The GOP has become the GOQ

QAnon conspiracy monger Marjorie Taylor Greene is the new Queen of the Stupid Caucus

Well, it’s finally happened.  The Grand Old Party, long referred to by the initials GOP for its key role in preserving the Union during the Civil war, has completed its transformation into the GOQ with its reflexive support of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the newly-elected member of Congress from Georgia who has made a career out of spreading the conspiracies and falsehoods of the QAnon movement, which believes that the Democratic Party is controlled by a committee of Lizard People and pedophiles determined to eat the flesh of children they have abused while they’re simultaneously destroying America.

I can hardly believe I just wrote that sentence, but reviewing it, I can see that every single syllable is correct and accurate.  Who knew as recently as five years ago that we would be awakening to this new world where 75 percent of Republicans believe that Trump won the election and the only reason he lost is because Democrats “stole” it from him?  Who knew we would reach the point where more than 30 percent of Republicans have a “favorable” view of QAnon conspiracies, according to a new poll released by YouGov?  Could you have predicted that as recently as three months ago, 41 percent of Republicans told Pew researchers that QAnon conspiracy theories were “good” for the country, that 32 percent thought QAnon was “somewhat good,” and that nine percent of Republicans thought QAnon was “very good”?

The old cliché that we are in uncharted waters springs immediately to mind, except that this time the waters have been explored and charted only too well over the last five years that Donald Trump, purveyor of more than 30,000 lies and spreader of numerous conspiracy theories himself, held sway over the country.  Marjorie Taylor Greene stood up on the floor of the House today and attempted to save herself from being stripped of her committee assignments by giving a speech in which she essentially claimed that she said all those crazy things about Parkland and Sandy Hook being “fake” school shootings because she was misled.  I was watching her on MSNBC and my jaw almost hit the coffee table when I heard her explain that she was “caused to believe these things.” 

There it is, right there, the very essence of why the GOP has become the GOQ.  We’ve reached the point in America where people no longer claim purchase over their own lives.  They are, like Ms. Greene, mere sheep being herded by far more clever border collies like Donald Trump into pens held open by Fox News and OANN Network and NewsMax, where they are force-fed like geese by QAnon, Breitbart, the Daily Caller, RedsState and Epoch Times and similar right-wing outlets.  What emerges from this factory-farm of gibbering lunacy is a piece of redneck goose liver like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the reigning Queen of the Republican Stupid Caucus, a gaggle of drooling half-wits and stumble-bums who couldn’t flush a toilet if someone didn’t take their hand and guide them to the handle.

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has attempted to take the helm of this lifeboat full of losers with predictable results.  The GOQ caucus gave Greene a standing ovation last night when she stood up to defend herself from charges that she tweeted Nancy Pelosi’s location during the storming of the Capitol, not to mention endorsing Pelosi’s murder. They treat her like a hero rather than a nemesis.

Here we are, folks. Trump is at Mar a Lago pulling strings and the insane clown puppets are back in Washington flapping their wooden jaws and repeating his lies and refusing to hold him accountable for even a single thing he’s done. Incredibly, Republicans will likely vote Trump innocent in the Senate two weeks from now.  I read the excerpts in the New York Times from the speech made by Aleksei Navalny at his sentencing in Moscow, where he called Putin the poisoner of underpants and a little man hiding in a bunker, and I was ashamed not for Russia, but for my own country.  Instead of Aleksei Navalny, we have Marjorie Taylor Greene.  God help us.