{"id":55544,"date":"2022-11-27T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T21:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55544"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:18:31","slug":"uh-oh-marjorie-taylor-greene-fears-corporate-communism-of-advertisers-leaving-musks-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55544","title":{"rendered":"UH-OH: Marjorie Taylor Greene Fears &#8216;Corporate Communism&#8217; of Advertisers Leaving Musk&#8217;s Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There appears to be a congenital defect in conservatives in general, and in the Donald Trump brand of wingnut Republicans in particular. They seem to have an inability to express a thought that doesn&#8217;t exhibit profound ignorance. And they do it without the slightest hint of shame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=UH-OH: Marjorie Taylor Greene Fears 'Corporate Communism' as Advertisers Leave Musk's Twitter%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55544\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Misc\/GOP-Greene.jpg\" alt=\"Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gun\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-QAnon) displayed some of the notable symptoms of this defect in a tweet that aimed to malign both liberals and the world&#8217;s biggest corporations, because she believes that they have so much in common. But what&#8217;s truly troubling is that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55483\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her steaming stupidity is taking over the Republican Party<\/a><\/strong> as it prepares to assume the majority in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54959\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fascista Marjorie Taylor Greene: If I was Speaker of the House I Would Reign with an Iron Fist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of landing a blow on her targets, Greene succeeded only in embarrassing herself, as usual. In her crackpot commentary she sought to defend Elon Musk as he endeavors to destroy the $44 billion toy he bought by permitting rampant hate speech and disinformation. She is very upset that, as a result, many companies that advertised on Twitter are temporarily declining to do so. So in that vein she unleashed the following lunacy&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is Corporate Communism. Corporations using their economic power to force their political agendas. They need to go back to the &#8216;Customer is King&#8217; mentality, not corporations are king. @elonmusk opening Twitter for everyone\u2019s speech doesn\u2019t promote one side.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Corporate Communism.<\/p>\n<p>Corporations using their economic power to force their political agendas.<\/p>\n<p>They need to go back to the \u201cCustomer is King\u201d mentality, not corporations are king.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> opening Twitter for everyone\u2019s speech doesn\u2019t promote one side,<\/p>\n<p>Cont\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Que4WwOV3W\">https:\/\/t.co\/Que4WwOV3W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1596880276004941826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>WOW! That&#8217;s quite a shipload of cow manure. To begin with, the phrase <em>&#8220;Corporate Communism&#8221;<\/em> makes no sense. There are no corporations in a communist economy, where all means of production are controlled by the state. That&#8217;s not an agenda advocated by liberals. She might be thinking of fascism, which is also known as corporatism, where corporations have power over the government. Which is precisely the agenda of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Greene is also criticizing private corporations for exercising their right to conduct business in a manner that best serves the interests of its customers and shareholders. And for some reason, she thinks that linking to a list of fifty of America&#8217;s biggest companies that are repulsed by overt expressions of hate, supports her argument.<\/p>\n<p>If a company chooses not to advertise on a certain platform because it doesn&#8217;t want to be associated with the repugnant people and ideas that it promotes, that&#8217;s their prerogative. Generally, when a company makes such a decision, it&#8217;s because of, not contrary to, what their customers want.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has promised to restore all suspended accounts, except those that violated the law or disseminated spam. That means that accounts that engaged in overt bigotry and dangerous disinformation regarding pandemics and elections, are free to resume their hostile activities. Never mind that the American people have communicated to Twitter&#8217;s advertisers that they will not patronize businesses that support such maliciousness. Greene doesn&#8217;t believe that companies should have the right to accommodate their customers wishes.<\/p>\n<p>In Green&#8217;s world &#8211; and in Musks&#8217;s &#8211; <em>&#8220;opening Twitter for everyone&#8217;s speech&#8221;<\/em> is simply free speech. But that absolutist standard as referenced in the Constitution only applies to the government. And even there it isn&#8217;t absolute. Private companies can set there own standards, and be driven by the values of their customers. But Greene would rather the government force companies and other institutions to advance her values and those of the ultra-right GOP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53949\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow Unmasks the Virulent Racism of Marjorie Taylor Green and Christian Nationalism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greene went on to condemn Democrats as the party that <em>&#8220;mandated unnecessary vaccines [and] drag queen shows in schools.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s the sort of asinine speech that she wants to permeate online dialogues. And if anyone disagrees with her they are communists who favor censorship.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is Greene&#8217;s positions that hew more to those allegations of censorious state tyranny. Furthermore, she must not have noticed that corporations have <em>&#8220;[used] their economic power to force their political agendas&#8221;<\/em> for as long as there have been corporations. Many of them donate to her campaigns. And let&#8217;s not forget the <strong><em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/citizens-united-explained\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citizens United<\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong> decision that defined corporations as <em>&#8220;persons,&#8221;<\/em> allowing them to advance their political agendas with unlimited amounts of funding. None of that never seemed to bother her.<\/p>\n<p>Now Greene wants to prohibit companies from freely conducting their own business, and to muzzle the American people who want to express their opinions to those companies. But she is too stupid to recognize just how hypocritical she is. And sadly, as Greene goes, so goes the GOP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>FULL DISCLOSURE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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