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So how are House Republicans dealing with the fallout from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s freshly resurfaced 9/11 trutherism, school shooting denialism, and threats on fellow lawmakers\u2019 lives?

They\u2019re giving her a standing ovation. \u201cMarjorie Taylor Greene is House minority leader,\u201d co-host Rick Wilson says on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. \u201cShe runs the House.\u201d 

The newly elected Georgia Republican, Rick says, is the GOP\u2019s equivalent of the \u201ccrazy uncle.\u201d \u201cYou know, we know he\u2019s drunk. We know he\u2019s crazy. We know he comes to Thanksgiving dinner every year lit to shit. And we\u2019ll just pretend it\u2019s not happening.

And even though Greene was booted from her committees Thursday night in a largely partisan vote, Rick predicts she \u201cwill raise a ton of money because they will all say, \u2018Oh, we have to teach the lying libtard cucks a lesson. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is a hero and Trump loves her, and therefore we love her\u2019... I guarantee there will be a cottage industry that emerges and says, \u2018Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene is rough around the edges. She says some crazy things sometimes. And you know, we don\u2019t believe in those crazy things she says, but, but, but a little echo the distance but she\u2019s just asking questions. She owns the libs. Don\u2019t you want to own the libs?\u201d 

Later in the episode, co-host Molly Jong-Fast asks Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) whether Republicans will return to the normal world now that former President Donald Trump has been defeated.

\u201cSome of the early signals are not good,\u201d the senator says. \u201cLook at Kevin McCarthy yesterday, there were basically no consequences for one of the members who\u2019s just spinning these conspiracy theories. And based on what I heard, there\u2019s a real question about when the dust settles here in the next couple of days, whether she\u2019s going to have more power than she did before.\u201d 

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) tells Molly that while he has always \u201ctried to form coalitions where I can, when you have someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who\u2019s not just refusing to certify the election results but was actually threatening assassination against Secretary Clinton and President Obama and harassing members of Congress, you have to draw the line.\u201d

\u201cKevin McCarthy last night displayed the greatest moment of weakness in a party leader I have seen since Newt Gingrich tried to resist the all you can eat pizza bar at Sbarro,\u201d Rick concludes of the House GOP\u2019s closed-door vote Wednesday night. \u201cThis idea of giving Marjorie Taylor Greene a free pass by rapping her lightly on the wrist and having her say, \u2018I no longer believe wink, wink, wink that QAnon wink, wink, wink is a real thing, wink, wink, Hillary Clinton wink Adrenochrome wink the Jews wink.\u2019 By letting her pass through there and letting his people give her a standing ovation with no punishment, no sanction, nothing, he showed his weakness and he showed how weak he was to the country, to Pelosi, and to the rest of his party.\u201d

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