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  Pull it up then bud!
context: Just in case it's too subtle...invoking the Rothschild family is the go-to codeword for the antisemetic trope of a cabal of powerful Jewish families secretly controlling the world.
  Accusing the Rothschilds of being involved has been a dog whistle for I BET THE JEWS ARE BEHIND THIS for literal decades. >
  
  These days, invoking “Soros” is the same thing. >
  
  How would one accuse the Rothchild family/Soros without being antisemitic? >
  
  Discuss the problem behavior.  Don't just use the name absent any context. >
  
  What exactly is Soros’ problem behavior? >
  
  I understood that someone was asking "If mentioning someone (Soros, etc) is anti semitic how are we supposed to even discuss their wrongdoings?".  To properly discuss them without being anti semitic one should be specific about what they're doing and why they perceive it as being wrong.
  I don't keep up enough to know which behaviors are wrong or even problematic of those specific people. >
  
  She probably means she doesn't know the exact details of their deployment.  By the Jews. >
  
  Well of course not. They're written in Hebrew, past down for thousands of years since the space aliens helped to build them. >
  
  I laughed... But then I realized that the people who support Greene are exactly the kind of people who would eat up that ancient aliens bullshit. >
  
  What an utterly hypocritical coward. She does not even have the guts to stand up for her own comments. >
  
  cognitive-dissonance is a conflict in the mind that one suffers when several held beliefs conflict. this crop of right-wingnut folk dont suffer; they hold conflicting and wildly wrong beliefs with no ill effect whatsoever, willingly and gleefully. 
  edit to add: crank magnetism >
  
  So, can all of these contradictory statements from her be used to prove she's mentally unfit for office,  because that seems to be the case. >
  
  not to OP: 
  proof is for court. the only 'crime' she commits publicly is being an unfriendly being, with horrible words, and horrible ideas... all aimed towards horrible goals. 
  go ahead; ask what her goals are. I dare anyone. >
  
  I don't think you have to commit a crime to be mentally unfit, though. >
  
  Federal separation of powers makes it a Legislative and political act to declare someone unfit (the House or Senate respectively have to vote for it).
  That means that whoever controls the votes in the chamber controls the ability to censure or remove members.
  For a very long time Rs (and some Ds) have eroded ethical oversight and consequences from any such discoveries to the point where ethics are not enforced by the chambers, only the voters.
  That’s the only remaining ethical check on behavior in our legislative branch. (Actual illegality that covers them, on the other hand, is investigated by the executive and judged by the Judicial). But there’s only one law making you ineligible to serve, that’s insurrection. >
  
  Oh hey I remember when she said that when my town burned down >
  
  Ugh. I am sorry. She is an ill-mannered, beastly woman. Politicians should not delight in the suffering of others, yet here we are. If I had to go through what happened to your family and so many other families and then hear things like that, I would have a very hard time not giving in to to my worst impulses. >
  
  Really I roll my eyes at her, she's pretty absurd >
  
  Literal gaslighting. Proof is on video but she claims otherwise. >
  
  Crazy to think that she said that stuff and other outlandish shit and was handily re-elected.  I travel through the Atlanta area a few time a a year.  I’ll never stop to buy anything in her district. >
  
  While I agree with your sentiment, as someone who's lived in Atlanta, I feel the need to point out her district is outside of what's generally considered metro Atlanta.
  She's not one of ours. That's where banjo country begins. >
  
  Not that there's anything wrong with banjo. >
  
  Or Kazooie >
  
  Eh, there's some rumors about Kazooie. >
  
  Yeah, I heard about that. Crazy shit. >
  
  That poor ostrich..... >
  
  Allegedly. >
  
  
  So why does the trending phrase have the word “Jewish” in front of it? Well, Taylor Greene’s post suggested that the Rothschild banking firm is behind a supposed corporate cabal that engineered this whole space laser plot. Ah, of course, the old Rothschild family explanation again. As Zack Beauchamp wrote for Vox, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family controlling the world have frequently surfaced in the past. Beauchamp explained that this was not “an isolated anti-Semitic incident for Greene.” In fact, the Editorial Board for USA TODAY wrote that “her Facebook account contained racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views,” which doesn’t sound very nice. Beauchamp stated that Taylor Greene’s “space laser” theory is “the latest in a long line of conspiracies about the Rothschild family, and those conspiracies are always, at root, anti-Semitic: Since the 19th century, people have used claims that this one particular wealthy family controls the world to cast aspersions on Jews in general.”
  
  Source: Forbes, Jan. 30, 2021 >
  
  Oh, look. Receipts! >
  
  Wild, the past. Remember when republicans tried to say that kids who got shot at school were crisis actors? >
  
  Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of them. >
  
  She’s a liar. >
  
  Her constituents and supporters do not care that SHE is a liar. Magic "R" hard at work. >
  
  I mean... She's right. She never used that phrase. She said Rothschild's funded Space Laser. Huge difference!!!  /s >
  
  That's literally what they're going with lol. >
  
  "OKay, let's play exhibit A, please..."
  "Now, hold on just a moment..." >
  
  
  “If you want to win the war on Christmas, first you take out the person who makes Christmas possible,” Greene said. “As I speak, Jewish space lasers are being trained on the North Pole.” >
  
  We must internalize how irrational the GOP has become. Identity. Red at all costs.
  It is socially impossible to be Blue in a community of Red. Our need for belonging is so strong that nothing else matters.
  Logic/reason/facts/debate is completely irrelevant now. We need to accept this and work with it. I don't know how, but it needs a different approach
  One idea... crash the party. We are all Republicans now. Dilute the crazy. If we coordinate each state and move in unison, Dems could take over the GOP. Leave a couple progressives in minority as the new Dems. 
  The GOPs primary process is a massive weakness that doesn't need that many people to turn on its head. >
  
  Libertarians just about managed this trick with a tiny New Hampshire town and managed to turn it into a libertarian fantasy land with virtually no public services and people being mauled by bears for a few years. I don't think you're coordinating even thousands of liberals to move to conservative hellholes to swamp local politics, much less the tens of thousands you'd actually need, but without Elon Musk levels of money you're willing to piss away to try getting it done. >
  
  kthxbye >
  
  If she’s going to give a series of speeches on things she knows nothing about, she’ll be swamped. >
  
  I insist MTG knows nothing >
  
  That is why we need an independent investigation and special prosecutor.   Maybe some hearings and subpoenas.
  so empty green can find out the truth. >
  
  On what grounds? Being a stupid incendiary asshole isn't illegal, even if you're a member of Congress. >
  
  Pretty sure it was satire because that is exactly what the republicans are doing for a bunch of nonsense reasons. >
  
  MTG may not know they exist or don't exist, but that won't stop her from spewing conspiracy theories about them. Who believes she cares about truth? She and Santos must be great chums by now. >
  
  I’ve got the receipts that say otherwise. Fucking lying is all she knows how to do >
  
  Jewish Space Laser Lady clearly has severe memory issues >
  
  She can insist all she wants, but the internet never forgets. >
  
  Well sure. When has that ever stopped her from talking about something? >
  
  Blissful ignorance mixed with cognitive dissonance. Her brain must be tired going through these mental gymnastics. >
  
  She'd have to have one in order for it to be tired >
  
  Somebody needs to tell the interwebs are FOREVER. God help us these people are dumb. >
  
  The aliens must have got into her head >
  
  She did say that they aren't a people that are going to go quietly into the night. It's really those darned lizard creativity lasers! >
  
  After all, this is America. The land where you can make hideous claims and boldface lies to the public on film and then deny it ever happened…. And they believe you. >
  
  More GOP's scientific ignorance coupled with religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism. >
  
  Ummm, she obviously just doesn't want to get zapped. >
  
  So…do we need to go to the video? >
  
  Fuck, thisGazpacho Queef >
  
  Ah the old don’t believe your eyes and ears trick    Conservatives always fall for. I suppose she doesn’t know it doesn’t work on most normal people. Next up her and David Hogg were good friends. >
  
  On the one hand, she's a pathological liar.  On the other, she's incredibly stupid.  So is she stupid enough to forget her own public statements?  Or is she lying about being that stupid?  This is what the GQP stands for: being so stupid and dishonest it's impossible to tell anymore. >
  
  She’s following the Trump line. Lie, when called out on the lie, deny. When shown proof, throw someone under the bus. Tomorrow she will have said it was her staffer that told her that and she was speaking “sarcastically”. >
  
  "I don't recall" The rallying cry of the coward.
  Fortunately, the internet doesn't forget. >
  
  Of course she doesn’t know anything about them; they don’t exist. But it didn’t stop her from shooting her mouth off about them >
  
  The GOP just keeps lowering the level of conversation in politics to help dumb us down and avoid  the real conversations about real problems caused by their donors. We’re being played so hard. >
  
  That's because I used my Jewish MIB memory eraser on her. 🤪 >
  
  It’s the trump play: deny saying a thing that you’ve been on record multiple times saying >
  
  This is the same idiot that booed the president for extending healthcare to veterans >
  
  Headline 8 words too long. >
  
  She didn't know anything about them when she made the Jewish space laser remarks either.  She doesn't know much about anything.  In fact, if we had to have knowledge before speaking, she would be one of the most silent members of our society. >
  
  I personally have no problem believing she knows nothing about, well, lots of things. I also don't think that knowing nothing about something stops her from talking about it. >
  
  Same old, same old.
  What are you doing about it?
  2024 is coming. >
  
  Her followers can’t remember far enough in the past to see she’s lied to them. No worries for her. >
  
  I actually think it’s a good thing she is in office… I mean she absolutely accurately represents her constituents and their views. It’s sad and pathetic and fucked up but it’s what out country is made up of right now…. Can we fix this? I dunno… >
  
  Meanwhile, PG&E is going on trial for manslaughter resulting from the fires. Again. But sure, yeah, it was Jewish space lasers. >
  
  I truly believe her. she knows nothing. Yes >
  
  Bless her heart she’s trying so hard to be a “serious” person now. Like everyone will just forget all the crazy things she said. Sorry Margie but you will always be a Q nut to the majority of people in this country. >
  
  Greene and Jewish space lasers? Gosar calling for violence against other members? Nah, "AOC tantrum lol" is the best defense the right is putting up. >
  
  Gaslighting again Marjorie. Why doe she still have a job. I understand they can not be sacked, however when do they draw a line under hate towards anyone >
  
  Too bad, so sad, she will never live that down.  Rise by the Jewish space laser; fall by the Jewish space laser. >
  
  The only reason anybody knows anything about "Jewish Space Lasers" is because she invented them... >
  
  I think she’s definitely taking a few plays out of George Santos‘s playbook.  She probably won’t go full George, but she’s definitely going to ignore and deny her past idiotic statements and just move ahead. >
  
  I literally know the phrase “Jewish space lasers” because of this stupid fucking traitorous idiot. >
  
  I belive she knows nothing. >
  
  I'm siding with MTG, I firmly believe she knows fuck all about Jewish space lasers. In fact, I'm pretty confident she knows nothing period. >
  
  Hate to defend Marge here, but i think she said “Jew-ish space lasers”, not “Jewish space lasers”.
  Santos confirmed >
  
  She’s right about one thing….she knows nothing
  Absolute moron >
  
  As it appears she know nothing much about anything, I see nothing wrong with her statement. >
  
  I have family in Georgia that vote straight R.  Yup.  Gawd-fearing imbeciles to the last. >
  
  The Jewish space police got to her. >
  
  It’s the plot to Space Balls. >
  
  Eh Midge our memories are not as short as ethics >
  
  She did not say "Jewish space lasers."
  She did talk about beaming the "sun's energy" from space, and said it would be bad for "Rothschild inc"  if it turns out that causes fires.
  In her defense, she might be too incredibly dumb to realize how utterly stupid, completely unfeasible, and antisemitic the conspiracy theory she was publicly touting was. >
  
  It's funny how back in the day, what you're saying her defense was would have been EXACTLY why the Republicans would have chucked her silly ass right out of congress.
  Back when Republicans had competent national defense people instead of third rate clowns more interested in Hunter's dong and if that Russian oligarch's check cleared yet. >
  
  Back in the day? When was that? Because as long as I remember, conservatives have danced with some pretty stupid conspiracy theories going back many generations. McCarthyism, John Birch society, satanic panic, New world Order, birtherism...etc.
  Hell in the late '80s Pat Robertson pulled four states in the Republican primaries. Then in the 90's you had the voice the conservative media Rush Limbaugh actively promoting the Vince Foster conspiracies. Your Glenn Beck's came not too long after to continue beating that drum louder and louder.
  I could go on but I think I've proven my point. Stupid conspiracies have been part of the Republican DNA for a long time. Maybe in the past, calmer aspects of financially conservative wing could pick at the spoiled fruit from the tree quicker, but they ignored the decay festering in it's roots.
  I guess the difference now is that they the past few decades, actively feeding and embracing the rot. They saw it as a path to more power, but the leopard has started to gnaw at their face. >
  
  Well, except for the Birchers and the McCarthy era you seem to have clearly answered your own question there.   Your dividing line is right there, underlined in the years MOST of your examples draw from.
  And as far as your earlier examples, let's put in in the form of some very neglected US history questions:
  What did Nixon call the Birchers again?    How did he respond to them in his 1962 gubernatorial campaign?
  What did William F. Buckley write in the National Review about Jack Welch?  Were his statements supported in any way in any congressional statements from GOP leadership in 1965?
  How did Eisenhower basically end McCarthy's overreach using the powers of the Executive branch?
  There was a time the GOP kept their kooks in the fringes because the necessities of the cold war required it.  As a bunch of simpletons (or to quote Barry Goldwater about his own supporters:  "commie-haunted apple pickers" and "cactus drunks") the GOP was easier to keep in line when facing a clear external threat because that's how their pea brains are wired.  Tribalism has a hierarchy after all.
  But as you argued very compellingly, making MY point, the luxuries of the decline of the Soviet Union which predated Reaganism gave the GOP the luxury of letting the kooks out of the cellar.  And at that point they started defining the enemy, as did McCarthy, as their fellow citizens. >
  
  So for us to be intellectually honest, did she ever say or type the words “Jewish space lasers”?     I’m not finding that.    I’m not defending her just making sure we are being accurate with our outrage. >
  
  I literally read every word and I’m literally having a hard time finding the three words “Jewish space lasers”.    Can you literally screen shot and circle where it literally says those words? >
  
  She never says Jewish space lasers, but she sure does sound like an idiot. >
  
  Sure she does.    I just think there is value in being transparent.   If we are complaining that she said words and her argument is she never said the words then we should be honest about that.   
  Not defending her in the slightest. >
  
  She never said “jewish space lasers” but she did try to tie a bunch of Jews together via a conspiracy theory that includes claims of lasers starting wildfires. >
  
  Understood.    So maybe we shouldn’t be claiming she said Jewish Space Lasers. >
  
  Honesty, it’s like splitting hairs. What she did was arguably worse that just using the phrase “Jewish space lasers” >
  
  If what she did is worse than saying “Jewish space lasers” then let’s raise hell about what she did instead of making an argument that she said something she did not in fact say.    We are serving up the easiest softball defense for her.   All she has to do is say “I never said that” and we can’t prove her wrong.    If she said something bad just accuse her of saying the thing she said.   Not the thing she didn’t say. >
  
  Because most functioning adults are aware of things called implication, inference, and nuance. 
  By your logic, if I tweeted out: “a certain orange skinned former president may have done a twosie in his diaper” I could reasonably, accurate claim “I never said Donald Trump shit his pants” and that’s a reasonable response to you? And it makes a significant difference? 
  She claimed that a well known Jewish family was investing in “energy satellites” and that blue lights were seen beaming from the sky before the fires. Thereby obviously, heavily implying that the fires were started by those lasers, those lasers from space, those lasers from space that she attributes to a known Jewish family. 
  It’s a distinction without a difference and you trying to split the hairs on it is absolutely an attempt to defend her words if not her actions. 
  Mob Boss: “Gee I sure would be eternally grateful to, and financially compensate anyone that would take care of that pesky witness before they testify”
  You: “Not defending the mob boss, but he never asked anyone to whack anyone else.” >
  
  She is never going to live this down >
  
  I had one installed in my Batmobile to thwart traffic jams. Marg is the one that turned me onto them. >
  
  What the fuck is she talking about! >
  
  Just keep
  Lying just keep lying just keep lying >
  
  They care more about power and keeping the country white than they do about the truth. Nothing new here. >
  
  Man, I really want a scientific study into what it is about Republican politicians that utterly prevents them from forming long term memories.  That’s actually really concerning.
  Oh, wait, I’m being handed a piece of paper.  Oh, I see, the leading cause is “Presidential aspirations.” >
  
  It must be embarrassing to be from a state that elects these idiots. I would be embarrassed to have Margie as my representative.
  I feel the same way about people who live in states that are the lowest of the low in every ranking. Like Mississippi. How aren't people embarrassed to be from there? >
  
  The first part of her statement is actually the only truthful thing she has ever uttered ..”I know nothing “. >
  
  Well someone should remind her by showing her when she talked about them. 
  I remember. >
  
  The internet never forgets. She’s either delusional or a bald-faced liar. Either one should get her - and Santos - kicked out of Congress. >
  
  Admitting that her head is as empty as a month old milk carton is the first step. >
  
  Old Spork-feet forgot the internet exists >
  
  Apparently MTG has amnesia and isn’t fit to serve. >
  
  You’re fucking kidding >
  
  So what she's saying is that she has no recollection of saying that because she did not say that, the previous version of Nazi-bot that she replaced said that?
  OMG, body doubles are real y'all!
  So, do they get an aging serum when they harvest her adrenochrome? >
  
  George Santos has been giving lessons on the one thing he knows how to do. >
  
  No one was arguing that she knew anything…. >
  
  Marjorie Taylor Greene insists she knows nothing. >
  
  She lies like others breathe. >
  
  The world has receipts Marge >
  
  She knows >
  
  Defund the schools, they said… >
  
  Every word after "nothing" in that headline is extraneous and unnecessary. >
  
  So best case scenario Greene has a horrible disease that makes her forget major things she did?  Cool defense, I guess. >
  
  The list of subjects this lady knows nothing about is too long to print. >
  
  It’s like these people don’t know we have video of all the dumb shit they’ve said over the years. Next she’ll say that she never said gazpacho police. >
  
  You know MTG is really an ugly Transvestite, needs to work harder to improve his looks. >
  
  I don’t think it’s just Jewish space lasers MTG knows absolutely nothing about. >
  
  She knows nothing, period. >
  
  Can someone pull up the tweets? She asked for them >
  
  I believe this nonsense was something she posted on facebook tbh