This is surely not the flex she thinks it is

[Soph0571]

Is the GOP really so far gone that quoting Hitler a the new norm? This cannot be a vote winner in situation normal...

[oswaldactedalone]

1. Seems to me that

Mein Kampf has become the Republican bible. They’re very deluded and scary people.

[Bluethroughu]

28. +1

[Warpy]

30. Do you honestly think they can read?

I think they're being fed cherry picked quotes by GRU operatives.

[2naSalit]

56. +1

Most likely.

[MineralMan]

2. That Hitler meme is correct.

His original words were in German, of course. Snopes confirms this:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-our-movement-is-christian/

So, if MTG said that, she is quoting the meme, and thus quoting Hiltler.

[PatSeg]

7. Thanks for checking

I was about to do a fact check.

This is really disturbing.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. Damn that bastard! Not only was he evil ...

Oct 27 is my birthday. I'll never feel the same about it again..

Thank goodness I share that date with President Theodore Roosevelt!

[soldierant]

42. I feel your pain...

July 23 is my husband's birthday.

At least he shares it with Raphael Warnock (and Monica Lewinsky, of all people.)

[NullTuples]

43. He said so many things there's probably a quote-a-day for sale on some GOP website.

[calimary]

13. We need to spread this EVERYWHERE.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene stands with Adolf Hitler. Want proof?”

[geardaddy]

21. So, MTG is literally doing the thing

that the Molly Ivins described in her quote about Pat Buchanan's speech!

[dchill]

49. Also from Snopes:

"It's true that Hitler said this in 1928. The original quote was slightly longer than what has appeared in memes. At the same time, history showed that Hitler's National Socialist Movement later sought to destroy Christianity once in power. Citing evidence from the Nuremberg war-crime trials, The New York Times reported that, "the Nazis simply lied and made deals with the churches while planning a 'slow and cautious policy of gradual encroachment' to eliminate Christianity."

[OneBro]

60. Duped, yes, but the Church wholly embraced Nazism.

[dchill]

62. As it still does.

[brush]

3. Is that an actual quote of hers, verbatim from Hitler?

[Mosby]

4. No.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/opinions/christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene-tyler/index.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-christian-nationalism-republican-party_n_62dd70bde4b081f3a9007344

[TheRickles]

6. Thanks. The post should be taken down.

[Oppaloopa]

9. I agree

[ShazzieB]

10. I agree.

I went to alert on it, but none of the reasons provided to choose from fits. What are we supposed to do in a case like this?

[CloudWatcher]

17. +1000000

I've wanted to alert before on (other) misinformation, but it doesn't seem to be a thing.

[Mosby]

35. I alerted on it as a SoP violation, it goes to the hosts that way

They could be talking about it or not right now.

[AKwannabe]

51. Needful

Of a misinformation alert.

Imo

[CaptainTruth]

14. Agree. We shouldn't spread misinformation.

[jaxexpat]

38. When we "spread misinformation" we are LIARS. It's really that simple.

Other positions compromise, what should be, core principals.

Be it misleading OP titles or twisting logic to make a point seem more unavoidably logical.

[CaptainTruth]

45. Agreed. I want to leave the lying to the Radical Right.

[jaxexpat]

46. It's the only way to tell the difference between propaganda and .........

genuine, truth based commentary. A little bit of unnecessary coloring casts the all important shadow of doubt on the message.

[rubbersole]

15. Agree.

Way too many real quotes that are disturbing to make things up.

[PatSeg]

8. That is disappointing

Whoever wrote the meme could have just used her actual quote and it still would have been effective.

Edit to add her comment: “We need to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists."

[sop]

5. Republicans are quoting Hitler now?

The frightening thing is how many people actually agree with this woman.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. What's frightening is how many people seem to think MTG literally quoted Hitler.

[ancianita]

26. I think what's frightening is that she paraphrases Hitler. Literally the same idea, different words

A lot of smart people can be misled by memes, but it's understandable if the meme still rings true in fact.

White Christian Nationalism by any other name -- Nazi, Hitler -- still smells as evil.

[MzRappy]

37. Agree 👍

👍

[Fla Dem]

12. Unbelievable. Just that alone would make me never speak with her even if I was a Repug Rep.

Totally insane. Lines right up with the far RW lunatics: The Proud Boy, 3 Percenters, Oath Keepers, etc.

[elleng]

16. May not be an exact quotation from her, but have SEEN her making similar statement.

[catbyte]

18. ...

[Mr. Evil]

19. Death Party voters

believe that they will get rid of all the Jews, blacks, browns, Asians and all others deemed not worthy to be in the US. Good fucking luck with that.

And, if I'm not mistaken, they also believe that as christians we're supposed to protect Israel until Jesus drops outta the sky so he can kill all the Jews because they didn't prevent his death and don't recognize him as lord and savior. Pffft!

Then, 144,000 good ol' American christians get to rapture and spend eternity with Jerry Falwell and his ilk. Sorry, no thanx!

I don't believe any of that bullshit but, I think that's the gist of what they're shooting for.

[budkin]

20. This smells fake AF

Way too convenient.

[Dr. Strange]

48. That's because it's fake AF.

[mrsadm]

22. THE MTG quote is INCORRECT

[ancianita]

27. In words, but not at all in meaning.

[erronis]

24. Hate to say I voted that this broke the rules. If it is fake (which it appears to be),

it just feeds the RW talking points about how the democratics are full of **it.

We need to check our sources if the stuff reported seems too "ripe".

[Wednesdays]

29. FWIW

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/burke-republicans-not-exactly-mum-on-their-plans-after-2022/

And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is unequivocally stating, “We need to be the party of nationalism. I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly; we should be Christian nationalists;” (She is, of course, merely paraphrasing Adolf Hitler, who in 1928 said, “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement [the Nazi party] is Christian.”)

[Caliman73]

32. That is a disturbing quote indeed, but it is not a direct quote from Hitler.

There is still a distinction that needs to be made.

I completely understand that Republicans are sounding more and more like literal Nazis, but again, when we start putting out information that we know is not true, then we are putting out lies.

We do not have to lie to show how horrible and extreme Republicans are becoming.

[muriel_volestrangler]

63. I think you were wrong there; there isn't a specific rule about word-for-word accuracy

"Fake" is a pejorative word. We have the Hitler speech with "this movement of ours is actually Christian"; we have Taylor Greene's "We need to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists", and "Republicans need to prove to the American people that we are the party of American nationalism and Christian nationalism". The meaning is there; the OP is not "full of shit", as you claim.

[erronis]

65. And I tend to agree with you and others. However if the OP had cited that this was a

restatement of Hitler's quote, and even better supplied a link or two to mjt's and her boyfriend hitler's utterances it would have avoided all of this discussion.

I also think DU should have more categories about why we object to a post.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. MTG is a nazi

[onetexan]

34. No doubt about it, straight nazi

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Sympthsical]

31. Hitler did not like Christianity

He just played with it as it suited until it didn't.

So, not only a fake meme, but not even a particularly relevant sentiment.

I wonder if Hitler ever said he hated Mondays. Can we get an attribution?

Well done, Twitter.

[Jack the Greater]

36. Surprise! Surprise!

The US Is as divided today as it was in 1861... and for the same reason.

[OMGWTF]

39. Her other hero, Shitler, kept a copy of Hitler's speeches in his nightstand.

According to Ivanka Trump, who was under oath at the time of said statement.

[demmiblue]

40. How does this have so many recs?!

[bucolic_frolic]

41. On the weekends they watch movies about WWII and root for the Nazis

The Pianist.
Casablanca.
The Dirty Dozen.
Hacksaw Ridge.
Inglourious Basterds.
Schindler's List
The Eagle Has Landed
A Bridge too Far
The Bridge at Remagen
Where Eagles Dare

and all the rest
https://www.timeout.com/film/50-best-world-war-ii-movies

[COL Mustard]

44. Did she really?

I'm gobsmacked.

[whopis01]

53. No.

She did not make the statement claimed to be a quote from her.

[The Mouth]

47. Snopes says FALSE

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greene-hitler-christianity-quote/

[Susan Calvin]

58. See, this is why I like this site.

I fact checked this before I read the replies, and lo and behold many people had already done so.

[teach1st]

50. Please delete this post

We shouldn't post stuff that isn't true. That's what they do. That isn't an accurate MTG post.

[alphafemale]

54. Things like this makes our entire site look bad.

Should have been removed as soon as it was known to be false.

[AKwannabe]

52. Where ARE the misinformation police?

Asking for a friend

[Emile]

55. Now she is quoting Hitler! Voters in

her state NEED TO WAKE THE HELL UP!

[notadmblnd]

59. seriously?

A meme that appeared in several public Facebook posts (and likely quite a few private postings as well) also attributed that statement to Greene, as if she were echoing Hitler’s exact words. However, we found no record of Greene repeating Hitler’s statement about Christianity.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greene-hitler-christianity-quote/

[SKKY]

61. Come on people! MTG says enough crazy shit without us having to make stuff up...

...I fail to see how this helps the argument against her. It doesn't matter if she has said things in the past that are "similar". This is misquoting her for effect, and we need to stop doing crap like this.

[GusBob]

64. 153 recs??? jesus christ folks

I knew it was fake the minute I read it

PT Barnum was right

I wonder now what other worthless bullshit is being spread around here

SMH

[rlegro]

66. Or not.

Snopes.com could not match up the Christian quotes cited here and ruled the comparison false. That said, Greene comes close. In fact, what she has said includes this rather startling comment: "We need to be the party of nationalism. And I’m a Christian and I say it proudly: We should be Christian nationalists. And when Republicans learn to represent most of the people that vote for them, then we will be the party that continues to grow without having to chase down certain identities or chase down, you know, certain segments of people."