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OH MY: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Da GOP Will Govern Like the Mafia's 5 Families in 'The Godfather' [1]
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Date: 2022-12-13
December, being the month of giving, behooves us all to express our gratitude for the gifts that crackpot Republicans provide due to their inbred asininity. While this sort of generosity is a year-round endeavor for them, there seems to be an uptick during the year end holiday season.
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So let us give thanks today to Marjorie Taylor Greene. On Tuesday morning she visited with her coup-plotting cohort, Steve Bannon, to discuss the changing control of Congress next year. It's an issue that she has given a great deal of thought to. For the most part her thoughts have been of totalitarian domination. It's a theme that the GOP has been fixated on, and one that Greene has personanlly taken to heart.
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During Greene's banter with Bannon, she revealed the inside dope on the Republican Party's plans now that they have a razor thin majority in the House of Representatives. Previously they proposed an initiative that consisted mainly of talking points that were stale when they were first proposed nearly thirty years ago by Newt Gingrich. Even Tucker Carlson of Fox News found it to be a hollow farce.
They also promised a flurry of revenge probes, staging phony investigations of everything from Hunter Biden's stolen laptop, to the evil machinations of Dr. Fauci. But Greene had something even more profound in mind...
"We've been doing - and it's really interesting - people are arguing, people are clashing, people are also starting to agree, and there's a meeting that's happening every week, and we meet in Kevin McCarthy's office, and it's called the "Five Families." And the Five Families - you know my reference - are parts of our conference. All the different parts. And we are coming together and having discussions on how we are going to govern in the majority. And it's literally my favorite meeting."
x Marjorie Taylor Greene said Republican House factions are holding weekly meetings in Kevin McCarthy’s office, calling themselves, “the five families.” pic.twitter.com/aeWx4w8i6b — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) December 13, 2022
So Greene is analogizing the Republican Party to the Mafia and the fragile coordination between various hostile factions of it. How appropriate that she associates the GOP with a crumbling crime syndicate. Bannon couldn't help but notice that Greene's analogy also spelled trouble for Republicans, saying that "I hope that those meetings turn out better than the Five Families meetings in 'The Godfather.' They went to war."
The sour note in this soap opera is that Greene's fantasy puts Kevin McCarthy in Marlon Brandon's role of Don Corleone. That stretches the willingness to believe a bit too far. However, Greene is at least being consistent with her affinity for violence and gun play. She recently told the crowd at a QAnon affair that the January 6th insurrection wasn't an insurrection at all, and that "if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention that it would have been armed."
x Marjorie Taylor Greene’s January 6th comments at last night’s New York Young Republican Club Gala:
“I got to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.” pic.twitter.com/KtiecOAlgd — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) December 11, 2022
And that is why Greene is the new face of the Trumpian Republican Party. She is already exerting her control over McCarthy, who needs her vote to become Speaker. He knows that the narrow margin of the GOP majority, and his unpopularity among his own caucus, means he has to kowtow to screwballs like Greene. And he isn't the only one knows this. Democrats are watching with a mix of glee and horror...
SEE THIS: Adam Schiff: Weak GOP Leader McCarthy Will Do Whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants Him To Do
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