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Marjorie Taylor Greene is still in our lives and providing her unique brand of national embarrassment and tomfoolery.
But things are different now.
She is part of the House majority and a member of the Homeland Security Committee’s majority.
A member who wants to split the homeland apart.
On Tuesday, she told Fox News’ Sean Hannity: “The last thing I ever want to see in America is a civil war. No one wants that — at least everyone I know would never want that — but it’s going that direction, and we have to do something about it.”
Those comments doubled-down on her call for secession — made on Presidents Day, no less, when she tweeted: “We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.”
She added: “Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”
At the risk of taking Marge seriously — which is always a potential intellectual hazard — let’s just play this out for a hot minute, shall we?
First of all, the last time Southerners like Marge proposed a national divorce, it was because they were holding 4 million African Americans hostage as slaves … and didn’t want to let them go.
Today, roughly half of African Americans still live in the 11 Southern states that comprised the Confederacy, and so if this national divorce happened, they would be trapped in an apartheid hellscape of a new country with zero health care, crappy public schools, barely a right to vote, and a full return to ownership by someone else of their bodies — except this time it wouldn’t just be Black women, it would be all women.
And their leader would be someone like the gal who once said: “If I were Black people today and I walked by one of those statues, I would be so proud because I’d say look how far I have come in this…
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