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Saturday Night Live returns from the holiday hiatus to find the country in 2021 much-changed. Given all that’s happened, it makes sense the show would attempt to cover a range of topics in their cold open.
On What Still Works, talk show host Kate McKinnon attempts to figure out which parts of American society are still functioning. The answer, depressingly but not surprisingly, is pretty much nothing.
A discussion of government sees national disgrace Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong) espouse various nutso conspiracy theories, such as how “the California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers” (which is not made up).
QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes out at The Lincoln Project, branding anti-Trump group traitors and Biden s little tool after they blasted GOP leader Kevin McCarthy
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene fired back at the Lincoln Project Saturday after the group accused Kevin McCarthy of being a traitor
Greene slammed the PAC as REAL traitors and called them Biden s little tool
Comes hours after she revealed she had a great call with
Donald Trump, who apparently gave her his support
Greene is facing increased calls to resign over her past comments supporting conspiracy theories around school shootings
She has claimed that the Parkland and Sandy Hook shootings were a hoax
CBS News It was a drug : Capitol riot exposes reach of QAnon disinformation
False allegations of mass election fraud disinformation that Greene perpetuated helped fuel the deadly Capitol insurrection. President Trump did not cause the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, Greene said at a town hall on January 28.
For his part, former President Trump has sidestepped QAnon, claiming he knows little about a movement at the core of his support.
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fly a U.S. flag with a symbol from the group QAnon as they gather outside the U.S. Capitol January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Asa Hutchinson (R) seemed to struggle when pressed on whether Congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) should be politically punished in some form for her extensive history of repugnant statements.
Martha Raddatz interviewed Hutchinson on Sunday for ABC’s
This Week, and part of the conversation addressed the public calls for Greene to be removed from Congress as more of her conspiracy theories, incendiary comments and racist remarks have come to light. Raddatz brought up Greene’s past comments about executions of top Democrats as she asked Hutchinson, “Is she fit to serve and should she be on the education committee?”