Republican Congresswoman and prominent conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is once again in hot water for likening health policies amid the pandemic to the genocidal rule of the Nazi party.
This time, Greene was slamming President Joe Biden's effort to convince the country to get a vaccine for the virus that's killed over 600 thousand Americans.
As dangerous new variants of the virus continue to emerge, Biden said we needed to "go community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oft times door-to-door, literally knocking on doors" to get remaining Americans vaccinated and protected.
Greene railed against that effort in an ill-advised tweet.
Biden pushing a vaccine that is NOT FDA approved shows covid is a political tool used to control people.\n\nPeople have a choice, they don\u2019t need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations.\n\nYou can\u2019t force people to be part of the human experiment.https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1412490321770975237\u00a0\u2026— Marjorie Taylor Greene \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Marjorie Taylor Greene \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1625604877
Greene said Americans didn't need Biden's "medical Brown Shirts" knocking on their doors, alluding to the Nazi paramilitary infamous for intimidating and brutalizing Jews and other perceived enemies of the party.
To make matters worse, Greene had already generated widespread condemnation for comparing the vaccine verification policies of private companies to Nazi demands that Jews identify themselves wearing yellow Stars of David on their clothing.
That tweet came after she told the Christian Broadcasting Network:
"You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."
Greene's comments and her initial doubling-down received near-universal backlash, and even a rare rebuke from House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. Greene subsequently took a tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C.
After touring the facility, she said:
"There's nothing comparable to [the Holocaust] ... I know that words that I have stated were hurtful, and for that I'm very sorry."
Now, less than a month later, Greene is making these comparisons again—and people are calling her out.
This dumb ass went to a Holocaust museum and learned new ways to insult the memory of 6 million Jews. Unreal.https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412515350244114433\u00a0\u2026— Hoss Bonaventure, C.E.O. (@Hoss Bonaventure, C.E.O.) 1625657968
Dear GOP Rep @mtgreenee: Knocking on doors does not deprive anyone of a choice. And FDA has authorized three COVID-19 vaccines.\n\nAlso, can you please read about Brown Shirts and then delete your tweet? You\u2019re making the same offensive mistake, again.https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412515350244114433\u00a0\u2026— Ted Lieu (@Ted Lieu) 1625644298
Once again, you make me gasp in horror. How dare you invoke nazi imagery AGAIN? You are spreading misinformation about the covid vaccine, endangering your constituents in #Georgia & our nation.— Rabbi Jill Zimmerman (@Rabbi Jill Zimmerman) 1625639348
So basically you learned nothing from The Holocaust Museumhttps://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412515350244114433\u00a0\u2026— Meredith Lee (@Meredith Lee) 1625628728
I thought your little publicity stunt photo op visit to the Holocaust Museum made you realize how utterly vile and inappropriate your analogies are. And if you don\u2019t understand or believe in public health you have no business being in public office.— Jamie Schler (@Jamie Schler) 1625643475
Brown Shirts - so that Holocaust Museum visit stuck with you I see. No one will force anyone to be vaccinated, it's a non issue, you're trying make an issue.— Allen Altcoin (@Allen Altcoin) 1625605623
They skewered the idiocy of her continued public opposition to lifesaving vaccines.
If you\u2019re a congresswoman that represents one of the least vaccinated districts in the country, you could aim to protect and encourage. \n\nWhat makes you so contrarian?\n\nLet me guess: you\u2019re already fully vaccinated and know you won\u2019t need medical help.https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412515350244114433\u00a0\u2026— Dr. Vin Gupta (@Dr. Vin Gupta) 1625619018
The next time I see a movie about a worldwide catastrophe, I\u2019ll only believe it if half of the movie is people heroically fighting the disaster to save lives, and the other half is folks acting like utter f***ing morons.https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412515350244114433\u00a0\u2026— Jon Cryer (@Jon Cryer) 1625635360
We\u2019re all part of that experiment whether we like it or not. By didn\u2019t of your stupidity, paranoia and sefishness, you\u2019re effectively in the placebo grouping. Enjoy the Delta variant.https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412515350244114433\u00a0\u2026— David Simon (@David Simon) 1625631522
It's unclear if Greene intends to apologize for this latest offensive comparison.
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