‘QAnon’ Rep. May Have Awakened Her Biggest Foe

Manny Otiko
5 min readJan 28, 2021

Parkland families can hit ‘conspiracy congresswoman’ with lawsuits

Stoneman Douglas High School parents campaign for gun control. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claims the shooting never happened! (Barry Stock/Flickr)

QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) short stint in the House of Representatives is turning into a predictable train wreck. (I warned about her in August 2020.) She’s barely a month into her first full term and there’s already talk of expelling her. On Wednesday, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) introduced a resolution to have Greene removed from the House of Representatives.

The media has dug up some of her past social media posts that claimed 9/11, the Las Vegas massacre and the Sandy Hook school shooting were hoaxes. She has also called for the execution of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.,) claimed Hillary Clinton was involved in child murders and called for the hanging of President Barack Obama. And she called for President Joe Biden to be impeached after less than 48 hours in office because of “Hunter Biden.” I’m already getting a headache.

A review of her past posts has turned out to be an archive of insanity. More threats, reality denialism and abhorrent behavior such as threatening a teenage boy who survived watching his high school classmates murdered. On Wednesday, Fred Guttenberg, a parent of a child killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Fla., released a video of Greene haranguing David Hogg…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.

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