"Cancel Culture", Or, Accountability?

"Cancel Culture" when something, for various reasons is disapproved of, or cancelled, is NOT a real thing.  It's also about public shaming, specifically on social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  And we really shouldn't be breathing life into it as though it were on life support.

The more appropriate term is accountability, holding their feet to the fire, keeping them in check, holding truth-to-power. 

And listen, it only gets cancelled because it never should have happened or been said to begin with.  If we've been taught anything over the past five years of "fake news", or "alternative facts", it's that those are lies.  Plain and simple.

Those are lies, alternative facts and fake news because the slimy, orange fat-one (Yes, Trump, in case there was any question) didn't like what she heard.  

So, Marjorie et. al., if you don't want to feel like a victim, cancelled or otherwise, think about the b.s. you are spewing because truth be told, NO ONE is forcing you to pay attention to "Q-Anon", whomever he/she is.  Likewise, MTG, you don't get to say stupid things like, "I was allowed to believe _____________."  (Fill in the blank with some weird conspiracy.) 

You're not a victim.  You're a perpetrator. Period.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Stripped Of Her Congressional Committee Assignments

 

 Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R), Georgia

"The problem with that is though is I was allowed to believe things that weren't true, and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret," she said.

Greene also said that she believes "9/11 absolutely happened" and "school shootings are absolutely real and every child that is lost, those families mourn it."

In an attempt to put the controversy behind her, the congresswoman said, "These were words of the past, and these things do not represent me. They do not represent my district, and they do not represent my values." 

Representative Steny Hoyer (D), Maryland

The Georgia lawmaker, who has faced intense bipartisan criticism for her past comments, claimed in a speech on the House floor that she does not believe in a number of the conspiracies she had peddled before taking office. But she offered no specific apology in her latest remarks and spent a significant chunk of her speech decrying the mainstream media and “cancel culture.”

“I’m a very regular American,” Greene said. She later added: “I never said any of these things since I have been elected for Congress.”

She walked back her support of QAnon, the outlandish internet-born conspiracy that former President Donald Trump was engaged in a secret battle to root out a cabal of criminal political elites made up of Democrats, Hollywood insiders and the “deep state.”  

IF "Q" is such a patriot as so many of his followers have stated, repeatedly, then why is he such a coward, hiding behind some weird, nebulous message board.   

WHY NOT JUST SHOW YOURSELF?

Believers in the conspiracy were among those seen at the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol by a swarm of Trump’s supporters.

Greene in 2017 had repeatedly called QAnon “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out.”

But on the House floor Thursday, Greene said that by 2018, “When I started finding misinformation, lies, things that were not true in these QAnon posts, I stopped believing it.”

Greene’s speech addressed a litany of her most-criticized past remarks, including her reported suggestion that some school shootings had been staged.

“School shootings are absolutely real,” she said Thursday. “I know the fear that David Hogg had that day,” she said, referring to the survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, whom she had previously mocked.

“I also want to tell you, 9/11 absolutely happened,” said Greene, who in 2018 repeatedly expressed support for the conspiracy theory that a plane did not hit the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. “I definitely want to tell you, I do not believe that it’s fake.”

She also appeared to address one of her more recent controversies: a CNN report showing her Facebook profile on which she had liked or responded approvingly toward messages advocating executing prominent Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“If it weren’t for the Facebook posts and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn’t be standing here today and you couldn’t point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong,” claimed Greene, who has promoted numerous other conspiracies and incendiary messages.

NBC News reported that Greene had disavowed some of her conspiracies during a closed-door meeting of the Republican caucus Wednesday evening. Prior to her floor speech Thursday, however, Greene had remained publicly defiant.

The problems with that statement, no mention of the Parkland High School shooting, 9/11 and the plane flying into The Pentagon, none of that.

She later minimized the lives of LGBTQi people with her statement about how, “God created Man and Woman in his image.”  Unbelievable, but not surprising.

Marj is clearly still deeply embedded with Q-Anon and other conspiracy groups and theories.  She now believes she has lots and lots of “free time” to go about “the real business of being in Congress” as she goes around holding rallies and helping other like-minded potential Republican candidates, Q-Anon followers rather than what she was elected to do – go to work, every day as a paid member of Congress.

“…I was allowed to believe things that weren't true.”  Where exactly is Marj taking personal responsibility for her words or actions?

And this?  Just 'cuz I think it's a funny picture... and so true.

If you listen carefully you can almost hear the kissing sounds.