Probable member of the House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who won the Republican primary to represent a safe Republican district in Georgia a few days ago, has, it turns out, been campaigning to become the laughingstock of the political world for longer than I knew, as Media Matters reports:
Greene also stated that she wanted to get [Representatives Omar (D-MN) and Tlaib (D-MI)] to retake their congressional oaths of office because their swearing-ins were supposedly illegitimate. She said that she wanted to “let them know what our law says that you can’t swear in on the Quran. So we’re going to explain to that. You know, we’re going to explain about how you can’t swear in on the Quran and we’re going to have the Bible and ask them if they would swear in on the Bible.” She added: “When they swore in, it wasn’t a law yet, right? … I think at the time they swore in that wasn’t passed, because it wouldn’t have been passed in a Republican-controlled — yeah, so it was passed after they swore in, so they’re not really official, I don’t think. So, let’s go ask them to swear in the Bible.” In reality, there is no law that requires an oath on the Bible, nor has there ever been.
Utterly misinformed about a simple matter. Greene appears to be another Republican third-rater, who achieved a bit of success through spreading conspiracy theories, and thinks she can just keep on succeeding with these.
I wonder if her head would actually explode at the thought of an atheist in Congress. I don’t think there are any currently, sad to say.
This intellectual failure of Greene’s is another fallout of the American tendency to uncritically believe conspiracy theories. Much like alternative medical regimes such as homeopathy, which boils down to drinking water and swearing up and down you’re getting better, people who believe uncritically in conspiracy theories are basically folks who haven’t any concept of rigorously checking one’s knowledgebase and thinking ahead; the only thing that supports them are their sisters and brothers in the guild of Sloppy Thinkers who can’t understand why more people won’t support their views, no matter how ridiculous they may be.
And a resilient conspiracy theory is immune to my favorite treatment, which is reality rearing back and zotting its believers. It’s a pity, because this terrible mode of thinking tends to spread and reinforce itself, until we have clowns like Greene running around thinking they’re doing important things.
In reality, they’re just clones of Rep Gohmert (R-TX), the current Clown Prince of the House.
