Disrespectful Politicians

Marjorie Taylor Greene

     In the US military enlisted men salute officers who are required to return the salute. I don't know about the other branches, but in the Navy and Marine Corps, with some exceptions, salutes are not rendered unless both members are in uniform and "covered", i.e. wearing a hat. The salute, therefore, is a sign of respect for the position, not the individual. 

     Some positions warrant respect even though the person occupying that position is a lout. One such position is President of the United States. 

     One of the crudest and most vulgar men to ever occupy the White House was, without a doubt, Lyndon Johnson. Nevertheless, no matter how despicable the man was, the office should be honored. Details on the man's uncouthness.

     During President Biden's State of the Union Address (which by the way is a legal requirement) a number of those present interrupted him thereby showing their disrespect for the country's highest office. 

     Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia showed what an uncouth, mannerless moron she is when about midway through his address she interrupted and tried to shut him down by yelling, “Liar!” 

     She wasn't the only one. When President Biden called for an end to the fentanyl crisis in the United States, another lawmaker yelled, “It’s your fault!” It's not clear how the smuggling of fentanyl into the US from Mexico, which has been happening for a long time, is the President's fault. 

     Another lawmaker yelled out "Bullshit!" and there were jeers, cat calls and mocking laughter.

     President Biden has low approval ratings, but even so, he is the President and it's disturbing that nobody seemed shocked at the behavior directed at him during his address to Congress. 

     Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is new to politics, is especially worthy of attention. She was stripped of her committee assignments by the House Democratic majority over racist remarks, her embrace of conspiracy theories and her past endorsement of violence against leading Democratic officials. 

     She previously worked for her family’s construction business in Georgia. She was praised by Donald Trump and she is one of his supporters. 

     In 2017, when a gunman opened fire from a hotel room window overlooking an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people, Greene suggested that the shooting might have been staged! 

     In 2018, a poorly maintained electrical grid sparked a California wildfire that killed 84 people and Greene speculated that "darker forces" were at work. She suggested a bank controlled by the Jewish Rothschild family, the utility company that controlled the grid and then-Governor Jerry Brown had a motive to cause the fire. It would clear the path for a high speed rail project Brown wanted. 

     She also put forth the possibility that the fires could have been started by “lasers or blue beams of light” coming down from outer space by allies of Brown who were in the solar energy industry. 

     In 2019, Greene appeared in a video arguing that Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan weren’t “really official” members of Congress because they didn’t take the oath of office on the Bible because both women are Muslim. She also said, “They really should go back to the Middle East.”

    Of course, both Omar and Tlaib are hardly shining examples of patriotism and tolerance. Omar is an anti-Semite who was removed from her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. 

     Talib is not a nice person either. She was one of the first female members of Democratic Socialists for America to serve in Congress and she has called for abolishing the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the police and the federal prison system, not to mention that she, too, is anti-Semitic. 

     Back to Greene: In May 2018, a Facebook user purporting to be the mother of a New York police officer claimed that her son had seen a video taken from the laptop of disgraced former Representative Anthony Weiner that showed Hillary Clinton and a top aide cutting off a child’s face. Greene “liked” post. 

      Greene once suggested in an online video that Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi could be executed for treason. “She’s a traitor to our country, she’s guilty of treason.” She added, “And it’s, uh, it’s a crime punishable by death is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason.” 

     She also “liked” a 2019 Facebook post that called for “a bullet to the head” of Pelosi. 

     In 2018, in a video in which she talked about the 9/11 terrorist attacks she referred to a “so-called” plane that crashed into the Pentagon killing 125 people. She added, “It’s odd, there’s never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.” 

     She “liked” another comment posted by on Facebook in 2018 that argued that 9/11 was “done by our own Government. Greene wrote, “That is all true.”