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All MTG ever wanted was someone to pay attention to her.
By MICHAEL KRUSE
02/25/2021 07:55 PM EST
ALPHARETTA, Ga.Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked her gum as she pretended to listen to a man in a dress read a book about a unicorn.
It was late April of 2019. She sat in the rear of a room at the public library here near her home in this suburb north of Atlanta. Greene at the time identified as a mother, a business owner, a fitness trainer, a supporter of the 2nd amendment, a patriot and a conservative blogger on social media, and she had come to mount what she described as an undercover protest of something called Drag Queen Story Hour an event she saw as insane put on by a person she considered an abomination. Using her iPhone to surreptitiously record, Greene flipped back and forth between a shot of the stage and a close-up of her own face, creating a kind of herky-jerky show on Facebook Live.
Be nice to people around you! the wig-wearing reader, stage name Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker, said in closing to the small gathering of children and their parents. Greene, sporting a pink cast on her left foot, hobbled outside. Were you able to hear all that? Greene asked the 400 or so viewers following along.
Lingering on the library sidewalk, Greene quarreled with the branch manager, feuded with a woman who asked her to stop her video and vented to passersby, a local police officer and her fledgling army of self-appointed digital soldiers.
I called and emailed our county commissioner, I called and emailed this library, and Im a taxpayer here in the city, she lamented to her on-screen audience. And my voice did not matter.
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CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)One side says, Be nice to people around you! and the other side says, "He's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting."
This is why it's not just politics anymore. This is more than just policyit's about decency. No one forced her to go to that event, or any of her children. How did it possibly hurt her? And if she wants to talk about taxes, let's talk about all the taxes that I pay, that I'm against, but I don't protest by being rude to people who have nothing to do with the tax policy. I am just so sick of these childish, rude, self-righteous, mean-spirited assholes.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)I wish I had a link to the article where a woman commented, "They're not supposed to shoot at us. They're supposed to shoot at BLM."
They're not hurting the people I hate is her entire political philosophy. Her followers' philosophy, too.
Hate is learned behavior. Hate Crime is what's killing this nation. Socially sanctioned hate crimes like Marjorie Traitor Greene.
Cuthbert Allgood
(4,921 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)... didnt hold her under in that bathtub for a few more minutes ... 🙁
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Greene quarreled
feuded
vented
called
emailed
lamented
SHe's angry at everyone but herself for all kinds of imagined grievances. Her solution toher anger? Move to GA-14 and usurp their seat in congress.
Her "voice wasn't heard." No, I think it was. Her voice just wasn't heeded because she's insane and bigoted.