MTG tripled down on her Holocaust narrative, saying Nazis were the 'National Socialist party'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia compared Democrats to Nazis during a Thursday rally in her state.

She said the media had spent four years "calling Republicans Nazis" and said the word "Nazi" was a "mean, nasty dirty word."

A few seconds later, she said: "You know, Nazis were the National Socialist party. Just like the Democrats are now a national socialist party."

Link to tweet

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-doubled-down-084314925.html

Using her logic Saddam Hussein's "Elite Republican Guard" were members of the GOP.

[Aristus]

1. So......North Korea is a democratic republic?

I mean, it's right there in the name: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

[Progressive Jones]

2. A vile wretch, indeed. nt

[Irish_Dem]

3. She wants to be President or VP. She will say or do anything to achieve it.

She is also fund raising.

Taking a page from Trump's handbook.
The more ridiculous and dishonest a comment, they more the MAGATs love it.

[Initech]

4. I have a friend who kept equating "socialist" with "national socialist".

Yes he was also making that bullshit comparison. Needless to say we don't talk much anymore.

[Paladin]

5. I can't believe that stupid Nazi Socialist thing is still kicking around.

Complete and utter bullshit. Consider the source.

[rsdsharp]

8. I usually tell them I'll discuss it with them after they deliver a 5000 word essay

on the impact of the Night of the Long Knives on the socialist wing of the Nazi party.

[lapfog_1]

10. yes... last day of June 1934

On the night that Ernst Roehm died voices rang out
In the rolling Bavarian hills
And swept through the cities and danced in the gutters
Grown strong like the joining of wills
Oh echoed away like a roar in the distance
In moonlight carved out of steel
Singing "All the lonely, so long and so long
You don't know how I long, how I long
You can't hold me, I'm strong now I'm strong
Stronger than your law"
I sit here now by the banks of the Rhine
Dipping my feet in the cold stream of time
And I know I'm a dreamer, I know I'm out of line
With the people I see everywhere
The couples pass by me, they're looking so good
Their arms round each other, they head for the woods
They don't care who Ernst Roehm was, no reason they should
Just a shadow that hangs in the air
But I thought I saw him cross over the hill
With a whole ghostly army of men at his heel
And struck in the moment it seemed to be real like before
On the last day of June nineteen thirty four

[Thomas Hurt]

6. yes, yes, and the Democratic Party hasn't changed since Jim Crow...

and right wing ideologies have never spawned extremists, modern American conservatism has never had any of the characteristics of fascism...blah, blah, blah. Christofascist demands that minorities must abandon their culture and assimilate into WASP land is not a slave owner mentality... oh no.

This bullshit is spread on social media every minute of the day.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Just watched a report on her district. She won with 75% of the vote.

They did the "man in the street" interviews, and these people stood there on national TV making excuses for her behavior.

The usual "what about the Democrats", "she was taken out of context", "I don't agree with that, but I think she is doing a good job", "I don't like the way she acts, but I will vote for her again".

I know these interviews are not necessarily representative, but I bet in her district she is a shoo-in for re-election.

[moose65]

9. The district is heavily Republican

In recent years, the Republican candidate would often run unopposed. In 2020, MTG's followers and other hooligans terrorized the Democratic candidate so much that his wife left him, and he had to move out of state to avoid the death threats. He still got 25% of the vote, even without campaigning at all. He actually performed better than some of the other recent Dem candidates, though.

Looks like it's another district that Democrats have written off. I'm not saying a Dem could win it necessarily, but the northern part of the district is the suburbs of Chattanooga, and the southern part is considered exurban Atlanta. This is what happens when the national Democratic party abandons districts - the Republicans, who always vote, end up winning 75 - 25. There might be some local races that Dems could win, though.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Didn't she run unopposed?

So who did the other 25% actually vote for? I mean, wouldn't you expect someone who ran unopposed to get at least 98% of the vote?

[Cyrano]

11. As Yoda would have said: "The stupid is strong in this one."