So when the highest profile Republican in the house tweets LOCK HER UP after Hillary Clinton calls her a menace to America, she’s just having fun?

Republican leadership says: “Welcome!”

LOLOLOLOL

Biden’s Press Secretary refuses to talk about Greene “in this briefing room.” Democrats make clear that she is a desecration. Decent people look the other way.

… one AK-47 at a time.

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Correction: AR-15. Sorry, Marjorie! I know how important your choice of weapon is to you! Please don’t kill me!

Part of a regular UD series, introducing you to her Bethesda world.

Here’s a house with a twelve-car garage.

Price has just been lowered by $170K, so power up your motorcade and go for it.

And hold your head high!

Oklahoma Trying to Return its $2m

Stockpile of Hydroxychloroquine

Good on you, Virginia Senate. America’s collective effort to remove truly dangerous nuts from the body politic proceeds apace. In a show of bipartisanship, Virginia successfully chased down Chase.

The rare censure resolution was entered by Sen. John Bell (D-Loudoun) but also received support from Republicans. It passed 24-9…

She’s been stripped of all committee assignments. Total shunning.

However, she remains in the Senate.

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Says she’s running for governor.

If Virginians don’t elect her, she’ll declare martial law.

… I mean… Why isn’t there something in our founding documents that says that if you’re Marjorie Taylor Greene you can’t go out of the house, let alone assume political office? This graduate of the University of Georgia (Anything to say about that, UG?), with her glee over thoughts of murdering much of America’s political class, her obscene conspiracy theories, her…

Ugh. So much more to say about this degenerate. I can’t bear it, so I won’t. Do your own reading.

But let me just say: Shame on us for somehow having produced Marjorie Taylor Greene. I’m going for collective guilt on this one. American scum I get; all countries have scum. That this scum was allowed to rise to national political office is on all of us. We need to do some serious reflection/repentance.

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Update: Thank God for small favors. The country has finally, today, issued a domestic terror warning. This way, next time, survivors of the Parkland massacre can see her coming.

The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration. Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, a story out of Alaska, where a carefully selected member of the state’s Human Rights Commission (she’s also a state rep) defended two newly issued vanity plates available in Alaska: FUHRER and 3REICH. Reason?

‘[T]he words “fuhrer” and “reich” are just German words without any negative or offensive connotation.’

Rep. Jamie Allard will also be pushing to approve the following plates:

JudenUnglück!

Endgültigelösung

And of course the ever-popular

CampAuschwitz

… its honoring of a person who attacks the chief justice of the US Supreme Court as a pedophile, and the last vice-president of the US as a traitor who needs to be hauled up in front of a firing squad and shot to death, you can go one of two ways in response. You can say Hey, that’s who we are, too; ol’ Lin is right that God anointed Trump president for life and the election results must be overturned in Jesus’ name. Or you can take one look at Lin’s one million dollar gift to your school and give it the hell back. As long as a madman’s name is plastered all over your moot courtroom, that’s the only thing anyone outside Macon is ever going to know about you.

Now a course there’ll be hell to pay. Ol’ Lin probably up and sue you and make a lot of noise about the whole thing. His followers will put on their Capitol-Trasher animal skins and protest real loud on your campus and Josh Hawley and Don Jr will be there in coonskin caps raising their fists and getting everybody all whomped up. That won’t be pleasant. But students transferring out/not applying because your law school’s Fuckhead Central won’t be pleasant either.

Only four comments appear on Dwight Garner’s NYT review of a biography of the realist painter Lucian Freud, and one of them complains about this arresting sentence. As in: What? I wear scarves indoors, and I’m not a monster.

Indeed, what does Garner mean?

UD, rereading Garner’s wonderful review, pondered ‘pon this. The book cover photo of Freud shows him wearing a scarf indoors.

Here’s the paragraph in which the sentence appears:

Freud had a mean word for everyone. He put the knife in white and it came out red. A typical comment in this volume, about an aunt, is: “She was very nasty really, in a small sort of way. Her expertise was opening letters. Other people’s.” If he didn’t like you, he cut you from his life like cancer. You can always tell a monster: He wears scarves indoors.

So I guess the idea is that people able to cut you from their life without a thought are always – graphically – ready to hit the road. Always already dressed for the outside. Or more – people inclined to hate all people, to hate humanity as such, make a point of abandoning one person in their life after another because… because they hate all people. And this is monstrous behavior. Not bad behavior, Garner seems to suggest; he’s not going to moralize. He’s going to describe. Some people are monsters full stop.

The artist was amoral: violent, selfish, vindictive, lecherous.

Some of our greatest artists are – the French have a phrase for it – monstres sacrés. Freud, Picasso, Hemingway, Henry Miller…

You don’t have to be like that – UD‘s beloved Don DeLillo, her beloved Donald Justice – these are earnest, kind, loyal geniuses. But some great artists are monsters.

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But the scarf business. It made me think of a film I finally got around to seeing — a film I adored. The Darjeeling Limited. The plot revolves around three brothers in search of their mother, who has not only basically abandoned them, but has responded to their request to visit her with No. They visit her anyway, at her remote convent in India (if you’ve read any Michel Houellebecq, these plot elements will seem very familiar), where she awkwardly, briefly (before again fleeing them) interacts with them.

During their conversation, one of the sons asks, with great intensity because it has preoccupied him for a long time, why she didn’t attend their father’s funeral. She looks at him funny – like, what? – and says “Because I didn’t want to.”

See, now, UD roared with laughter through this movie, and especially at this moment, probably because she finds people who have settled into their being in a relaxed unapologetic unexplanatory way enormously appealing and even liberating. Are they ruthless? Many of them. Let’s drop in on psychoanalyst Adam Phillips at this point.

Sanity involves learning to enjoy conflict, and giving up on all myths of harmony, consistency and redemption… A culture that is obsessed with happiness must really be in despair, mustn’t it? Otherwise why would anybody be bothered about it at all? It’s become a preoccupation because there’s so much unhappiness. The idea that if you just reiterate the word enough … we’ll all cheer up is preposterous… The cultural demand now is be happy, or enjoy yourself, or succeed. You have to sacrifice your unhappiness and your critique of the values you’re supposed to be taking on. You’re supposed to go: ‘Happiness! Yes, that’s all I want!’ But what about justice or reality or ruthlessness – or whatever my preferred thing is?

The Darjeeling Limited is hilarious in part because the boys keep bothering India for harmony, consistency, redemption… On their way to their mother, they’re always farcically flopping down in this or that temple…

The Pride of Pennsylvania – Rep. Scott Perry – worked his ass off to make Trump King; and if the effort ultimately failed, he gets an A for Effort. I mean, Scott Perry almost made his Federalist Society (tremble when you say that) crony Attorney General! And once he, his crony, and Trump did that, it would have been an easy matter to send a threatening letter from the Justice Dept. to Georgia election officials: We’re gonna investigate your dirty results so you better go ahead and invalidate them.

The plan almost worked; the one thing the plotters overlooked was a Justice Dept. crawling with people who actually believed in the rule of law! The leadership threatened to quit en masse, which would have been a very bad look, even for Trump, who clearly could give a shit about bad looks.

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Anyhoo. As the AG of Pennsylvania puts it:

Representative Perry ought to familiarize himself with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution. There must be consequences for this conduct.

UD will admit that this daily flushing out of traitors is quite the show.