Charles P. Pierce on MTG’s plan to save America by destroying it.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has decided to elaborate on her master plan to reverse the results of both the Constitutional Convention and the Battle of Gettysburg. Say one thing for our Strip-mall Maleficent, she’s not shy about sharing the exotic fauna of her mind with the wide world. Her Twitter feed on Tuesday was a great big bag of mixed nuts. Here is how some things would work under the terms of her proposed “National Divorce”:

Red state schools would bring back prayer in school and require every student to stand for the national anthem and pledge of allegiance while blue states would likely eliminate the anthem and pledge all together and replace them with anthems and pledges to identity ideologies[…]

Red states would not have to abide by climate cult lies. Red states would be completely free to build and use fossil fuel energy for their citizens. Oil, natural gas, clean coal, and nuclear power would very likely be growing strong energy sources for red states[…]Red states would throw out all Environmental Social Governance regulations and requirements on corporations and businesses. Companies would no longer have to meet ESG scoring measures on anything from hiring to work culture to products.

(A Note to Readers Joining This Looniverse Already in Progress: ESG is the latest group of initials that terrifies the goobers, none of whom have the foggiest idea what it is.)

Of course interstate trade, travel, and state relations would continue. However in red states, they could have different rules about store product placement on national store’s shelves. In red states, I highly doubt Walmart could place sex toys next to children’s toothbrushes.

Admittedly both useful, but hardly interchangeable.

The federal government would have to maintain the Department of Defense but it would need to return to it’s [sic] original purpose. The United States border and our national security would be the border the DoD would defend. The federal government would have to defend the states from invasion, not enable daily invasions. Dangerous international criminal organizations like the Mexican Cartels that are responsible for murdering Americans, trafficking in drugs and humans, and operating deadly gangs inside our country would be dealt with by the United States military.

I guess we can call this posse committed. I also look forward to the U.S. military turning into the South Vietnamese Army. And by the way, good luck the next time a tornado comes to call in Georgia’s 14th. Ask Texas for help with your power grid.

The woman is a troll who is so thoroughly a creation of wing-nut media and the internet that I believe—according to the principles of DeSelby’s atomic theory—that she has become more than 50 percent pixels. Which does not mean she is insubstantial. She is a woman of great influence in the Congress of the United States! Of this, as was said by the foremost student of DeSelby, “I am completely half afraid to think.”

Aside from the fact that Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army put that idea to rest some 160 years ago, the states that she’s wanting to “divorce” are the ones that suck the most from the government teat.  If that goes away, the red states would have the combined GDP of North Korea or thereabouts.  But she didn’t think about that part of it because Jesus will provide.

When I think about whackos like her and the one from Colorado and the rest of them, I’m reminded of misbehaving children in a restaurant.  Sure, they’re noisy, destructive, and make the rest of the place hate them, but it’s not the children’s fault that they’re ill-mannered and uncontrollable.  That’s the fault of the parents.  In the case of the MAGAnauts, it’s the people that voted for them over someone else, who was probably just as unhinged as they are.  So the task isn’t just shutting down the nutjobs, it’s showing their constituents that they’re poisoning their own water and destroying their own economies.  They’re the true crazies.