Dems Deride MTG for Supporting Conspiracies While Claiming Russia Was Behind
Capitol Riots
While Democrats may find some political capital in ridiculing QAnon, they
have their own history of making outlandish claims.
by Alan Macleod
February 05th, 2021
Mint Press News
By Alan Macleod
The House of Representatives has stripped new Georgia official Marjorie
Taylor Greene from two committees over her history of promoting conspiracy
theories. Congress took the highly unusual step today in voting 230 to 199
in favor of removing her from the education and budget committees, limiting
her abilities and powers. In response, the 46-year-old freshman
congresswoman described the Democrats as a bunch of morons and the new
government as a tyranny.
Greene was a noted proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory; a belief that
Donald Trump was fighting a secret war on a group of satanist pedophiles and
cannibals in control of the government. Believers thought that an anonymous
user who went by the name of Q on messageboard 4chan (and on other forums
later) was a high level individual in the Trump administration directing
them towards the coming storm, where Trump would expose and destroy the
cabal once and for all. The movement came to a head on January 6, when a
crowd of Trump supporters, with many QAnon adherents among them, stormed the
Capitol Building in what many have described as a botch coup detat.
Among Greenes other notable beliefs were that no airplanes hit the Pentagon
on 9/11, that the 2018 midterm elections ushered in an Islamic invasion of
our government, that the 2018 California wildfires were caused by Jewish
space lasers and that the 2012 Sandy Hook and 2018 Parkland school
shootings were staged. In 2019, she even heckled a Parkland survivor,
calling him a coward. Since gaining notoriety as a politician, however,
she has walked back these beliefs, claiming she regrets once holding them.
Yet on the same day as the Democrats demoted Taylor Greene for her belief in
baseless and dangerous conspiracy theories, the Senate Intelligence
Committee announced that it will begin examining the influence that Russia
and China had on promoting the events at the Capitol last month. The
committees chair, Mark Warner (DVA) said that it is vitally important to
conduct a significant dive on the Kremlins ties to the groups who stormed
the building and Chinas very, very sophisticated effort to influence
American policy.
Amazing. On the same day Congress demotes a deranged QANon member, they
elevate and announce an investigation based on the deranged Cold War
fantasies of BlueAnon members, reacted Aaron Maté, a journalist who has
closely covered the RussiaGate story.
A U.S. mob, borne out of homegrown dysfunctions and pathologies, attacked
the U.S. Congress. The Congress top intel panel responds not by solely
focusing on this intel failure or these homegrown problems, but by searching
for a way to blame Russia and China. Imperatives of Empire, he added.
For four years, senior Democratic politicians and media figures have
attempted to prove that Trump was in the control of Vladimir Putin, to no
avail. The headline of the much-awaited Mueller Report concluded that there
was no conspiracy, much to the disappointment of many in cable news who had
been covering the supposed connections between the Kremlin and the Trump
administration more than any other topic.
Greene seized upon this fact when grilled by the press. How many stories
did you report on Russian collusion conspiracy lies? she hit back at a CNN
reporter asking hostile questions about her past. Have you apologized for
Russian collusion conspiracy lies? You owe the people an apology! she
added.
With QAnon, however, Democrats have already found their mid-term strategy,
Politico reports. Instead of focusing on policy, they will attempt to paint
the GOP as the party of far-right conspiracy theorists until at least 2022.
On Tuesday, the party launched a new ad campaign doing just that. Speaker of
the House Nancy Pelosi also sent out a press release referring to House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as (QCA) and not (RCA) an implication
that the GOP is the party of QAnon.
There may be some truth to this. 30% of Republicans continue to hold a
favorable view of QAnon, even after the events of January 6. Nationwide, 17%
of Americans agreed that A group of Satan-worshipping elites who run a
child sex ring are trying to control our politics and media. Only 47% of
the country said that the statement was false. And although 11 Republicans
joined the Democrats today in voting against her, according to The Hill,
Greene received a standing ovation from her party colleagues on Wednesday,
suggesting they are willing to forgive her previous statements. In
retaliation, Republicans are busy attempting to remove Minnesota
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from her positions.
Despite the fact that QAnon is a baseless claim, it is not clear why it
should be considered more untrue than the incorrect belief that Russia
hacked American voting machines, swinging the vote for Donald Trump in 2016,
as 43% of the country (and a majority of Democratic voters) believe.
Meanwhile, President Biden himself was one of the key players in spreading
the false claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, a
centerpiece in the argument for a war in Iraq that has destroyed an entire
region of the world. Ultimately, however, Bidens false belief served the
interests of Washington D.C. while Greenes are an embarrassing distraction.
While Democrats may find some political capital in ridiculing QAnon, they
have their own history of making outlandish claims.
