Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made clear on Saturday afternoon that she has no intention of taking her own life after making the case for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The controversial conservative lawmaker appeared to be making the case that a “foreign government or powerful people” would attempt to silence her permanently to halt her efforts and, should she be found dead like the convicted pedophile in his jail cell, there needs to be an investigation.

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      It’s entirely performative, she’s not a threat, she doesn’t have enough power or knowledge about anything, nobody cares, she just wants her base to think she’s some kind of political John Wick.

      Conservatives thrive and subsist entirely on narratives and feelings, so this kind of performance is what keeps them going. We can’t stop it, we can’t make them start using their minds instead of their movie-brains, so we have to start learning to perform in different ways to swing their fickle, wandering attention spans and toddler-like emotions where we want them.