Nuke the entire pedantry from orbit

There’s been some amusement online about this act of international diplomacy from Marjorie Taylor-Greene:

I know nothing about Emily Maitlis other than that she’s ex-BBC and now does something called The News Agents. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, on the other hand, is one of the most monstrous people in American politics, which is quite an achievement, and this kerfuffle has had a lot of people amused, including MTG supporters posting it as if it were some sort of a win for her without realising just how much of a cunt it actually makes her look (of course, if you’re stupid enough to be an MTG supporter in the first place, you’d be stupid enough to miss the point of this too). But the most interesting response I saw came from someone, an avowed non-MTG fan, pissing and moaning about everyone using the words “Jewish space lasers” when she never actually said those words.

And this… confused me, cos I could’ve sworn… but! lo and behold, we actually HAVE been experiencing the Mandela Effect all this time on the Jewish space lasers thing! Marjorie’s original Facebook post, which she deleted but Media Matters got a screenshot of it somehow, does not in fact in fact use the phrase “Jewish space lasers”! Or any variant thereof, or even the word “Jewish”. So that bloke complaining about people misquoting her was, in fact, quite right. She never said anything about the Jews as such.

What she did invoke was “Rothschild Inc.” So she didn’t need to say the word “Jewish” or “Jews”. It was already implied.

I’m not sure what if anything the difference is between “Rothschild Inc.” and “Rothschild & Co.”; a quick search showed that Roger Kimmel, the VP of the former that MTG specifically names, has an email address pointing to the latter, so I suppose the difference is… nothing really? Anyway, the company is, obviously, owned by THOSE Rothschilds, without whom generations of conspiracy theorists and antisemites would’ve had to find someone else to blame for everything (apart from the Illuminati, of course), and, let’s face it, when you’re invoking “Rothschild Inc.” in the manner MTG did, you’re being disingenuous at best.

So she didn’t actually say “Jewish space lasers” per se. She didn’t need to. The dogwhistle was there anyway and it lacked subtlety. Hilariously, she later tried to claim that she had no idea the Rothschilds were actually Jewish until all this bullshit blew up, and, well, this IS Marjorie Taylor-Greene we’re dealing and her being too ignorant to have known this is perfectly plausible… but I don’t buy it somehow. She is obviously far from  giant intellect, but I don’t think she’s quite as stupid she tends to come across.