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Marjorie Taylor Greene Likens Dems To The Hogs She Wants To Shoot Dead

Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday launched a competition to join her hunting for feral hogs in Texas. In a video shared on Facebook, the extremist lawmaker likened Democrats to the wild animals that tear up farmers’ crops.

“We’ve got skyrocketing inflation, high diesel fuel and Democrats’ America-last policies,” said Greene, who has been stripped of her House committee assignments over her use of violent rhetoric, including toward Democrats.

“Democrats aren’t the only ones destroying farmers’ ability to put food on the table,” she continued, noting (correctly) that wild hogs have destroyed farmers’ fields.

Watch the video here:

There follows a montage showing Greene shooting at a pig from a helicopter, then posing on the ground with what is purportedly its corpse with the chopper in the background.

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The video ends with a call to “help American farmers out,” “STOP COMMUNISM” and sign up for the competition.

Critics were less than impressed with Greene’s latest divisive stunt:

This headline has been updated to clarify the contents of the video.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

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