MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE CONTINUES TO SHOW WHY SHE SCHOULD NOT BE A U.S. REPRESENTATIVE

 

                                …Marjorie Taylor Greene with her friend, Matt Gaetz

 

Ms. Greene confuses a tomato soup wit the German Nazi police….?

 

I think it very appropriate that someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene should hook up with a questionable individual like the Florida Rep, Matt Gaetz.

Gaetz, a person that has been close to the former president Trump, and has been someone that many expect will end up being part of a federal criminal case.

This current case that already has a friend of Gaetz that recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and he is also up for various drug charges.  

This guilty person, Mr. Joe Ellicott, has agreed to cooperate with the federal officials, and his friend, Mr. Gaetz, has also been implicated in having sex with a minor, and other questionable actions.

It is no wonder that the Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has long been the center of controversy for comparing Democrats and their policies, to Nazi Germany.  But it’s her latest attempt, in which she appeared to confuse the Nazi secret state police force with a cold tomato soup from Spain.  That is what has stirred up Washington D.C..

Greene recently appeared on the right-wing, One America News program where she accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of using Capitol police as “political pawns” and “sending the Capitol Police into our offices”.  She was referring to a complaint from her colleague Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Tex.).  The Capitol Police has rejected Nehls’s claim that a security check of his open office was an illegal investigation.  It was only the protocol of the check they are required to do when an unattended Congressional office has a door left open.

Greene then referenced “Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens that want to come talk to their representatives.”  Yes, she actually confused the Nazi “Gestapo” with the soup “gazpacho”.

Pelosi has yet to comment publicly on the apparent mix-up of “gazpacho” and “Gestapo”, but she told reporters during her weekly news conference that “I have no power over the Capitol Police."

Greene’s word mix-up quickly went viral online, sparking reactions shared by politicians and other prominent figures.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) shared a picture of Pelosi that had been altered to appear as if she is holding a wooden spoon over a bowl of gazpacho.

The cold tomato-based soup is thought to have originated in the Andalusia area of Spain, and is widely enjoyed around the world.

Spanish-born celebrity chef José Andrés jokingly took credit for creating the “gazpacho police” to “make sure that no one will add Tabasco or jalalpeño or strange things to my beloved soup! Please don’t blame anybody else but me … stop by for a glass anytime. Don’t forget your mask and vaccination card!” he tweeted.

Comedian Noel Casler then tweeted: “Sure the Gazpacho Police are bad, but the elite Vichyssoise inspired pureed terror.”

Greene herself acknowledged her roasting, tweeting: “No soup for those who illegally spy on Members of Congress, but they will be thrown in the goulash.”

Many others stressed that despite the humor in some of the responses, the underlying comparison to the Gestapo was inappropriate.

Holly McCormack, a Democrat running against Greene for Congress, wrote: “First, Nazi comparisons are unbecoming of a Congresswoman. Second, I am not surprised Marge does not know the difference between “gazpacho” and “Gestapo.”

“To be clear, even though Marjorie Taylor Greene said "gazpacho", what she was trying to say was absolutely atrocious and warrants her immediate expulsion,” tweeted Scott Dworkin, chief of the Democratic Coalition, a super PAC.

It should be noted that after visiting the Washington Holocaust Museum, Rep. Greene made the same Nazi-era comparison as she opposed the vaccination push.

Congressional leaders in both parties condemned Greene in the Spring for comparing coronavirus restrictions in the U.S. Capitol to what Jewish people suffered during the Holocaust.  During the summer, weeks after she had visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, she apologized for comparing mask requirements to the Nazis forcing Jews to wear Star of David badges and calling gas chambers “exactly the type of abuse Nancy Pelosi is talking about”.  Greene made headlines again for using another Nazi analogy in opposing the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccination push.

Greene has continued to attack pandemic policies, she has refused to wear a mask on the House floor and she shared false information about the virus.  She has incurred thousands of dollars in fines for violating the House policy on face coverings.

The congresswoman has also been repeatedly criticized for spreading misinformation about the pandemic to her thousands of social media followers. Last month, Facebook suspended Greene for 24 hours, a day after Twitter suspended her personal account for repeatedly violating the company’s policy.  At the time, she argued that the penalties were problematic because she is an elected official and represents more than 700,000 “US tax paying citizens.”  (Then she shouldn’t spread all her misinformation.)

The latest Greene incident was sparked after Nehls claimed in a  Twitter thread that “Capitol Police entered my office without my knowledge and photographed confidential legislative products” in November and that they took photographs of a whiteboard.  He later told Fox News that he was being “targeted” and accused Pelosi of “weaponizing” the Capitol Police to silence him.

Capitol Police Chief, Tom Manger, responded in a statement that an officer had conducted a security check of an office after a door was left “wide open.”

“The United States Capitol Police is sworn to protect Members of Congress. If a Member’s office is left open and unsecured, without anyone inside the office, USCP officers are directed to document that, and secure the office to ensure nobody can wander in and steal or do anything else nefarious,” Manger said.

The Monday after the agent stepped into Nehls’s office, Manger added, “Capitol Police personnel followed up with the lawmaker’s staff about the issue and determined that no further action or investigation was needed.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to show why she should not be a U.S. Representative.

Copyright G. Ater 2022