It's Not Easy Being Greene
This will be short. In fact, it's only about something borderline insignificant. But it speaks so loudly to who Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is, it's too spot-on appropriate to let slide.
Now, normally I’d let slide someone mispronouncing a word. It happens. But this from yesterday from Marjorie Taylor Greene in a committee hearing is so idiotically egregious by being about a word that has been heard so overwhelmingly often the past year -- and so often in relation to her own near-godlike hero Trump -- that it’s breathtaking she got it wrong.
In fact, when I saw this described in text on Twitter yesterday I had to watch this to make sure Marjorie Taylor Greene actually, really, truly said this -- really, truly got this so wrong -- and that it wasn't just a joke. But no, it was real.
You may have seen the short video, since it got passed around a lot. A whole lot. Passed around that much because it's so bizarre she got it wrong. But there she is, getting the word "indictable" wrong.
As Marjorie Taylor Greene put it, "The Founding Fathers intended impeachment to be used to deal with the commission of in-dick-ta-ble crimes..."
Seriously?? Has she not heard said, relentlessly, that Trump was in-dick-ted? And not just was he "in-dick-ted," but in-dick-ted four separate times! What on Earth did she think they were saying each time it was reported there was a new in-dick-ment??
By the way, to add insult to injury, she even got the Constitution wrong. Which is a shock because Marjorie Taylor Greene is my go-to person for interpreting the U.S. Constitution. And all it says about impeachment is that it is done for "high crimes and misdemeanors." There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that mentions the actions must in-dick-ta-ble.
Unlike Alina Habba, Ms. Greene does even seem to try faking being smart.
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