Apr 16, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Town Hall Goes OFF THE RAILS
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted constituents who attempted to fact-check her.
- 12 minutes
Illegal alien criminals,
cartels and terrorists that are
not just living at the border.
Ladies and gentlemen, they're all
inside the interior of the United States.
How about all inside the interior
of the United States?
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Going after the protesters outside.
Thank you very much.
- Protesters outside.
- You want money?
You can head out. The protest is outside.
The propaganda is in here.
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You gotta keep those segregated
as you must keep all things.
So that's Marjorie Greene.
She's having her little town hall.
And that woman who I think raised a really
good point, which we'll talk about.
It's not the only person
who got removed now.
She thankfully, was just removed.
Other people were the recipients
of a little bit of state violence.
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So that's fun.
But what you saw there was Marge
trying to spread her little talking points
that she is so desperate to cling to from
before the election that we are obviously
awash in millions of migrant murderers.
And so the Constitution
just set that aside.
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Don't worry about all that.
We could do literally whatever we want
to get rid of these people.
And I know what you're thinking.
All the studies show
that the vast, vast, vast majority
of the people we're deporting
have no criminal record whatsoever.
But ignore that.
Wouldn't it be better
if they were murderers?
Would you shut up and just sit down
and let us do whatever we want?
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If they were murderers.
So the woman brings up the KKK.
Okay, well,
that's a terrorist organization.
It's literally a terrorist organization
with a multi-century history
of doing terrible things.
She's going to say
one single word about them.
Should they be deported to El Salvador?
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Are there hardly black or brown?
Forget about them.
And so you had a number of people
who were interrupting it.
And look at these sorts of town halls.
If you if you yell, if you interrupt,
they're generally going to make you leave.
But it got more violent than just that.
So she had barely reached the podium
to speak when one man stood up and started
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yelling, booing and jeering at her.
And she didn't like that.
I know you'd probably think she'd be used
to it by now, but she was taken aback.
So her supporters, which exist, stood
and clapped, so police officers grabbed
the man and dragged him out of the room.
They also used a stun gun on him twice
after failing to put his arms
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behind his back.
And he wasn't the only person
that got stunned.
So Greene began to play a video
of former President Barack Obama
discussing the national debt.
He contributed to it. So that's bad.
The fact that Trump added $8 trillion to
the national debt, I'm sure, also probably
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had a video presentation from Greene.
But anyway, another guy was removed.
This is Johnny Keith Williams of Georgia.
He had started to heckle her.
They stunned him as well.
Six people in total were escorted out,
three were arrested
and two were hit with stun guns,
which are referred to as non-lethal.
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But of course, people have died
thanks to those.
So, not as raucous as some of the town
halls, although it's hard to imagine
that it's just a coincidence that it's
Green's Town Hall, where we're all
of a sudden having the weapons being used.
There's been disruptions of
Republican town halls for months now, and
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this is the first I've seen of stun guns.
Brett. But what do you think?
Not as raucous as some of the town halls.
What happened?
Did someone like, you know,
explode a glitter bomb or something?
Was there shrapnel that there was a stunt?
You just told?
Stun gun stories.
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I always wondered, like, I guess I assumed
that at every time that, like,
if we were to join Marjorie Taylor Green
in the middle of whatever she's doing.
I mean, it was amazing that the first
thing she said was illegal aliens.
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Like, she's always talking like this.
This is the thing where,
like, it's so weird.
You have some people be like, can we
please treat all individuals with some
modicum of respect and at least listen
to people when they're, like, discussing
their like, identities or anything.
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And it's like,
you guys are psychopaths, right?
But like, Marjorie Taylor Greene
is spinning whole yarns about hordes
and hordes of secret gangs that are trying
to kidnap your child at night.
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And how are they not treated like psychos?
It's because we've gone nose blind
to the psychosis.
It's such a weird position we're in
where like, that is insane.
What was said before
the woman in the audience was like.
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That's crazy.
Like she heard something,
so she said something, and everyone just
kind of goes along with it, like, oh,
it's this weird defense of Trump
where it's like, oh, he's just lying.
Oh. Marjorie Taylor Greene Oh,
she's just kind of stupid and a weirdo.
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So she just kind of says the vaguely
party line things that the Republicans
have been kind of elbowing into normalcy
for years and years and years.
And we're just supposed to like,
like, sit down and take it.
- I just.
- Yeah.
It's so strange,
but it's like, so sad at the same time.
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Yeah, it's it's really
gross to see someone
with at least a little bit of power.
I mean, she doesn't really have
any independent power.
She's just going to do whatever Donald
Trump tells her to do, but that she's
she's just a random, gross bigot.
That's all that she is.
She happened to be in an area
that's red enough that you can just be
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a gross, dumb bigot and still get elected.
And so she stands up there.
And does she even know the analyzes of,
like, those who've been sent to Venezuela,
like 77% had no criminal record
whatsoever, including like shoplifting,
littering, anything like that.
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And then once you include those,
it's basically like the sorts of criminals
she's talking about was like less
than 1% of those who were deported.
And I think that's not just a thing
to point out because it
makes her look stupid and wrong.
That would be enough.
I would do it if that was all it was.
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But it's more important than that.
It's a refutation of the entire narrative.
If there were actually all of these
terrible criminals, rapists, murderers,
all of that, then they'd be packing planes
with them and they'd be advertising.
Everyone on Fox News would just be Jesse
Watters showing like a brown face and then
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listing all the victims as he, you know.
I'm not going to say what he's doing
under the table at the same time,
but he'd be very excited about it.
Okay.
But they're not doing that
because they can't do that because they
don't have those sorts of criminals.
It's not true because it wasn't true
when they were saying it.
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And that is good news for America.
I understand if you're like in MAGA,
you're like, no,
it's my precious narrative.
Don't take it from me.
No. It's good to find out that apparently
your country actually isn't filled
with terrible foreign born murderers.
That's a good thing.
You should not shy away from good news.
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You should embrace it.
Marjorie Greene, same to you.
You should embrace that news.
But she doesn't embrace
inconvenient things, truths, constituents.
She was like heckling those people,
basically like insulting them
as they're asking questions.
Why don't we play a little bit more
from the town hall?
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What are you doing to protect us
in the 14th district from the damage
and extreme hardship of Trump's tariffs,
gutting of Social Security and Medicaid?
Oh, Doge.
Gutting our government
with a chainsaw approach
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and the utter destruction and ignoring
of our Constitution and rule of law.
He is not well, physically or mentally,
and he's making nonsensical orders
based on his his whim of the day.
How are you going to rein him in
to protect us?
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Oh, poor Christina. Poor, poor Christina.
Well, I'm sure Christina, you think
that you're pretty smart, but the reality
is you are being completely brainwashed
by whatever source of news you listen to.
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The facts are this no one has
lost their Social Security.
No one has lost their benefits.
Criminals have lost it.
And if you want to defend those people
where you hate our country and you
hate America, what am I going to do?
- I am going to stand by my president.
- No, no, you will, you will.
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There's a little bit of hypocrisy there
that you're standing by.
Your president, who is himself guilty
of literally dozens of felonies.
You're standing by him.
An actual criminal.
Kilmer. Abrego.
Garcia. No crimes.
No crimes at all.
So why is it that he doesn't have
a criminal record?
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But you talk about him
as if he's a terrorist.
Donald Trump already adjudicated
civilly responsible for sexual assault,
literally dozens of felonies and more than
likely would have suffered more guilty
verdicts for felonies if the Supreme Court
hadn't swooped in and saved him.
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And like, you go through that laundry list
and I appreciate
that she read the entire thing.
You can read that
as her being brave enough
to read the entire thing before answering.
For me, it's that I think that her
grasp on literacy is so tenuous that she
can't read something, while simultaneously
seeing the rest of the paragraph
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out of the corner of her eye.
It's an important skill,
like when you're presenting news
or when you're doing a town hall.
She doesn't have it. Unfortunately.
She got through the entire sentence.
Some of the words
started to trip her up a little bit.
But what what exactly
was Christina wrong about?
The trade war
is not going to cause hardships.
It's not going
to cause prices to go up it.
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Obviously, obviously is going to do that.
Nobody's lost Social Security.
We've literally profiled
individuals that have.
You don't get to cut the regional staff
by 80%, shut down the online services,
and assume that that's probably going to
not have any negative effect whatsoever.
And notice she mentioned that Christina
was wrong, I guess, about Medicaid cuts,
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but then didn't actually talk about it
anymore because what, in a day or two,
she's going to be voting
for massive cuts to Medicaid.
That's her plan.
Right now,
she needs to pretend that Christina.
Oh, she watches Rachel Maddow.
She's clearly crazy or whatever,
but Marjorie Greene
knows exactly how right she is.
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And she knows that Donald Trump
is flouting not only the law,
but the Constitution.
She knows that because she loves that she
doesn't want him to comply with it.
Due process is not in her system
of values, and she's fine with the fact
that it's not in Donald Trump's either.
And so, like, she's the congressperson,
she's behind the podium.
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But Christina clearly, objectively
deserves that position
more than Marjorie Greene, right?
Yeah.
I mean, I like it when she's like, listen,
you've been brainwashed by your news
source, and that's our news sources job.
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My job is to brainwash you like she
is trying to justify Trump's approach,
to tariffs as some kind of strategy.
It is not the the it is giving button
masher in Street Fighter two like that
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is Trump's entire strategy.
I don't know if people are from
the same generation I'm from,
but we used to have these arcade games.
One of them was called Street Fighter two,
and you get someone
who was really great and memorized all
the button sequences to do the moves,
and then you'd go up against someone
who was just mashing all the buttons.
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Usually that person would lose, so the
person who knew what they were doing,
but occasionally the person mashing
the buttons would land a jab or a thousand
hand slap and and they would claim victory
as being this wildly skilled person.
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But that is what Trump is doing.
Well, and Marjorie Taylor Greene
is trying to paint him as being this kind
of international economic genius when all
he's done is like bankrupted casinos.
I love your metaphor,
but I think the accurate metaphor in this
would be that he was button mashing.
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He lost and then claimed victory
Because the stock market is still down,
prices are still going to be going up.
- We still have the tariff on China.
- Plan.
Is 245% right now. That is not a win.
He did not win.
They are declaring victory
because he cut the stock market by 20%.
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And then it went back up 11.
And now they're cheering.
They're celebrating.
That's that's a loss
to any rational person.
There is.
There is no rationality
I the more I think about it
I feel bad for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I mean, she's earned better than that.
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I mean, has she ever, during an official
proceeding, heckled someone from the
audience besides the state of the Union?
No. Maybe if there is some kind
of justice in this world,
next time she heckles a president,
she gets tased and escorted out.
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Maybe.
And it's weird because, like,
she should be nicknamed Taser face.
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