My Twitter War With the Congresswoman from QAnon
Molly Jong-Fast explains to Rick Wilson why she got into a brouhaha with the Congresswoman from the First District of QAnon in the latest episode of The New Abnormal, which features presidential transition veteran Neera Tanden of The Center For American Progress and Carl Zimmer of The New York Times, who gets us up to speed on the latest vaccine breakthroughs.
Molly and Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, an avowed QAnon supporter, fell out on Twitter over different interpretations of government interference in a woman\u2019s health.
\u201cI did make fun of her because she used the phrase \u2018My body, my choice,\u2019 when referring to not wanting to wear a mask, which is of course an expression that is used by the pro-choice community,\u201d Molly said. \u201cSo, I may have suggested that she might also be pro-choice, which got her just enraged because while she won\u2019t wear a mask, she does not want anyone to have control over their own uterus.\u201d
Rick said Greene will continue to court the vote of conspiracy theorists who believed President Trump went to Washington to fight a cabal of elite pedophiles even though he was now on the way out. \u201cShe\u2019s a weaponized money suck for crazy people. And so that\u2019s why she\u2019s going to flirt with Q and all this other bullshit.\u201d
Rick said he had been following one other Twitterstorm this week, over the blossoming friendship between forgotten Trump child Tiffany and another fringe Republican congressman Matt Gaetz. \u201cIt's someday going to grace, the pages of TMZ, and perhaps even be the subject of a Netflix show called \u2018The Orange Crown.\u2019\u201d
Molly agreed this one has legs: \u201cI feel like it's so stupid. They're probably going to get married.\u201d
Neera Tanden, who worked on the 2008 Obama transition, said Trump\u2019s \u201ctemper tantrum\u201d over the election, which he lost, would have real terms consequences. \u201cYou may face unnecessary deaths because of their slow walking transition, which has nothing to do with anything other than feeding the defeated president\u2019s ego,\u201d she said.
In most departments, Tanden says the challenge for Biden is not understanding how the agencies work as they have ample experience of that, it\u2019s trying to work out just how much damage has been done. \u201cI imagine there\u2019s a fair amount of trying to bury the bodies,\u201d she said.
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