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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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[–] Infinity187@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Trashy horse face bitch. When are we gonna see her taken out?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'd really prefer she just not get reelected.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 10 months ago

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 points 10 months ago

Our system is so bad at removing evil actors who managed to weasel into it, the fantasy of those evil shits getting struck by lightning or having a fatal stroke or some other spontaneous death, feels more and more like the best case scenario that carries even a hint of possibility of actually happening.

The folks wishfully thinking about that aren't necessarily cheering at the possibility of her dying; but rather the possibility of evil being removed from the system that shapes how we live our lives.

Less extreme methods are ideal, but also disappointingly absent from the reality we're stuck in.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

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 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’d love to find out she had to resort to OnlyFans.

Not that I want to see … uh… that

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 points 10 months ago

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.