This is her joke: "Then January 6th happens, and the next thing you know, I organized the whole thing with Steve Bannon here. And I gotta tell you something: if Steve Bannon and I had organized it, we would have won, not to mention that it would have been armed. Yeah, see, that's the whole joke, isn't it?"
She didn't say it was a good joke.
In fact, the audience also failed to see the joke by cheering over the comments rather than laughing at them. But what should we expect from young Republicans who are presented with such thoughts by someone they are probably all lusting after? I mean, with her leg exposed in her slinky dress, no one can expect these young people to focus on family values over something as erotic as coup talk by one of their favorite MILFs.
People in the real world who have made comments supporting the coup have lost their jobs for doing so. However, the people in her district in Georgia apparently don't feel decorum is a quality needed for a representative. To her credit, Greene does represent the people who were in on the coup and lost their jobs quite well. She does it so well that she should be one of them.
I expect some idiots to cite her constitutional right to free speech as the reason she should be able to speak like that. Perhaps speech should not be restricted for people who want to yell "fire" in crowded theaters, but that is a different topic.
What they don't want to discuss is Section 3 of the 14th amendment:
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." (Emphasis mine.)
This is not the first time Greene's mouth has gotten her in trouble. She was kicked off of the two committees to which she had been assigned in the last Congress. She had spoken of executing top Democrats and supported the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen. Eleven Republican representatives voted with the Democrats to remove her from her assignments to the Budget Committee and the Education and Labor Committee.
She contended that she no longer believes that way. It is the same excuse over and over for her doing the same things again and again.
I'm not suggesting that she use her mouth in other ways to get young Republicans to rise, but I am suggesting that imagining her using her mouth differently is what is so alluring about her to them. She isn't a dream for those young men; she is their fantasy. They think if her gym instructor and some of his friends can nail her while she was married, they might have a chance since her husband divorced her and her family values.
However, Tea Party RINOs are going to need more people to vote against their own interests than just the horny young men that can be lured into cheers by jokes that aren't really jokes.
The majority in the House has shifted, albeit only slightly. Her vote is important to Kevin McCarthy in his quest to become Speaker of the House. Trump has given his approval to her by endorsing him. There are still some Republicans who would vote in favor of her expulsion from Congress, but there are not enough to overcome the Tea Party RINOs who will vote for her knowing that she will vote for them when the time comes for their trials.
Her committee assignments were pulled for her comments advocating the execution of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and other Democratic leaders. She is now able to leverage her ridiculous ideas onto committee assignments because Kevin McCarthy doesn't have the votes that he needs to lead the new rebellion against America as Speaker without hers.
I say that she should be hanged, but, of course, I'm just joking about that.
