Incoming House member says "masks are oppressive" as U.S. breaks record for daily COVID-19 cases

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has drawn criticism for her support of the QAnon conspiracy theory, said Friday that "masks are oppressive" during orientation for incoming representatives. Greene's comments come as over 240,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, with the U.S. breaking another record for daily cases on Thursday.

"Our first session of New Member Orientation covered COVID in Congress. Masks, masks, masks....I proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive. In GA, we work out, shop, go to restaurants, go to work, and school without masks. My body, my choice. #FreeYourFace," Greene, who was elected to a district in northwest Georgia last week, wrote on Twitter.

Anyone who enters the Capitol complex are required to wear masks while on Capitol grounds. The mayor of Washington, D.C. has also ordered people must wear masks while in public. Public health experts agree wearing a mask helps to mitigate the spread of the virus.

Greene will likely be a firebrand in Congress, as she has posted racist videos, shared QAnon posts and floated conspiracy theories about the September 11 terrorist attacks. Although the House passed a bipartisan resolution condemning QAnon earlier this year, Republicans seem ready to embrace Greene.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-incoming-house-member-says-masks-are-oppressive-covid-19-surge/

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy falsely told reporters on Thursday that Greene had denounced QAnon - Gee, a GOPer lied????

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1. surgeons should be free to operate on patients maskless!! freedummmmmb!!!1!!1!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. How about pants? Are pants oppressive? Laws everywhere say

people have to wear pants. Why are masks oppressive and pants are not?

[murielm99]

22. My pants are oppressive because

I have gained weight since the pandemic. My pants make it hard to breathe!

[keithbvadu2]

24. It's the dryer. Gotta be the dryer.

It's the dryer. Gotta be the dryer.

[IronLionZion]

26. Freedom! Things down there gotta breathe

[PSPS]

3. She can be refused her seat as per Article I, Section 5

[mpcamb]

17. Start the chant, "Lock her up!"

[olegramps]

31. Republicans are just repulsive slimy creatures. I have grown to actually despise them.

[bdamomma]

4. Then

she can leave if she doesn't want to a mask.

Republicans should not be called "republicans" they are traitors.

[Arazi]

5. I really hope Nancy Pelosi smacks this shithead down HARD

The first time she tries to enter the House without a mask. She needed to be much more assertive this summer with Gym Jordan etc.

If she let's these lunatics coast on this imperative health mandate it's only going to empower these fucking nutjobs

[apnu]

6. That's gonna win friends and influence people.

Not!

[wcmagumba]

7. Reminds me of a line by Judas in the old musical "Godspell"...

"someone's got to be oppressed"...its near the end of song...

[Karma13612]

8. What stellar

Representatives we have in the halls of the United States Congress.

Such role models.

[Javaman]

9. as long as morons like this exist we are never getting past this virus until there

are bodies in their own homes.


the repuke credo: unless something directly effect me, it doesn't exist.

[Wuddles440]

10. "My body, my choice"

So I'm assuming that also applies to her views on abortion and a women's right to choose......

[not_the_one]

14. Excellent point. She should be asked that very question.

Who knew they were all such delicate little flowers?

If I can suffer through my glasses constantly fogging up, they can shut up and mask.

They are willing to infect others to make a selfish political point (which amounts to nothing more than screaming the fact that they are racist, sexist, homophobic, immigrant haters, and are a rabid turd supporter).

Quite frankly, I don't care if those with this attitude take another breath. Let them die, it would greatly improve the basic stock of humans. Fucks? Still out. Delivery of fresh fucks are currently delayed, lost somewhere in a stack of mail-in ballots, probably somewhere in South Carolina.

But unfortunately, as they die they will take many innocents with them.

Sad. Bigly.

[mjvpi]

40. Oh absolutely. Republicans are nothing if not consistent

[fierywoman]

11. Death is more oppressive than a mask.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. The most obvious question to these people is "how does it NOT help?"

Do they believe particles of infected droplets can be projected into the air through the mouth or nose and others close could catch viruses? Even like the common cold?

If they believe this basic fact, then how do they explain that covering ones mouth and nose, preventing most of those particles from entering the air space around them, is NOT helping?

I think sometimes reporters try and make it more complicated, or political, than it has to be. Just ask her that simple question. I've never heard any one of these no-maskers, asked this basic simple logical question. And be made to answer it.

[Lars39]

13. They don't believe in germ theory.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. So then they'd be perfectly OK with their surgeon showing up

to operate on them in street clothes, with no mask or surgical gloves - like in the old days before the acceptance of germ theory, when people routinely died of septicemia following surgery.

[Lars39]

20. Probably

They only know how doctors dress because of tv.

[LiberalLovinLug]

30. Yeah. I think the vast majority of Republicans would agree

There may be some that don't believe in germs at all. But I think that is a tiny minority.

I mean most have direct proof growing up. If someone close to them, family or a friend, has a bad cold, and then they get the same strain of virus, they would have no hesitation in deducting that they got their cold from their family/friend. And that it could have been simply through the air. And yes, add to that your surgery example.

I just have never heard any of them, especially those in leadership positions, asked this simple question before, framed that way.

[Maeve]

15. Coffins are worse

[chowder66]

33. +1

[mcar]

18. She actually said, "my body, my choice?"

Irony really is dead.

[groundloop]

19. Yep...... comedy seems to write itself with these people.

[COL Mustard]

39. I Guess So, As Long As She Holds Her Breath

So the rest of us around her don't have to be exposed. I think 15-20 minutes should do it.

[relayerbob]

21. Idiots, esp Covidiots, are much more oppressive

[ananda]

23. I wonder how many people have to get Covid..

and how many have to die before people realize
that the GOP is a death cult and literally stop
voting for death.

[keithbvadu2]

25. "masks are oppressive" - Death is liberating.

"masks are oppressive" - Death is liberating.

Your death of course.

[NurseJackie]

27. She's scheduled for a meeting with Herman Cain. He can fill her in.

[mjvpi]

41. Good one!

[DanieRains]

28. The Stupid Burns - Seat Belts Are An Encroachment On Freedom So Are Motorcycle Helmets

And yes, so are pants.

The Stupid Just Burns

[CottonBear]

29. Fuck off, Marjorie.

CB from GA

[Dem forever]

32. Q-Anon bitch

This is the same north Ga red neck that believes in the most crazy conspiracies. No brains in that part of GA. They are mostly inbreeds. Ga went blue for the first time in 28 years. But not in them there hills. I live just north of Atlanta and 40% don’t wear mask the further north you go. It’s really sad how ignorant they are up in that part of the state. she is a nut job for sure. Makes up proud that she represents GA...... NOT

[Tommymac]

34. Go eat bleach you Qanon fuck. Waste of good oxygen.

Nancy better smack her ass down and fast once she is sworn in.

I am so sick of these 'christian' racist science denying fucks.

[Miigwech]

35. She will get COVID soon.

[DownriverDem]

36. Hey Lady

stay home then. Oh you can't? Then wear a damn mask!

[Botany]

37. How about 6' of dirt on your coffin? That is pretty damn oppressive.

Or 1,400 to 1,800 degrees F for 3 hours during cremation that might be oppressive too.

Congresswoman Q's talk like this might help getting 2 D senators from GA.

[COL Mustard]

38. Hey Dumbass, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Don't Want To Wear A Mask?

Don't wear one. Don't cover your stupid piehole. Get COVID. See if I care.

Idiot.

Tomorrow I'll write a post that tells you exactly how I feel.

[birdographer]

42. All I have to say to the clowns

who don't wear masks, and we have a lot of them here, is that if you don't like wearing a mask, you are really not going to like a ventilator.

[warmfeet]

43. Death is not oppresive, not at all.

Get your free dumbs with the repugs.

[Kablooie]

44. Suffocating in ER is more oppressive you ignorant worm!

[Cryptoad]

45. What teh Hell,,, next thingy u know

damn Gubermint will want us to stop our god given right to dump our shit and piss out in our own back yards......

Freedumb forever!

[Midnight Writer]

46. Oppressive is not being able to leave your house without some yokel blowing sputum at you.

[Judi Lynn]

47. You may as well be dead if you can't see all of that heavenly Q-loving face, and her gun.

[Takket]

48. if she's going to spew that bullshit, Pelosi should censure her

[BobTheSubgenius]

49. "denounced QAnon"

In that she hasn't posted a QAnon meme in a few days?