<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rep. <keyword id="11917797" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marjorie-taylor-greene" source="Orion">Marjorie Taylor Greene</keyword> unleashed a broadside against "weak and moderate" <keyword id="11899267" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="republicans" source="Orion">Republicans</keyword> in a 38-part <keyword id="11892744" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="twitter" source="Orion">Twitter</keyword> thread.</li><li>The Georgia lawmaker said that her <keyword id="11917127" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gop" source="Orion">GOP</keyword> colleagues are "doing nothing" to stop President Joe Biden.</li><li>Greene also said that she has "no confidence" in the current Republican leadership.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-critical-race-theory-outlawed-2021-7">Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> criticized her fellow GOP members of Congress, who she called "weak and moderate," in a lengthy Twitter rant on Friday afternoon, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com./marjorie-taylor-greene-launches-twitter-rant-weak-moderate-republicans-1628124">Newsweek</a> first reported.In a <a href="https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1436364437007523845?s=20">38-part Twitter thread</a> addressed to her "colleagues," the <a href="https://www.insider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-compared-businesses-not-letting-in-unvaccinated-segregation-2021-7">controversial Georgia lawmaker</a> vowed to be "more direct than usual" in her condemnation of other Republicans."Since Dictator Joe Biden started phase 1 of the Dems' Communist takeover of America yesterday &amp; I don't have a GOP Conference call on my calendar or an email in my inbox from leadership to stop this insanity," she wrote. This is seemingly a reference to President Joe Biden's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/vaccine-law-expert-explains-likely-legal-challenges-biden-vaccine-mandate-2021-9">Thursday announcement</a> on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-reaction-biden-vaccine-mandate-revolt-disobedience-lawsuits-fox-news-2021-9">federal vaccine requirements.</a>In the Twitter thread, she went on to accuse Republicans in Congress of failing to '"deliver key issues that were of utmost importance" to GOP voters, citing repealing Obamacare, defunding Planned parenthood, and funding a border wall as examples of broken promises."I give speeches to hundreds to thousands of Republican voters every single week at home and all across the country," Greene said in a later tweet. "Our voters are fed up with Republicans in Congress doing nothing to stop Dictator Joe Biden and the outright destruction to our country."She later took a jab at "experienced" Republicans. "You all should hear what your wealthiest most successful donors are saying about you all and your lack of real action while Democrats burn our country to the ground with a dementia patient at the wheel," she wrote.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1436364461292544002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>Greene then urged Republicans to get their "asses in gear" if the party has a chance of winning elections in 2022 or 2024 before calling on her colleagues to impeach Biden.The freshman congresswoman first <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-rep-marjorie-taylor-green-wants-to-impeach-joe-biden-2021-1">introduced articles of impeachment</a> against Biden one day after he was inaugurated.Referring to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-voting-to-impeach-trump-capitol-insurrection-2021-1">Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/house-strips-marjorie-taylor-greene-of-committee-assignments-2021-2">kick Greene off committees,</a> she described them as "Democrats in disguise" and, later, as "weak and moderate Republicans."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1436365401022140418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>She added that she had "no confidence" in the current Republican leadership. "I'm going to continue my promise to put The People over the politicians and fight like hell to Save America," she concluded.A day after the Republicans voted to banish Greene from her congressional committees in February 2021, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/politics/majorie-taylor-greene-republican-party.html">The New York Times reported</a> that she said that the punishment had "freed" her to hold the GOP "accountable" and to push the party further to the right.

Marjorie Taylor Greene rants against 'weak and moderate' Republican colleagues and their failure to stop 'Dictator Joe Biden'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Despite passing unanimously in the Senate, 14 House Republicans voted against the bill to make <keyword id="9375010" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="juneteenth">Juneteenth</keyword> a national holiday.</li><li>Their reasoning was terrible and and at the core revealed something simple: they don't support Black people.</li><li>The 14 are modern segregationists and should be considered as such.</li><li>This is an <keyword id="6356002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="opinion">opinion</keyword> column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.</li></ul>Earlier this month, President <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/juneteenth-federal-holiday-biden-signs-bill.html">Joe Biden signed a bill proclaiming Juneteenth,</a> a day celebrating the end of slavery, as a federal holiday. That bill had been unanimously passed by the Senate and passed the House 415 to 14. It was a rare moment of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill for everyone but those 14 Representatives, all Republican, who voted against it. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007551309/14-house-republicans-voted-against-making-juneteenth-a-federal-holiday">The 14</a> are a veritable who's who of the most objectionable names in <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword>. They represent the cutting edge of those who want to return America to the worst parts of its past. These 14 come from a long tradition of legislators standing in the way of justice and progress. In the 1950's they would've stood in the way of integrated schools. In the 1960's they would've voted against civil rights. They are today's George Wallaces. <h2>Pretzel logic</h2>Among the Members of Congress who voted against Juneteenth are some recognizable names: Reps. Paul Gosar, Thomas Massie, Ralph Norman. Each of them twisted themselves into a pretzel to make their argument against recognizing the holiday - but at the core of it they were really saying something simple: they don't support Black people. Gosar is probably the least surprising name on this list. He has a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gosar-racism-remarks/2021/02/27/64f8ffa4-7901-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html">bit of a reputation</a> for cozying up with white power activists, and his excuse, that Juneteenth is <a href="https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4426">"critical race theory in action</a>," doesn't even pretend to hide that his objections are racist in nature. Norman claims he opposes Juneteenth because he thinks it will be <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRalphNorman/status/1405346748881674240">too costly</a> for federal workers to have another day off. But South Carolina, his home state, <a href="https://www.wistv.com/2021/05/09/south-carolina-observe-confederate-memorial-day/">closed down on Confederate Memorial Day</a>, a far more objectionable holiday. From what I could see, Norman has not raised any objections to that holiday, which would suggest an ulterior motive for opposing Juneteenth. Remember, the Senate unanimously voted to make Juneteenth a national holiday. That includes the likes of Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Josh Hawley, who helped foment the January 6 insurrection. This new Gang of 14 have built a new level of divisive <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword>.<h2>Juneteenth forever</h2><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html">Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865</a>, the day on which Union General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and informed the formerly enslaved people there that they were free. The emancipation of Black Americans is something unequivocally worth celebrating, as it was the first step in the ongoing struggle to eradicate the racism that has long infected the American state and body politic. It is frankly remarkable it took more than 150 years to recognize it with a federal holiday.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/republicans-against-juneteenth.html">In many of their objections</a>, the 14 protested that calling Juneteenth an independence day cheapened the 4th of July. Thomas Massie claimed that calling Juneteenth "independence day" (the official name of the holiday is Juneteenth National Independence Day) could <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1405305699941421057">"create confusion" and "push Americans to pick"</a> between Juneteenth and July 4th. This is an absurd notion on its face. No one has suggested eliminating the July 4th holiday, except for the people against Juneteenth. All of the objections, no matter the language used, are coming from a racist place. We have to look no further than the past comments of the 14 "nos" to figure that out. Rep. Mo Brooks was one of the 14. When Jeff Sessions was nominated for Attorney General, Brooks said the criticism of Sessions' past was part of a "<a href="https://www.al.com/news/2017/01/mo_brooks_criticism_of_jeff_se.html">war on whites</a>"' that mirrors the most heinous of white nationalist talking points. During the recent wave of anti-Asian hate crimes, Rep. Andy Biggs voted against a resolution condemning them, calling it "<a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-epidemics-legislation-asia-c91a5ef22ee5854624cb415a3836091d">woke culture on steroids.</a>" It really comes as no surprise that he voted against Juneteenth as well. The examples go on, but the history is clear. The 14 are modern racists, today's segregationists. The most extreme of the extreme. And fully representative of the current brand of Republican politics.

14 House GOP members just revealed themselves as modern segregationists

<ul class="summary-list"><li>House Republican leaders were worried about <keyword id="9740457" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marjorie-taylor-greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</keyword> back in the summer, <a href="https://www.axios.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-2621093b-13f1-491d-8256-366436171793.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=organic&amp;utm_content=1100content=1100">Axios reported.</a></li><li><keyword id="107893" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="GOP">GOP</keyword> members had discussions about how best to deal with the conspiracy theorist. </li><li>Greene faces a new wave of condemnation for past social media posts.</li></ul>Before she was even elected to Congress, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was giving House Republican leaders reason to worry, <a href="https://www.axios.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-2621093b-13f1-491d-8256-366436171793.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=organic&amp;utm_content=1100content=1100">according to Axios.</a>In past days, Greene has faced a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-conspiracy-theories-mass-shootings-parkland-vegas-2021-1">wave of condemnation for past social media posts</a> in which she spread radical conspiracy theories and endorsed executing Democratic leaders.Her comments prompted House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-taylor-greenes-disturbing-comments-prompt-mccarthy-to-respond-2021-1">Kevin McCarthy to acknowledge the "disturbing" comments</a> and say he would have a conversation with the freshman lawmaker. But Republicans were having conversations about Greene's potentially damaging impacts on the party months ago.In meetings last summer, GOP members discussed their fears that Greene would be bad for the party, before eventually setting them aside, Axios reported.Former North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker was particularly vocal, calling Greene "crazy," and House GOP whip Steve Scalise and Rep. Liz Cheney also spoke up, according to Axios. The three reportedly plotted how best to deal with the candidate in House Minority Leader <keyword id="963658" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kevin-McCarthy">Kevin McCarthy</keyword>'s office during leadership meetings. Insider reached out to McCarthy and Greene for comment.McCarthy and Scalise both released statements condemning Greene and both endorsed and fundraised for her primary opponent, John Cowan, but she eventually beat him by more than 10,000 votes. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/qanon-republicans-trump-support-reject-marjorie-taylor-greene-conspiracy-2020-9">McCarthy didn't do much more</a> once it became obvious Greene would be coming to Washington. He even told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/12/mccarthy-qanon-questions-394439">Politico</a> in August that he was looking forward to her joining the caucus. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/qanon-republicans-trump-support-reject-marjorie-taylor-greene-conspiracy-2020-9">Scalise told Insider</a> in September that he thought she had "moved away" from her <keyword id="9152811" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="qanon">QAnon</keyword> roots. Cowan told Axios he had conversations with McCarthy and Scalise in which both agreed Greene was problematic for the party. "I said she has real problems and does not represent, at least what I think of as, someone who would be allowed even in a big-tented party. I mean, at some point, you have to say, 'No shoes, no shirt, no service,'" Cowan told Axios.Greene poses a problem for McCarthy, who must now decide if he will continue his policy of punishing members who make dangerous comments. In 2019, Iowa <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-king-stripped-of-house-committee-assignments-after-white-supremacy-report-2019-1">Rep. Steve King was stripped from his committee assignments</a> after he publicly questioned why terms like "white nationalism" and "white supremacy" had become offensive. Cowan said everyone was aware of Greene's persona and who she was."I would say they all knew she was going to be a problem," Cowan told Axios. "Maybe they just assumed that the awe of winning an election would calm her down a little bit, and so she would actually be interested in governing and be interested in policy, and she's just clearly not. She is literally there for a stage production."

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