popular figure. We show the lines that form when she goes to a conference and she. she was re-elected in Georgia she is now super influential in the House Republican caucus a kingmaker in many ways let me ask you this you are a Republican I am not I ended my monologue saying that she is not just the future of the party, she is the party I'm wrong?

I think you're wrong. Know? While she's at it, you know, she got enough votes in the Republican primary to be on the general ballot in our district. She is not loved here if you look at the Republican leaders in our area. uh they have kind of fake smiles every time they're around her, they don't say nice things behind her back and she's really seen as an embarrassment in our area and you know, I think just look at her past, she's had these moments where rose to greatness. and she achieved a lot, followed by massive failure and that really has been the story of her for the last 15 years.

Uh, you know, she's made a mess of her personal life. Not many people miss her, she's just a mess. I mean she is not a nice person let's be honest I want to agree with you I really want to agree with you that she is not from the Republican Party and I understand that you are loyal to your party and you want to see the best in your party but if you are looking at fundraising, he beats everyone else if you look at his election, he's winning elections, he's back on committees, he's looking for a VP job, he's got Trump on speed dial, he's got crowds coming to his rallies , but you're right that people are embarrassed. by her, including some of her own colleagues, some of her own far-right colleagues.

I don't know if you saw recently during the house speaker race that people were getting upset with her and listen to what former Q Anon devotee Lauren Bobert said. about her I have been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing many of the things she believes. I don't believe in this just like I don't believe in Russian space. Are you a tough laser with no space? I wonder. Do you think she's a little bit off strategically here because on the one hand she's playing for this base, the base didn't like Kevin McCarthy and whatever you think about Matt Gates and Lauren Boba and I suspect I don't think highly of them. esteem?

You don't either. At least they've stuck to one of those weird far-right tenets that they have to try and drag this out. She was with power that she will come back to bite her and at the end of the day Marjorie Green is about Marjorie Green and that's it. the last person he has to face is Donald Trump and if given the chance he absolutely will, so he's done all this to consolidate his power, he's had good advice, he's had it, he's had great people running his campaign. , was clearly effective in conveying a message. She went out and hid a lot of the skeletons in her closet and bats in her attic and uh and I was able to win.

That will develop over time. I mean, history is full of people who have risen to power only to fall. Flames and that will be the story of Marjorie Green. I hope she does as little damage to the Republican Party as possible. Those of us who think that ship sailed John John. I think that ship has sailed in terms of damage to her party. and I know I get it, you're a loyal Republican, but I have one last question. This is not personal. It's not about you personally, but you lost to her in a primary. What was it like finding out that your party and your fellow Republicans?

I voted for a woman who thinks Hillary Clinton has baby skin on her face. Yes, you know, I will defend the rights of the people to elect whoever they want. With my dying breath, that is fundamental to our constitution. I don't expect that. definitely frustrating. I hope people could have seen a better path, someone who would have been a workhorse and not a show horse and someone who would have made their district proud and, uh, but they didn't and I'll respect that and just look what he did. It happens at the end of the day. I have a great job healing people and doing great work in northwest Georgia, so I'm doing great.

Unfortunately, she is not a fan of doctors or the public. health experts or John Cowan thank you very much for your time I appreciate it