Marjory Taylor Greene Calls for Marshall Law
The question is, do you have to be able to spell it in order to institute it?
“The only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law.”
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
The committee investigating the events of January 6th has been provided then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ text message threads leading up to the election and following the attack on the Capitol.
Various members of the Republican establishment messaged him and desperately bandied about ideas on how to invalidate the democratically held election which Republicans fairly lost.
These are the most prominent Republicans in the country, and they were attempting a coup, the records show. Ted Cruz proposed a ten day delay before certifying the results, this devoid of any honest justification. Clarence Thomas’ meddlesome and self-proclaimed apolitical wife Ginni Thomas sought to push voting machine conspiracies.
And then there was the gloriously retarded Karen of the House, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who sent Meadows a text advocating for the United States be placed under martial law. Or “Marshall law,” as she wrote.
It is unclear what she meant by this. Martial law is the designation of a city, state, or the whole country to be under military rule, including restricting the movement of citizens.
Look, it’s not fair to pick on someone for the occasional grammatical error, especially in text message format, but Greene is a serial offender as I wrote about weeks ago.
She recently tweeted in her typical fever-dream/time-for-a-prescription-refill state that Nancy Pelosi had “Gazpacho police spying on members of Congress.”
There is no such thing as Gazpacho Police, but if there were I would hope Ted from Chopped would be the Chief and that he’d have a mandatory cilantro limit.
It is par for the course that a member of her party would baselessly claim that Democrats were conspiring to employ fascist tactics while herself advocating for the most extreme example of such, based on a conspiracy.
So, Marshall Law. What is that? It sounds like a show that’s currently on prime time ABC featuring a hardboiled detective played by Stephen Baldwin infiltrating a drug smuggling ring while trying to patch things up with his ex-wife. Can someone confirm whether this is or isn’t a show?
Or maybe she’s advocating a strict dress-code for the entire country where everyone must wear collared polo shirts and slacks as if they were attending an eighth grade dance - a pork belly scheme where the CEO of Marshalls has kicked down some special interest money.
There is an organization called the United States Marshals, and although they are not relevant to the concept of martial law they at least have badges and guns and if you were not very educated on things involving the government and the military - such as Marjory Taylor Greene, a Congressional Representative lobbying for martial law - it might be an understandable mistake.
But, Marshal has one T, not two, as in the “Marshalls” Greene was referring to, so it appears she was referencing the department store, which is where she should be right now and not voting on issues like healthcare for the entire country, many of whom are literate.
Another thing about text message grammar is that context matters, a lot. A quickie from a friend who’s had a few beers at the Dodgers game stating “Meat me at bar, have to pea,” is one thing. If you get one that says “We should bee together. Will you Mary me?” it’s cause for concern.
This was only someone calling for a total restriction of rights and an abandonment of civil law, under false pretenses. Someone advocating for martial law out of spite, and in response to a democratically held election. Pretty much the most severe action a government can take.
And she can’t get the word right? She can’t spell it correctly? She can’t even spell it close to correctly?
Let’s give Marjory Taylor Greene the benefit of the doubt - a phrase which should be eliminated from the lexicon at this point and say it was an auto-correct issue. But, it’s not. I tried it. If you have the first few letters correct, your phone isn’t changing “martial” to “Marshall.” She clearly thinks the military is run by a guy named Marshall. Marshall Law.
The last time martial law was instituted in the United States was 1961, in Alabama, to stop civil rights activists from protesting state-sanctioned lynchings and attempting to enroll African Americans to vote. The governor didn’t like this, so he bitched out like the bitch that he was and called in the National Guard.
The practice doesn’t have a strong track record but neither does Marjory Taylor Greene, who obviously has watched the thriller Deep Blue Sea to inform her opinion on stem cells.
She’s an idiot, to be clear. If you are not repulsed by her, you are as well. But it’s scary that she even has the Chief of Staff’s cell number. How close are we to having a young hotshot alt-right Republican president informing the Secretary of D-Fence that “It’s time to drop bombz!”
In a small sliver of hope regarding the Republicans, a major party which is now openly anti-democracy, it appears Mark Meadows didn’t respond to her text.