You may have heard of the new movie The People’s Joker? Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene is The GOP’s Joker — the Republican other Republicans fear. A woman so far right that she’s slipped off the edge of the world and is now suspended in space, floating in a most peculiar way, like a MAGA Major Tom. Watch out for those Jewish Space Lasers while you’re up there, Marj!
At this point, it’s hard to work out who the joke is actually on, as MTG’s tweets are now starting to feel like meta works of self-parody. Take her latest delusional diatribe: “I have one cause that I am radically devoted to,” she begins before continuing on a new line in the prose equivalent of a pause before a punchline. “The American people,” she adds. Hah, it feels like she’s saying. You thought I was gonna say Trump, didn’t you? Got ya!
The rest of the typically overlong tweet from Her Marjesty hardly needs to be read, as it’s the same thing we’ve heard her yap about ad infinitum already. Suffice it to say, she accuses the government of allowing an invasion, using “America’s hard earned tax dollars to fund wars and murder all over the world,” and claiming the country is being paralyzed. “All the weak men in Washington can not stop me,” she spits, in what is presumably a ham-fisted attempt at feminism but reads more like Nurse Ratched attempting to rebrand herself as a Girl Boss.
You can bet that if Marjorie was reading this out in front of Congress, she’d inspire the same raucous burst of ironic laughter as when she told the House off for a lack of “decorum.” The people of X immediately took her to task for daring to claim that she puts the American people first when we all know she kisses a framed photo of Donald Trump before she goes to sleep at night.
Or, as one user more colorfully put it, there is one cause Taylor Greene is “radically devoted” to and it’s not standing up for all Americans, but “kissing orange Jesus man[‘s] butt cheeks.”
Oh, and if Marj really insists on keep trying to play the tax card, then people will keep coming back at her with a handy reminder that it’s not as if she’s a benevolent fountain of funds for the common folk, either.
If MTG really was dedicated to performing the will of the American public, then she would take a look at the replies to her tweet and do as they bade and disappear for good ⏤ perhaps by dumping a bucket of water on her head.
Maybe, just maybe, the entire career of Marjorie Taylor Greene is simply the longest, most Method comedy set of all time, and one day she’ll simply tweet “Surprise! This was all just to build up clout for my new Netflix stand-up special!” Until then, however, the joke seems to be on us for letting this woman get into a position of power in the first place ⏤ and keep it.
