October 29, 2023

Controversial Georgia Rep. Marjorie Greene is not a serious lawmaker. She has spent her time in office trying to impeach President Joe Biden. That's her goal; after all, she filed articles of impeachment against President Biden only a day after he was sworn into office.

This time, Greene, who should know what an insurrection is, offered a resolution on Thursday to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for what she falsely claimed was an "insurrection."

CNN's Jake Tapper wasn't having it.

"And it gets worse because when you read Greene's resolution, you realize it is A, written by someone who seems to have learned about the Arab-Israeli conflict maybe 10 minutes before, who maybe didn't even have access to Wikipedia, and B, while there are plenty of valid criticisms of Congresswoman Tlaib, this resolution twists a bunch of things that she said beyond recognition, and C, the resolution seems much more focused on January 6th than it does on October 7th," Tapper said.

"Throughout its pages, Marjorie Taylor Greene describes this act of civil disobedience from a bunch of left-wing Jewish groups that are critical of Israel's government, this act as an insurrection," he continued. "This is not an insurrection."

"It might be a bunch of folks with whom you disagree," the CNN host continued. "It might be a bunch of people you think are misguided, acting in a way you don't like. This is not an insurrection."

"Anti-Semitism is not a cudgel to be used against people for political points, nor is Islamophobia or racism or anti-gay behavior or misogyny or any other kind of bigotry," he said. "Just over three weeks ago, 1,400 people, mostly Jews, mostly civilians, were slaughtered here in some of the cruelest and most unimaginable ways, in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust."

"This shit is not a game," he added.

Unfortunately, I don't think she cares. She doesn't care about democracy, Israel, or this country. What she does care about is getting attention. That's it.

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