Responding to an expert’s statement that “about 3.2 million” American lives have been saved by vaccines against Covid, with “over 14 million lives” saved globally, the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said: “I’m not a doctor, but I have a PhD in recognising bullshit when I hear it.”
On Capitol Hill on Thursday, Greene attended a hearing staged by the House oversight select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic.
The expert Greene responded to, Dr Peter Marks, the director of biologics evaluation and research at the Food and Drug Administration, also described how at the height of the pandemic in the US, “about 3,300 [people], about a World Trade Center disaster a day”, were dying of Covid-19, contributing to a death toll of more than 1.1m.
Marks later apologised to viewers, after Greene claimed children should not be given Covid vaccines.
Greene, from Georgia, is a former CrossFit gym owner, conspiracy theorist and controversialist who entered Congress in 2021 and has assumed an influential position in a House Republican caucus controlled by the far right.
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gregorum@lemm.ee · 77 pts · 2y
She claims “bullshit” because she doesn’t believe 14 million is a real number. Or any number above 6,000, the age of our Lord’s holy, flat Earth, amen.
(Lmao, /s obvs)
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 2y
I guarantee you that she thinks this makes her sound tough. And not extremely stupid.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
That's because her Republican base tells her she sounded tough and very smart.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Right?
Like... Marge...please... we're all just surprised you can spell PhD correctly.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online · 3 pts · 2y
She said it, so there's no evidence that she can spell it.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2y
We need more people to start yelling at her through the mail slot in her office door
ptz@dubvee.org · 4 pts · 2y
We shouldn't sink to her level.
However, if someone were to press up and fart through her mail slot, I'd be okay with that.
Dkarma@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
We absolutely should.
There nothing wrong with political eye for eye
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
It's right in that book they all love to quote so much... I think after the incest story, but before the part that says she has to leave the city during menstruation.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online · 1 pts · 2y
When do we get to execute her for having premarital sex?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I think they're suggesting political white eye for political brown eye.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Last time someone took a submarine down there it was a television event
Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Dunning-kruger effect of bullshit spotting??
Natanael@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
She sees bullshit everywhere because she brings it
DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz · 36 pts · 2y
Bobmighty@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
Stupid fucking hick says stupid hick shit.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Hey now, dont insult hicks by comparing them to this inbred white trash.
Telorand@reddthat.com · 29 pts · 2y
Le sigh.
Reliving the hits, now? Gonna go for getting more of your base killed by shilling medical conspiracy theories? Because COVID still kills people, especially the unvaccinated.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 2y
Experts: Using rigorous science and data gathering, we've come to the conclusion among us that the vaccine was effective in saving lives.
MTG, a genius: Nuh-uh!
beaxingu@kbin.run · 25 pts · 2y
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a walking joke. she gives hill billy's a bad name.
NateNate60@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Expert with years of experience and spent decades studying the subject vs second-dumbest woman in Congress
marx2k@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
Qanon Jewish space lasers has a great radar for bullshit. Totally.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
Somebody should attack her for doubting the vaccine Trump
developedtook credit for.Beryl@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
Noted epidemiologist Marjorie Taylor Green
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Why do we care about Nazi Barbie's uneducated opinion on anything? Quit giving the idiot headlines and eventually she'll go away like the idiot who could see Russia from her snl sketch.
Cargon@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 2y
I find her continued existence to be bullshit.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
"He's Dr. Tran, and He's got a PhD in KICKING-YOUR-ASS"
Localhorst86@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y
"I'm not a doctor"
what a classic.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I'M NOT A MCOCODITY!
Localhorst86@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y
"Dr. Tran will be down at your local record store this Tuesday from four til' nine, just giving out hot dickings!"
otacon239@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y
HICKORY-SMOKED HORSE BUTTHOLES
Infinite@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
FROM A CUP!
justabigemptyhole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
HICKORY WHAT?
SMOKED WHAT?
carnimoss@lemmings.world · 14 pts · 2y
I hate my state for allowing this foul thing to be anywhere near power
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
You know I just realized I've never had Georgia BBQ so I figured I'd ask, it's good, right? Y'all have at least contributed some deliciousness to the world and that make y'all OK.
carnimoss@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 2y
True. Just be sure to try the Hispanic food here too. Nothing slaps like tostones with mac n cheese, barbeque chicken, and a tall glass of sweet tea. 🤤
books@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Tell me more 'jewish space lazer' lady.
Glide@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y
Well, I do at least believe she has a PHD in bullshit. She spews so much every single day, that she must truly be a professional in the field.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
That's why her degree is in recognizing bullshit. All she had to do was take a photo of herself and present it as her thesis.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
but, if she had a PhD in Bullshit then she would be a doctor!
Netrunner@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y
Wow she's not a doctor but she says she has a PHD?
I Smell Bullshit
PeckerBrown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Shup, 'ho.
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Wrong, Majorie, you have a PhD in producing bullshit.
It says a lot about the stupidity of her voters that she has an office.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 2y
When's the house landing on this witch?
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
She's either an idiot or a troll. Neither deserves our attention.
Bobmighty@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
She's both.
Nativeridge@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Didn't she claim all the bullshit already?!
autotldr@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 2y
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Capitol Hill on Thursday, Greene attended a hearing staged by the House oversight select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic.
The expert Greene responded to, Dr Peter Marks, the director of biologics evaluation and research at the Food and Drug Administration, also described how at the height of the pandemic in the US, “about 3,300 [people], about a World Trade Center disaster a day”, were dying of Covid-19, contributing to a death toll of more than 1.1m.
Greene, from Georgia, is a former CrossFit gym owner, conspiracy theorist and controversialist who entered Congress in 2021 and has assumed an influential position in a House Republican caucus controlled by the far right.
Touting herself as a possible vice-presidential pick for Donald Trump, she is set to act as a manager in the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, a process Greene drove in the House.
Speaking after Marks answered questions from the Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin, Greene first dismissed the doctor’s comments as “bullshit”.
Then she used her allotted five minutes to deliver rambling remarks about “all kinds of injuries, miscarriages, heart attacks, myocarditis, permanent disability, neurological problems” that she said had arisen from “people being forced to take vaccines”.
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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Hick cunt, she is.
LocoOhNo@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 2y
She thinks she's so smart but she couldn't hide her hand gestures and mannerisms when she planted those "devices" on the night before the insurrection.
Infinity187@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Trashy horse face bitch. When are we gonna see her taken out?
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
I'd really prefer she just not get reelected.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 2y
I want her out of office. I want her to lose everything she gained from her stupid, evil, ways. I want her to have to make amends to all the people she harmed.
But probably none of that will ever happen. The most likely thing we can hope for is she loses reelection and fades into obscurity. Or she gets hit by a bus or some other freak accident. Honestly I'm surprised she's smart enough to recognize the difference between the "Walk" and "Don't Walk" signs, so maybe that'll happen.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
There was a majority report video talking about how fewer and fewer districts have swing elections locally, so we keep getting crazies
https://youtu.be/lJ1igCPoBGU
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I’d love to find out she had to resort to OnlyFans.
Not that I want to see … uh… that
DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
You could always swill a bottle of ipecac.
It goes about the same way without the psychological scaring,
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
Hey, I dislike her as much as the next person, but can we please avoid attacking her appearance, using gendered insults, and calling for violence? That's, like, not good for any of us. We can attack her policies and stances instead, the things that matter.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y
Right, just call her "Margarine 'I can't believe she's not boebert' Green" and be done with it. Let them fight each other, point their anger inwards, etc.
Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
‘Takes one to know one’ as the childish jibe goes.
nutsack@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 2y
when is she going to run for president