‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials
Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out swinging at the White House over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The rift between the MAGA firebrand and White House deepened after a Trump official apparently told her that her support of bipartisan legislation ordering the release of the so-called Epstein files would be viewed as a “very hostile act.”
Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein. If a discharge petition receives the signature of a majority of members, they can force a vote without the consent of leadership.
I wonder if MTG is the Republican Party experiencing the 4chan effect: if you build your community around pretending to be batshit insane, you’ll eventually attract genuinely batshit insane people who aren’t in on the joke. It could be that she doesn’t realize most of the elected GOP is just pretending to go along with the right-wing outrage du jour to support their cult, and she’s genuinely confused about why they’re no longer interested in the epstein affair.
That, or she just sees the writing on the wall and is trying to distance herself from it. Either way, fuck her and the shitbags she made a bed with.
MTG the person can go fuck herself. MTG the politician has the opportunity to do something good on behalf of everyone. boy, it’d be great if she stuck to her principles here and refused to compromise. unfortunately, we need resistance from every group opposed to our fascist administration. she ain’t welcome to the party but i have to begrudgingly wish her well on this alone.
Yea in the 90s proper Republicans knew things like Rush Limbaugh were just to get the rubes riled up, but now the rubes are running the show. Even the president sits around watching Fox News for hours a day.
Or maybe she is using Epstein as some sort of leverage and has taken it too far by gambling big. Or maybe she thinks she can get the majority of the republican base support behind her if she pushes this hard enough, maybe even eventually dethrone Trump.
Or she’s dumb enough to think this will put her in the running for president after he finally dies.
Stranger things have happened.
She can do one good thing in her life if she just completely fractures the Republican party.
Who would join her? She’s a island
She’s closer to the great pacific garbage patch, but I get your point
Great analogy, because even that is getting smaller.
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Do you mean in a “it’s dissolving and leaving the ocean to populate our bloodstream” way? Or are we actually reducing ocean plastic waste?
It’s getting cleaned up.
Pretty successfully iirc. I read an article that made me not furious about it!
dammit i was going to move to the great pacific plastic continent when the sea levels rose and took my land.
The Timeline has fractured on a quantum level
Is there any other kind of timeline fracture?
Ugh… I hate myself for supporting Jewish Space lazers trash Nazi here.
Though I hate having to support MTG, I think we actually should, just for the moment. Strange bed fellows for sure, but just try to keep it together for a minute. If she can pull enough maga away for maga and the GOP to fall to pieces, I think it’s a good day for everyone
Also, she’s one of the few in that crowd to stick to her guns and it and not flip to the party narrative.
Even if she’s generally a terrible person, is doing it for shitty reasons, or hasn’t done it in the past. It’s actually a good thing that it’s happening at right now and should be encouraged.
This is a really good thing because we need a maga split from within to get out of this mess
This [FPTP] is the weapon of the enemy, we do NOT (need to) USE it.
Any Condorcet method would yield a significant improvement in representation accuracy, but it would trigger one heck of a party re-alignment.
I still think she’s insane, but I wish we had more progressive, D congresspersons that had this attitude of serving The People instead of the DNC.
Aren’t the progressives all on board with forcing the files to be released?
On this particular issue, yes. But I think they’re talking about other things that the Democratic party supports but that are bad for their constituents.
If we aren’t just talking about this specific instance and instead we’re talking about her attitude in general, is that really the attitude we want to see in progressive politicians?
As far as I know yes.
But, D congresspersons rarely speak against party leadership.
Democrats don’t, but the progressives who caucus with Democrats do.
Depends on the progressive, I’d say. But, they are certainly more willing to, so I might have been better to leave that adjective out of my comment.
By calling MGTs choice a “very hostile act”, Trump is threatening MGT with hostility. She better not be swayed by Trumps threats. She isn’t alone. Most Americans are with her on this.
I am with MTG on this.
[nearly throws up a little]
It’s entirely kayfabe guys. Please read up on it, understand that our entire future of politics and social discourse is going to be kayfabe. The sooner we can digest and accept this fact the sooner we can use this as a tool instead of trying to “take the higher road” which our population has broadly forgotten about.
I am sad that so many progressives and leftists are not seeing this for what it is.
I hate it here.
the only time someone criticizing Israel or Epstein is actually antisemetic
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My hometown is not too far from her district, I’ve known many MTGs, and I’ll tell you they are crazy as fuck and miserable people but part of their mania began with their love for kids and desire to protect them. They are delusional don’t get me wrong. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she stood her ground here and that’s good for everyone
I can’t decide if I’ll feel sorry for her or not when she gets Epstein’d or Kirk’d
Maybe the leopards will come up with something new for here when they finally fully turn on the once useful idiot.
I take it back, I won’t feel sorry for her. She’s just finding out that she’s going to win a very stupid price from all those fascist games she’s been playing.
So, technically, is she a terrorist now?
Idiots fighting idiots. IDIOT FIGHTS!!!
lol.
Sounds like an idea for an app to me. Something to pass the time on the bus maybe. Bobbleheaded versions of ketamined Elon punching a ripped MTG in a cartoon boxing ring? And they just mash each other with Looney Tunes effects over their heads?
I assume you’re too young to remember celebrity death match.
Either she had an epiphany and saw what she is doing will end her up in prison and probably hell if it exists in her world.
Maybe she is starting to understand she is going to be held accountable in a few years and doesnt want to end up in the concentration camps they send immigrants to.
No, she wants power games and shitting on people. She’s just not ok with Trump playing power games and shitting on her. She’s a terrible person, and I’m all for a battle of idiots between her and Trump.
In what universe are any of these people going to be held accountable??
The safest route for sure is to just follow the pack and not stand out. Unless you think that the average Republican has a serious risk of ending up in prison, in which case you’re more delusional than she is.
I’m old enough to remember when people (including my young and naive self) thought that the Bush administration would be held accountable for illegal torture and spying and all that. Democrats got a supermajority and didn’t touch them, and even continued a lot of the shit they’d been doing. The rule of law simply doesn’t apply to you if the only people who could enforce it against you are these soft, civility-obsessed careerists. It’s pure cope to think otherwise.
I listened to an interesting take on her on a podcast. Basically they think she is looking beyond Trump and the void if and when he is out of office and she is positioning herself to be the tell it how it is candidate.
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