The Left-Cheek Ass Clown for January, 2021

Not long ago, one of my friends commented about how long it's been since we had an Ass Clown Award presented to someone who was not a political figure. I hadn't thought about it, but went back and checked my records (yes, I keep them) and discovered that the last non-political presentation was the Right-Cheek Award in August of 2020 to the tens of thousands of clueless twits who attended the Sturgis motorcycle rally in defiance of public health warnings about the dangers of Covid-19.

Having realized that, I made a major effort to seek out a non-political individual or group for this period's award. There were quite a few possible awardees (the members of the anti-vaccination movement were high on the list), but in the end I had to go where the most spectacular ass clownery was to be found, which remains the political arena. And so, as we approach the end of the first month of the no-longer-new year, cometh the hour, cometh the man ... or, in this case, woman.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Left-Cheek Ass Clown Award for January, 2021

is presented to

Representative

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R, GA-14)

At a time when there are countless numbers of extraordinarily strange people running around loose and unsupervised, many of whom are running for election as Republicans, Marjorie Taylor Greene stands out. She is an unabashed and noisy believer in the bizarre Q-Anon conspiracy theory, and a vocal advocate of the thoroughly-discredited belief that Der Furor won an election he lost by more than 7 million votes. She is a loud supporter of the ghastly theory that the massacre of students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 was "staged," and that the mass shooting at Florida's Parkland High School in 2018 was a "false-flag operation;" she followed and harassed Parkland survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill in March, 2019, calling him a "coward." In addition, she repeatedly indicated her support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before she was elected to Congress. Needless to say, she has been busily working to delete her most incendiary Twitter and Facebook posts as they are coming back to haunt her.

Despite all of her strange and dangerous beliefs ... or, perhaps, because of them ... the House Republican leadership has appointed Ms Greene to the Education and Labor Committee, a committee which, according to its website, stands for (among other things) "Holding Government Accountable" and "Education and Opportunity for Every Student." Given that the GOP believes in government accountability only when Democrats are in power, and that its approach to education was illustrated by the appointment of the useless and educationally dangerous Betsy DeVos* as Der Furor's Secretary of Education, the appointment makes sense ... but only in a world of irrationality and grossly inept governance.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene - the elected representative of the voters of Georgia's 14th District (who probably ought to be institutionalized) - is the Left-Cheek Ass Clown for January, 2021.

The nation is in trouble.

Have a good day, and come back tomorrow for Cartoon Saturday. More thoughts then.

Bilbo

* Herself a winner of the Right-Cheek Award in February of 2017.