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Marjorie Taylor Greene found herself derided on the internet on Wednesday for using the word “gazpacho” instead of “Gestapo” in order to denounce the so-called police method of the Democratic leader of the Congress, Nancy Pelosi.
Marjorie Taylor Greene at an anti-abortion march in Washington on January 21, 2022.
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In a rant delivered on Tuesday night on the very conservative channel One America News, the elected official of the state of Georgia equated the prison where the attackers of the Capitol of January 6, 2021 are being held to a “gulag” and denounced “Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police, who are spying on members of Congress”.
This confusion between the political police of the Third Reich and the famous Spanish vegetable soup served iced made the joy of multiple netizens and personalities.
Among the latter, the Spanish chef José Andrés, known for popularizing tapas in the United States, offered the Republican representative to come and taste a glass of gazpacho in one of his restaurants in Washington.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is familiar with conspiracy theories and has already been sanctioned, including by Congress and by Twitter, for controversial remarks. In particular, she had shocked by comparing the Covid-19 vaccination passport to the yellow star imposed on Jews.
This time, however, the Trumpist elected official took things with humor, in a tone of self-deprecation: “No soup for those who illegally spy on members of Congress, but they will be thrown into the goulash,” she tweeted, making a play on words between “gulag” and “goulash”, a Hungarian soup widespread in Central Europe.
(AFP)
