Is There Any Point in Talking About Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Image : Anna Moneymaker ( Getty Images )  On Tuesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene opened her mouth, and, naturally, shit poured out. The Trump devotee and Q-Anon disciple compared President Bidens push for door-to-door covid-19 vaccinations to brown shirts, the paramilitary security force that aided Adolf Hitlers rise to power in the late 1920s and early 30s. Advertisement  Greene said that covid is a political tool used to control people.  People have a choice, they dont need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations, she tweeted. You cant force people to be part of the human experiment.  This asinine comparison, as several news outlets were eager to point out, comes weeks after Greene apologized for comparing Capitol Hills mask-mandate to the Holocaust. Greenes apparently short-lived realization followed a tour of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. At the time, she said there is there is no comparison to the Holocaust and said it was appalling to minimize it and downplay it.  Still, that was June. Now its July, and comparing the administration of a safe, life-saving vaccine to fascists is fair game. Even after getting routinely condemned for her comparison, she doubled down, using the covid vaccines lack of FDA approval as a means of validating her skepticism. But if the FDA were to approve the vaccines tomorrow, Greene would still come up with a reason to dismiss their findings. She would likely continue to stress that exercise and proper nutrition alone are enough to combat the worst of covid-19 like she did Wednesday morning, as if otherwise healthy people didnt die in the thousands. Advertisement  But heres the thing: This is her M.O. Saying putrid shit is the only thing that gets her attention. Awful Woman Still Awful, read all about it. Advertisement  Shes in a position of power, so her existence cant be ignored entirely. But shes not the president. Shes a power-hungry freshman congresswoman, and her beliefs are likely echoed by many of her less boisterous Republican colleagues. But theyre not having every single one of their tweets blasted on CNN. In fact, the average person hardly knows their names. But they know Greene, not because her politics are all that uniquely vile, but because she knows how to attract attention and she knows news outlets will cover her antics one way or another. I include myself as someone who is complicit in this, in the aggro conspiratorial buffoonery that is Marjorie Taylor Greene. Most of the nonsense this woman farts out isnt newsworthy, its just obnoxious. This isnt to say that Ill never write about Greene ever again, but six months into her tenure shes done few things of substance and even fewer things that would convince anyone that she is capable of developing a conscience; she isnt worth all this breathless coverage. Advertisement  Call me when she and Rep. Lauren Boebert do an anti-vax remix of Twerkulator. Until then, were all better off deplatforming her.