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Coming hot on the heels of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' rant claiming mens' penises are disappearing, Georgia Republican Representative and QAnon adherent Marjorie Taylor Greene is warning her followers straight people are going extinct.
In a bizarre rant during her streaming show MTG: Live, Greene asserted without irony in "four or five generations" everyone will be LGBTQ+.
Greene is fairly obsessed with LGBTQ+ people—especially trans people—and has made attacking them a cornerstone of her political career.
Greene's weird rant is just the latest right-wing tirade about the increase in self-declaring LGBTQ+ people in recent years, which many on the right seem to believe is a scam.
See Greene's take on the matter below.
Marjorie Taylor Greene predicted straight people will go extinct:
“Probably, in about four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore. Everyone will be either gay or trans or non-conforming.” pic.twitter.com/JScs7IaJ2G
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 30, 2022
According to those who study the matter, the number of out LGBTQ+ people has doubled in the last 10 years, mostly due to the U.S. having become a more tolerant place for LGBTQ+ people both culturally and legislatively.
That tolerance and acceptance has certainly eroded in recent years, however. Greene is one of several poster children for anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and attacks.
Like many of her MAGA minion colleagues, Greene seems to think the uptick in LGBTQ+ is a conspiracy of some sort.
She told her legion of followers:
"They just want you to think that all of a sudden the entire population is steadily turning gay or turning trans,"
"Just generation, generation. Probably in about four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore."
"Everyone will be either gay or trans or non-conforming or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are."
Greene then finished her absurd rant with a call for violence against LGBTQ+ people, saying a show of force against them is "'exactly how we need to stand up' against them in society."
On Twitter, many people were alarmed by Greene's rhetoric and pointed out the obvious absurdity of her points.
She recieved over 15,000 more votes in her primary than Marcus Flowers the Democratic primary winner. Its not just her. Its also the people who vote for her.#VoteBlueIn2022 pic.twitter.com/lfSJUD2qm9
— Paul Garlow 😷 🕯🍎🇺🇦 (@PaulGGarlow) May 31, 2022
Gay people existed in Old Testament times and the population of humanity has added a few billion people since then. There’s no risk of human extinction if gay people enjoy the freedom to pursue their happiness in life.
— 💙💛Massachusetts Man 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈🐕🌊✊🏾🖖 (@MassachusettsXY) May 31, 2022
what’s the issue with that exactly? that would greatly help with overpopulation, food shortages, and global warming + it would give lawmakers an excuse to pass some damn civil rights legislation
— samuel sternberg 🇺🇦 (@ssternberg16) May 31, 2022
dang I hope people in the next few generations can feel free to openly identify as their true selves like that
I hope acceptance is so widespread that everybody can feel free to be their true selves rather than having to conform to cisnormative and heteronormative identities https://t.co/1zX32K9B7i
— Kiddy "He Says Trans Rights" Kong Facts 🍌 (@KiddyKongFacts) June 1, 2022
Straight white people sure like screaming about how they're victims while straight white people are passing laws that restrict the lives of minorities and members of the LGBTQ+ communities.
Racists and hate mongers like MTG will keep stoking these fears of the weak and pathetic. https://t.co/A1WS317PXM
— newLEGACY sLip #BlackLivesMatter (@newLEGACYslip) May 31, 2022
Others of course couldn't help but make fun of her absurd statements.
just in time for pride month, marjorie taylor greene says that within 5 generations everyone will be lgbt pic.twitter.com/oBaRDLPRec
— matt (@mattxiv) May 31, 2022
Who’s taking this for the hardest pre-breakdown sample of all time? https://t.co/jHOsAIrC6x
— bring it on director’s extended cut (@ipadgrocerylist) June 1, 2022
Why do we care what Vince Neil from Motley Crue has to say about politics?
— Working Class Hero (@rassling_hero) May 31, 2022
https://t.co/b4gG5LQnuP
— Conrad Knauer (@ConradKnauer) May 31, 2022
Our secret plan to use straight people in our peach tree dish experiment is out!!!! pic.twitter.com/j4t4a50Cfy
— Viking Cat Space Force🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🐈 (@realVikingCat) May 30, 2022
Greene is among the most virulently anti-LGBTQ+ people in Congress.
She recently promised fellow crackpot Alex Jones that if re-elected she will propose a federal-level "Don't Say Gay" bill and has insinuated that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is a sexual predator.