Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is absolutely losing it on Twitter right now after reaching a settlement with a Los Angeles-based political action committee that accused her of violating its First Amendment rights when she blocked it on Twitter.
The antigay QAnon congresswoman has just reached a settlement with MeidasTouch LLC, which she blocked last month after it posted critical comments about her.
Greene has agreed to restore the group’s access to her Twitter page and not to block anyone else while she remains in office. On top of that, she will pay $10,000 to the PAC to cover its legal expenses.
“This was a swift and impactful resolution we are proud of,” co-founder Ben Meiselas said in a statement, adding that the group plans to donate the money to two nonprofit groups.
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Greene’s office hasn’t issued any comment on the settlement, although she did lash out against MeidasTouch on social media.
“Because of this PAC’s frivolous lawsuit against me, I’m not allowed to block people that threaten my life and my children’s lives every single day on social media,” she tweeted.
“And they are bragging about donating the money to organizations that want to take away my guns, so I couldn’t defend myself and my children, when people show up to murder us.”
Because of this PAC’s frivolous lawsuit against me, I’m not allowed to block people that threaten my life and my children’s lives every single day on social media.
And they are bragging about donating the money to organizations that want to take away my guns,
Cont’d… https://t.co/pFxAbtOm9o pic.twitter.com/CQ6v1gPk89
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) March 26, 2021
…so I couldn’t defend myself and my children, when people show up to murder us like they threaten.
This PAC is celebrating that a woman (me) can’t block people that want to kill me and my kids.
What an accomplishment for them.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) March 26, 2021
OK, let’s not get carried away Marj.
MeidasTouch’s lawsuit cited a federal appeals court ruling from a few years ago involving Donald Trump that declared political figures can’t use Twitter’s blocking feature to silence critics on a platform “otherwise open to the public at large.”
Here’s how people responded to Greene’s over-the-top tweet…
If it was so frivolous, why did you settle?
And they’re not bragging. It’s called stating the facts. You should try it sometime, ya wackadoo.— KHill (@khillmenow) March 26, 2021
Well you keep crowing about the first amendment and now you want to take it away from people?
— Dealmaker Emeritus (@IntlMergers) March 26, 2021
You can run up and antagonize a kid who’s already been traumatized while letting him know you have a gun on you.. but you can’t take people talking crap on Twitter 🤷🏽♀️ What’s wrong with your ‘security’ detail? Are they all tied up in court right now or something 😂😂
— Tiger Style aka 🔥🔥 (@Mala_yaayaa) March 26, 2021
Absolutely no way should anyone threaten your life…but you bring a great deal of the hate on yourself.
— Deb (@armymom2d) March 26, 2021
You could have taken to trial. You agreed to the terms of the settlement, but of course you run to Twitter and play the victim.
— Shay ☘️ (@ShadyPlanes) March 26, 2021
Says the woman caught hassling a child, a survivor of a school massacre, on the street.
— 💧Tookie 🏞️💧 (@tookiegill) March 26, 2021
When are you going to take responsibility for your own actions, Q?
— Geal Faol (@GealFaol) March 26, 2021
And. Now you know how the parkland kid felt. When you harassed him. Karma is real.
— Hathor Artistry (@ArtistryHathor) March 26, 2021
Marge, you and your family should not be threatened with violence but then you should not be spewing hatred and vitriol. Just saying.
— General Ripper (@rwklein) March 26, 2021
— 🇺🇲 Frank Cro Magnon🇺🇸 (@FrankIsInTwitmo) March 26, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
BaltoSteve
So perhaps she really doesn’t know how Freedom of Speech works. {“Because of this PAC’s frivolous lawsuit against me, I’m not allowed to block people that threaten my life and my children’s lives every single day on social media,” she tweeted.} IF they threaten one’s life or the lives of one’s family, they ARE NOT CRITICS they are crazy. Just like when a particular blond bimbo posted a video and talked about killing House Majority leader, Nancy Pelosi.
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jerkinns
Are all Republicans like that? Fearful, paranoid, and ignorant? I’m not American.
jsmu
Yep. I refer to them only with my coined term R*PEubliQ*NTS.
GANGreene is a shining example of the R*PEubliQ*NT Party now.
Oh, and efffffff your imbecilic censorship to hell, Queerty!
Mehki
Yes… Also hypocrites.
dwick
poor thing LOL
woodroad34
waitaminit….Old Evergreen (and never mature) is afraid of someone with guns coming to kill her and her spawn? She brandishes guns all the time is she afraid of herself and her friends? Would SHE like to take guns away now?
Fahd
Gee that’s too bad she feels that way, but I think it would have cost her loads more to fight (and lose) at trial. {Not relevant to the suit, but that behavior with the Parkland survivor was reprehensible.] Very disturbing that she was able to get herself elected to the House. What is wrong with people that they would vote for her?
HenryHawke
Let’s see if I’ve got this right. “Soylent” Greene objects to the “cancel culture” yet she wants to block messages she disagrees with or views as a threat. Yep! She’s definitely a Republicon! Rules of civility apply only to Democrats and those who oppose her and her fascist ways. Sorry lady. You can’t have it both ways!
Iona Lexiss
And all the Whos down in Whoville are crying boo-hoo for you Marjorie-Q(uack)
butchqueen
When are we going to show up and come for her family?
twomen4u
When is the House going to remove her?
lambchopp59
Early Americana colonies would place a fanatic like that on the dunking stool and hold her underwater quite a while. Margie would be one of the ones to survive it, proving in their impartial judgement as indeed a witch to be sentenced…
Cam
If the lawsuit was so “Frivilous” she wouldn’t have settled.
cuteguy
The most frightening revelation of this story is that this racist homophobic thing spawned children. I pray they get into therapy to aid them in whatever damage she is doing to them in their upbringing