• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Am…Am I agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

    Is…Is Marjorie Taylor Greene making smart, intelligent, good points?

    We really are in bizarro world.

    • @[email protected]
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      442 months ago

      When Democrat politicians fuck up, other Democrats will absolutely call for, and get, resignations. Even things that boil down to consenting adults in privacy can result in resignations when it’s seen to compromise a politician.

      When Republicans fuck up, the party circles the wagons and goes full defensive. They will absolutely fight to resist any calls to resign, using any tactic they can think of to keep their latest pedo/pervert/con man/criminal in power. Only if the evidence is incontrovertible, and the outcry impossible to ignore, will they ever consider resignation, and as we’ve seen with Gaetz, that’s not even necessarily the end of their career.

      MTG is exactly the kind of brainlet to think that Democrats work the same way Republicans do. She thinks “Release all the Ethics reports” will make Democrats back down, or at least intimidate them. A party agreeing to release ethics reports relating to their own people is utterly unthinkable to her.

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        152 months ago

        Well, thank you for coming in and ruining the moment with your facts and reason and obvious statements and common sense

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        72 months ago

        She also thinks it will matter. When a lot of voters have shown they have no problem voting for morally bankrupt people as long as they have the right letter next to their name.

    • Meeech
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      302 months ago

      A broken clock is still right 2 times a day.

      You’re giving her too much credit.

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        2 months ago

        Eh she’s more like a 24 hr clock. Or maybe one of those little “comic-a-day” calendars that you keep out on your desk that always seem to be on the wrong day until you remember to update it…

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      Don’t worry, you agree with her words but not her intent. She doesn’t actually want to do it, she just wants to use the threat of it to keep Gaetz’s report secret.

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      162 months ago

      Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that the Democratic party is far more morally corrupt than the Republican party. So therefore she believes that this is a nuclear option she does not realize that this is what everyone literally wants, well everyone except for the people in her own party.

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        2 months ago

        Right. Not only does she completely misunderstand her enemy, but that misunderstanding has resulted in her explicitly saying, in public, that a whole lot of shady shit has been happening inside the GOP. We all knew that, but saying it out loud is something different.

        There are weaknesses in fascism that we should look to exploit. One is that they pick people for loyalty first and competence a distant second. Another is their complete inability to have a good mental model of their enemy’s actual strengths and weaknesses.

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        62 months ago

        MTG seems to be in the minority of elected Republican representatives in that she actually seems to believe the things she says

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      92 months ago

      Don’t worry, she’s not, at least not on purpose. Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while.
      Pretty sure she’s being sarcastic.

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      32 months ago

      She’s not, i don’t think she wants this to happen and i think she knows that people won’t agree to this kind of thing.

      But what she’s saying is right. The people deserve to know what our representatives are up to.

    • Phoenixz
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      Point, point… it’s just a single point so it was probably just an accident