‘This is a parody account, right?’ Marjorie Taylor Greene ridiculed for bringing Scooby-Doo meme to US Congress
Taylor Greene brought a meme featuring Fred Jones, a character from the popular animated series Scooby-Doo, to a Congress session on Wednesday to make her arguments against the Green New Deal more vivid to her fellow lawmakers.
During the Georgia congresswoman’s speech, her aide held up a large poster showing the unmasking of a cartoon villain, whose face had been replaced with a Chinese Communist Party emblem.
“This is a simple meme that you would find on the internet, but this meme is very real,” Taylor Greene said, explaining her stunt. “The Green New Deal – surprise! – serves China and China only,” she insisted, pointing to the red logo incorporating a hammer and sickle.
The Republican lawmaker then asked her aide to switch memes, with the new picture featuring a portrait of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and text reading: “I own Joe Biden.”
Taylor Greene has gained infamy in recent years for peddling various right-wing conspiracy theories, including QAnon and Pizzagate, as well as rejecting vaccines and the government’s other anti-coronavirus measures. The 47-year-old was suspended from Twitter for a week in July and August for posting “misleading” information about Covid-19. A strong supporter of Donald Trump, she has already made two attempts to impeach President Biden, the latest coming a month ago amid the botched withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. . .
The Green New Deal Resolution had been reintroduced in Congress in 2019 by New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey. The Democratic initiative calls for the US to fully transition to renewable and zero-emission energy; advocates measures to tackle climate change; and calls for help for the country’s disadvantaged communities. Earlier this year, Taylor Greene slammed the Green New Deal as a “communist manifesto” and expressed her readiness to debate Ocasio-Cortez on it, but ended up being mocked online for seemingly needing a whole week to read a 14-page document."
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