>> A new video featuring Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, shows her walking
through the halls of Congress, prior to being elected, with the intention of questioning
the legitimacy of Democratic representatives like Ilhan Omar and Rasheeda Tlaib getting
sworn into office by swearing on a Quran. Now these are Muslim members of Congress,
so it would make sense that they would use the Quran instead of the Bible.
But Marjorie Taylor Greene apparently doesn't know much about our Constitution, and on top
of that, is a pretty hateful person. So here's the video that I'm talking about.
>> That they swear in on the Quran. We have the Bible. We're gonna talk about how to swear
in on the Bible with them, and let them know what our law says, that you can't swear in
on the Quran.
So, we're gonna explain that. We're gonna explain about how you can't swear in on the
Quran. And we're gonna have the Bible and ask them if they would swear in on the Bible.
That we really need- >> We have the oath.
>> Yeah, we have the oath. So I think that's important-
>> You're infringing on our religion. >> Yes.
>> By saying that we can't swear in on the Quran.
>> But when they swore in, it wasn't a law yet, right? At the time they swore in.
>> I don't know. >> I think at the time they swore in that
wasn't passed, because it wouldn't have been passed in a Republican control.
>> Right. >> Yeah, so it was passed after they swore
in. So they're not really official, I don't think. So let's go ask them to swear in in
the Bible, because like you said, Will- >> Is it the law that it has to be the Holy
Bible? >> Yeah, it has to be the Bible.
>> No, it actually doesn't have to be the Bible. We have freedom of religion in this
country, and you can't force Muslim lawmakers to swear on a Bible that doesn't belong in
their religion. Like why, and who cares? Who cares?
>> No, wait- >> Man, her life was boring, right, like super
boring.
>> Even besides this, we have to actually break it down to how stupid this is.
>> Break it down for me, yes. >> And I can tell you as an atheist, if I
were to tell a serious lie and somebody asked me to put my hand on sweet baby Jesus' Bible,
I would have no issue telling a lie.
The oath is meaningless if I'm saying it on the book that I don't personally believe in.
That's why you want them swearing on the Quran. If they are as deeply religious and fanatical
as you think they are, then they cannot lie while touching that damn book. So if you want
them to lie, you want them to lie on your book, buddy.
That's why it's so stupid. If the point is that you wanna put this sacred document in
front of them to ensure that they do the right thing, then you gotta use the right book.
I'm sorry, for me it would probably have to be some type of Playboy that Pam Anderson
was on or something.
And I would have to tell the truth. I would have to be like, no, no, no, we cannot disgrace
the goddess that is Pamela Anderson, no. It would have to be something that sacred for
me. If it was the Bible, I'd be like and keep it pushing. That's why this whole thing is
so stupid, it really is.
>> That's such a great point. And now you've made me think about what I would swear on
like, what? >> A picture of my dog, definitely, I can't.
I can't lie to him, right? But it's the hatred coupled with the ignorance of our own Constitution
and system of government, also in addition to pure stupidity, right?
Because stupidity and ignorance are two different things, ignorance means you just don't know.
And it's kind of shocking that someone who's now in Congress knows so little about our
Constitution. But also, more importantly, she's just not a smart person and she's hateful
on top of it. Her previous statements about Muslims have been pretty disgusting.
So on June 18 of 2020, Politico reported that Greene described Islamic nations under Sharia
law as places where men have sex with little boys, little girls, multiple women, and marry
their sisters and their cousins. Okay, let's stop for a second. So these QAnon conspiracy
theorists I think needs to be examined.
And I'm not kidding because they have this insanely strange obsession with sex involving
children. Everything that they dislike they immediately think about, they're having sex
with children. I think that's an issue. I don't think normal people think that way.
I'm not exaggerating, I don't know, I don't think normal people automatically start thinking
about these things.
And it's just very strange to me that that's where her head's at. She also suggested in
the 2018 midterms, which ushered in the most diverse class of House freshmen, was part
of an Islamic invasion of our government. And that anyone that is a Muslim that believes
in Sharia law does not belong in our government.
So can you guys see why there are lawmakers right now who are asking for Marjorie Taylor
Greene to be kicked off of her committee assignments, to be censured? There are real concerns about
their safety because she's the kind of person who genuinely sees her political opponents
as a violent threat that must be neutralized.
That's the kind of person she is. And it's scary. Again, she's not an isolated case,
she is representative of a significant portion of the Republican base now. They believe things
like this. >> Yeah, and that's some of her more mainstream
views. She also is somebody who thinks the Parkland shooting was a hoax.
She's just on the fringe. And part of it that I think a lot of people would be surprised
is how popular this stuff is online. I happen to personally know somebody who thinks Parkland
was a hoax and all of this kind of stuff. It's out there and there are whole communities
based on it.
And what always struck me, and I remember the beginnings of this, where I was really
surprised was Pizza Gate. Where I was like I think Mitch McConnell is evil, I think he's
a bad person. I truly do. I truly think he's out for himself and could truly give a damn
about anybody who isn't him.
I'm sure he loves his wife or if he has kids or whatever, he loves them, but he's just
a bad person outside of that. But I would never take it a step further and say, well,
he's running a child sex ring. Well, that's a huge leap, and forget about the fact that
most people who are abused as children are abused by people who are close to them.
People who they know, who know their families, who know them closely. Which is why it happened
at churches and Boy Scouts of America and all these other things, is people you know.
It's not gonna be some stranger who you've never met before who's gonna make this happen,
it's people who you know and who you trust.
And that's just the reality, that there is no proof to substantiate the claim that there's
this massive amount of kids who are being kidnapped and sold into child sex slavery.
It's ridiculous, but I think how somebody like this can reach this level of prominence
is that on the internet, man, there's a lot of this stuff.
A lot of these people are congregating and believing this stuff.
>> Yeah, absolutely, and I mean it impacts every part of our lives when you really think
about. I mean the conspiracy theories about the coronavirus vaccine, it's incredibly frustrating.
And all you have to do is a little bit of research and see that the vaccine wasn't just
developed within a few months.
This is something that we had the framework for prior to coronavirus even being a thing.
And it was because of publicly funded research that was being done in countries like Canada.
So having that framework made it easier to rapidly come up with a vaccine that was effective
against coronavirus.
But it doesn't matter, I mean, the conspiracy theories are addictive. They're easy to understand
and that's the kind of stuff that social media algorithms in sure will pop up on people's
feeds, right? And that's really a concerning thing because I do think that these types
of thought bubbles that are fueled by these algorithms help perpetuate some of the conspiracy
theories that we're seeing right now.
Real quick, let's also go to the video of her threatening to arrest a reporter for asking
a question. >> Yeah I truly feel like as a woman in America,
I really need to go talk to these. >> What do you have to say about the videos
and the-
>> This isn't a press conference. >> I'm a taxpayer, so I can ask questions.
>> And for the left to tell us that we are suffering in this country is completely wrong.
Actually it's these third world countries that are socialist or communist countries
where people are truly suffering.
>> So the staffers for Greene told the reporter that she was causing a disturbance and at
that point you can see cops show up to essentially remove her from whatever press conference
was taking place. But I also caught what she was saying about how we're not really struggling
here in the United States, that they're really struggling in third world countries.
I got news for you, take a walk anywhere in Los Angeles and you'll see massive tent cities
under freeway bridges. But we have such limited time left, I wanted to get your final thoughts
on this, Waz. >> Yeah, I would encourage people to understand
just a couple of things.
One, the people who could be putting a kibosh on this are self interested in keeping the
crazies crazy, right? It's in their interest to keep them riled up. And as we like to remind
you guys, keep them not thinking about enormous massive tax cuts for the rich, right?
Keep them not thinking about increasing the corporate power and the courts with conservative
judges. Keep them not thinking about Mitch McConnell wanting to give you $200 rather
than 2000, right? Keep them not thinking about that. And two, just a failure of institutions
over time and eroded trust. At the end of the day, the government has failed people
and people have a right to think that they'll fail them again.