Responding to an expert’s statement that “about 3.2 million” American lives have been saved by vaccines against Covid, with “over 14 million lives” saved globally, the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said: “I’m not a doctor, but I have a PhD in recognising bullshit when I hear it.”
On Capitol Hill on Thursday, Greene attended a hearing staged by the House oversight select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic.
The expert Greene responded to, Dr Peter Marks, the director of biologics evaluation and research at the Food and Drug Administration, also described how at the height of the pandemic in the US, “about 3,300 [people], about a World Trade Center disaster a day”, were dying of Covid-19, contributing to a death toll of more than 1.1m.
Marks later apologised to viewers, after Greene claimed children should not be given Covid vaccines.
Greene, from Georgia, is a former CrossFit gym owner, conspiracy theorist and controversialist who entered Congress in 2021 and has assumed an influential position in a House Republican caucus controlled by the far right.
I guarantee you that she thinks this makes her sound tough. And not extremely stupid.
That’s because her Republican base tells her she sounded tough and very smart.
Right?
Like… Marge…please… we’re all just surprised you can spell PhD correctly.
We need more people to start yelling at her through the mail slot in her office door
We shouldn’t sink to her level.
However, if someone were to press up and fart through her mail slot, I’d be okay with that.
We absolutely should.
There nothing wrong with political eye for eye
It’s right in that book they all love to quote so much… I think after the incest story, but before the part that says she has to leave the city during menstruation.
I think they’re suggesting political white eye for political brown eye.
Last time someone took a submarine down there it was a television event
Dunning-kruger effect of bullshit spotting??
She sees bullshit everywhere because she brings it