Rep. Majorie Taylor Green: Google

The Big Picture – 
By Glynn Wilson – 

You know, there was a time in this country when being openly batshit crazy and totally full of shit was something you at least tried to hide, especially if you harbored ambitions of holding public office.

Not anymore. American politics, at least on the Republican side, really has turned into a badly produced reality show called “Idiocracy” and it literally harkens back to another time in the late 1800s when tabloid newspapers made millions by featuring circus freaks in the news.

There’ve been clueless members of Congress before, for years, but at least they tried to say something that made sense when showing up in public.

Marjorie Taylor Green, on the other hand, who hails from the crazy town of Milledgeville, Georgia, wears her batshit crazy not only on her sleeve. It’s on her coronavirus mask, and she’s got an entire collection of them. She’s right out of a Southern gothic short story by Flannery O’Conner, who by the way was also from Milledgeville.

Rep. Majorie Taylor Green: Google

I know a thing or two about the place, having lived and taught journalism there for a year back in 1995-96, the year the Olympics came to Atlanta. I can tell you from personal experience that the place was full of circus freaks, right out of a tabloid newspaper like the Weekly World News or Joseph Pulitzer’s freak newspapers in the late 1800s.

Have you ever read the short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find? Maybe now you begin to get the picture.

A circus freak is exactly what turns on Republican voters these days. Sarah Palin from Alaska first let the amazing blind horse out of the barn. But it was Donald Trump who proved you could wear a top hat and go after the professional wrestling vote and win.

Russia and China must be laughing all the way to the bank right now seeing the American workforce showing itself to be totally off the rails. There was a time when a campaign to make America great again might include an argument for actually educating workers to compete with the Chinese and those in other parts of the world, like Japan and Vietnam.

Now the entire movement appears to be going in the opposite direction. Let’s see how dumb we can get and then fight off the Chinese with a pickup truck full of guns. Do these rednecks really think they can beat the Chinese with a garage full of AK-47s, 357 magnums and double barreled shotguns?

Let’s turn up the volume and play them the Aerosmith song “Dream On” you dunderheads.

Every time when I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone

And it went by, like dusk to dawn
Isn’t that the way?
Everybody’s got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it’s everybody’s sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life’s in books, written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know it’s true, oh
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for a year
Sing for the laughter, and sing the tear
Sing with me, if it’s just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away…

China could bring us to our knees anytime it wants by calling in our debts. Our entire economy would collapse. Our society would disintegrate into chaos with people killing each other over the last loaf of bread and the last gallon of cows milk. The only reason they don’t do it is because we buy most of the cheap crap they manufacture and sell at Walmart.

If Green and her followers were to shop somewhere else and buy local and buy American, they might do some good. But they don’t. And they won’t. Because they are too stupid, batshit crazy and have just enough money left to buy a ticket to the circus.

That’s the scariest thing to come out of this whole Trump era thing. The fact that 74 million Americans really are that uneducated, gullible and stupid. There’s no sense in denying it or trying to cater to them by being fair and balanced. The average IQ in America has fallen below 100 to something like 95.

A C-student from Europe or Asia would be an A-student at the best universities in the United States, which decided 20 years ago that the only way to make a profit was to drop standards for entry and let in anyone who was a football fan, and could sign their name on a student loan application they would never be able to pay back.

If this doesn’t prove these monuments to the plantation era obsolete, COVID will.

High school drop out rates are skyrocketing, and college adminission applications are dropping, in part due to COVID but also because kids in rural America are listening to their preachers who tell them an education is a bad thing because it challenges your faith in the “Lord Jesus Christ.”

If these Americans had been taught the ability to think critically, we might say it should come as a shock or at least a surprise to see a snowflake pseudo hippy from California who parades around in a buffalo hat and no shirt, and demands organic food in jail, as the de-facto leader of an armed insurrection against Satan-worshiping Hollywood pedophiles supposedly running the “deep state” federal government. That would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago, even as tough as nails rank and file union members forgot their own history and voted for Trump.

FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, center with fur hat, are confronted by Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington. Right-wing extremism has previously mostly played out in isolated pockets of America or in smaller cities. In contrast, the deadly attack by rioters on the U.S. Capitol targeted the very heart of government. It brought together members of disparate groups, creating the opportunity for extremists to establish links with each other: AP

The idea that average working people in the United States would send millions of dollars to a candidate who openly talks of such things is not such a mystery. Just go back and read Mark Twain.

After coming home from Washington to her new fake home in Rome, Georgia, for a town hall meeting, Ms. Greene showed no signs of backing down, even as Democrats and some Republicans want to strip her of her committee assignments and consider expelling her for her involvement in the “Stop the Steal” insurrection, for saying elected Democrats should be executed, and introducing a bill proposing that President Joe Biden be impeached, already.

Noting that the intense media focus on her in recent weeks has allowed her to raise $1.6 million from supporters, she says: “Every attack. Every lie. Every smear strengthens my base of support at home and across the country. Because people know the truth and are fed up with the lies.”

Man, if the truth was worth that much money, I would be a freaking gazillionaire.

It’s the lies that raise money in American politics these days, along with being openly racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant from anywhere, especially south of the border. On social media, YouTube videos, on TV and in person, she has said Muslims don’t belong in government, and that the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school shooting was staged.

The national media went down to Georgia and found the devil “an embarrassment.”

“It’s embarrassing,” Ashley Shelton, a stay-at-home mother who voted for Ms. Greene, said of the controversy. She thought former President Donald J. Trump would serve another term and saw Ms. Greene as “a backup, a comfort,” according to the New York Times.

“I think she’s kind of a loose cannon,” Shelton said, then paraphrased a line from the Old Testament: “The wise are the quiet ones. The more she opens her mouth, the less evidence of her wisdom.”

And the more popular her circus reality show becomes.

While Green hails from Milledgeville in the middle of the state, the original state capital where the state mental hospital used to administer electro-shock treatments they called the “Georgia Power Cocktail,” her family mainly lives in an affluent suburb of Atlanta. She bought a house in the hilly, southern Appalachian mountains area around Rome just before running for Congress in the largely white and rural northwest corner of the state, Congressional District 14, which sprawls across a dozen counties from the outer suburbs of Atlanta to the outskirts of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Like much of rural America and especially the South these days, it is dominated by Republican voters who couldn’t get enough of the circus show produced by the Trump campaign.

Georgia Congressional Districts: Wikipedia

Despite her promotion of conspiracy theories during the primary race and runoff election for the seat, she did what all Republicans do to gain power these days. She defended Second Amendment gun rights, opposed abortion and immigration, and stood with the man in the top hat in the greatest show on Earth, Donald Trump.

One of the craziest Green posts that has come to light of late involved a novel theory about the California wildfires. She literally claimed they were started by a “space laser” controlled by Jewish financiers. Even Flannery O’Conner couldn’t make this stuff up.

“You can’t justify it,” said Luke Martin, one of her supporters. “It’s indefensible.”

The Washington Post even went so far as to coin a new term and a new phrase for women out of Green’s craziness, the “toxic Greene-House gas effect” and according to columnist Monica Hesse: “If you are a woman with substantial power — whose utterances are covered as news — who is nonetheless yelling that you are being silenced and disenfranchised, then we need a new term for that, and the term for that is ‘Marjorie’.”

Wait, wasn’t that the name of the mom in the Fox show “The Simpsons?” They called her Marge.

Could Marge Simpson be much more than the mild-mannered house wife she appears to be? Google

“The more she does outlandish things, the more she will be criticized, and the more she will use the criticism as evidence of her silencing, and the more money she will raise, the more she will win,” Hesse wrote. “It’s a cyclical, cynical game. She didn’t invent it, but she’s testing its limits.”

Hesse went so far as to compare her to toxic ooze according to the laws of physics.

“Donald Trump caused an explosion in American government, and that detonation left behind a network of cracks and crevices, and by the laws of physics and nature, those crevices have begun to fill with ooze,” she wrote. “House Republicans again discussed how to mitigate (it) … The Greene-House gas effect is toxic. Republicans won’t crack a window.”

“She has expanded our taxonomy of noxious White women. Previously we spoke of Beckys, blithely unaware of how they benefit — constantly, passively — from systemic White feminine privilege. Or we spoke of Karens, who are aware of their privilege and strategically using it to bend the system to their will (Weapon of choice: “I’d like to speak to the manager”). Greene represents a whole other level … Six years of Trump relentlessly insinuating that far-right conservatives are the only true victims made it a great time to be a Marjorie in America.”

The show must go on, but it always closes down at some point, like the circus trains in the film “Water for Elephants.”

Majorie Taylor Green may ultimately be red-lighted, or thrown from the moving train, but the circus train will go on by purchasing its acts from other dead circuses. But you know show business. The curtain always comes down eventually.

What will it take to bring out the Vaudeville hook on this crazy bitch?

Rep. Majorie Taylor Green: Google

Even Bugs Bunny gets the Vaudeville hook: Google