Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene started off her 2022 with a ban. That’s not a typo — she was permanently suspended from Twitter on Sunday, after repeatedly posting false and misleading information about COVID and vaccines, which violated the platform’s misinformation policy.
Naturally, Late Show host Stephen Colbert had to address this development in his first monologue of the year.
“That’s right, she is outta there,” Colbert said, over the sound of his audience absolutely hooting and hollering at the news. “Now to spread the word about Jewish space lasers, she’ll have to use Mormon carrier pigeons.”
But it wasn’t just Greene’s self-inflicted L he had jokes for. Colbert took a dig at Twitter itself, suggesting that its five-strike policy for violating the rules about misinformation seems, perhaps, a little generous compared to the traditional three.
“Yes, five strikes,” he repeated (quoting this very website’s coverage, we must note). “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times? You’ll only get two more foolin’s after that.”
