Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.
This from the guy who is shacking up with Frank Luntz. The comments from Mitch McConnel were just as despicable.
So let us take this incident apart piece by piece.
First, the masks. All masks are not equal. None of the masks, including the highly touted N95, can prevent the Covid-19 virus from entering your respiratory system. Just slapping a piece of cotton across your pie-hole may make you feel “secure” but you are bullshitting yourself. If wearing a face mask actually did prevent the spread of the disease I would be the first to encourage it. But it does not, so the wearing of the mask is more of a religious talisman.
Second, if you are vaccinated you do not need to wear a mask. If you have had Covid, you have the same kind of anti-bodies generated by a vaccine. Therefore, you do not need to wear a mask. If an un-vaccinated person is scurrying about without a mask they are not putting you at risk. So why do you care? If you are vaccinated or have anti-bodies they are no risk to you.
Forcing people to wear masks that have nothing to do with actual medical science is a political act for the express purpose of identifying people who are not vaccinated. Which brings me to the “gold star.”
How did Hitler and the rest of his Nazi thugs know who the Jews were? Ugly Nazi propaganda notwithstanding, which depicted Jews as serpents and vermin (the image below appeared on the cover of Der Strummer in 1934).
You cannot identify who is a Jew by mere observation. Jews come in all shapes, colors and sizes. That is why Hitler and his henchmen needed an identifying badge. Hence the Star of David (now for some actual history courtesy of the US Holocaust Museum):
During the Nazi era, German authorities reintroduced the Jewish badge as a key element in their plan to persecute and eventually to destroy the Jewish population of Europe. They used the badge not only to stigmatize and humiliate Jews but also to segregate them and to watch and control their movements. The badge also facilitated deportation. . . .
In September 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, individual German military and civilian authorities imposed the Jewish badge in certain Polish towns and villages, the first being decreed in the town of Wloclawek on October 29, 1939. In the General Government, View This Term in the Glossary that part of Poland directly occupied by Germany, Governor General Hans Frank ordered on November 23, 1939, that all Jews over the age of ten wear a “Jewish Star”: a white armband affixed with a blue six-sided star, worn over the right upper sleeve of one’s outer garments. There were heavy penalties for those caught not wearing it.
The Democrat push for people to wear masks is to facilitate identification. It has no scientific or medical basis in fact in protecting people from spreading this virus. But it can be useful as a tool of political coercion.
No law has been passed. The injunctions on wearing masks are decrees by political figures. I have stopped counting the number of times that I have seen many of those political figures who demand the peasants wear masks, running around maskless. Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer are two of the more prominent mask hypocrites that come to mind. They will lock you down and lock you up while they go party. That is Nazi behavior in my book.
The Nazis enslaved and abused millions of people based on the whims of their leader. MTG is simply calling out the Democrats for compelling average citizens to behave in a particular way based on the whims of political masters.
And this goes beyond the issue of coercing mask-wearing. Yes, people have been arrested and jailed for not wearing a mask. It ain’t law but it gets you put in the slammer. But this abuse of police powers goes beyond the masks. Americans right now are being held in solitary confinement for entering the U.S. Capitol–i.e., the alleged crime of trespassing. No habeus corpus and no chorus of protest from Republican leaders decrying this violation of Constitutional rights.
God bless MTG. Rather than address her comments substantively, the mob of brownshirts masquerading as the Democrat establishment rely instead on character assassination and bullying. That is exactly how former thugs reacted when challenged. Nancy Pelosi and Chuckie Schumer remind me of Roland Freisler, an infamous Nazi judge known for his histrionics.
Larry, If MJG was talking about compulsory wearing of masks, I think she could have found a better target.
Firstly, the mask is worn to stop you spreading Covid – 19 to other people if you have it, not preventing you from getting Covid. The mask does this by trapping your exhaled aerosols – which it does very well. That is why they are worn in operating theatres.
Therefore the mask is a legitimate tool for stopping the spread of infection.
The next question is whether the States have the legal and moral right to insist on citizens taking precautions for the purpose of public health in certain situations, like mask wearing. I think they probably do.
I think MJG could have picked a better target, like “cancel culture” – which is definitely undemocratic and threatening.
She is just getting the same treatment handed out to AOC. Something is triggering about relatively attractive younger women having opinions. For some reason the media is incapable of ignoring them.
Glad she is there to give as good as she gets, and with more intelligence and deep conviction than AOC. She does score verbal home runs. And still keeps the twinkle in her eye knowing this is exactly what she intended to do.
But this is side-show stuff – post lock down diversions while we wait out 2022.
Deap,
The left is going after AOC to silence her? That’s just not so.
Walrus,
keep beating the drum. “If only one life is saved” and all that. Best wear masks forever, flu season is coming in another 5 months on this side of the equator. So sorry about that ‘science’ not getting on board with saving all those other lives all those past seasons, but this is Covid – the boomer killer; and we need to take new measures….
The right tried to silence AOC by mockery and exposure of her chronic and fundamental errors. Left showcased her. Left never tried to silence AOC, though Nancy Pelosi tried to marginalized her. But not to the degree both right and left are officially striping MJG of her perks of office. But MJG still has her vote, if not a legitmate committee voice. So does AOC -so at least AOC’s vote finally got “cancelled one on one.
MJG is growing her personal soapbox -out to the hustings, where it belongs. Just not in the corrupt halls of Congress where it would be ignored – by the “least respected institution in America today.” Our own government – but the Founders knew this ahead of time, they had no respect for “government either – least is best.
“by mockery and exposure of her chronic and fundamental errors” Is not silencing, they are not the same thing at all.
Larry,
Thanks, I appreciate your insights and your taking the time to write and post them.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: the Anti-Karen!
Buildings burned in the nation’s Capital, was that an ‘insurrection’?
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1399530973356773379
IRS targeting “conservatives” while Joe was VP, now to have 87,000 more agents. Nothing to see here, move along and MTG is Raaaaaacist!
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1399721152407388161
No wonder they want to silence this woman. Meanwhile Frank Luntz’s roomie with a sweetheart mansion rental deal joins in the “Racism” Hitler!! outrage. Paul Ryan must be proud of his legacy.
Good point about Obama era weaponization of IRS against conservative “Tea Party” grass roots groups. And Lois Lerner’s missing hard drives who was never held accountable for her misfeasance either.
A real Democrat thing – accuse the innocent of crimes; and get your own documented wrong doing off with nary a tarnish. Can’t have a country that way. And this two-sided justice system has trickled down to the local level making even every day transactions fraught with terror – like walking in your own neighborhood in broad daylight.
All America now is an inner city ghetto – is this what achieving “equity”was supposed to be about? Guess what, what wait until we see the solution this now pervasive lawlessness engenders. What was that saying about socialism shares the misery?
“All America now is an inner city ghetto….”
No.
Tom McClintock (R-Calif) is another solid conservative voice that gets cancelled:
A truism: The government can’t add money to the economy that has not been first taken out of the economy. He explains clearly the real cost of “free money”.
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/the-real-cost-of-free-money-the-inflation-tax/