Marjorie Taylor Greene Dragged After Mixing Up ‘Gestapo’ And ‘Gazpacho’

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February 10, 2022, 8:29 am*

Marjorie Taylor Greene may have been kicked off Twitter, but she’s still regularly a topic of conversation. 

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Most recently, she drew attention for a hilariously dumb error while trying to complain about Democrats yet again.

“Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff, and spying on American citizens,” she said. 

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Greene presumably meant to invoke fears of Nazi Germany (a tough sell, considering many of her supporters probably don’t believe in the Holocaust) by claiming Nancy Pelosi has Gestapo, or secret police.

Instead, she wound up putting the fear of Nancy Pelosi’s cold soup in our hearts.

A slip of the tongue is something that happens to everyone, and being a public figure just means it’s amplified, as you are constantly under a microscope.

However, considering one of the extreme frustrations with modern Republicans is how little they seem to value comprehensive education for children and teens, and the recent storm about Tennessee schools banning the teaching of a Holocaust-based graphic novel, the fact that MTG seemingly didn’t know the difference between Nazis and soup feels like a little more than just a quick laugh.

Marjorie Taylor Greene can’t even make antisemitic comparisons correctly. Gazpacho is soup. Gestapo is what you meant, you dollar store racist hate goblin.

— Kate (@ImSpeaking13) February 10, 2022

Any gibbering idiot knows that the Gazpacho were the feared secret enforcement arm of the Spanish Inquisition. The Nazi regime was notorious for adulterating chicken soup with pork dumplings as a vicious and unkosher act of anti-Semitism. History demands rigor. https://t.co/zZrE4X84dP

— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 9, 2022

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Still, the jokes were too good to pass up, and the internet didn’t disappoint.

With the Gazpacho Police, every crime is a cold case

— Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) February 9, 2022

Although some say they have a wonton disregard for safety.

— Danielle Decker Jones (@djtweets) February 9, 2022

BREAKING: “The Hamburgler has been arrested by the Gazpacho Police and thrown into a Goulash.”

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 9, 2022

BREAKING: The Gazpacho Police have caught the leader of the Po Boys breadhanded.

— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) February 10, 2022

The Gazpacho Police are also in bed with Anti-Phở

…I’ll see myself out.

— Eric Panzer (@ericpanzer) February 10, 2022

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Sure the Gazpacho Police are bad but the elite Vichyssoise inspired pureed terror. @RepMTG

— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) February 9, 2022

But the word mix-up did draw attention away from something more insidious — that Greene is accusing Pelosi of having some secret police that spies on everyone. 

Anyway, remember when the Huffington Post spent six months covering Trump’s presidency in the entertainment section, because it was a “sideshow”?

That turned out ok, right? Underestimate these people at your own peril.https://t.co/6zeiipTeDp

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) February 9, 2022

For someone who doesn’t know the Nazi secret police from soup, Marjorie Taylor Greene sure seems to make a lot of knowing Nazi references. It’s almost like she does, in fact, understand what words mean. pic.twitter.com/n6gU1FSJHO

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) February 10, 2022

To be clear even though Marjorie Taylor Greene said gazpacho, what she was trying to say was absolutely atrocious and warrants her immediate expulsion.

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 10, 2022

In reality, what Greene was reportedly upset about was a Capitol police officer allegedly entered Republican representative Troy E. Nehls’ office illegally while he was absent to spy on him. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger rebuked the claim, saying an officer was following protocol in checking the office after Nehls left without closing the door, so as to make sure everything was secure.

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And Pelosi, of course, does not actually control the Capitol Police — or any other secret police, soup-related or otherwise.

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*First Published: February 10, 2022, 8:28 am